Choose your words carefully.
At this stage, everything you say will have a great impact on your partner. You can anticipate that a touchy and potentially heartbreaking situation like this will bring tension and possibly anger. They may raise their voice or become upset, but you want to try to keep calm regardless of their actions. Try to be as mindful of your words as possible, so that you don’t leave the relationship on a bad note.
Stand your ground about how you feel.
If your partner is taking it especially hard, they may go into a bargaining phase of the conversation. They could be tempted to try convincing you to change your mind and reconsider the relationship. While this is understandable, you have to be firm about your stance. Unless there is a real reason that you should think about staying in the relationship, do not change how you feel just to appease or save your partner’s feelings. This typically does not end well and only makes breaking up prolonged and even harder to achieve.
