TIPS: HOW TO BREAK UP WITH A LOVELY PERSON Newsflash: Lovely, nice, sweet, fantastic, considered-wonderful-by-society’s-standards people have breakups. Far too many people, though, behave as if only ‘bad’ people should get dumped or have their feelings unreciprocated. There’s also this sense of it being a terrible thing to break up with someone who ‘hasn’t done anything wrong’. Thinking we should be interested or we shouldn’t leave a relationship if someone is ‘nice’, ‘lovely, etc., feeds outdated societal attitudes that if they’re not cheating, beating or being overtly ‘bad’, what’s your problem? Nope! Dating is a discovery phase. In the process of moving towards the relationship that’s most befitting of you, you need to practice discernment. You need to be willing to recognise when you’re not interested or the person/relationship isn’t compatible with who you are. Yes, even if they are The Loveliest Person Ever TM. It’s tough when you f...