It is a sad fact of life, but there will be times when you have to end a relationship. You have to make some tough choices in life and this is one of them. It's hard to dump someone. Personally, I'd rather have a root canal.

It's such a difficult situation and sometimes you just don't know how the other party will react. How will she take it? Will she be angry and slash your tires? Will she try to get even with you? Will she continue to hound you about getting back together? You just don't know. Maybe she will be relieved, because she wanted to break up too.

So, how should you break the news to her? Let me explain the worst way to do it: Whatever you do, don't tell her the relationship is over by email. This is the easy way out and a coward's way to do it and not a suitable way to do it. Be a man and do it in person or over the telephone.

If you do it in person, I prefer to do it this way: Break the news to her in public such as at the end of eating lunch or dinner together. By doing this in public, she is much less likely to make a scene.