Love triology: Breaking up

Philip is waiting at his place. William is on his way there by bus, and Philip is going to break up with him. Philip is nervous and sad. Molly is also on the bus. She’s thinking of all the places where she and Paul shared happy moments.

Molly feels very sad. She is not in love anymore so she wants to break up with Paul. But she does not want to make him sad, because she still likes him. Nooo like he is sooooo annoying, and he checks other girls out. Shall I just ghost him?

No, I’m breaking up with him. Now. Molly doesn’t think it’s right to break up with someone like that, in a text. But, it would be such a relief to just get it done and not have to see him get sad. So maybe...

No. Molly thinks that Paul deserves better, and so does she. Philip wonders how he’s going to handle this. He has written a list of what to say, but he has been too nervous to learn it by heart. What was it you wanted to say? … ah never mind.

Okay, but hey, do you wanna marry me? What? No! Just kidding, I can tell that you’re a bit tense. Not you but lovely together right now.

Time. be friends... What? It’s not about you, it’s just me. You are lovely but I feel I shouldn’t be together with anyone right now.

It takes too much time. I have no time for my friends or family. Or to study, or just be alone to think. Please, let us just be friends instead. I don’t want to be with you any more.

Have you met someone else? What? No! But I’m not in love with you anymore. Can’t you be that again?

No I don’t think so. You don’t think? You’re not sure? I’m sure. Dad, Philip and William have broken up.

Oh, wow. Are you ok? When Michael’s mother told me that she wanted a divorce, at first I was devastated. It took me about six months before I even felt alive again. But then I realised that what I missed about Michael’s mother wasn’t really her, it was all the things I had dreamed about us doing in the future.

I thought we were going to get old together, and she sort of stole that future from me. Then eventually it dawned on me that it would have been even worse if she had just kept living with me without ever telling me the truth, that she didn’t love me. So it was a good thing that she was truthful about it, even though it hurt at first. And now we’re friends again. And if she hadn’t left me I wouldn’t have met all the women that have been important for me after her.

What? I believe that the most important thing is to be honest when you break up. And treat the one you break up with as you yourself would want to be treated. Michael wonders if he will ever be together with Lina. And if he ever is, what if she breaks up with him?

But Michael thinks that in spite of this it is worth the risk.