Ending intimate relationships: Strategies of breaking off

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This research represents a continuation of efforts to examine the area of bad news delivery and focuses on the messages and subsequent strategies used by people in delivering news of a desire to terminate an intimate relationship. The lack of well‐defined, normative guidelines for such deliveries adds to the problematic nature of the interaction. Based on indepth, unstructured interviews, a framework based on common themes providing a procedural view of the delivery process was constructed. Discussion of various strategies indicated the significance of situational factors in delivering this type of bad news. The study, although exploratory in nature, will hopefully clarify some of the processes involved in the delivery of news of a desire to terminate a relationship and identify several important problems surrounding this complex and serious form of interaction.

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