DON’T:

1. Spend the afternoon the same way you normally do as a couple, then spring the bad news when you’re eating dinner together.

2. Say you two were never really all that romantic anyway.

3. Explain how you feel for the new person.

4. Get excited as you describe your possible future with the new person in your life.

5. Cheerfully predict that you two will be great friends, as soon as you both adjust to the situation. Meaning how the now-ex adjusts.

DO:

There’s little you can do besides be kind. It sucks, period. There will be resentment. Suck it up.