Breaking Up Survey
Results
	You want to break up with your girl:		Girlfriend tell a friend she wants to leave you:
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	tell her in person	66%	get mad at her	11%
	tell her over the phone	12%	break up with her first	8%
	write her a letter	11%	try to change her mind	10%
	ignore her	11%	confront her	62%
			do nothing	8%
	You expect a new relationship to:		After breaking up you:
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	last forever	33%	stay friends	45%
	place no expectations on it at all	51%	distance yourself from her	42%
	be over in a couple of years	5%	pretend she never existed	12%
	be over in a couple of months	11%
Have you ever gotten into a relationship knowing:
	Your girl loved someone else		You loved someone else
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	TRUE	22%	TRUE	42%
	FALSE	55%	FALSE	38%
	MAYBE	22%	MAYBE	20%
	You and she were not compatible
	Response	Percent
	TRUE	47%	"Being with someone you know
	FALSE	24%	you don't love is cruel."
	MAYBE	30%
Have you ever gotten out of a relationship because:
	You felt you didn't deserve love		You were afraid of commitment
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	TRUE	9%	TRUE	24%
	FALSE	79%	FALSE	61%
	MAYBE	12%	MAYBE	15%
	You were attracted to others
	Response	Percent
	TRUE	47%
	FALSE	37%
	MAYBE	16%
	You avenge a bad break up by:		People fall out of love because:
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	putting sugar in her tank	1%	sex life not exciting	1%
	slashing her tires	2%	can hardly spend time together	6%
	outing her	2%	falling in love with somebody else	7%
	putting her business in the street	6%	breakdown in communication	39%
	keeping something of hers	8%	no trust	46%
	don't seek vengeance	82%
I have gotten into a relationship because:
	Wanted sex on a regular basis		Thought lust was love
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	TRUE	20%	TRUE	45%
	FALSE	61%	FALSE	36%
	MAYBE	18%	MAYBE	19%
	Tired of being single		For what she could do for me
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	TRUE	43%	TRUE	23%
	FALSE	38%	FALSE	61%
	MAYBE	19%	MAYBE	16%
	I didn't want someone else to have her
	Response	Percent
	TRUE	21%
	FALSE	62%
	MAYBE	17%
	An ex you dumped gets over you quickly, you:		You find a new gf before leaving the old:
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	are are pissed	16%	TRUE	13%
	feel a little hurt	62%	FALSE	65%
	don't care	23%	MAYBE	22%
	Woman you love breaks up with you, you:		How long before a friend can date your ex?
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	want to know what went wrong	65%	once your stuff is out of the ex's place	6%
	beg for a second chance	6%	at least 3 or 4 months	8%
	begin erasing her from your life	8%	a year	7%
	lock yourself in your bedroom and cry	13%	2 years	6%
	find consolation in the arms of another	7%	when hell freezes over	72%
	After getting your heart broken		When small problems first arrive you:
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	heal before dating anyone new	66%	talk immediately	78%
	start dating again	14%	wait until they become large problems	13%
	seek fuck buddies	20%	ignore them completely	9%
After getting your heart broken, you:
	Lash out at innocent people		Distance yourself from everyone
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	TRUE	12%	TRUE	46%
	FALSE	62%	FALSE	28%
	MAYBE	26%	MAYBE	26%
	Set out to break someone else's heart		Fantasize about getting revenge
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	TRUE	1%	TRUE	22%
	FALSE	89%	FALSE	52%
	MAYBE	10%	MAYBE	26%
	Woman who broke your heart wants you back:		People in bad relationships stay together because:
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	jump at the chance to be with her again	4%	feel a sense of loyalty	25%
	want to solve all of your old issues first	56%	afraid of being alone	65%
	go back to her, so you can hurt her	3%	are afraid of what friends will think	1%
	tell her no	37%	they do better financially together	10%
	Breaking a heart is:		Being dumped is
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	part of the journey to find Ms. Right	16%	part of the journey to find Ms. Right	28%
	better than being with someone you don't love	30%	better than being with someone you don't love	13%
	an ego booster	2%	an ego booster	0%
	an opportunity to learn a lesson	17%	an opportunity to learn a lesson	38%
	spiritually and mentally devastating	35%	spiritually and mentally devastating	22%
	I am		I identify as
	Response	Percent	Response	Percent
	lesbian	71%	butch or stud	14%
	bisexual	20%	femme	32%
	straight	3%	a bit of both	21%
	other	6%	no labels	33%
	age		I usually dont want anything
	Response	Percent	to do with my ex at all,
	18 to 25	49%	but i am cursed because they always want to
	26 to 35	28%	be friends.  If I'm a such a great friend
	36 to 45	17%	why cant I be a great mate?
	46 to 55	5%

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