Catch and Release

It’s been a very long time since I’d been dating. Must say, it’s changed quite a bit.

Am baffled though, I never remember being dumped so quickly, so frequently and to the phrases such as “you’re one of the good ones” or “you’re the catch” or something similar. If I’m the catch, why am I getting thrown back in the water? If the sex was as good as you say it was, (“you’re great”) why am I being fired? To make matters more baffling, the women uttering said lines were all looking for LTR’s as am I.

Now, I realize those phrases are really just variations on the classic, “it’s not you, it’s me” line. But the classic line doesn’t genuinely imply any positivity with regards to the dumped. The modern variation does.

Reaching out to the women here, what’s the deal here? Do you have a go to dump line? Would you use something like that one?

Submitted May 08, 2019 at 03:54PM

It’s been a very long time since I’d been dating. Must say, it’s changed quite a bit.Am baffled though, I never remember being dumped so quickly, so frequently and to the phrases such as “you’re one of the good ones” or “you’re the catch” or something similar. If I’m the catch, why am I getting thrown back in the water? If the sex was as good as you say it was, (“you’re great”) why am I being fired? To make matters more baffling, the women uttering said lines were all looking for LTR’s as am I.Now, I realize those phrases are really just variations on the classic, “it’s not you, it’s me” line. But the classic line doesn’t genuinely imply any positivity with regards to the dumped. The modern variation does.Reaching out to the women here, what’s the deal here? Do you have a go to dump line? Would you use something like that one?