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Does the length and seriousness of the relationship determine how you should break-up?

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Toni Coleman
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Toni Coleman, MSW is a licensed psychotherapist, relationship coach and founder of http://www.consum-mate.com. As a recognized expert, Toni has been quoted in many local and national publications including; The Chicago Tribune, The Orlando Sentinel, New York Daily News, Indianapolis Star and Newsweek newspapers and Family Circle, Woman's Day, Cosmo Style, Tango, Men's Health, Star (regularly quoted body language expert), People, and Nirvana magazines. She has been featured on abcnews.com, discovery.health.com, aolnews.com, MSN.com, Match.com and planetearthradio.com. Toni is also the featured relationship coach in “The Business And Practice Of Coaching,” (published by Norton, September 2005); and is the author of the forward for,” Winning Points With The Woman In Your Life, One Touchdown At A Time” ( published by Simon and Schuster, November 2005). Toni offers dating and relationship help and advice through her syndicated column, "Dear Dating Coach," and her popular monthly newsletter, "The Art of Intimacy." From March 2005 until December 2005, she was a weekly contributing commentator (love and dating coach) on the KTRS Radio Morning Show, (St. Louis, MO). Toni is a member of The International Coach Federation, The International Association of Coaches and The National Association of Social Workers.

Does the length and seriousness of the relationship determine how you should break-up?

 

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Toni Coleman: Hi I am Toni Coleman and I am a dating and relationship expert and today we are talking about how to break-up with someone.

Host: Does the length and seriousness of the relationship determine how you should break-up? Toni Coleman: It does in the sense that if you are defining relationship as you have gone out more than a couple times which is how I would define a relationship then yes, if you have a long term relationship of more than six months, more than a couple of years. It's definitely going to be important to spend some real time on talking about what happened, what went wrong, what's working or not working for you in the relationship and be prepared to be answering question and dealing with a lot of emotion.

If you have been going out for three months and what I consider the first stage of a relationship, then it's going to require so much input or as much discussion. There certainly will be that if you do it right, but it's not the same as a long-term relationship, where you have invested a great deal and the other person has invested a great deal of time and energy.

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