Even casual relationships have rules on how to end them.
The first rule of ending casual relationships is that you have to end casual relationships. There are too many people that just choose to stop responding to text messages to end things. Those people are weasels that eat trash and wet popcorn and deserve to be set adrift on ice floes and left to the mercies of the deep ocean. Don’t be one of them. Just say, “I had a lot of fun, but I think this has run its course,” or something to that effect that makes clear that you’re done. If you have followed all of the other instructions above and the damsel in question knows that this was always casual, then you don’t really owe each other much beyond the closure of a breakup. Don’t give or ask for detailed explanations of why it didn’t work out; pushing the matter just prolongs the humiliation. This isn’t a huge breakup. This was casual.
If you have been clear about your intentions and kind but non-committal, ending things can and should be simple. So do yourself a favor in advance and don’t pretend you’re casually dating someone just because you want all of the benefits of a relationship without the attendant emotional labor. If you want to be emotionally reliant on someone, you can’t let their texts go unanswered or only call after midnight from a bear-skin rug. You can’t just have your audible farts and eat them, too.
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