It worked?

This morning I went from mostly single to fully single.

For the first time in a life of trying the approach, I encouraged someone to break up with me and believe it was entirely their own initiative and that it would clearly be catching me as an unpleasant surprise.

So that simplifies things.

Just realised that at 9 months it is my second longest relationship - and almost as broken as my longest was, if much nicer and more honest.