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Brianna Parkins: If you are writing into a newspaper advice column about a relationship problem, you probably already know the answer deep down: you want to leave the dose but you’re looking for someone else’s permission.

What followed was an academic study in how many variations of the answer “no” and the instruction “you should leave him” can exist in the English language.

Newspaper advice columns are the grown-up version of drunk strangers in the women’s pub toilets, who tell you to ditch your fella because yet again you’re crying on a night out We think there are only a few set reasons to break up with someone, like cheating, or running an illegal dog fighting ring in the shed. Saying “I’m not happy” doesn’t feel enough. We can talk ourselves out of that vague reasoning. Maybe we just need to be more positive. Fill in more pages of our gratitude journal. Listen to relationship podcasts while we do our nightly silent cry in the downstairs loo.

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