So what does it take to have to lie to someone to get off the phone? Let's just say he was 1. boring 2. naive 3. mean 4. vulgar. Any one of those things and I would have gotten off the phone anyway, but combined? What person puts up with that? Sadly, one girl: her. Well I took the weight off her shoulders for that one hour talking nonsense to a guy so deeply committed to being on his high horse. They both have problems and it drives me mad when they talk to me about it instead of one another. She wants to break up. He wants to break up. She doesn't say anything. He doesn't say anything. She waits. He waits. They are stuck. And I am the attentive, mutual, friend in the middle who hears both of their story and comes to the realization that they have problems they need to work out with themselves before committing them to a relationship. They are bounded by lies, deceit, anger, and pain. It's sad really to look at a relationship like that from the outside. I pity people stuck on another because they can't put one foot in front of the other, even when there is someone pushing them to. They want to be the victim, they want to be stuck, they want to be miserable, and so, they are. Too damn bad, if they chose to make the effort to stick to it instead of fixing it.