世論 What Japan Thinks

Today’s first dose of sillyness from goo Ranking is a look at the best lines for telling someone a relationship is finished, for both men telling women and women telling men.

Demographics

Between the 21st and 24th of April 2009 1,071 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 51.4% of the sample were female, 9.2% were in their teens, 13.7% in their twenties, 27.5% in their thirties, 27.5% in their forties, 11.7% in their fifties, and 10.4% aged sixty or older.

Here’s a photo from gniv on flickr with a line that surprisingly doesn’t feature in the lists below.

Ranking result

Q: Other than just “we’re breaking up”, how do you annouce a relationship is over? (Sample size=521, male)

Rank		Score
1	It’s not that I’ve grown to hate you	100
2=	I’m tired of going out with you	90.0
2=	I want to be alone	90.0
4	I’ve met someone else	87.5
5	I don’t like you any more	72.5
6	I’m not confident that we can be happy together	55.0
7	I want to go back to just being friends	52.5
8	I can’t see/think of a future for us	47.5
9	It’s no fun when we’re together	37.5
10	I want to concentrate on something other than love (work, etc)	30.0

Q: Other than just “we’re breaking up”, how do you annouce a relationship is over? (Sample size=550, female)

Rank		Score
1	I’ve met someone else	100
2	It’s not that I’ve grown to hate you	84.7
3	I don’t like you any more	77.8
4	I’m tired of going out with you	75.0
5	I want to be alone	58.3
6	I want to go back to just being friends	56.9
7	I can’t see/think of a future for us	41.7
8	It’s no fun when we’re together	34.7
9	If we carry on like this I can’t see either of us growing	30.6
10	We went out together, but I couldn’t get to like you	26.4