The Weekend - Breaking Up (C0281)

Lydia:

Hello?

Maggie:

Hey! Do you want to go out tonight?

Lydia:

No, I think I’ll pass. Mark broke up with me. I feel awful.

Maggie:

What?!? What happened? Just last week you were talking about going on vacation together!

Lydia:

I don't know what I did wrong. He said he needed some space to figure things out... He said I didn’t do anything wrong, that I’m a great person... just not the one for him...

Maggie:

Ugh! That’s so cliché. Mark’s not worth your time, Lydia. You deserve so much better!

Lydia:

I know we had hit a rough patch but I had hoped we could work it out next weekend, when we both had some time off... I think he found someone else. I had been getting suspicious because he had been spending a lot of time with a coworker...

Maggie:

Whatever. He’s a jerk, forget about him! There are many more fish in the sea.

Lydia:

Talk about being cliché, Maggie! But you’re right. There’s no use for me to sulk around... Let’s go out tonight!

Key Vocabulary

break up

end a romantic relationship

talk about

to deliver or express in speech

figure things out

think about something until understand

cliché

a saying or idea that is overused

hit a rough patch

go through a difficult time

work out

solve, overcome

Supplementary Vocabulary

get dumped

to have someone break up with you

honeymoon period

the time at the beginning of a relationship when everything is going well

long-distance relationship

when two people live far away from each other but are in a relationship

blind date

when someone is set up to go on a date with a person he/she does not know

commitment

responsibility and sincerity in a relationship

casual dating

not dating to get married, just having fun, nothing serious

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