I love the movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” It’s funny, irreverent, but totally true. And, again, it’s funny.

One, like many real life relationships, there are no “bad guys” aka real antagonists among the main characters forming the no-longer-together couple of Sarah and Peter. The movie viewer isn’t invited to hate them. Even the rock musician character of Aldous as the new love interest of Sarah is not meant to be hated.

Two, although there’s a big breakup scene early in the movie, it’s revealed through the plot that it was a relationship slowly dissolving and, really, neither Peter nor Sarah were all that happy in the relationship. That’s like real life too.

Here’s an example from the movie itself. It’s one of many.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7axkJnK1Xk

Most people want to know real tangible reasons a relationship ends or in some cases why the relationship doesn’t go further.

I was pressed by one fella about why I didn’t want to see him again. We had been out three times but that was enough for me. There were several reasons I didn’t want to date him, but one reason I told him was that he complained too much and too often about work. I didn’t like the “Oh I hate Mondays,” “Work is so boring,” and “TGIF” messages he would send me. Eric was upset and protested vehemently that everyone complained about work and using that excuse was unacceptable.

I just didn’t want to date him. I wasn’t going to sit around overthinking the issue.

Other than that, I can’t think of any other time I had some empty reason for not dating someone.

I did find an article online that shared tales of breakups with silly excuses.

• “A former colleague swears her boyfriend dropped her because they had different cellphone carriers. ‘He was always complaining about all the minutes he used up talking to me,’ she said.
• After five months of dating, a friend’s boyfriend was done after someone at a party commented how cute their kids would look. It was as if someone yelled, ‘Fire!’ He couldn’t get away from her fast enough even though she had never mentioned kids or marriage before.”

Sometimes men and women just want don’t want to be with someone and will come up with anything to move away and move on.

It’s just “looking for any reason to run.”

Source:

http://ca.shine.yahoo.com/blogs/love-sex/5-things-women-send-guy-running-200100233.html