Sorry – I answered earlier from an airplane – we landed safely, but my answer seems to have skidded off the runway.
Here it is again:
There needs to be complete tranaparency in every relationship. If one is a loser and the other one chooses that particular misfortune as the sole reason to bail, then being truthful means you will never have any regrets.
Regrets..
BUT, think of the absolute brilliance. Embracing the life a twisted character for a roller coaster ride through the alternative world of role play. I mean, it could be an outstanding adventure. Especially if you craft the backstory, illuminate the details and really invest all the way in the entire production. Commit. Really commit. Also, document everything. Blog it. Record it. Publish it. Launch a YouTube Channel and open a Facebook account. Wire your house with 42 webcams. Draft a business plan. Get an agent and a marketing director. Design product placement and cultivate a series of endorsement agreements, book deals, movie rights, talk show appearances and blueprints for a series interactive theme parks and couples only resorts.
Play out scenes of your madness in public places. Build an audience. Nurture the cult status your endeavor will no doubt attract. Claim to be secretly dating any B-list celebrity that will add valididty to your illusion. There is no such thing as bad publicity, as that is exactly what you want!
And then, as the final scene wraps and your defeated ex-lover runs screaming from your life. Hand them a letter of agreement on their way out the door, worth 9% of the net profits, after you have recouped expenses, for your new global enterprise: THE PHILANTHROPIC PSYCHO REPERTORY COMPANY, and you are finished! You have exorcised yourself from the loser, attained a guilt-free dissolution in the form of a generous buyout, and you are filthy rich and famous. You can now troll for A-list celebrities.
I mean, if you are floating the possibility out there, in of all places like Fluther, of attempting something so extreme as deceiving another human being just to remove them from your life, then by golly, you might as well do it all the way. Right?