Blurb  The breakup of a partnership often has a long history. This book is about the long farewell, during which the departing people suffered inner torment for years and where the decision to leave took on stronger and stronger contours over a long period of time. In this book, the departing people tell in their own words why they left. Couples do not break up because of quarrels or different personalities; they leave because they feel lonely, rejected and abandoned in the couple relationship. They go to save their dying selves.