Hey Id, my boyfriend has recently broken up with me after 6 months,
we both love one another, and supposedly the relationship was going
great. He gives excuses such as the distance between us (he is away
at school), and different nationalities to be the cause of his
feelings, but the real reason is his fear of commitment (he is in his
early twenties). I and all those who know him feel he has made a HUGE
mistake by letting go of such a great relationship for such a stupid
reason. I am having a very hard time getting over him and moving
on.

What should i do? We have stopped communicating, it’s been a month.
Do you think he will ever grow up and regret his actions? And what
should i do to help myself get over and past him?

–Stacy M.

Dear Stacy M:

Id takes heart in your last question about moving past this guy.
Because that’s exactly what you need to do.

Look, Id doesn’t want to be a downer, but the first paragraph of your
letter sounds like one big rationalization. You will never know the
“real reason” he left you. It might be fear of commitment,
it might be the distance, it might be that he’s found someone else, or
it might be simply that he doesn’t love you anymore. Id’s guess is
that “all those who know him” are telling you he’s made a huge mistake
because they want to be supportive of you during this difficult time.
Which tells Id that you’ve got good friends but it doesn’t tell Id
anything about the relationship.

Whatever the case, you know that you need to move past him and that’s
important. That’s good. That means you won’t wake up when you’re
older with a shriveled, dried-up heart that died from lack of
sustenance. So how do you move past him? By keeping your heart busy
with other passions. Whatever they are - another guy, a hobby, a
twelve-pack of Miller High Life. This will distract your heart until
it forgets about this overseas love affair.

–Id

Recently, I’ve been finding myself more and more attracted to the
boyfriend of a good friend of mine (who, incidentally, was initially
supposed to be someone she set me up with). I don’t know what to do
with these feelings… should I tell her?

All of my other friends know, and they keep pushing me to inform her,
especially since (according to them… and I suppose I should trust
them, because they go to the same college as the couple and I don’t)
she’s rather cool about the relationship; that is to say, she’s only
dating him because he asked her out. Eh. I’m lost.

–Snapple

Dear Snapple:

Id is tired of these love
triangle pleas for advice. The only way to solve the problems
inherent in love triangles is to GET OUT OF THE TRIANGLE FOR GOD’S
SAKE.

That’s it. That’s all there is to it. Remove yourself. And please,
people: stop asking Id for advice about how to betray your friends.

–Id