The Perfect Breakup Email Templates for Valentine’s Day
For when you need to break up with the professional relationships in your life
Happy Valentine’s Day! <3
For some, today is the perfect day to show your love and affection to your significant other. For others, today is just a capitalistic scam to sell more chocolate and flowers.
While today is traditionally known as the holiday for love, it’s also a day ripe for heartbreak. Did you know, that a 2020 study from YouGov found that just over one in ten Millennials have ended a relationship on Valentine’s Day? </3
Heartbreaking as it is, sometimes you just need to find a way to break yourself out of relationships that don’t work for you. This is just as true for the professional relationships in your life as it is for the romantic ones. But sometimes you just get a little stuck on the words to use. This is where we come in.
Being the Edison Mail team, we send a lot of emails. Professional ones, friendly ones, and breakup ones too.
So while we can’t, ethically speaking, help you draft the perfect breakup email for your significant other, we can help you draft the perfect breakup email for the other people in your life. After all, who among us hasn’t wanted to send the perfectly drafted final message to salespeople and recruiters who simply won’t quit?
Read on to see some handy templates you can use to break up with those special people in your life.
For the recruiter who’s been emailing you every few weeks for the last year:
Hi [recruiter name],
Thank you so much for reaching out (again). I’m sorry to say that I’m still not interested in working for [company name]. Somehow despite how many messages you’ve sent, the role simply doesn’t appeal to me.
If possible, I’d love to be included in a do not email list of yours.
Thanks!
[your name]
Or if you’d like to be more poetic:
Hi [recruiter name],
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Re: this [job title] role,
No thank you
Best,
[your name]
For the salesperson who’s emailed you, sent you a LinkedIn connection and also somehow found your phone number:
Hi [salesperson name],
It’s almost admirable how determined you’ve been to reach me. But regardless of how you package it, I’m simply not interested in [product].
I’m sure your determination and grit will pay off with someone, it’s simply not with me.
Thanks!
[your name]
For the therapist who just didn’t work out:
Hi [therapist name],
Unfortunately I don’t think you’re the right fit for my needs.
I’m sorry, it’s you, not me..
All the best,
[your name]
For the boss you can finally leave behind:
Hi [boss name],
So sorry for your loss (it’s me, I’m the loss).
My last day is [date].
Thanks,
[your name]
Regardless of how you want to say goodbye, you can use Edison Mail’s Templates to make the job easier.
In our mobile app, tap on the stacked paper symbol above the keyboard and copy paste one of our email template ideas. In our Mac app, go from Preferences to Templates to + New Template and copy paste one of our ideas there. Replace any of our bracketed texts with a placeholder and save. Now the next time you need to break up with any of the above, you’ve got the exact email you need.*
*Please don’t actually use any of our templates. Or do. We’re not your mom.
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