the negative bias of language when it comes to the end of a relationship. Phrases like breaking up, splitting up, on the rocks, dumped, finished, and kaput, with our poor children now coming from broken homes, perhaps because of some shameless home wrecker, leave a lot to be desired. And of course, there’s also the offensive title of ex, which rhymes with hex, ejects, wrecks, and vex, and is reminiscent of x-ing something out to delete it forever from our lives. However, the phrase conscious uncoupling in and of itself opens up a world of possibility for breakups moving forward,
