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{{quote|'''Gwen:''' I'm sorry, George.
'''George:''' I don't understand, things were going so great. What happened? Something must have happened.
'''Gwen:''' It's not you, it's me.
'''George:''' You're giving me the "it's not you, it's me" routine? I ''invented'' "it's not you, it's me"! Nobody tells me it's them not me; if it's anybody, it's me!
'''Gwen:''' All right, George, it's you.
'''George:''' You're ''damn'' right it's me!|''[[Seinfeld]]''}}
{{quote|''"Why do I blame you, when it's me I can't forgive?"''|[[
The oldest breakup line in the book, and still the favorite way to get rid of a [[Temporary Love Interest]]. However, there's a key difference on television: sometimes, it's actually true!
Usually, when true, it's because the breaker-upper has a [[Big Secret]]. For example, in season one of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Buffy breaks up with a guy because his craving for excitement/death wish would probably get him killed if he kept hanging around Buffy. Sometimes, "[[
However in other cases (especially in a [[
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Joked with in ''[[One Piece]]'', Chapter 489/Episode 381.
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'''[[Cyborg|Franky:]]''' You're one hell of a catch, but I'm so friggin' super, I'm out of your league, babe. }}
* Mixed with {{spoiler|[[Sins of Our Fathers]]}} in [[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* Subverted and inverted in ''[[
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* Played straight in ''[[
* Jacob does this in the film version of [[New Moon]], when he tries to distance from Bella after discovering he's a werewolf.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* ''[[
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* Used repeatedly on ''[[Sex and
* Prue in ''[[
* Ellen of ''[[Slings and Arrows]]'' gives this line to her much younger boyfriend Sloan shortly after he asks her to marry him, saying that he deserves better than a middle-aged woman caught up in a drama-filled world (the theatre) that she can't let him into.
* ''[[The IT Crowd]]'' plays with this when Douglas discovers that his [[Temporary Love Interest]] is a [[
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* Subverted in ''[[Coupling]]'' when Patrick tries to break up through her answerphone with one of his numerous conquests :
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** Steve does it in the first episode to Jane, who of course asks him why she's getting dumped instead of her dumping him. Steve runs with this, telling her to dump him, to which she replies "Noooooo! We can work on your problems!'
* In the ''[[Friends]]'' episode "The One with the Thumb", the characters discuss "dating language":
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* Caroline in ''[[The Vampire Diaries]]'' manipulates her boyfriend Matt into breaking up with her since, as a young vampire, she lacks the self-control to not rip his throat out in an intimate moment.
* Simone of ''Dårfinkar & dönickar'', masquerading as a boy, uses this line on a girl who's interested in her. The truth is, of course, that the attractive boy Simon is really a she.
* In ''[[That '70s Show]]'', Nina breaks up with Fez using this line. When she wants to get back together later in the episode, he blows her off with a mocking "It's not me, it's you".
* On ''[[Boy Meets World]]'' Shawn says this to Cory when they "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|break up]]" their friendship in the episode appropriately titled "It's Not You, It's Me".
* George from ''[[Seinfeld]]'' claims to have invented this trope (see the quote).
* When Robin on ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' once broke up with a boyfriend, she also "broke up" with his 10 year old son. On realizing that nobody had broken up with him before, she was relieved that she could throw ever cliched breakup line at him and he would believe her. "It's not you, it's me." "I'm going through a lot of stuff right now." "I just want to focus on my career." etc. etc.
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== [[Theatre]] ==
* In ''[[Lady in
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Kanon tries this in the second arc of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* The [[Player Character]] can use this line to break up with Leliana in ''[[Dragon Age]]''. She will call you out on doing so, however, and demand the real explanation.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[The
* The [http://www.leasticoulddo.com/comic/20030211 second strip] of ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' combines this with [[Brutal Honesty]] and [[Jerkass]].
* Spoofed in ''[[Something
** Also referenced [
* [http://headtripcomics.comicgenesis.com/d/20100308.html Used] in ''[[
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* In a ''[[Speedbump]]'' cartoon (by Dave Coverly), he gives an example of the worst use of this line, in which an angel tells this to her devil boyfriend.
* This is [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] in ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' where this phrase is used to [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/10212004/ start a relationship.] The inversion is then promptly [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded.]]
* In ''[[
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (
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