Ending a relationship because you've found someone better?

This is one of the question which I have always pondered upon and frankly I don't really have an answer to that one. There are a lot of people who are looking for their perfect match and invariably dump their old gf/bf for the new one which is supposedly better. But is it fair to the person who you have been with for a while, who stayed loyal and faithful to you for so long and is this what he/she deserves! I don't know what my decision would be, if it ever happened to be in such a catch. More importantly, what if I were the one who got dumped for someone supposedly better than me. This is the question that one has to answer to himself before dumping someone else in that manner. That really is something to think about and as I said, I don't have an answer to that but I will check back on this discussion to see what others have to say on this issue.

I think that he is wrong for doing that to his origional girlfriend and the new one is wrong to since she knows/knew he was already in a relationship. If he wants to be that way then the origional girl can do way better. Personally I wouldn't do that and relationships are serious to me and not just a game.

well i would really want to know the reasons he gave for wanting to leave his girlfriend of 8 years as i do believe the devil you know is better than the angel you just met. And why wait till 8 years before finding fault in the girl and deciding you can't go on any longer? i think its not fair.Though i wouldn't subscribe to marrying someone out of pity or because you feel you might be able to live with his/her mistakes, but then leaving someone you have spent alot of time with, someone who knows you in and out, someone who have been with you through the good and the bad times,should be based on true findings and not because you think you found real love in the other person. Remember we are not always who we say we are.

Length of time does not guarantee a succesful relationship. Your friend could have suffered boredom from their long time relationship or maybe there was just not much enough love to sustain the relationship for it to last. I think a relationship is not about finding "a better one" rather it is finding the right person for us. Broken relationships are just there to let us learn so that when the right person comes along we will know how to value them.

Thats was very bad and too uncaring of him, he is going to hurt his gf who ws aso loyal to him since 8 yrs, so if he thought, she wsant right for him and that he wasnt getting along with her, he should have told her before, or just he could have said that at least when he started dating that other girl.sO he was so unmind ful, well, if he still want sto go on and dump her, well and good for her, she deserves better i think and as for him, there is always those kind of things happening to us, the same way we had it happen to others!

Actually in the end this guy will end up losing anyway because the right one or the "one" can only come through time and getting to know eachother developing trust and things of that nature. Right now he's looking at this new relationship through rose colored glasses and it soon will face the problems and ups and downs that any relationship has. And to me the girl that kept seeing him is in for a world full of hurt if he can do that to someone that he obviously loves because they've been together for eight years then he can do that to her. Neither one of them value the true meaning of the word "love". if you can find someone that you can tolerate for that long of a time you'd better hold onto them.

If a person thinks relationship is a game, that means he is not a responsible person. Being in a relationship requires sacrifices, and not only fun. New things are always fun to be with, the same goes with new girlfriends. But over time both of them will get bored. I don't think he is making a good decision, but nevertheless it's his decision and I just hope we will not regret it later.