Do You Consider "Cool-Off" as Break Up?

This is why communication is so important. It is a good idea to find out what the true motives and perceptions are. To some "cool-off" means to break up and to others it means to just give a little space to reassess the direction the relationship is going. Some people use it to cheat while keeping the other dangling in limbo, while others use the period to just step back a bit particularly if a relationship is a whirlwind romance. I know this is easier said than done, but people should just be forth coming and honest with themselves as well as their partner about why they need a "cool-off" period. That way what ever happens; it would have been covered and maybe even expected.

there is a big difference between cool off and break up. if one of the couple has small issues to deal with the relationship they tend to have a cool-off. which means that there are hopeful for the problem to be resolve at some other that and that both of them needs time and space to look into things and decide in the future if they want to retain the relationship. when you say break up it means that the couple had run out of solutions and are not hoping for things to be okay because they have reach the period where they can not stand to think of possible solutions onto the cause of the coming break up.when someone initiate break up it actually means that he had think over it before it;s just not the proper time then. so when someone ask you to have a break up he must have thought of it before and prepared himself for that fall. i prefer break up . when people get engaged to cool off they still have the authority to check on what you are doing. if want cool off why not give him break up instead. so you won't think of what if anymore and you wont get too hard on yourself.case close just like that.

The cool off period should be seen as a temporary separation to regroup once a relationship has soured. it's not a code word, not an easy out for when you found someone else while still in an active relationship, just a little vacation from a person. It's more positive than negative. Think about it. Would you rather stay in a relationship that just doesn't work(leading to a bitter breakup later on), or would you rather part on good terms, and go your separate ways?

I dont believe in cool off. If its break up then break up no more stages of giving space to each other and think of what is happening to the relationship. Why prolong the agony, why not say it right and direct. Than making things worse. For me its good to say break up because that would be the chance that you are no longer in the relationship and that would be better place for you to think about yourself.

No. It is a period of giving each other a space to think about the relationship and the things affecting it. It is a period of recollection for the benefit of both parties. Sometimes couples become tired of their everyday activities and it seems that the relationship becomes boring and tiresome. The cooling off period is to give each other a chance to think of their mistakes and lapses and how to bring back the exciting relationship. Sometimes, others treat it as a license to date other girl or boy but that should not be the case. Cool-offing period should be treated as an opportunity for growth. It is a time to give the relationship another chance.

Hi there, I'm definately with you. I think if somebody wants to "cool off" that they are just being nice about breaking up with you.

Isn't it all just words? Break up, cool off - if you don't hook up together again it all ends the same way regardless of what you call it. Some people are blessed with the ability to end things amiably an make everything acceptable to the other party. I am not one of those people who can talk and make everything right while "getting rid" of a personal relationship. It is a process of life which everyone will probably have happen. People do what they have to do. We are all individuals.

When I was younger, I used to think that cool off is equivalent to breaking up. I guess it depends on how mature the persons would be. I've never done this to any of my previous relationships and even in my current relationships. However I begin to realize that this would be stage when two people needs some time and space to think things over and to realize if they'd still want to be with that person in spite of all the troubles they might be currently getting into. If a person would want to do it with his/her partner, it's interesting because the person is not just deciding of breaking up with the person. It's better than you make outright decisions when you're overwhelmed with how you feel.

hi there chavez11. NO, i dont consider "cool-off" as a break up, I dont even consider break up as a break up. For me, break up happens only when the two persons don't have feelings for each other anymore, because I know that if still have feelings with each other, they will end up getting back together again. Anyway "cool-off" means what it states, just a time or state to cool-off and think things through.

cool -off may be considered as take things easy , or be apart for a while

no, its just a state of a relation that they must have distance to think whats really happening to their relationship. and also to fully think if they can really live without their partner cause if not they will again be back into relationship and make it stronger but if not surely the relationship will result to break-up..