I think you"ve probably got a good point, and it"s one that"s occurred to me over the past week or two as well. Unfortunately, in this particular case, the damage is done.
She called me just before lunch as I was pulling in to the bank parking lot. Right away I sensed something in her voice, and said she sounded stressed or something. She said that work"s crazy as usual and that she"s really tired from having gone to Coldplay last night and was feeling sick as well. She continued that she was only going to the wedding tonight for the ceremony and wouldn"t be staying around after, just going home to sleep, and that it"s probably just a waste of my time to come. I agreed that there didn"t seem much point in it and asked if she"d want to hang out after just watching a movie or something. She re-iterated that she was just going to go to sleep and she was feeling sick. I said fine, told her if she"s up for hanging out this weekend to give me a call, she reminded me that she was going out with her friends tomorrow night and didn"t really make any effort to set anything up. The conversation ended there.
I went in to the bank, did my shit, and came back out five minutes later. I tried calling her back, but she did not answer (I"m sure she was still on her lunch break). I was going to break up with her there, but left a message asking her to call me either this afternoon or after the wedding and didn"t say much else.
So at least for the time being, it"s done with. The only question is how to end it. Do I go in to detail with her on the phone? Do I make it quick? Do I make it clear that even though I"m going to move on for the time being, that she shouldn"t hesitate to call me if things change? I"m half tempted to write up an email because I just want to get it off my chest and shoulders, but we know how that"s gone in the past.
This sucks and it"ll hurt for awhile, but I just can"t see any point in pro-longing my agony.