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Deal Breaker

Your vs. You're

Date: May 24 2011

Themes: Soap Opera

Grammar: You're vs. Your

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When you have an agreement or a deal with someone, you don’t have to agree on everything. You just have to get along well enough to keep the relationship going, whether it’s a business relationship or a romantic relationship.

But sometimes, you will disagree on something so important that you have to end the relationship. That’s what’s called a deal breaker.

In any relationship, compromise is important, but there are some things you just can’t compromise about. For Jeff, the fact that his girlfriend Ella recently adopted a child is one of those things.

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Jeff

Dale

Jeff: Oh, man. My eyes are killing me.

Dale: What happened to your eyes, dude?

Jeff: I just can’t stop itching them. I have pink eye.

Dale: Pink eye?

Jeff: I’ve had pink eye for two weeks.

Dale: How did you get pink eye?

Jeff: Ella adopted a kid. The kid gave me pink eye.

Dale: Oh my goodness. Do they always carry pink eye?

Jeff: Yeah. Kids are dirty. It’s always getting me sick. There’s that. What else? It’s expensive.

Dale: They’re expensive too?

Jeff: Yeah!

Dale: I thought the government gives you money for kids.

Jeff: Yeah, well, not this one. He’s always breaking things. Always wants to tag along.

Dale: Tag along with you? Oh…

Jeff: Yeah. Can’t get any privacy.

Dale: Nothing by yourself? I want my privacy. I want them to leave me alone.

Jeff: Yeah. Tell me about it, man. You’re free. It’s a deal breaker, man.

Dale: So a deal breaker? It’s like something you can’t get past? You’re going to have to break up with Ella because of this?

Jeff: I don’t have any options. I can’t sell it. I can’t lose it. I’ve already tried that. It’s permanent in my life. I think that’s my only option, don’t you?

Dale: I guess that is a deal breaker.

Jeff: Yeah.

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Discussion

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Jeff has pink eye. It’s a sickness that children usually get. He got it from Ella’s new adopted son, Table.

Table bothers Jeff in many ways. He follows him around, gets him sick and breaks his things. Dale says that it sounds like the kid is deal breaker. Jeff is going to have to break up with Ella because of this.

Jeff agrees that he has no choice but to break up with Ella. He can’t think of a way to compromise about the kid, so it looks like Table is going to be a deal breaker.

What would be a deal breaker for you in a relationship?

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jerryjeff

United States

How the adopted kid came about int the first place. I reckon the two should have compromised instead of making any individual decision. I don’t know about most of guys here and I love kids, but it’d have freaked me out to come home and my partner is like :”hey! Look what I got , a kid, it’s ours, yay!”. But I think things like that could only occur on soap operas.. Because it certainly would have been a deal breaker for most folks

wwongsapun

Thailand

For me , Everything it’s deal breaker when someone don’t have compromise to each other. It’s difficult for this cause . I cheer Jeff for to agreement of this thing for true love with Ella and help poor kid Table.

trailo_hathanh

Viet Nam

Poor Jeff, Does anyone think that Jeff will break up with Ella? I know it for a long time.

But break up is not a good ideal. The child might a deal breaker, however Jeff should have talk with Ella to see how is she love him. Is her love with Jeff more than her in or out? After that Jeff can easily to decide.

good luck to Jeff.

Ashly87

China

i think Ella should talk over with Jeff before adopt that child .

and Jeff no need to break up with her coz of that reason , instead he must tell her that his real feeling about this matter .

then they can figure out it together .

dkattleya

Indonesia

LOL, isn’t Ella the model or the cubby one? anyway…yes Ella should discuss with Jeff before adopting the boy, but also Jeff should be patient and if he really loves Ella and pursue a resious relationship with her then things can be talk over, however i think Jeff and Ella argue alot recently so maybe this is the time to break up and adopting the son would be deal breaker for him!