You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
It's better to have loved and lost than to have to do forty pounds of laundry...
I loved my 17 years with R.E.M. but I'm ready to reflect assess and move on...
That's free enterprise friends: freedom to gamble freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.