8. “If we had met two or three years later, we might have gotten married.”
“When she said ‘We were a good match, weren’t we?’, it made me think we still had a chance. But I wasted my time.” Saying something like this can get his hopes up, and giving him false hope is just cruel. It may be kinder of you to tell him directly the reasons you can’t stay with him to get him to move on.