to justify my decision to end things
here's the thing.....you don't NEED to JUSTIFY your decisions! they are yours, you OWN them. if you want to leave, for whatever reasons, then that is what you do!
we worry what others will think.
secret - most people are so consumed with THEIR own lives, problems, issues, they don't have TIME to be THAT worried about anyone else! which means.....you are free to do whatever you NEED to do !!!