Gotye singing "Someone That I Used to Know " I had a call this morning from a client which deeply disturbed me. Because it touched a raw nerve. The client asked me about the manners of personal breakups. In 2012 should the conversation be between the two people involved, face to face, or is it appropriate to initiate the breakup by SMS, or email? What about a voice message or a telephone call? Her husband of 25 years, a well known doctor, had sent her an SMS while she was attending a conference overseas saying that he had fallen in love with someone else and wouldn’t be home when she returned the following day. I took a few seconds to compose myself before answering her. I very rarely wander into the realms of personal experience when offering advice but I decided to share with her my experience; and when I had told her my tale she encouraged me to talk about the manners of personal breakups on this blog because the impact of internet communication is...