Hi, my name is Reka Morvay. I'm a psychologist and I'm going to talk to you today about how to break up with your live-in boyfriend. In this situation you have lived with this person for a while probably, and it is not very much different from a divorce except perhaps you don't have to go through all the paperwork. But in all other important aspects, you share a household, you probably share furniture and you share things that you own, television, etcetera. So you have to be doubly careful and doubly tolerant in this situation where you have to sit down and discuss who gets what, who gets to stay in the apartment, who gets to - who has to move out. This is going to be a very, very emotional situation in which you will probably escalate and you will probably build up all of those emotional problems that have led to the breakup itself. So try to stay calm and try to stay objective about how to divide your assets and how to proceed with this breakup. Try to play fair and try to be nice. Remember this is somebody that you chose to live with for a long time, and try to show that kind of consideration for this person so that you can have the least painful and the best possible move out situation that you can possibly have. Breaking up with someone after you have been living together is a very complicated situation. In all aspects it more resembles a divorce than a regular breakup where you've retained your own living situation and where you have your own life. So it is very important to be able to sit down calmly and discuss steps for the future with your partner. Discuss the lease of the apartment, who will get it and who will have to move out, who will get what furniture, who stays, who goes, you have to be very patient and very understanding, it's going to be a painful and complicated situation and the best thing you can do is to try to stay calm and stay objective and be respectful towards your partner.