A split can be a good thing or a bad thing. If you split a piece of cake, you take part of the slice and someone else takes another part. That’s good. If you split the bill with someone, you each pay a portion of the check at a restaurant. That’s OK, too.

But when a couple splits up, they go their separate ways. They end their relationship, or break up. That’s not so good.

The actor Jerry O’Connell and his model wife, Rebecca Romijn, have twin toddler girls. He says that raising twins is really hard. He even jokes that he and his wife would split up if only they could agree on who would take the kids, since neither of them would want to keep them! Since there are two of them, one solution would be to split up the girls. Then each parent could take one kid. And one toddler has to be better than two.

Have you ever split up with someone? What made you end the relationship?

Examples

1. Examples - Hear some example sentences.

“Splitting up is always hard no matter why it happens.”
“I can’t believe Ellen and Tom split up; I thought they would be together forever.”
“Annie decided to split up with her boyfriend when she found out he had cheated on her.”