"Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably"
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The phrasing does a lot of image-management work. “Neither of us” distributes responsibility evenly, refusing the tabloid template of villain and victim. Naming “Dennis” (not “Dennis Quaid,” not “my ex”) is intimate and humanizing, but also strategic: it pulls him out of headline-land and into the realm of two adults handling something painful. The little stumble of “me nor Dennis” reads like spoken, not lawyered - an attempt to sound real while still controlling the narrative.
Then comes the crucial pivot: “We both behaved very honorably.” “Honorably” is a loaded word for a breakup; it imports courtly ethics into a modern situation where the real trial is public opinion. The subtext is reputation triage: whatever happened, it wasn’t sloppy, it wasn’t vindictive, it wasn’t the caricature. In an era when Ryan’s image was being renegotiated in real time, she’s asking for a different lens - not romance as spectacle, but separation as something you can do with dignity, even when everyone’s watching.
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| Topic | Heartbreak |
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APA Style (7th ed.)
Ryan, Meg. (2026, January 16). Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/neither-of-us-me-nor-dennis-is-cavalier-about-a-113809/
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Ryan, Meg. "Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/neither-of-us-me-nor-dennis-is-cavalier-about-a-113809/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/neither-of-us-me-nor-dennis-is-cavalier-about-a-113809/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.




