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    Please help me phrase this sentence:

    I'll give a situation here first:

    My boyfriend and I were supposed to live in. He from inside never wanted to but never admitted it. Now I'm going to live alone but I want to tell him this. Tell me if the sentence below is correct:

    "You never said it explicitly, you wanted to me back out so that you wont be/would not be the one to trash this plan."

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    Hi smonga`8

    This is the situation. My boyfriend and I were supposed to move in together, but from the very start, he never admitted that he didn't want to. So I want to tell him, "You never said explicitly that you wanted to back out of the plan because you didn't want to be the one to trash it."

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    Default Re: use of "would"

    Quote Originally Posted by smonga`8 View Post
    Please help me phrase this sentence:

    I'll give a situation here first:

    My boyfriend and I were supposed to live in. He from inside never wanted to but never admitted it. Now I'm going to live alone but I want to tell him this. Tell me if the sentence below is correct:

    "You never said it explicitly, you wanted to me back out so that you wont be/would not be the one to trash this plan."
    You never said it explicitly, but you wanted me to back out so that you would not be the one to trash (our)(the) plan.
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