After spending six years together, YouTuber Joey Graceffa and Daniel Pedra introduced their resolution to break up. But why did they cut up?
"So we broke up three months ago and we've been living together still since then," Joey Graceffa opens his emotional YouTube video titled "we broke up."
Joey has been a YouTuber since 2009 and is highest identified for his vlogs and for being the host of the YouTube Original Escape the Night. He and Daniel Pedra have been relationship for six years before they announced their cut up, initially going public with their dating in 2016.
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The couple has lived in combination for a few years and percentage 3 dogs together. Daniel starred in Joey's tune video "Don't Wait" as his love pastime, and used to be his first public dating since coming out in 2015.
But why, exactly, did Joey and Daniel break up?
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Why did Joey and Daniel break up?
Despite breaking up a few months ahead of their announcement, Joey and Daniel published within the video that there wasn't a transparent catalyst for the break up — they simply each determined it wasn't understanding for them any longer.
"It's obviously easier to stay but we're doing what's best for us and we both know this is what needs to be done — what we both need to do to be happy, because I don't think either of us have been happy for a while," Joey said.
They clarified that even though their breakup traces up with the start of the stay-at-home orders installed position due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that didn't play a major factor in their breakup.
"This has been coming for a bit," Daniel stated. "And you know the world just slowed down and said 'wake up, b---h, you need to focus on yourself.'"
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Joey further explained that their breakup was once "building up over the past couple of years," however the stay-at-home orders truly gave them an opportunity to stand it. "Finally, with the time given to us, we were able to look at [our relationship] closer and make the decision," he stated.
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What's subsequent for Joey and Daniel?
Despite their heartbreaking break up, each Joey and Daniel admitted that they had each and every goal to remain on amicable phrases. They said they would cut up custody of their fur youngsters, and agreed to canine sit down for each different when wanted, as well as prepare play dates so the canine aren't aside from each different too much. Daniel even stated he does not want to destroy Joey's excellent courting with his mother, in order that they plan to stay close although they're no longer romantically concerned.
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Joey mentioned he would be staying in the house they had both been dwelling in, while Daniel would be moving.
"We're just doing what's best for us and kind of [giving] our relationship to the universe and taking what comes next," Daniel stated. "We're always going to be there for each other."
But regardless of this, Joey pointed out that coping with their split would nonetheless be exhausting, and asked his fanatics to be all ears to their emotions right through this time. Specifically, he asked that his fanatics now not attempt to push them again together.
"Please respect this decision we made with each other, and please don't try to force anything online," Joey said.
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