How do you politely reject someone? Long story short, I was on the phone with my partner tonight and knock on wood. Everything's going great between us. But I brought up that there were a couple guys from my past who, you know, approached me to date and I rejected them. And the way I went about it was just straight up telling them I'm not interested and, you know, hoping they would get the hint. But even me saying that was not good enough, apparently. And it reached a point where I was like, hey, I really don't know how it could be much clearer about this. So now I want to know, how do you politely reject someone so that if you know if this ever came my way again that I could actually say it in a way that's understood the first time around.