If someone did this, my heart would skip a beat

Nothing says love like broken ceramic

Those vessels are not anatomically correct... just like your congenital malformations

Or throw it at them to warn them how much breaking your heart hurts....

Thanks. This speaks to me... I'm going to have to think on this one for a while.

I'm reminded about he broken cup apology analogy for some reason:

Break a cup.
Pick up the pieces.
Apologise to them.
Great, but it's still broken.

Doesn't work, unfortunately.
My ex wife and I did something similar in marriage counseling, just without breaking things.