| All feelings aside, |
| Frankly speaking, |
| I hate to break it to ya, but |
| I hate to say this, but |
| In all honesty, |
| Painful though this may be, |
| Realistically, |
| The bad news is |
| The real problem is that |
| The trouble is |
| There's really no other way to say this, but |
| To put it bluntly, |