17. ‘She didn’t care at all about my concerns. I just gave up and started cheating on her.’
“I had given up on the relationship. We had been together about 2.5 years. Moved 14 hours away together, got 2 dogs together. Rented a house together. But I felt that she had stopped contributing to and participating in the relationship. Wouldn’t hold up any flash cards for me while study for my law school exams. Wouldn’t bring me my laptop power cable that I left at home and needed for class because it was her day off. Wouldn’t take time out of her holidays with her family to go say hi to mine. Wouldn’t help take the dogs to the dog park. Stopped taking care of herself. Stopped writing her own checks for bills, so I would write them, and then she we would argue about her signing them. I was in the process of buying a house for us, signed a contract, put my money down and everything, but she was moving her sister in with us against my objections, and I didn’t have a say in how much my ex or her sister would pay in rent. They wanted to pay more to board and feeding and riding horses than they were willing to contribute in rent. Didn’t care at all about my concerns. I just gave up and started cheating on her.”
18. ‘I was in a terrible relationship where we didn’t get along at all.’
“I was in a terrible relationship where we didn’t get along at all. There were rumors that she was with another guy. I thought ‘fuck you’ and just started hitting it off with some other girl. We broke up just a few weeks later, but the relationship with the other girl lasted three times longer. I’d say it was worth it.”
19. ‘I was in a long-distance relationship for almost a year and it was very problematic.’
“I was in a long-distance relationship for almost a year and it was very problematic…I was about to move again abroad for work and she was also. We knew that it could not work out even though we tried very hard. One night I was getting drunk with one of my friends and I was talking to a girl at the bar and she was into me. I tried to avoid it at the beginning but then the drinks hit me and I said ‘what the hell, let’s go with it.’ She ended up blowing me that night and the next day I broke up with my girlfriend. Next thing I know, I am happy this happened.”
