1. Said the baby wasn’t mine 8 months in.
“Said the baby wasn’t mine 8 months in.”
—Stupidaussiewanker
2. Text message, on Valentine’s Day.
“Text message, on Valentine’s Day.”
—AirDrowned
3. He went out to get diapers and never came back; she was two weeks old.
“My eldest’s father went out to get diapers & never came back, that was it, she was 2 weeks old.”
—Adiboochoo
4. Left at the altar.
“Left at the altar. Two different women.”
—ohntyn
5. On my birthday.
“‘Happy birthday! By the way, I went on a date with another person yesterday and it was amazing.’”
—naughtydismutase
6. Over text, on the day of my best friend’s funeral.
“Over text, on the day of my best friend’s funeral.”
—Vikings2884
7. She had her new boyfriend call me.
“She had her new boyfriend call me to say it was over because I’m fat and his dick is that much better.”
—Crockinator
8. He broke up with me over text while I was taking a shit.
“I dated a guy for 2 and a half years and he broke up with me over text while I was taking a shit.”
—_idek
9. ‘Well, I guess you lost more than your dog today
“Broke up with me the day I had to put my dog down and said, ‘well, guess you lost more than your dog today.’”
—HasHTag_4evrA10ne
10. The day I was fired.
“Got fired, called her to tell her, told me it was over and she’d been screwing my friend.”
—AndyM314
11. I wasn’t part of God’s plan.
“I was told I wasn’t part of God’s plan.”
—An0malies
12. In front of five friends at church.
“Told me she didn’t want to do this anymore, that it was my fault, in front of 5 of my friends, at a church.”
—DoubleSly
13. Right as we arrived at the cruise terminal at the start of our vacation.
“Told me she didn’t want a romantic relationship RIGHT AS WE ARRIVED AT THE CRUISE TERMINAL AT THE START OF OUR VACATION after we had been dating three months.”
—kibble-net
14. Mid-sex. Mid-thrust.
“Mid-sex. Mid-thrust. ‘I think we’re better off apart.’ What a boner-killer.”
—trager_bombs
15. Sent me a snapchat of herself in an orgy.
“Sent me a snapchat of herself in an orgy.”
—PROFESSOR_CREAM_PIE
16. Woke up alone, all her stuff was gone.
“Woke up alone, all her stuff was gone :(”
—Profreshinal
17. She got her sister to tell me over MSN messenger.
“She got her sister to tell me over MSN messenger.”
—Daywombat
18. ‘I want my ring back. And my pillow shams.’
“Fiancé (at the time) dumped me in a text message. I believe his exact words were ‘I want my ring back. And my pillow shams.’ He never spoke to me again. I’ve always been curious about his urgent pillow sham needs.”
—PMcatPics
19. She just pretended to be busy constantly for 3 weeks until I took the hint.
“Long-distance relationship: she just pretended to be busy constantly for 3 weeks until I took the hint.”
—KaratenFriendship
20. The day I lost my job.
“I came home and told her I’d lost my job. ‘Oh good,’ she says, ‘now you’re free to move back to Montreal.’”
—pics-or-didnt-happen
21. We have a child together, and she ended things via email.
“She sent me an email. We have a child together, and she ended things via email.”
—DopeDaddy
22. Got a text that read ‘over & out.’.
“Got a text that read ‘over & out.’”
—Pucka11
23. When I tried hugging him.
“I tried to hug my ex-SO, and he started screaming ‘I don’t wanna have sex with you!’ We were together for 11 months :/”
—nastyel
24. She blew him in the parking lot before coming in to kiss me goodbye.
“I was late to pick her up and go out on a date, making up from an ongoing argument of being too busy for her. I was going to school full time and working part time to contribute to the lease we signed. She came home about 3 or 4 am drunk. She made out with me and let me know it was over.
She informed me that when I didn’t show up she was offered a ride home by the guy hitting on her and took it. She cheated on me with the guy whose been hitting on her at work offering rides home. They had sex parked in a park, went for drinks, sex at his place and blew him off double parked in front of our place just now.”
—Rubby-hubby
25. He posted ‘In a relationship’ with some random girl on Faceboo.
“When he posted ‘In a relationship’ with some random girl on Facebook.”
—ginjabeer
26. She’s a whorilla.
“You know how apes don’t usually let go of one branch until they have hold of another? Yeh. She does that, but with dicks. She’s a whorilla.”
—WW150
27. While we were making out.
“Cheated on me with a guy twice my age, and then casually brought it up with me as she and I were making out.”
—ChevroletSparkSS
28. While I was away for a week.
“I was away in San Jose, CA for a week of training for work. My wife takes the opportunity to move all her stuff out. Later tells me thank you for marrying me after her and her lawyer take me to the cleaners. Later on I get unsolicited email updates about her life. Crazy bitch. I’m not interested in you or your life after you fucked me over. Fast forward a year and half later and I’m working my way through a five-year plan accomplishing things I would never have been able to with her in my life. Life is beautiful again after all the pain.”
—thaldos
29. She destroyed my social circles.
“Told me she had been cheating on me and wasn’t going to stop and I had to break it off with her so that everyone would see me as the bad guy. After I got over the shock I did. And she destroyed my social circles.”
—2_Ducks_in_a_Handbag
30. Left me stranded at an airport.
“Left me stranded at an airport in a place where I knew nobody or nothing.”
—Adler221
31. She blew a guy right in front of me.
“I was 15, convinced I was in love with her, we were hanging out with a friend at my place, watching a movie. I started to play Gameboy because the movie was boring. A few minutes later I see in the corner of my eye my friend throw his head back and gasp a bit. She was kneeling in front of him giving him head. I froze immediately. I felt like I died. I still feel it today. In total denial I just pretended to not see it. She knew I did. I was so devastated all I could do was fall asleep where I was. When I woke they were both gone. Never heard from him again. She acted like nothing happened but didn’t want to see me anymore (I was so in to her that I would’ve – god I hate myself for that).
We never had sex before that and barely fooled around.
I was totally unprepared for that level of betrayal and it has left me completely emotionally crippled, I honestly did not know people did that sort of thing to each other. I’m 33ish now and have never been with anyone.
People always told me I was a sensitive kid. Reading this after having written down for the first time since I know what they mean now. I imagine a lot of guys would’ve just brushed this off and moved on. I can’t though, to this day I am terrified that if I find someone they will do the same thing to me.”
—still_deeply_alone
32. She showed up at my party with a guy she had just started dating.
“A girl I was dating came to visit me at college, and proceeded to clog my toilet right before a party I was throwing. She then led me outside to tell me she didn’t want to see me anymore, then showed up at the party later with a guy she just started seeing. Toilet was still clogged and I was sad and bewildered.”
—Theres_A_FAP_4_That
33. He pulled up next to my car with another girl.
“When I was about 19, I had been dating this guy for a couple of months. One night, I decided to surprise him at his apartment. I parked and waited when another car pulled up a few spots away from me. My boyfriend and another girl stepped out of the car. He saw my car and walked over to me with her. He tried to introduce me to her, but I already knew her from my one of my classes (because we lived in a small town). Then he said, “Yeah, it’s just not working out between us,” then proceeded to go to his apartment with her.”
—mrs_thatgirl
34. She made me drive across town through LA gridlock.
“You know LA traffic, how the city is slow? She made me drive across town on the 405 because she thought it would be more humane to break up with me face-to-face. Sorry, but I would have preferred a text. And the last thing LA needs is yet one more car smogging it up.”
—laterdude
35. Unfriended me on Myspace.
“Back in the very early days of social media – before even MySpace was a thing, I met my first boyfriend online. One day I noticed we were no longer listed as friends on that site. It turns out he decided to break up. That must rank even lower than ‘dumped by SMS’.”
—tfeilding
36. Fell in love with a teacher overseas.
“She got a scholarship to study in England while I stayed in the USA. Then came a letter saying that she’d fallen in love with a young professor there and was moving in with him.”
—Bach2Bach
37. Called me so I could hear her having sex with the new guy.
“First real girlfriend in senior year of high school. Her parents thought she was miss innocent but was a freak in the sheets. So like every high school relationship we had a fight. So I went for a boys night and she went for a girls night. Except her ‘girls night’ was with a guy whom I didn’t trust but was “just a friend”. I wake up to her calling me, thinking she wants to talk. It’s her getting plowed by that one friend. So I did what I thought was the right thing and hit record on my Motorola Razr. I was crushed but not as crushed as her parents were that morning when I played it for them. Oh well.”
—Gacharic_Canadian
38. He dumped me right before our Friday night date.
“I was waiting by the phone for him to say he was on his way to pick me up for our Friday date night. Phone rang and he dumped me instead.”
—MudBug93
39. Approaches me and tells me that she’s no longer in love.
“December 30th 2013. Approaches me and tells me that she’s no longer in love.”
—Beam_me_up_snotty
40. Her friend texted me from her phone to break it off.
“Her friend texted me from her phone to break it off. Along with some other petty insults, she decided to end the discussion with ‘you’re skinny as fuck, go eat a cheeseburger”. I could not stop laughing.”
—tigerking7
41. He had his mom break up with me for him.
“He had his mom break up with me for him. Oh, high school.”
—fieldios
42. She ruined my Thanksgiving.
“She was supposed to come to my brother’s wedding with me and then spend Thanksgiving with my family. A day before we were supposed to leave I called to find out when I should pick her up and she casually informed me that she was going to her friend’s house for Thanksgiving… acting as though we had never even made plans. So that was that.”
—Bmac1977
43. I walked in to see her fucking some other dude in our bed.
“I was with a girl for just over 5 years. When we met, she was in a bad place. The guy she was with before me used to beat her up and stuff. Really abusive. So it was tough in the beginning because she had major trust issues, self-esteem issues, depression and she self-harmed. But I went and fell in love with her. Helped her get over a lot of the mental anguish she was going through. Took her to (and paid for) her therapist every other week. We lived together for 4 of those years.
On our 5th anniversary, I proposed. I was madly in love with her, and I assumed she was with me. She said yes!
Then, a few months after that, I got off work a bit early, picked up her favorite fish and chips for dinner and headed home.
Long story short, I walked in to see her fucking some other dude in our bed. Both ass-naked, she’s riding the guy like a fucking cowboy. They didn’t even fucking hear me come in to the apartment.
I’ll skip the details, but within 2 days of that happening, she was gone. All her stuff out of the apartment. Half of MY stuff gone from the apartment, including my cash stash that was several thousand. She took my TV. A bunch of my kitchen stuff. She kept the ring. She took my fucking DOG man. Took the damn dog.
And I haven’t seen or spoken to her since. That was just about 3 years ago now.”
—luminiferousethan
44. Told me she wasn’t attracted to me at all.
“Three year very committed, latter year and a half was very long distance.
Her way of finally ending it was to tell me she just wasn’t attracted to me at all, saw me as a brother and had for the past two years plus. That all the super loving, incredibly passionate sex was just some basic pleasure for her and nothing else. Closed her eyes to imagine someone else. Not in those exact words, but mentioned the last bit when I probed about it.
I had already been utterly insecure in that relationship, typical young insecure guy that puts his girl on a pedestal. What tiny bit of self-confidence I had was completely and utterly crushed in that moment. I still remember it vividly two plus years later, sound drowned out and my vision felt like it zoomed way in while everything else completely went out of focus. There’s probably a name for the exact kind of film technique it reminds me of but I don’t know what it is.
A year and a half later I got back in contact and figured out it was way more to do with my personality and how shitty I was at the time, than my appearance. Took everything to heart and have made enormous progress in growing as a person, maturing and building up my confidence. In the end the single best thing that ever happened to help me grow and change as a person.
Something I told her recently, while seeking some final closure. That in the end I appreciated how it had helped me change so drastically and how she’d ended up significantly bettering my life, even though it hurt.
When I asked her what she got out of the THREE YEAR relationship? “It showed me that I really need to learn not to let myself be pressured into a relationship with someone I’m not that interested in, and could never actually love”.
Tore me to shreds for a few days, but showed me just how little she has changed in the end. Still as poisonously superb at causing me intense emotional distress, and does so deliberately. While pretending like I shouldn’t find her responses upsetting. Still a manipulative little girl totally in love with the idea of being an incredibly mature adult.”
—acidiccardiobunny
45. Went to a New Year’s party without me.
“Long distance girlfriend in college. Came home from school and rushed to get her a Christmas present since the small town in went to school in didn’t have any store but Walmart.
Christmas comes and she forgot/didn’t have time to get me anything. She was so happy to take my gift. Ok, no problem.
New Year’s comes and she says she’s not feeling well and is going to stay home and go to bed early. I stayed in because everyone already bought tickets to NYE parties. At around midnight I get a mass text from her saying happy new year to all her friends and how blessed she is.
Her friend that I was kinda friends with asked me why I wasn’t at the party with her.
Took the hint and after a month of not communicating with her she asked if we are broken up.”
—showmeyourkarmagirl
46. On my 21st birthday.
“Got broken up with on my 21st birthday. I had canceled plans of going out of town with my parents to a casino town (not Las Vegas, I think it was Alabama) so that we could spend my birthday together getting drunk and fucking for a week straight while my parents were gone. Instead, I spent the week lonely and crying.”
—Brandyce
47. Changed the locks.
“Her: My sister is coming over after work to grab some of her things. Will you leave your key under the mat for her?
Me: Sure.
Her: changes locks and sends me an offline message on AIM about how it was over, etc.”
—SlickMattyB
48. Guy answered telling me she never loved me as I heard her laughing in the background.
“First serious girlfriend. Took my virginity. Called her one day after she hadn’t been responding much. Guy answered telling me she never loved me as I heard her laughing in the background. At least she had the gall to get on the phone, still giggling, to tell me what he was saying was true. It ruined me.”
—Bickermentative
49. So, I think I want to break up.
“It was the day after my birthday. We were on a 5 hour drive back home after a little weekend getaway to celebrate. About 25-30 minutes from the house, were listening to music, reminiscing about the weekend in my head…and she speaks up and says: “So, I think I want to break up.”
The next 30 minutes were filled with dramatic confessions and me calling her some evil things. Got home, instantly didn’t care, downloaded Tinder, smashed out 2 new ones within 48 hours. (yay for college towns).”
—OrangeFancy
50. Said God told her to break up with me.
“Said God told her to break up with me. She was super religious, cute, socially awkward and crazy. She broke up with me right after I moved away for college and away from my family for the first time. So I was 320 miles away from my family living on my own for the first time and the girl who I could’ve loved broke up with me via FaceTime. She was the first girl I had felt a real connection to in 4 years. Almost made me quit school and move home.”
—oneofthelonewolfmen
51. Changed his FB status to in a relationship with someone else.
“On my 30th birthday, while we were long distance, by changing his FB status to being in a relationship with someone else. No conversation or warning. Just logged on to check my FB birthday messages and saw that.”
—natlach
52. Over text.
“Over text. While I was sitting in her apartment just hanging out. I flew down to see her two days before. My plane back was a week later.”
—icantbenormal
53. Twelve hours after I told her my friend killed himself.
“The worst one for me was when my girlfriend at the time decided to break up with me 12 hours after I told her my friend killed himself.”
—Someants
54. Told me she’d been engaged the entire time I had known her.
“Told me she’d been engaged the entire time I had known her. He ended up calling me a little bit later.”
—Arrowmaster
55. Over FaceTime.
“My longest relationship that turned long distance, she broke up with me less than 3 weeks after I’d spent almost $2000 coming out to visit her, and four days before my birthday. Did it over FaceTime, and while I was with friends. All in all it broke my heart to pieces and I’m still recovering.”
—jaimesabs
56. “‘I want a family…but not with you.
“‘I want a family…but not with you.’”
—jonhasglasses
57. ‘Bitch, get back into bed!’
“I called her to say hello and she whispers that she can’t talk right now. So I asked her why and she said I’ll tell you later… but then, a guy in the background shouts… bitch, get back into bed!
I cried after.”
—SleeplessDaddy
58. On her wedding night.
“She sent me a message on Facebook. Telling me she couldn’t do it any longer. That she had met someone else and was going to marry him. On her wedding night.”
—dhunter703
59. ‘We need to talk, and I’m pregnant.’
“I came to see her at her house and she was sitting on a guy’s lap making out with him. When she saw me at the door she jumped up and said, ‘uh hey, we need to talk, and I’m pregnant’……”
—RidgeRoad
60. I thought he was proposing.
“He took me out for dinner and we had the most wonderful time together. He ordered the most expensive wine there was, and the evening was just absolutely perfect. Eventually, he got down on one knee and I was already crying tears of joy.
He proposed to me and I was like “Oh my God, is this really happening?” To which he hastily replied, “Lol nope. I’m breaking up with you, btw I’m getting full custody of Barker (our beloved cat)” He left the bill with me and I didn’t even have money to pay for the expensive lobster burger and the wine. I ended the devastating evening broken-hearted, catless, and washing the restaurant’s dishes.”
—WowHelloHi
61. Because I stutter.
“Broken up with because I stutter. Happened a long time ago when I was a bit younger but it still messed with me for a couple of years.”
—Smol_Marshmallow
62. Got drunk with her mom and slept with some random guy.
“For me, by far the worst was my first gf.
We were at my parents for Boxing Day lunch and she said that she was going over to see her mum (her parents had recently split and this would be the first Christmas single). I said ok, and she left. I didn’t hear anything from her for a few days and decided to call to see what was up. I found out that she had gone to her mums, then to the pub and was not coming back anytime soon. I had already acquired her birthday presents (her birthday was in January) and suggested that she come and get them as I couldn’t return them. In March the following year she turned up and told me what had occurred. She had gotten drunk with her mum and slept with some random guy. To top this off, she had told all her family that I beat her to justify her ‘escape route.’ They still to this day believe that I did it.”
—gingepie
63. Who’s Frank?
“The following names are made up, but the story most fucking definitely is not. I’d almost go so far as to say the dialogue is direct quote, but let’s retain a healthy scepticism towards my memory.
Tess was my LTR. I had met her at Uni, and we had quickly fallen for one another, and at this point been together for about a year and a half.
Tess went on a study trip to China with some students she met during her master’s education. I have met them all many times, and I knew she’d be in safe hands. All I worried about was her homesickness and the fact that she’d be in a country where she couldn’t communicate well if something were to happen.
‘Take care, babe. Have a safe flight, and text me when you land, alright?’”
Tess cries and replies that she will. ‘I’m going to miss you. I’ve never gone this far away from home. Please be waiting for me at the gate-thing when I land. I want to see you first of everyone, okay?’
This request was so genuine that I couldn’t help but fall in love with her then and there. This might sound strange, given how the recollection started, but there’s a moment in a relationship—no matter how long you’ve been with someone—where something snaps and you realize that this is it; she’s the one; this is love.
I hugged her, kissed her neck, and watched her go through customs with her friends, waving at me every chance she’d got. If I didn’t know better, I’d have sworn she’d have chosen to stay if someone had asked her to then and there, but she didn’t. And at that moment, I wouldn’t have wanted to deny her something that had been a dream to her for so long. In fact, even in hindsight I’m happy she followed her dream, despite the consequences.
Two weeks passed. Two damn weeks had passed and I had yet to receive the text she promised. After the first few days I decided to call her and ask if all was well. Nothing. I left a text asking the same, and asking her to call me. Nothing. I kept tabs on her Social Media to see if she was online but ignoring me. Nothing. I called her every morning and every evening of the second week. Nothing. Absolutely nothing—not even so much as a signal of life. Even her parents had told me that they were worried, and though I comforted them over the phone with the thought that she’s a clever girl that can handle herself I kept from them the fact that I had tears soaking my beard as I listened to them speak.
I had no information as to where she’d stay, and since she was the organizer of the whole ordeal, all the university staff could tell me was that they were “somewhere in Beijing,” and that they had not received any contact data from Tess to help me with.
Then the day of her return came, and after suppressing the emotional powder keg I felt was ready to explode I decided to fulfill my promise and to receive her at the gate-thing, if only to see if she’d actually show up.
Two hours passed. Then three, and eventually after the fourth I got a text from her, stating that we needed to talk.
No shit.
The gate-things at Schiphol Airport are connected in pairs, and apparently she had accidentally exited the wrong one, and from there found her way home. I expected her to complain about me not receiving her like I promised, but instead she replied to my text with ‘Oh yeah, you did promise that. I’m sorry I took the wrong exit.’
Tired of texting, I decided to call her to ask for—well, anything at that point, honestly, but instead I get an annoyed response asking me what I wanted. I made my request to meet asap, because aside from whatever was going on I still missed the hell out of her.
‘I have to ask if Frank is okay with that, hold on.’
What the?
‘Who’s Frank?’
‘He says he’s uncomfortable with you coming over, so…’
‘Who. Is. Frank?’
‘Frank is my boyfriend.’”
—WhyTess 
