"That Truly Stung:” Tales of Unpleasant Break-Up Moments

People cannot deny the fact that crap happens in their lives sometimes. It could be in any form, and one of the worst-case scenarios is the worst break-up moments. 

Imagine yourself admiring and adoring that one person in your life. But ended up getting hurt, abandoned, and taken advantage of. And they dared to dump you in the worst way. 

The audacity, right? Well, here are some of those stories. You might want to check these out!

1. Jaw-Dropping Moment 

My aunt and uncle have gone through fertility treatment for years. 

Aunt finally gets pregnant and has the baby. My uncle brings them home from the hospital to my grandparent's house. 

He said the most mouth-grinning statement. 

Uncle: I don't want to hang around and get attached to this new baby. Bye.

And leaves them both on the front porch. 

Aunt is dumbfounded.

Apparently, my uncle had 3 young daughters in another state with another woman.

jdoe74

Timing is everything! A cousin of mine flew to Italy for a 6-week trip (with his girlfriend, who was living there at the time). 

They planned to travel and hike all around Europe and finally meet her family in Spain for a rather grand festival. 

He broke up with her as soon as he arrived on the plane...

And they then proceeded to go on their trip! He said that it was rough and that there was a lot of crying (he seemed very surprised at this).

We don't see eye to eye on many things.

Barmleggy

Came back from a girls' weekend with my sister and cousin to find the entire apartment empty. Everything was gone, including most of my stuff. No note, no phone call, nothing. 

This was 8 months after getting married.

It turned out he wanted a divorce.

tashke

So we dated for about six months. I work the night shift, so we only really saw each other on the weekends when I was off. She always stayed at my place; she lived and worked about an hour away, so it was more convenient. 

Decided to surprise her for her birthday, used some PTO, drove to where she worked, and made reservations at an awesome restaurant, the whole nine yards.

  She came walking out with her husband, who'd had the same idea, and got introduced to the husband as "my friend from spin class." 

I spent an awkward couple of minutes giving a feeble happy birthday and made my exit as quickly as possible. 

I even heard hubby ask, "Does he have a crush on you?" as I walked away.I never answered her texts, calls, or e-mails, and I was more pissed at myself for not seeing the signs than at her for making me "that" guy. 

A mutual friend told me a year ago they divorced when she got pregnant thanks to her next "friend from spin class." And no, I've never been to a spin class in my life.

Murrayftw

I know someone who wanted to marry a guy and gave him an ultimatum. He countered with, "On New Year's Eve I'll flip a coin: heads we marry, tails we break up."

Fast forward to New Year’s Eve... he just breaks up with her, no coin toss.

There is so much wrong on both sides that I don't even…

Fait_Divers

My brother's girlfriend changed her relationship status to "in a relationship" with a different guy. I called him because I was shocked.

They had broken up the same day she had moved on so quickly that I asked why they broke up and he replied, "We didn't break up?"

After he called her asking what's up she had the other guy answer the phone and tell my brother she was with him now and to back off. 

I wanted to kick her teeth in.

shannonious

After he took my virginity after a year of dating, he disappeared. Didn't even have the guts to break up with me. 

About a week later, I found out from a (very dear) friend that he started sleeping with my best friend. They were together for a year afterward.

allaballa8

I was semi-new to California and had few friends but was in a relationship. It's 6 months in, and I have been feeling horrible for a short while. Pain, dizzy spells, and other fun (gross) stuff. 

So, I booked a date to finally go to a Dr. with my new health insurance.

  The night before my appointment, I got news my grandfather was admitted to the hospital with heart problems. Major bummer because he was in NY, I'm poor, and I loved the crap out of him.   

But I try to stay with it and go to my appointment. While there, I was told I probably had an issue that would lead to fertility problems and pain, so I best get the ball rolling on tests.

Pretty devastated by this and my grandpa's current state, I called my boyfriend and asked if I could come over after work for comfort. I was told no because he had a date with someone else.

Awesome.

saladsporkoflove

One Tuesday, there was a small fire in my friend's wife's office. Because of that, she came home for lunch and to await the all-clear call on her cell. Found her husband's secret "bit on the side," putting a bunch of her clothes in the bedroom closet; also taking wifey's out and throwing them on the floor.

My friend had planned to tell his wife their marriage was over that evening. Plan came apart when his ditzy lover thought it was Wednesday already, the breakup had already happened, and the coast was clear to move her stuff in.

Now I don't know about you, but to me, arranging for your homewrecking, pinhead lover to kick your wife out of her own bedroom walk-in closet is the ultimate bad etiquette. 

The judge thought so, too; said friend got taken to the cleaners and deservedly so.

The best part is that his bit left him the day after the judgment was rendered - because she was just really interested in the house, which, of course, he lost in the proceedings.

theartfulcodger

My dad tells a story about his ex-boss. One day, he found his wife dead. The next day, the assistant he'd been having an affair with was wearing her clothes, shoes, makeup, perfume, wedding rings, and jewelry. 

After that, they kept inviting my dad and mom to dinner, which they always declined for fear of being murdered.  

A couple of years ago, my dad went to a guitar convention, and the ex-boss was there (they'd all worked in a music chain) and recognized my dad. Dad said he was scared, and the guy was still with the assistant.

[deleted]

I'd shared this once quite some time ago, but here goes...I have two children from a previous marriage and one child together. I went home (another country) to see my eldest son graduate. 

My spouse, who bitterly hated it when I traveled, and said he could not go, urged me to 'take some time, see your friends." Historically, it had been anger before I left, anger when I was gone, and anger when I got home. 

He had been unemployed for 9 years, totally dependent on me, and wanted for nothing. Every new toy. New computer. New car. New laptop. All the games, and he spent hours mastering each one. It was a pleasant surprise to be offered some time with no guilt. 

He seemed interested in my son's graduation...the day, the time...and I honestly thought nothing of it. It felt good. On the day my son graduated, as we were standing outside for the pictures, my ex texted me: "I want a divorce." 1700 miles away. 

I was a zombie. Posing for pictures and mentally rearranging travel plans to be completed as soon as my son's celebratory party was done. When I returned home, the house had been ransacked. 

Furniture, books, etc missing. Looked like a tornado had gone through the living room. No note. No address. Nothing. And my youngest was with him. The icing on the cake was a brochure he left on the nightstand. 

It was a brochure for partners of people who had been sexually taken advantage of. How they could find ways to cope with what happened to their partners. 

His parting shot: I had experienced what was on that brochure years before, but he was the one who suffered. Like everything else, hindsight reveals all. 

This man was the biggest passive/aggressive jerk in the universe.

profcath

My boyfriend and I were long-distance. I paid for him to fly down and visit me for two weeks. On the second or third day of his visit, my grandfather passed away. 

I was an absolute emotional wreck. The next day he broke up with me on account of being an emotional rollercoaster, then got pissed when I said he couldn't stay with me the rest of the visit.   

He then claimed he didn't mean what he'd said about breaking up, then promptly broke up with me again as soon as he was back home.

My grandpa was awesome and would have kicked his behind.

here4theladies

I work at a hospital, and my former boss was dating a girl who worked in dental. Apparently, she had moved here with him; they had been dating for a very long time, but he was tired of her. 

He was a self-centered idiotic douchebag, so what came next wasn't really all that surprising to me. He was working in the office one day when he said, I'm taking my lunch. I'll be back at 1. He leaves and heads up to dental.

Then he breaks up with her at work while she's working on a patient.

Devastated and now homeless (he asked for her to stay in a hotel, apparently,) she left work early and didn't come back for a few days. Then she moved, unable to tolerate working with him. 

I don't blame her.

Of course, this is the same guy who ordered me to falsify important documents. The same guy told sexually inappropriate jokes in a very important meeting, the same guy who asked me to stand out in the parking lot with a bullhorn and warn drivers that the parking lot was icy... 

He was an idiot.

[deleted]

My Ex-Wife and I were married for 2 years. Everything was lovely. I was in grad school, and we'd discussed the fact that I'd want to do a PhD in the future, which would involve us moving out of state. 

She goes on a family vacation during the summer, which I can't go on because I have courses to teach. When she came home (7 days later), she told me that if I wanted to have a life with her, I had to have it in her hometown, near her family.

Short story: she tortures me for 3 months, telling me we can work it out and then turning me down when I try to talk to her about working it out, largely so she doesn't have to feel guilty.

Fast forward, I found out she met some spineless crap on the cruise who was from her hometown, decided she wanted to make out with him, and decided it was okay to sacrifice our marriage and my love to do it.

[deleted]

My ex-wife emotionally manipulated me for several months (this is several years ago now, but I use this account, so the story doesn't ID me on my regular one).

Basically, she was more interested in her friend's husband than she was in me, so she started openly flirting with him and spending a lot of time with him. Oh, this guy was also a good friend of mine. 

To everyone else in our group of friends, this looked like it was just two close friends hanging out. However, daily tickle-fights raised about a dozen red flags for me.

I didn't take this passively. I made it known that I was not comfortable with regular tickle fights, the excessive amount of time they spent together (she would make plans with him on my days off - just them), and so forth.     

It was painted so I somehow looked like the angry, irrational, jealous husband. I was angry at one point, but that was mostly because I was fairly certain my wife was making out with this guy.

Long story short, she ended up leaving me after I objected to her being out with him until 5:00 in the morning. She pretends to not be interested in him, and I later found out she set up a dating profile on Match.com. She used photos from our honeymoon as her profile pictures. 

Then, she starts dating the guy and marries him a year later.

under30anddivorced

I've been through some bizarre break-ups, but I definitely have one that stands out.

After about a two-year relationship, my college boyfriend decided to break up with me the night before my birthday. While at my mom's house, as we were all having dinner together--just starting in on a fancy meal she made-- he broaches the topic in front of her. 

I couldn't believe he chose that time/place to lay that on me. We have a heated conversation in the kitchen as my mom graciously but awkwardly 'goes to check something in the other room,' trying to give us privacy.

It gets worse. About an hour and a ruined meal later, he goes out to his car to leave. I'm in the kitchen crying with my mom when he comes back in because his car won't start. He rolls his eyes when he sees I'm upset and says he wants a jump.

  After about 40 minutes, the jumpstart isn't going to work, so he's like, 'I guess I'll just crash on the couch.' My mom and I are shocked by the suggestion at this point, but we have that good old Canadian politeness, so we go to the kitchen to talk while he kicks his feet up in front of the TV.  

After a while, I reveal to her that he's been very aggressively screaming at and physically intimidating me lately and that I had actually been wanting to end it, and without missing a beat, my mom grabs a chef-level frying pan, walks into the living room where he's now dozed off, and beams with it. 

Tells him that she's always thought he was a little crap, he didn't deserve me or any woman, and to get the fudge out of her house before she beams him again. My mom's a tiny good-humored Christian woman, so this was super out of character. 

Definitely the most decisively aggressive and, I'm sorry, hilarious thing I've seen her do. He's dumbfounded, calls us 'crazy witches,' and storms out.

The kicker? He was apparently STILL too cheap to call a cab/tow truck and slept in his car on the driveway. I had to knock on his window and help push him out of the driveway the next morning so my mom could drive me home.

Clearly, I really missed out on a winsome gentleman right there.

fourfeetonesock

Mine isn't that bad, but it has a funny outcome. I dated a girl for a short while back in high school. There happened to be a big dance, and I was not gonna be able to go because of work. 

So my girlfriend went with a group of friends who were all just going to have a good time. I got a call from HER best friend saying that my girlfriend didn't want to date me anymore. 

To make matters worse, I found out the next day at school that she broke up with me to make out with some guy AND also the best friend who had called me. I was pissed, but there was nothing I could do. 

She ended up begging me to get back with her, and I did for a week until I realized I was an idiot. Fast forward five years later, I and my best friend/roommate are chillin', having a few brews, and exchanging stories of the "good ol' days."

He tells me how he got some girl to dump her boyfriend in high school to make out with him and another girl. I'm like, that's messed up, but kind of funny. 

Then it hit me... Turns out he was the guy!

Channy211

About 4 hours ago, I got dumped by my fiance. We had planned to do Valentine's Day today, as I'd been working Thursday night, so he was coming over to my place for dinner and a movie. (We had been living together but hit a rough patch a couple of months ago and decided to postpone the wedding and live apart for a bit. Guess I should've seen it coming then.)

  Anyway, at about 8.30, he texts me to say he's on his way, so I get dinner started, make sure the place is tidy, and put on lingerie(nothing but) as a surprise.

He walks in, sits down, and proceeds to tell me that he has no room for me or our son (not his biologically, but he's been around since before his birth and always thought of him as his own) in his life, and we're over.

Then gets up and leaves, saying he'll drop the laptop and wedding ring I'd bought for him off tomorrow. So yea, that was a pretty freaking horrible way to dump me, and I'm gonna go cry some more now.

tigerjess

Helped a guy move into a new apartment (this was also after helping him set the store he worked for up for sale). 

Once all his crap was moved in, he turned to me and said: "Yeah, I kind of want to get acclimated to my new living space, so I don't think we should see each other anymore." 

Also, I had to travel about 40 minutes by commuter train to his new place. I made him drive me back home.

Such a douchecanoe.

inderpwetrust

About 20 years ago, when I was still in high school, I was seeing this girl. I had a lot of emotional problems and religious fears about making out, coupled with a ridiculous drive to have it, which brought a horrible amount of unwarranted guilt about anything sexual. 

She was ridiculously attracted to me, and I have no idea why. Anyway, that, coupled with an emotionally abusive father who basically had me grounded all the time, meant I could rarely go on dates with her. 

When things started getting really bad at home, I just stopped talking to her more than once a week. Now, one thing about my school is that it was ridiculously overcrowded. 

My locker was nowhere near any of my classes, so early on, I discovered it was pointless to use it since I would be late to class if I did.

The final straw for our "relationship" was that I couldn't take her to prom. I didn't have the money, nor would my dad have probably let me. After prom came and went, I stopped hearing from her.

Anyway, the school year comes to a close, and I have to clean out the locker I never used. I open it up and inside are at least a dozen notes from the now ex-girlfriend. 

The final one was her breaking up with me. It was amusing, actually. Sad, but amusing.

sanguinalis

I found out through Web Messenger and a changed FB status. Not only was it cowardly in her use of messenger, but she also didn't tell me we broke up; it was more like, "We can't go out for a while because I'm busy." 

I just assumed she meant that we wouldn't have time to have any date nights, but a guy I knew messaged me and was like, "Sorry to hear about your break up." 

Turns out, she changed her FB status to single and was chatting to this guy about our break-up. 

Lost so much respect for her.

ubiquitous_archer

Way too late for this to be seen by anybody but fudge it. I needed to vent anyway. The relationship went strong for almost a year, then suddenly, she was too busy to spend time with me for weeks at a time. I'm cool with it. I do my own thing for a while.

Until one day, she canceled on a date we'd had planned weeks in advance. Then I get a little upset. We have an argument (on Facebook chat) in which she ends up saying she's not sure she feels the same way about me as she used to. The next day, I got a Facebook message saying it was over. 

When I ask if she'll at least break up with me face to face, she says no. When I ask why, she says she never really loved me, just loved being loved, and didn't want me to try to change her mind.

A few weeks later, she's posting crap on Facebook about how she hates men. I hadn't spoken to her since the break-up. My suspicions are raised. 

I asked around to find out she'd been cheating on me with an ex she'd sworn she had no feelings for, and apparently, things didn't work out with him (again) either. 

Serves ya right.

GruntyoDoom

Just happened to me recently...I encouraged her to apply (and helped write/edit her essay entry) to go to a symposium in an exotic foreign country because it would look great on her resume and be good for her master's degree...you already know where this is heading, right?

She gets to said country and a few days into her trip she just stops talking to me; "Oh sorry, things are really busy now, I'll write you when I get back" in a week? No way. I knew something was up. I could feel it in my heart.

She gets back and proceeds to blame me for the past 3 years of our relationship for everything that has ever gone wrong and makes me feel like I'm a total piece of crap who never made her happy the whole time we were together. 

The pre-breakup goes on for a few weeks, and she will not admit to doing anything on her trip. Finally, I tell her, "OK it's obvious we're broken up, but did you hook up with someone during your trip?"  

Her answer: "Well, yes and no...but that's not the reason we're breaking up!"

Honorable note - during this time, my mother was (still is) sick with cancer, my brother was ruining everyone's lives on drugs, and I could not find a job for the life of me. 

Her doing that to me was just icing on the cake.

So yeah, guys and girls, have some freaking respect for the person you just gave the last few years/months to. We all deserve to know the truth, right?

pon_de_rring

The worst breakup I've ever known happened to someone close to me. They had been married for 10 years and owned a home together. My friend, the husband, does not drink but never minded that his wife occasionally did. 

Well, she went out with some work friends for drinks one night, and long story short, he awakened that night to his wife making out with some guy she brought home...to their home...in their guest room. 

The witch never even took responsibility for her actions, excusing herself with, "I was drunk and didn't know what I was doing." It was so heart-wrenching to watch my friend suffer through that. 

I hope karma takes care of that woman someday.

throwmeaway_yetagain

My high school sweetheart and I decided to try and have a baby. 

We planned on getting married, and I had been diagnosed with a disease that affected fertility and only got worse with age. After a couple of losses, it worked and I gave birth to a baby boy. I was 20 he was 21. 

We were young but old enough to be parents and made decent money. There were problems with the delivery and our son ended up with severe brain damage, or Cerebral palsy. He was severely disabled and spent a lot of time in hospital. 

We even moved to a different province, away from all of my family but closer to his dad, to get better care for him. I took on the responsibility for his care, and my ex worked. 

He barely even visited us in the hospital when he was admitted because he said hospitals bothered him. One day, out of the blue, he sat me down to talk. He said he had figured out a way to solve our "problems." 

He gave me an ultimatum: give our son up for adoption or move out with him. I was packed and gone before he could blink. I had four more years with my son before he passed away at the age of 5 1/2. 

I never once regretted my decision.

Johjac

I was living with a girl for 4 years. She had been talking to a guy through Facebook for a few months. The day before my birthday she decided she was going to meet up with him. 

I told her she couldn't be going out on a date with a guy. She says it's not a date, and she isn't interested in him.

A week later, she goes out with him again. I snap it and say this is a 2nd date, that's unacceptable. She went anyway. Never came home. Sent me a text message "Yes it was a date."

I gave her 24 hours to get her stuff. She didn't get it all.

 Left the heavier/more expensive pieces to get another day. I threw it all out.

Her new boyfriend puts naked pictures of her on the internet. She blames me and sends a lawyer after me. It couldn't prove anything, so nothing comes of it.

Her new boyfriend reported her the center link for collecting benefits whilst living with me and not declaring that. She tried to get me to lie and tell the center link we were not a couple. 

I did not, and she got in trouble with the government.

blawler

Ugh, god. An ex broke up with me over Facebook, only to text me a few weeks later saying that he missed me. Being the stupid 19-year-old that I was, I slept with him...and then he told me he didn't want to get back together immediately afterward.

I wish I could say that was the last of it but we got back together and dated for way longer than we should have. To this day I don't know why I stayed.

astroxo

Text message breakups are awful. This isn't a story of mine, but it's something that happened to someone I know.

One of my best friends was in a serious relationship that she just went full-hog into - nothing OAGish, they just REALLY hit it off. 

The guy seemed great, they were planning on moving in together and he was doing a really good job supporting her through her chronic depression. I honestly thought they were fantastic together. 

Cut to their anniversary, he dumps her via text out of nowhere after ignoring her for three days with absolutely no prior indication on his end that anything was wrong.

She found out a week later he ran off with some other girl, and when she called him out on this he called her childish and started lying about her behind her back. 

This combined with some other stuff that went down freaking destroyed her in a way I can't even describe, to the point where I got nervous if I didn't hear from her for a few days.

I guess what I'm saying is, yeah, there's no such thing as a breakup that doesn't suck, just... don't be a jerk about it, and at least try to consider the consequences of what you're doing.

Zhuul

I was visiting my family in Brazil and came back to Canada to spend New Year's with my girlfriend. Things had been a little weird for a while (we were living far apart because of a school internship, like 3000 km apart). 

I thought it was weird because of the distance and I was pumped to see her. And I got there and things were weird. She continued to be distant for the next three days, avoiding spending time with just me. 

There was always a roommate or a friend with us. And then, on the morning of the 3rd, we wake up and talk and she dumps me. She said she’s not into me anymore (after 2 years). Now if that was not bad enough, here comes the whole catch. 

My flight was only on the 6th. She lived in a town where I knew absolutely no one. My parent's house was 500km away, but they were still outside of the country, and I didn't have a set of keys of my own. 

I could not change my flight dates. I was stranded at my ex-girlfriend's house! It was bad.

Bad for half a day. Then my best friend answered her phone and got some sense into me. She got me to travel to her house (200km away), where she provided the perfect breakup cure. 

We partied hard for the next 3 days. Met the most gorgeous girls ever (all her friends from high school. An all-girls high school). And even hooked up with a beautiful girl after a very crazy night. 

The nights after the break up were one of the best of my life and it definitely made things better. I truly can't complain and I feel that my breakup was a great thing. 

BUT SERIOUSLY, never dump someone like I was dumped.

[deleted]

Didn't happen to me, but I knew a girl in high school who had a long-distance relationship. 

When the guy broke up with her (after already cheating on her), he did it via a drunk voicemail and a later sober Facebook message to confirm the breakup.

I hated her, so I thought it was kind of funny but still a pretty brutal way to break up.

platypossamous

My very first girlfriend broke up with me by punching me in the balls. Granted, we were both middle schoolers. So, neither of us was very mature at the time and her 7th-grader brain probably couldn't think of a better way to break up with me, but it still hurt.

It was the end of the Summer and I was about to start high school, but she was a year behind me so she was going to still be in middle school. She wanted to break it off before school started, but I never saw it coming.

We were sitting on our mutual friend's couch when she did it. Both of our parents were pretty conservative and didn't think we were old enough to date, so we hung out at our mutual friend's house a lot because his parents were relatively progressive.

They didn't seem to have a problem with our young love, though his mom always seemed to be just around the corner whenever we were alone in a room. 

Anyway, we were just sitting there on my friend's couch holding hands when out of the blue, she said, "We're breaking up," and then she swung her free hand and punched me as hard as she could in my crotch. I fall to the floor in pain, she storms off, and my friend just sits there laughing hysterically.

I'll never forget that day. She broke my heart and my balls.

memo2myself

He canceled a date with me one day and chickened out that day, in which he was going to break up with me. 

Instead, he decided to break up with me over MSN a day or so later, using the excuse I surrounded my life with him too much and that I was not mature enough for him.

We were together for 3 years and my "best" friends knew about it and never said a word to me but wanted to check if he dumped me yet by asking about our upcoming anniversary. 

The other "best" friend started dating him the next week or so.

foxiekitten

I was talking on the phone with my (then) fiancee and at about 10:30 pm there was a knock on the door. I asked who was knocking on the door and she said no one, it must be someone knocking on the neighbor's door.

But, she had to go because it was late and hung up the phone without saying bye or anything.

So, I tried to call her back to find out WTF was going on, but she ignored my calls. 30-45 minutes later, she picks up the phone and, with a guy talking in the background, tells me it's not working out and the relationship is over.

What was the guy in the background saying? "Come on baby, hurry up and get naked so I can mess with you on the kitchen counter."

When I asked her who the fudge that was her response was "Hahahahahahaha, he's just kidding...." Click. And she hung up on me.

She blew up my phone the next morning on her way to work to apologize for her actions... After that exchange the night before... And after she made out with him... And after he spent the night with her in her bed, at her apartment.

i_is_surf

My girlfriend has two kids, 1 with her first husband, and 1 with her second.

While married to her second husband, on MOTHER'S DAY, he suggested she take her older son (not his kid) out for the day, and he would look after their daughter.

She came home to all the doors locked, and most everything moved out. Oh also, he moved across the country and took her 6-year-old daughter with him.

godloki

I was 18 and going to college at the U.P. of Michigan. She was going to college in North Carolina. We met when I traveled to Charlotte (I'm from Wisconsin) to visit a friend.

Started dating in the fall and we decided that I should fly out and spend Thanksgiving with her and her family. Well, Thanksgiving break comes and I fly out to Greensboro, NC. I get to the airport and she's not there. 

I called her up and she said she couldn't make it, but to meet her at the college. I spent what little money I had and took a taxi. The taxi driver was really nice and didn't charge me full price, at least.

So I get to the campus and she meets me at the square. We go back to her dorm, she has to sneak me in because it's a female-only dorm. Once we get to her room she promptly breaks up with me!

I spent the next few days holed up in her dorm room because I had no way to go anywhere. Anyway, after a couple of days, she had her new boyfriend give me a ride to Charlotte and drop me off at my friend's house. 

I spent Thanksgiving bouncing from couch to couch until the day of my flight.

[deleted]

Helped a girlfriend move into her new apartment. As soon as I got the last box upstairs, she admitted to me that she was sleeping with the guy my ex-fiancé had cheated on me with. 

We were friends all through that relationship so she was fully aware of how much it had hurt me and just went and repeated the whole sordid scenario.

Curse small towns.

redteamleader

I was broken up with in a mall while all of our friends were around. I had to take the bus home and was crying the whole way back. I almost missed my stop because I could barely see through the tears.

  This wasn't the worst part. I found out a week later he had told all of our friends the planand he was breaking up with me in order to date another girl.

She was the one who told him to end things with me. 

They got married and then he ended up walking in on her cheating and now he and I are friends again years later. 

The world is weird.

poppyseedtoast

I was dumped, by text message, after a 3-year relationship a couple of days before his birthday for which I had booked a couple of hotels for a road trip around England. 

This wasn't a surprise, we'd organised it together and he'd asked me to pay for it as PART of his present.

His text simply said, "Sorry I don't think we should be together anymore, I'm seeing someone else." He also didn't pick up the phone or reply to any of my texts either.

FLAFH

A friend of mine had opened a business with the woman he was seeing. During this time they had some money problems. He took a short-term, yet high-paying job over the summer to make some money for them to live off of. 

He flies halfway across the world for the job. During said job, he crushes his hand, on accident. As he's being wheeled into surgery he calls his woman to let her know, that even though he was hurt, he'd made the money that they needed. 

She informs him she has a new boyfriend, that their business was dead, and she hated him for "Not having his crap together."

The hardest part of this story is, he's a great guy. And as his friend, it sucks to see him blowing all the money he made on alcohol. My friend is an alcoholic because he can't deal with the fact that some people just suck that much. 

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So January of last year I posted something on my friend's FB page and one of his friends starts commenting. He seems like a nice guy so we start talking and we really hit it off. 

We meet up that night (the mutual friend was also supposed to come but ended up backing out at the last minute) and get along great! One thing leads to another and we start dating not long after that. 

We got serious pretty fast and a month or so after dating he asks me to move in with him. I tell him we'll talk about it when my lease was up which would have been 9 months later. 

A month or so after that he gets drunk and asks me to marry him. I laughed it off and mentioned in the morning how horrified he would have been if I'd said yes and he said he would have been ecstatic. I thought I loved him so while I was trying to be rational, I was also unbelievably happy.

Cut to a few weeks later. I'm at his house and he says he has to go take care of some important family business.

That for some reason required him to get dressed up. 

Things were great between us so I didn't question anything and told him I'd be at my place if he wanted to get together when he got done. I didn't hear anything from him for the rest of the day. 

The next day I text him and again hear nothing back. After a few hours go by I get worried that something might have happened so I call and his phone is off. A while after that I get a text basically saying "We need to talk later." 

Later eventually comes and he breaks up with me via text with no real explanation. Needless to say, I'm devastated and confused as fudge. Especially since he tells me he hates that he has to do this and continues to talk to me for a few days saying I was great and it wasn't me and blah blah.

I find out later that he and his ex, who he claimed was a horrible person and had a lot of stories to back that up, had gotten together the same day he had his "family business" to attend to and that she had moved in with him.

cherrybear

Well, here goes nothing: The girl I was dating freshman year of college was always a little odd, but I was young and she was way out of my league, so I stuck around. 

She lived about an hour away, so when I did get to see her, she was always fairly mellow, but every now and then she’d say something kinda odd. Anyways, fast forward 6 months, and we are at a movie theater over Christmas break. 

It was a brand-new movie in a packed theater. About 10 minutes into the movie, she punches me in the nuts, as hard as she can. I drop to the ground, and she starts this unholy screaming at me while kicking and punching me. 

I slowly stand back up and try to talk to her, but she headbutts me. So, I pin her arms behind her and drag her out of the theater. 

I called her dad and asked what the heck was going on. 

He says the, in my opinion, worst thing a father of your SO can say, "Oh crap, she's off her medication again." Turns out, she had a rather severe case of bipolar, with a little manic depression thrown in. 

Meanwhile, the theater calls the cops and reports a domestic disturbance. They show up, see me holding her, and promptly taser me. Then, they tasered her, because she started punching me again. 

A year later, I found out the reason she attacked me was because "I looked at the actress on the screen wrong."

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My soon-to-be ex-wife went off on a 1.5-week vacation to Vegas on her own, then home for the holidays. 

She refused to talk to me until Christmas morning. 

Only then did she tell me, over the phone, that she wanted a divorce and I to evacuate our house within 3 days before she got home.

clevingersfoil

Broke off every other date with me for several months, slowly spacing the timing of our dates further intervals apart, but always assuring me how much he cared for me, he was just really busy. 

It's important to explain that not only was I cool with this because of my non-committal stance towards relationships at the time, but our setup of occasional making out, dinner and not-too-frequent conversation was basically my ideal romance and I considered myself to be madly in love with him.

Fast forward through over a year of him stringing me along, telling me how much he loved me and would always be there if I needed him, etc, to the night after my cat passed away. 

I called, muffling sobs, explaining my cat had died and everything at my place reminded me of him and I couldn't deal, asking if I could sleep - just sleep - at his place. He not only said no but proceeded to respond to my sobs by telling me how "needy" I was and unceremoniously dumping me.

I didn't grieve for that asshole at all: the closest I came to it was regretting every moment I'd chosen to spend with him instead of my cat, who never made me talk about feelings but also knew that needing cuddle time doesn't exactly make a girl needy.

mehbefunke

My girlfriend complains that I commute too far and don't get to see her enough anymore, so I took a job at a different company in a city where I only knew her and her family.

In the first week, my car broke down irreparably.

My girlfriend talked me into getting a loan on a car so I could work that job, despite my reservations about taking on debt as a new hire. She didn't want to give me rides, you see - it would interfere with her horseriding.

I worked there for two months, the company merged and all new hires got laid off.

My girlfriend friendzone dumps me that same day (as soon as I finish telling her the news) leaving me unemployed with no income, a fresh car loan, effectively no place to stay, and 1,000 miles from anyone I know.

SmegmataTheFirst

I still have a tough time with this one and should probably use a throwaway, but fudge it. I was with a girl for 3 years and loved this girl... I mean loved this girl. I treated her like royalty, to me she was my queen. 

Towards the end we had started getting into a few squabbles here and there but nothing that was so serious that it pointed in any certainty that the end was near. I had planned a road trip with my boys to go see the Vikings play KC. 

Just the trip away I needed. The day I left I picked her up at 530 in the morning with coffee and a muffin. She told me how excited she was to one day be able to do this every morning together when we got married. 

I was all smiles... No worries, no cares, just confident and content that my future wife was madly in love with me too. My boys and I drove the 8 hours or so down to KC. Partied like rockstars.

I called a few times, no answer... I texted a few times, no response.

As the weekend drew on with no response my anxiety grew. To cut a long story short the Vikings lost, my girlfriend at the time kept ignoring me and my anxiety was now from anger to concern. 

I woke up Monday morning to a simple text, "Sorry to do it this way but I felt it was the only way you wouldn't try to talk me out of it. It's over, please respect my decision." 

I obviously tripped out but she wouldn't respond to my texts, my calls nothing. I finally got a short email an hour later saying pretty much the exact one-line sentence. 

I then had to drive 8 plus hours completely hungover after three days of hardcore partying back home after my girlfriend of three years dumped me in a text and my football team lost and was never given a full explanation as to why. 

Worst road trip ever. Witch.

jestercopperpot