I dated a guy when I lived in Israel that wouldn't touch my back because he didn't like spines. We went to the beach and he wouldn't put sunblock on my back because he would have had to touch my spine, so I got a really bad blistering burn right down the middle of my back. I realized I couldn't be with someone so odd.
I was dating a guy for 6 months and one night he asked me to come over so we could talk. He told me he had gotten another girl pregnant but he was in love with me and wanted to marry me. I asked when she was due and he told me. It turned out she was 4 months pregnant! I got up and walked out of the house and he continued to call me for weeks to see if we were still together.
Post by basilosaurus on May 15, 2012 14:03:39 GMT -5
I accidentally broke up with a guy on his birthday.
He was my college bf, we'd been together for years, lived together, etc. I moved after graduation, and he promised he'd follow. He bailed on a trip to see me after I'd gotten him tickets to one of his favorite bands. The time to break up was long past, but I wanted to do it in person.
So I flew back for homecoming, figuring I'd have a good last weekend with him. The first night I was there, which happened to be his birthday, he was all "you want to break up, don't you?" Yeah, but I didn't plan it like that! It was mostly to paint him as a victim since I knew he'd been telling friends we'd already broken up. But, still!
A couple years later we were still sort of in touch, and we'd both moved on. It was a nice occasional phone friendship. Until he found out about my bf who's now my H. They knew each other in college, liked each other, no problems. The ex-bf was even all (inappropriately) "I hope you finally slept with him b/c he's a great guy." The conversation was fine until he mentioned he was coming to visit, and I told him, sure, visit, but you'll have to sleep on the couch. Fucking histrionics, that I'd let this new guy into my bed and not him. Um, we broke up 2 years ago. Get over it.
Post by explorer2001 on May 15, 2012 14:10:26 GMT -5
HS bf was a senior. I wad a sophmore. Prom was the same day as the last qualifying meet to make the state track championship. This was the only chance for many underclassmen because juniors and seniors skipped the meet for prom. I asked him repeatedly if I should plan on going to the track meet or not. Including reminding him at lunch before I had to RSVP to the coach. He didn't have to have tickets, just tell me. He said no just go to the meet. Two days before the meet/prom, he finally says he wants me to go with him. He got mad and broke up with me because how could I mess up his senior prom.
My response was you told me to plan on going to the meet. So tough luck.
My Jr. high boyfriend and I broke up because he totally cheated on a board game.
I once stopped dating a guy who didn't carry my pumpkin or my box of apples at the pumpkin patch. It showed a huge character flaw to me.
I had another boyfriend who would just stop calling - and then would randomly pop back up months later. He was gorgeous, so I went with it. The last time he did popped back up, I was dating DH. He said he had planned to come over, which I said was probably a bad idea. I had been friends with DH and they had met before - so ex boyfriend decided he'd rather just invite us over for a BBQ together. He was a strange duck.
I once stopped returning a guys calls because he wore white sneakers all the time. I may have been a touch shallow during my early-mid 20's.
Similar to aimee, I dated/hooked up with the same (extremely hot) guy off and on for over two years. He would randomly disappear for weeks at a time then would pop back up. Before he disappeared the last time, he had been talking about how he cared about me and wanted the two of us to date more seriously, etc. I didn't expect anything to come of it, so I neglected to tell him I was planning to move out of town for grad school a couple of months later. He was pulling one of his inevitable disappearing acts for the two weeks before I moved. So, on moving day, I just left a message on his voicemail that I was leaving. Then I changed my phone number. I met DH and started dating DH six weeks later.
Post by UnderProtest on May 15, 2012 16:06:54 GMT -5
So the breakup wasn't that bad. We dated in high school and then had a long distance relationship in college. I broke up with him beginning of sophomore year (really I just wanted him to pay more attention to me, but I digress). So 8+ years later comes our 10 year high school reunion. I decide to go with my now husband. He was there, but wouldn't come near me. I tried to talk to him, but he ignored me even when I tapped his shoulder. Even the chick he was with tried to get him to turn around to talk to me. Really weird.
This is kind of 2 separate break-up stories but with the same person.
I started dating someone my freshman year of high school. We dated for a year and then I spent the summer in South America as a foreign exchange student. When I got back to the states he was supposed to come to the airport with my mom to pick me up (because we were 14 at the time and he couldn't drive, lol). He never showed up. I waited several days and I never heard from him. I finally called him and asked him what was going on and he said he had been busy. Then later that night, he emailed me dumping me.
Throughout high school we were around each other a lot because we had a lot of mutual friends.
Our senior year of high school we started dating again. We dated for an entire year and then we both went to different colleges. I went away to college the weekend before him and he came to visit me the following weekend to "tell me goodbye". He dumped me! He told me he didn't want a girlfriend at that time. I kind of understood until a few months later when facebook was invited, and I saw he already had a new girlfriend.
My ex-FI was a cheater. The funny part was how I found out.
He bought a Corvette while we were dating. We were long distance (met online) and typically saw each other every other weekend, but would talk on the phone every night. One holiday weekend, he said he was going to run the Tail of the Dragon (curvy, dangerous road in NC popular for sports cars and motorcycles) with a friend. I never could reach him on Sat night. The same day, I happened to turn on my laptop, which I hadn't used since he'd borrowed it. I found photos on my laptop of his car (unique badging) at an event on a day he told me he had to work. He also installed IM clients and I noticed the user lists appeared to be all female.
I was furious he had lied to me about the event and that i couldn't reach him. The next day, he finally called me and said he and his friend decided to crash near the Dragon. He claimed he couldn't remember the hotel chain. That piqued my suspicion and I started wondering what else he had been lying about, so I started google searching the various user names I knew about. What I found was shocking. Throughout our 2.5 yr relationship, he sporadically posted on various Yahoo groups - looking for sex with BBWs, pregnant women, Asians, etc. I was disgusted. I still have the printouts somewhere. Later, I sent the links to his family. Childish, yes, but so satisfying at the time. I made sure everybody knew he was a cheater.
When confronted, he said it was just fantasy and he never did anything. I wanted to believe him. He was my first love and I was devastated. I told him that he needed to drive down so we could talk and he did. In the end, we broke up because I couldn't trust him. He finally admitted to cheating "once" later.
My hs boyfriend didn't bother to show up (or return my calls, I had been trying to get a hold of him all day) before my drill team banquet. It was a big deal to me and he just ditched me to go to the Metallica concert. That was the end of our relationship.
One of my highschool boyfriends broke up with me over msn messenger while I was away over summer vacation. His reasoning was that my Scorpio sting kept stabbing his fragile Cancer shell....okaaaaay
My first college boyfriend dumped me because his friends didn't like me (I wasn't from "their area") and because I responded negatively to surprise buttsex.
Post by Balki.Bartokomous on May 15, 2012 23:18:05 GMT -5
An ex thought that clitoral stimulation would make him gay because a clit is like a small penis. Needless to say, that was one reason I dumped him. Of many. Lololol.
An ex thought that clitoral stimulation would make him gay because a clit is like a small penis. Needless to say, that was one reason I dumped him. Of many. Lololol.
Oh dear god. I miss the nest emoticon with the eyes bulging out.
I've had more funny things happen after I broke up with guys.
I dated a guy in college for about 6 weeks who was really squirrelly. A year or two later I was talking with work BFF about the strangeness of him. She said "wow that sounds just like the guy my best friend dated in college." I was joking and said "well if his name was Zack it's probably the same guy.". And it was!
I broke up with my ex after he pissed me off at my friends wedding. It had been a long time coming but that night just did it for me. The best part was he lived on my grandparents property in their guesthouse so I didn't take him home he just went to mine and then went to his room. He got mad when I told him I wasn't sleeping with him one last time. I told him he was lucky he was sleeping there still at all.
I only dated one guy in HS (for several years) and then never really dated anyone else bc I went to a really small school. I was in NC between junior and senior year and he had full access to his mom's credit card and frequently charged hundreds per month (snacks, movies, etc etc) that she'd just pay off. She wouldn't let him call me LD, he wouldn't go buy a phone card with the credit card to call me, he wouldn't ask her if he could go in a totally private chat room with me online. So basically all we did was email. I ended up dumping him for being such a puss. I always knew the relationship wouldn't go anywhere bc he was pretty dumb. He lived with his mom through college which he did graduate (with her help I'm sure) with some sort of computer degree I think and he works at the local walmart. I don't knock anyone just working there but I'm surprised his mother has let him and not pushed him to do more bc she's a pretty successful business woman. total enabler.
I started dating a guy my last semester of college. We dated long distance all summer and fall, and in January I moved to the town where he lived. We dated all year and right before the holidays he broke up with me. This was a huge shock, as I totally knew he was not "the one" and was really just with him because he was fun and good enough for the time being....but I always assumed I'd be the one to cut the cord.
Anyway, just a day or two after he broke up with me I was out with some friends and I see one of his friends. He says "hey, aren't you {boyfriend's name}'s EX girlfriend?" I was like yeah whatever....but that night I called his ass and was all "boy you don't waste any time!" since I was surprised the news had traveled so fast. EXBF goes silent for a few seconds and then says ".....uh, where did you see me?". I immediately recognize that he thinks I saw him out with someone so I play along long enough for him to admit he went out with some professional cheerleader his friend set him up with.
While I was hurt, it was CLASSIC that the conversation went the way it did and he thought he got caught! And the best part was he came crawling back to me a month or so later and wanted to get back together, wanted to MOVE in together (we were only 23). By that time I had started dating my first husband (a WHOLE 'nother story, just as classic, not as funny), so I got my revenge by turning him away.