Yahoo News 32 Downright Disrespectful Exes Who Dumped Their Partners In Unbelievably Cold, Selfish Ways
Reddit user ImpressiveWrap7363 asked the AskReddit community, "What's the worst way someone broke up with you?" The thread quickly filled with hundreds of the most gut-wrenching breakup stories imaginable. Here's what people revealed:
1."About a month and a half before our wedding, my fiancé said he needed space and time to reflect, claiming he was going through a rough patch mentally. He sent long messages trying to convince me of his struggle. However, mutual friends later photographed him on a getaway he organized with his best friend's girlfriend. He tried to deny it, but I ghosted him and disappeared. Not even a month later, she was pregnant, and they had a shotgun wedding less than six months after our planned date. This caused a big stir in our small community. They became social outcasts but acted as if nothing happened. It was the most difficult time of my life, but three years later, I finished my PhD, met and married the love of my life, and am about to give birth to our first child."
2."I woke up the next day, and the bed was empty. He just got up and left. Little did I know, he had already packed his few belongings at my place without me knowing. He couldn't even tell me via text or anything. He was just gone. I eventually heard from him a few weeks later, saying it was over, etc. And that was the blossoming of a lovely new fear of abandonment."
3."My ex lied about him going through some family issues for an entire year before I found out he was living with some girl he met in the office. We were together for seven years, three years long-distance."
4."He proposed the night before he left on a three-month work trip. He called me two days later from an airport to tell me he had changed his mind about getting married, was extending his work contract to seven months, and wouldn't be returning to where we lived. He sent his parents to pick up all his crap a week later."
5."After six years, he scheduled a phone call on our shared calendar. I thought it was a mistake and assumed it was a work call he accidentally put on our shared calendar. Nope. He scheduled a call in a 30-minute window to end the relationship. He told me he didn't owe me an explanation for why he was ending it. This was after we moved across the country together, and I supported him while he got his Master's and found his job."
6."I left my terrible home to move in with my boyfriend, though we'd only been dating for a short time. He lived two hours away in a bigger city with his parents. I hadn't even been at his parent's house for a week when I developed a kidney infection and had to be taken to the ER for care. He dropped me off at the hospital and then immediately went off with his friends. I trusted he would come back for me. He didn't. When I left the ER, I tried calling and texting him to pick me up, but he ignored me. It turns out he was hanging out with his ex-girlfriend. I was terrified. I was alone in a strange city, and my boyfriend abandoned me. Eventually, his parents did come for me and had to give me the awkward news that their son didn't have the guts to break up with me himself. To their credit, they were mad at him over it, too."
7."He wrote me a long text saying 'god' told him we weren't a good match for each other. Dodged a bullet there."
8."I got his second-anniversary gift in the mail (we were long distance) and unpacked the gifts, including a note on how much he loved me. About 40 minutes later, he called and said, 'Sorry, I haven't had romantic feelings for you in months.' Okay, buddy."
9."I woke up one morning and said I had plans with a friend, and my partner said he did too and would meet me back home for a movie date later. We shared a goodbye kiss and everything. I came home to all his things, moved out, and he wouldn't respond to any of my texts. I was pregnant at the time. A little later, I discovered he had been married the whole time. I had to move states pregnant and start over in a basement with no windows. All the while, he was sending me nasty messages and then blocking me before I could respond. It was the most depressing period of my life."
10."He took me to an amusement park for my birthday but kept acting weird. While we were floating on the lazy river, I finally asked him what was wrong, and he told me he had gotten another woman pregnant. I thought he was about to propose. We'd had sex in his car before we went into the amusement park. I told him to take me home and never call me again. Second worst birthday I've ever had."
11."Well, my ex broke up with me via a Spotify playlist titled 'We Need to Talk.' I got the hint somewhere between 'I Will Survive' and 'Single Ladies.'"
12."Her husband (who I was unaware existed) called me and told me to stop seeing his wife."
13."My ex of eight years told his mom about the breakup before I knew. She kept messaging me, saying how sorry she was and how she hoped I didn't have any ill feelings towards her son. Mind you, we were both in our mid-to-late-20s at that point."
14."Not me, but I knew a guy in college who was studying abroad in China. His girlfriend took the 20-hour flight to see him, and he broke up with her as soon as she arrived. He reasoned that he didn't want to end it over text. Needless to say, she was not up for hanging out in China with him and demanded he pay for her flight back."
15."They changed their Facebook status to in a relationship with someone else."
16."He dumped me on my birthday. We'd been dating for eight months. I'd bought him a nice gift and made a special meal with his favorite dishes on HIS birthday, and I'd casually mentioned my upcoming birthday a few times, not to hint at gifts, just things like, 'My friends want to take me out Friday even though my birthday isn't until Sunday.' After the big buildup and the breakup line, I said, 'Well, happy birthday to me.' He apologized and said he'd forgotten. When he said he sincerely hoped we could be friends and would continue to talk, I said okay. Then, I dumped him from the friendship a few months later. It was very freeing and satisfying."
17."After four years, an almost-engagement, and promises of moving to San Diego together, he texted me, 'We need to break up,' and then blocked me on everything. No conversation. No explanation. Nothing. He ended up randomly texting me six years later. He had gotten married, had a kid, and still lived in the same garbage heap in North Dakota. When I asked why he reached out, he said he was bored. I blocked him then and thanked the gods for dodging that bullet."
18."We had a conversation in which we agreed to be more communicative and to really give our relationship a shot. But then she ghosted me, and I didn't hear from her for five years."
19."He literally ran away. We got back from a gig, and I went to put some ice cream in the freezer, only to hear footsteps and the door slamming. He ran out, and he was legging it down the road."
20."I once got an email in the middle of a Tuesday at work via my work email that she no longer wanted to date. Then, she and a friend from a previous job ghosted me. It turns out they were seeing each other."
21."He called me drunk and said he'd had feelings for me for years (we'd been friends for a long time). I felt the same way but had never done anything. I was sober when he called. We decided to try a long-distance relationship. He called me drunk again on July 4 and said he didn't find me physically attractive but was attracted to everything else about me. He broke up with me and said, 'Sorry for being shallow.'"
22."I moved to another state to be with her, only to find out she met someone else who she wanted to date instead. Also, she was trying to get her ex to move in with her as a backup plan. When I confronted her, she admitted it shamelessly. It broke my spirit and changed me permanently. This was over eight years ago. I grieved the loss of my ability to love someone like that ever again."
23."On my 40th birthday at dinner. My then-girlfriend took me out to dinner on my birthday. I was confused as to why there were no family and friends present. Then she broke it off, and I understood why. Best present ever. My life got 100x better without that loser in it."
24."They dumped me over text while I was on holiday with friends. The text said, 'I'd rather not see you when you get back. I've left your stuff over the back wall of your house. Best of luck with everything.' That was it. They didn't reply to my texts or calls. It was just done."
25."I have two bad ones. The first one: He had his mom call me. The second one: We dated for three years, and he told me he didn't want kids the whole time. I finally got on board with the idea of never being a mother. Less than two months later, he called me to break up because he was marrying a woman he had knocked up (he had been cheating on me). Skip ahead 30 years. He's a father of four and divorced, and three kids have gone no-contact with him."
26."She started making out with another dude while we were at a party, all sitting on the same couch. That deflated the romance pretty quickly."
27."We dated for four years. Then, I didn't hear from her for a few weeks. This is before mobile phones. I had moved to a new city, and we were also preparing for her to move out. I had left a few messages on her answering machine. Then, after a few weeks, the phone was answered...by her new boyfriend. About a year later, she called me and wanted to come back. She had moved in with her boyfriend, and it wasn't working out. She wanted to move in with me in the house I had bought in the new city we were supposed to move to. I told her no. I wanted to say yes in my heart, but my brain would not let that happen."
28."He ghosted me after bringing his kids to my parents' house for Christmas."
29."Her new boyfriend called me on the phone with her giggling in the background, saying, 'Sorry bro, it's over.'"
30."He broke up with me over text to get back with his ex, who cheated on him with his best friend and gave them both chlamydia."
31."We had been together a little over a year and had started talking about maybe moving in together within another year or two. He mentioned this to his mom, and two days later, he broke up with me because his mom told him we were moving too fast. He was married to someone else less than two years later. I'm pretty sure his mommy didn't like me, and neither of them had the guts to say it. Good riddance."
32.And: "My ex dumped me over FaceTime after we'd been dating for three years and had been friends for six. He also simply hung up the call when he was done with it, without notice or saying goodbye."
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