Worst Break-up Stories

Omg this is crazy! I'm so sorry you had to go through that. I can't believe he went after your child! Hope you've been able to put it all behind you

Mine is not nearly that dramatic... but also recent. A couple months ago my wife of two years literally just walked out on me. Quit her job, packed her stuff moved back to her mom's place.. just decided to "quit". Left me with a HUGE mess to clean up (financially.. we were months behind on everything and she just walked away, removing a source of income no less).

What reminded me of your story was my first thought was.. why did I marry her? But 4 years ago when we first met she was a different person. I'm sorry you had to go through that... and contacting the kid... oh hell no..... You have my permission to kick his butt.. don't mess with kids.

My worst? My ex-fiance probably (ok, definitely), we were together about 4 and a half years. Broke up with me via text, letting me know he was seeing someone else. Unfortunately...he had my computer, so I had to communicate with him on its safe return. Ok..so when he shows up to my house, he has his "new girlfriend" with him in the car. Now I can sit here and kind of laugh, at the time, not quite as much laughing. But comically enough, we had been planning a trip out of town and he put half in on a room. Of course he was inquiring about that when he showed up. I planned to send it anyways, just to be done with it, so I send that on Sunday. I leave my phone at home on the Tuesday after, when I get home I have texts, voicemails, and emails from him freaking out about not being able to get a hold of me. Turns out he totaled his car and needed the money. How about checking your account first? I thought that'd probably be the end of it, but he finds a way to contact me every 6 months or so asking me to be friends and wondering what I'm up to. Which, of course, doesn't happen.

My worst I've done? When I broke up with someone, I had my new boyfriend however much time later prank call him. What can I say, I was 18. :ohwell:

One and only breakup story..

I moved about 2.5 years into our relationship. I wasn't happy at my college, and I wanted to transfer schools. We were doing the long distance thing, but things got hard. Within 2 weeks, 3 people from our hometown died (one of which was a friend who committed suicide). We were both pretty depressed. When he'd call, I would always be busy with school and trying to fit in with the college lifestyle. His ex came to visit his parents so they could she her daughter who they had supported throughout their relationship .He cheated on me with with his ex, and then broke up with me a week later on our 3 yr "anniversary." The girl he cheated on had nothing but a bad reputation. Everyone talked about how crazy she was .. so I never saw it coming. She had an abortion with his child when she was 7 months pregnant, so I never thought he would ever do that with her. He then strung me along and eventually moved to another state (but ironically only about a 2 hr drive from where I now live) to live with her. Obviously it didn't work out between the two of them, but he is still living there. He would harass me and make me feel bad for every step I took to move forward.

The last two years I've been working through it. I never saw any of it coming and I've cycled through self doubt, hatred, etc. I lived a pretty unhealthy and self destructive lifestyle. It's like I decided I had to catch up on all the college life I never participated in. I left him constantly come in and out of my life whenever he chose to. Despite all the crap he did, it was hard for me to see him as anything other than the person I was once closest with and who was there for me when no one else was. That all changed back in March. I started working hard to catch up on all the damage I had done to myself - physically, academically, and mentally. Over the summer he sent me a text telling me he was seeing this girl from our hometown ( a girl who always was rude to me and who had just gotten married to someone else a month prior). In September he called several times, and when I answered the phone he asked if I had defriended him from Facebook. I was like no.. He then proceeded to tell me that he and that girl are getting serious and that she was saying bad things about me. I laughed, because despite my efforts to be nice to her in the past , she doesn't know anything about me. He then apologized for 30 mins for everything he's ever done, and said if I ever needed anything he would be there.. I calmly told him that I am just fine and actually quite happy. A week later I see he's defriended me from Facebook. I assume the girl kept being crazy until he did it. It bothered me for a little while. I felt there was no need to call and stir stuff up after all that time only to turn around and do that, but it is what is . As far as I know, they are still seeing each other. It's a small town and people feel the need to tell things I don't want to hear when I visit. He's making the 7 hr drive to our hometown every weekend. I guess that hurts a little, that he could make it work with someone I had no respect for long distance. I really wanted more for him, I wanted him to get away from our hometown and to start a new life with someone new .. but it is what it is. I haven't really dated since, but I know one day I'll be happy again with someone.

LONG story short.. obviously the person I fell in love with isn't who he is now. I am sorry you are going through all of this. It is amazing how people can change, but all you can do is grow from it. I know now that there are certain mistakes I will never make again. Good luck with everything.

I don't really have crazy break-up stories of my own but I'm always amazed at how NASTY breakups get too. It baffles me how you can turn on someone that you once loved so much. My brother-in-law is going through an awful divorce right now and they don't even have kids. (I can understand how divorces/breakups can get really difficult/nasty when you have kids together) His soon-to-be ex is bat**** crazy!! She padlocked all the bedroom doors so he couldn't get in. In retaliation, he went and superglued the locks shut so now NEITHER can get in their rooms. The house is his but in our state the other spouse has up to two years to find another home so they're living in the same house. She burned all his clothes, he sold her car without telling her, and on and on it goes.... Its the craziest *kitten* I've seen!! Its like that movie War of The Roses. I'm waiting for one of them to end up in jail or worse...

ok I don't have any personal breakup stories. I am more of a douche when I have broken up with people in the past I.E just quit talking to them, never return calls/texts until they stop. I like to avoid confrontation so I figure they will get the clue and move on.

same!not a good quality but I've improved. the way I "broke up" with my first boyfriend was just by stopping communication (basically being a b!tch) and responding in very cut throat ways...he got the point after a while

I'll probably be way too cold the next time.

Wow _beachgirl_, your story was really scary. I'd take legal action.
Anyways, this story happened to my sister, not me. I haven't been in many relationships.

So she was dating this guy and he was really controlling. He always wanted to know what she was doing, who she was with, where she was, and you get the point. He was always obsessed with her. One night he was outside our house just a few feet from her room. That night my sister left her window open since it was really hot and that year our A/C wasn't working. Apparently he snook into her room, sat on a chair, and watched her sleep. A while later she woke up and caught a glimpse of him, but didn't say anything, and pretend to go back to sleep. A while later, he left. It was so creepy. The next day she confronted him and broke up with him.

Probably my divorce was the worst break up I have had....Brought child home from the hospital, I had a 16 month at home and a 2 day old ...former husband gave me a beautiful piece of Waterford Crystal as a gift for you know giving birth and waalaa, two hours later he took off his ring and told me we were seperated..he was done....period...yep...good times...he now calls it "just bad timing"...I call it pure evil and rotten

my first real realionship that ment the world at the time. we met at college. we didn't have any classes together but we met through mutal friends at the time. we where the same age. she had 2 kids and was just getting a divorce. this was the begining of october by early december she told me that she had cheated on me in the begining of our relationship. i should of called over then but i stuck with her when she said she would never hurt me again. me not being able to realy trust her caused problems but we stayed together then a couple of months later not even she wanted a girls night out while they where out they ran into one of her girlfriends ex. to make long story short she dumped me for him just before valentines day and when my mom was in the hospital where she just about died.i felt like i was used and no good because she left me for a guy 10 years older who worked 16 hours a day and owned his own home. because of this issue i have probles trusting people in genral and it's been ten years since then

T got depressed in October & wouldn't see me for six weeks. My father died Nov 6th. Nov 14th was my birthday. 1 1/2 weeks later, T disappeared without explanation, not answering my calls & messages. I was depressed after my father's death, I'm very insecure, and I'm used to the people I care about disappearing. Due to these factors, I interpreted T's absence as he didn't want to talk to me. After about 10 days, I finally sent T a text asking why he wasn't answering my messages, that he said he cared about me, & I missed our conversations. The next day, T answered that he'd been away without a phone signal. He said no one else was upset by his absence (no one else was used to daily contact with him!), and that he was uncomfortable that I'd assume something negative about him. I explained about my depression & insecurity. T said he understood, that he wasn't upset. He wrote a bit about his Thanksgiving, sent a joke, and then a smile when I joked in reply. I thought everything was OK. But then I didn't hear from T again. I wondered if T had gone away again. I was also worried~ I didn't know if he was dead or alive. After about a week, I went to T's place, and was shocked to find that he was at home. I suddenly realized that I'd been left for no reason, and that T didn't even tell me, had in fact led me to believe that everything was all right between us. I rang the bell. T wouldn't come down. I rang the bell for a while, and T called the police! Not only was T not man enough to come down and tell me what was going on, but he wouldn't even tell me that he didn't want to talk to me. T said that he had very strong feelings for me, that he loved me. He said we were friends, and our friendship was the most important thing. T had also told me that he'd never forget how I was there for him when his father died. He dumped me 2 1/2 weeks after my father's death! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXi2vHrT-kU&list=HL1356282746

Beat this one...

I lived in Beijing (China) with my then boyfriend, we worked for an investment company (we are both British).
The company was crap so we decided to apply for a similar position in Malaysia. The drippy company owed him a few thousand pounds and were being stubborn about it. Anyway, a few nights before we were due to leave for Malaysia, we went to the office to check emails, tie up loose ends etc.
My ex broke in to the secretaries drawer, stole some money out of the cash box and hid it in my handbag (while I was checking my emails).

We were arrested and put in to prison while the case went to court, it took 6 MONTHS!!!!! I was stuck in a Chinese prison with no native English speakers because of that ****head.

I was released as soon as it went to court as I had absolutely nothing to do with it and I was put on the next plane back to the UK.
He got 18 months! :drinker: wanker!

Needless to say, we haven't seen each other since (this happened in 2008).

I am now happily engaged to someone who I have been friends with for about 7 years and I'm incredibly happy

Mine is not nearly that dramatic... but also recent. A couple months ago my wife of two years literally just walked out on me. Quit her job, packed her stuff moved back to her mom's place.. just decided to "quit". Left me with a HUGE mess to clean up (financially.. we were months behind on everything and she just walked away, removing a source of income no less).

That's pretty much what my dad did. I was in pre-school, and my sister was younger. At the time, he was our only source of income. Never saw him again, never will.

Beat this one...

I lived in Beijing (China) with my then boyfriend, we worked for an investment company (we are both British).
The company was crap so we decided to apply for a similar position in Malaysia. The drippy company owed him a few thousand pounds and were being stubborn about it. Anyway, a few nights before we were due to leave for Malaysia, we went to the office to check emails, tie up loose ends etc.
My ex broke in to the secretaries drawer, stole some money out of the cash box and hid it in my handbag (while I was checking my emails).

We were arrested and put in to prison while the case went to court, it took 6 MONTHS!!!!! I was stuck in a Chinese prison with no native English speakers because of that ****head.

I was released as soon as it went to court as I had absolutely nothing to do with it and I was put on the next plane back to the UK.
He got 18 months! :drinker: wanker!

Needless to say, we haven't seen each other since (this happened in 2008).

I am now happily engaged to someone who I have been friends with for about 7 years and I'm incredibly happy

Nobody can beat that one. Just. Wow.

Wow. I've never met anyone who could beat mine.

You may have just taken the Heavyweight Title of Breakups from me.. I didn't think it was possible...

In high school, I got way too serious way too fast with a guy. He was really attractive and persuasive. He thought I looked unhappy with my boyfriend at the time...to be honest, I was. He and I just didn't mesh well but I wanted so desperately for it to work out, so I stuck around. After a couple of chats and a night of fooling around with guy #2, I broke it off with the boyfriend. I feel terrible for that...cheating is NEVER ok and I'll take that guilt to the grave. But, I played it fast and loose, lost most of my friends and started dating the new guy.

He was one of those kids that made it his priority to be different. He wore the crazy baggy pants and put his hair in Mohawks, etc. The minute we got together, he told me he loved me...and it was like he possessed me for nearly a year. He isolated me from my friends and we spent 99% of our time together. He eventually moved in with me at my Dad's. We were always together.

Things changed later that year. I got a job. I was working on getting a car. I was trying really hard to get through school. Meanwhile, he was a second year senior, played WoW most of the time and I didn't realize until later that he and his family were using me. He used me for sex, a place to stay and money. I paid his brother an outrageous amount of money for gas every week to take me to and from work. We went to The World Of Coke and I paid for the gas and everyone's meals later. I just didn't see it.

We got into a silly argument one day and I came home to find that everything of his was gone. No trace. I called him and he broke up with me because he claimed that I was too serious for him. I was trying to make something of my life while he just wanted to sit on his *kitten* and let me handle everything!!

I went nuts. I was obsessed with trying to get him back. I know now that I couldn't take the rejection more than not having him anymore. I see it as karma for the way I treated that poor kid I had cheated on and dumped. Now I know how it feels to be left high and dry without any real closure.

I got over him eventually. I was seeing a therapist for some other things and she recommended I patch things up with my past. I sent him a FB message 2 years later apologizing for several of my actions and wishing him a good life. In return, he was very polite and apologetic and told me he knows now that I was the only girl to ever treat him right. That was the end of it. Washed my hands of him.

I'm happily married now.