“I realized I could not live this way anymore, and he would never be satisfied.”
Note: This post contains mentions of domestic violence and abuse.
Here are a few of them.
“She was in love with my best friend, and they were both in denial about it.
They were engaged a month after we broke up.”
“I found a credit card statement on the floor just before a family holiday.
Thousands in debt that he’d never told me about.
That was it.”
u/[deleted]
3.
“My mom was dying.
It was my last Thanksgiving with her.
I am not missing the last Thanksgiving I can ever spend with my mom.
We will have our whole lives to spend Thanksgiving with your family after this.
You’re leaving me to face this one alone or to abandon my mother on her last Thanksgiving?”
That was the final straw.
It was a very fucked-up feeling begging somebody to be with me all the time.
It gave me huge insecurity issues.
That was on top of the fact she began to call me names and hit me a lot.
It all started after we got engaged for some reason.
Things were so perfect, but everything changed as soon as she got that ring.
u/Anti_Social_
5.
“I was engaged to a guy I’d dated for three years and was planning a destination wedding.
He cheated on me with a mutual friend one night.
He didn’t know his mom had seen him, but she called me and told me what happened.
He denied it when I confronted him, which made it worse.
We called off the wedding and broke up.
He must have kept my planning binder and just reused it or something.”
“She wanted to go to Florida for the Disney college program.
(She is a huge Disney nerd).
She was too scared she would lose me.
The ring is in a box in the back of a drawer in my dresser.
Her worst fear came true.
So did mine.”
u/devildrugsguy420
7.
“She was already married.
We worked together at a job where you couldn’t wear rings.
She hid it very well.
I was the other guy.
I found out when I proposed, and she had to tell me that she was married.”
(I handled the finances for us, and he kept saying his boss would be sending it.)
Instead, he started going to strip clubs with what little money he had hoarded."
By the time he finally calmed down, he had turned strangely morose.
He looked at me and asked if we could have sex one last time.
My response: ‘No.’
It’s all I have left.'
Needless to say, he left with a dollar in his pocket and no final goodbye."
u/ValNTine
9.
He would’ve dragged us both into bankruptcy if I had stayed with him."
He didn’t want to commit to a relationship while in the army.
So we broke it off.
So, lol."
u/collapse-collide
11.
“I moved across the world for him.
We also have a four-month-old son that I’ve been taking care of for the past four days.
She walked to her work and left her family behind to spend the night at his house.
Oh, and apparently, I have a kidney stone.
u/Jeiku53
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“I’ve been engaged twice.
The first one ended after meeting my family for the first time.
I slept on it, then gave the ring back the next day.
In the second engagement, we dated for three years and got engaged after two.
I was just starting my second year of my master’s program.
“He was obsessed with making me look and speak better.
He would control my food intake and make me exercise every day.
Putting on makeup was a must, even when I was on a plane.
I realized I could not live this way anymore, and he would never be satisfied.
u/Cutestuff_
15.
“We moved in together too young and tried to be adults too fast.
On two retail employees' wages.
Like, WHAT?!?
We were high school sweethearts.
He was smart and ambitious but also loved spending money and worked wild hours to make up the deficit.
“I didn’t want any kids and wanted to be allowed to work.
He wanted a housewife and a large family.
I was willing to settle on a compromise: two kids, and I still got to work.
He left me for it because I wouldn’t be what he wanted.
I dodged a bullet.”
u/gothiclg
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“He cheated and got another woman pregnant.
“She became very dependent on me.
She didn’t have many friends or opportunities to go out and make any.
She didn’t have the drive to do anything other than sitting at home and doing nothing.
No motivation to play any sports or get a job.
But I’m so glad I left.
u/baum_g
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