“He took me to an amusement park for my birthday but kept acting weird.
I finally asked him what was wrong, and he told me he had gotten another woman pregnant.
I thought he was about to propose.”
Reddit userImpressiveWrap7363askedthe 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.
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.
This caused a big stir in our small community.
They became social outcasts but acted as if nothing happened.
u/singer1961
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.”
u/miss-zenki
3.
We were together for seven years, three years long-distance."
u/MundaneButterfly0808
4.
“He proposed the night before he left on a three-month work trip.
He sent his parents to pick up all his crap a week later.”
u/SpiritualCoconut8
5.
“After six years, he scheduled a phone call on our shared calendar.
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.
u/BoringPudding3986
6.
He lived two hours away in a bigger city with his parents.
He dropped me off at the hospital and then immediately went off with his friends.
I trusted he would come back for me.
It turns out he was hanging out with his ex-girlfriend.
I was alone in a strange city, and my boyfriend abandoned me.
To their credit, they were mad at him over it, too.”
u/HelgaGeePataki
7.
Dodged a bullet there."
u/JustAnotherWeirdLoon
8.
Okay, buddy."
u/localabyss
9.
We shared a goodbye kiss and everything.
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."
u/TopScientist9241
10.
“He took me to an amusement park for my birthday but kept acting weird.
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.”
u/ChubbyBlackWoman
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.'”
u/techexploreszone
12. u/ironhive
13.
“My ex of eight years told his mom about the breakup before I knew.
Mind you, we were both in our mid-to-late-20s at that point.”
u/PleasantTomato7128
14.
“Not me, but I knew a guy in college who was studying abroad in China.
He reasoned that he didn’t want to end it over text.
u/MobileMessage
15.
“They changed their Facebook status to in a relationship with someone else.”
u/amused_prinky02
16.
“He dumped me on my birthday.
We’d been dating for eight months.
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.”
u/13surgeries
17.
He ended up randomly texting me six years later.
When I asked why he reached out, he said he was bored.
I blocked him then and thanked the gods for dodging that bullet.”
u/TheMuffinShop1189
18.
But then she ghosted me, and I didn’t hear from her for five years."
u/andc0unting
19.
“He literally ran away.
He ran out, and he was legging it down the road.”
u/AngelicAria_
20.
Then, she and a friend from a previous job ghosted me.
It turns out they were seeing each other."
u/TheMagnuson
21.
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 broke up with me and said, ‘Sorry for being shallow.'"
u/Fluid_Spend_6729
22.
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."
u/Lizzifer1230
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.
My life got 100x better without that loser in it.”
u/deedubfry
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.’
They didn’t reply to my texts or calls.
It was just done.”
u/Greglebowski74
25.
“I have two bad ones.
The first one: He had his mom call me.
I finally got on board with the idea of never being a mother.
Skip ahead 30 years.
He’s a father of four and divorced, and three kids have gone no-contact with him.”
u/readingreddit4fun
26.
That deflated the romance pretty quickly."
u/Acceptable_Grab_150
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.
I told her no.
I wanted to say yes in my heart, but my brain would not let that happen.”
u/GotSeoul
28.
“He ghosted me after bringing his kids to my parents’ house for Christmas.”
u/Oktober33
29. u/chickenbrofredo
30. u/deviantbb
31.
He was married to someone else less than two years later.
u/faefaefaefaefae
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