A breakup hurts, no matter how friendly, how ready you think you are, or even when both agree it’s the right thing to do. While there are many sad breakup stories, some are among the worst ever.
Here are a few of the most unforgettable breakup stories shared online:
Worst breakup stories from Huffpost:
1. “In high school I dated a girl who broke up with me to date my best friend. She did so at a Christmas party our drama club was throwing. She then proceeded to give me a bag of trinkets ― which seemed like they were from the dollar store ― almost like a consolation prize. One of the gifts was a spatula? Really weird night.”
― Ryan Bailey, the host of the podcast “So Bad It’s Good With Ryan Bailey”
2. “In my early 20s, I was dating an older man for a couple of months, pretty casually. We’d see each other maybe twice a week because he was always so busy working late. Turns out, he was closeted and married and I was his side piece, all things I found out when his wife showed up to the coffee shop I worked at and confronted me and told me to stay away from her man, and called me all kinds of names and slurs. As she walked out the door, she turned back and showed me the gun she had in her purse. I still see both of them around town to this day and if she sees me, she pats her purse while glaring at me.”
―Ian Aber, a comedian
3. “The worst breakup I experienced was my first ‘boyfriend,’ where he indirectly ended our relationship the day before Valentine’s Day. He really didn’t give a specific rhyme or reason but only said that he ‘had to figure some things out.’ He reached back out to me on Easter, and we tried seeing each other again. I broke up with him shortly after because I realized he not only wanted to break up with me to avoid celebrating with me, but I found out he had a girlfriend of seven years who called me after reading our text messages.”
—Cheyenne M. Davis, a writer, DJ and multimedia content creator
4. “I was dating someone from work over the summer and I thought it was going well. She then ghosted me for two weeks. While I was out for an afternoon run, she phoned and explained how messed up she was feeling and she wanted to go back to being friends. We then met up two weeks later ‘as friends,’ got drunk and she asked to go back to my place. We then slept together and after she said she wanted to try again.
“Again, I got ghosted for two more weeks until I get a WhatsApp with her explaining how she wasn’t ready for a relationship and was not in a good place and needed to be on her own for a bit. A week later, I see her post on her socials with a new boyfriend.”
—Mark Nicholas, a stand-up comedian
5. “Some years ago, my live-in girlfriend of nearly three years cheated on me with another woman ― in our living room while I was asleep in our bedroom. The next morning, she promptly told me we were over. I’d had no clue it was coming. But I had the last laugh: The woman my ex dumped me for was a diamond dealer, and she was arrested (and jailed) nine months later for smuggling.”
― A.L. Brooks, a writer
Worst breakup stories from BuzzFeed:
6. “My husband of 24 years was away on a guys’ trip in Mexico. He broke up with me via a text message that said, ‘I’m done,’ and that he wanted a divorce. Later, I discovered he was on the trip with another woman and they had been seeing each other for over a year. You would think after being married for 24 years, he would do better than a text message. Gutless coward. It’s been six years, and he has had three more relationships and has been dumped every time.”
—Anonymous
7. “I am a mom, and he told me the day before Mother’s Day this year that he needed a week of no contact to pray to God to see if I was to be his future wife or not. It ruined my Mother’s Day, in part because my ex-husband demanded that he spend the day with my daughter (since it was his weekend) and because I was confused and had to wait a week for an answer as to where I stood with my boyfriend. Exactly one week later, he called me and told me that God told him no. Using religion to break up with someone was a new low for me. I probably dodged a bullet, but it still broke my heart. Hopefully, my next Mother’s Day will be joyful with my kiddo and no bad energy from any future boyfriend or exes.”
—Anonymous
8. “My ex got up, and I got ready for work like normal; he even ran out and got me coffee while I was getting ready. We both left for work. Around 10:00 a.m., my sister called me at work to say that he was moving out. Our roommate called my sister because he thought my boyfriend was being rude and wanted to tell me but didn’t have my work number, so he called my sister. I left work, but he was gone when I got home. Everything he owned was gone from our room. I tried calling his parents’ house (these were early cellphone days), and they told me he didn’t want to talk to me and that he’d call when he was ready to talk to me. Cut to 20 years later, we are in a group chat together with mutual friends.”
—Anonymous
9. “After 23 years and three kids, I came home from working a 12-hour overnight shift and found the whole family waiting for me. He informed me that he was going to divorce me. He was waiting to establish residency but had a lawyer ready to file paperwork. He kept saying there was no other woman but married his nephew’s girlfriend nine months later. They just celebrated their 28th anniversary. I’ve been single and happy ever since.”
—Anonymous
10. “He basically made me break up with him. I realized later he only wanted to be with me because I was a virgin when we met. Once we slept together, he slowly stopped initiating contact with me. I felt him pulling away but made excuses for at least a month until I finally realized what he was doing and broke up with him. He contacted me several months later, asking for my best friend’s number so he could ask her out on a date. I blocked his number after that. By far the worst person I’ve ever dated.”
—Anonymous
11. “I told him I could take a hint and accepted it was over; he responded, ‘What? No! I’m sorry I was being distant! I really like you!’ Then, he dumped me via text the next day. I asked him why he convinced me I wasn’t dumped just to dump me immediately, and he replied, ‘I don’t know :).’ I could have kept it together if he had omitted that smiley face. But he didn’t, so that smiley face made me so nuts that I actually considered burning his house down. I didn’t fantasize, but I seriously considered it (for a split second).”
Worst breakup stories Reddit:
12. “He proposed the night before he left on a 3 month work trip. Called me 2 days later from an airport to tell me he changed his mind about getting married, was extending his work contract to 7 months, and he’d never be returning to where we lived. He sent his parents to pick up all his crap a week later.”
—Reddit user SpiritualCoconut8
13.”Suddenly he wasn’t leaving his family’s house and no one was allowed to talk to him via phone so I showed up at their house asking to see him. Instead his grandma sat me down at the kitchen table and broke up with me for him. He then proceeded to stop talking to all of us because his family decided we were bad for him. A couple months later his new “friends” let him leave a party drunk and he died while driving impaired.”
—Reddit user lilchileah77
14. “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.. had a goodbye kiss and everything. Came home to all his things moved out and no response to texts. I was pregnant at the time. A little later on I found out 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 hands down the most depressing period of my life.”
—Reddit user TopScientist9241
15. “I was in college, and she had been my girlfriend for about 4 or 5 years. I was “taking too long” to get out of college. She wanted me to drop out and start making babies. Right now. And I wouldn’t do it. I insisted on graduation first.
We went to a party after the fight. She started it up again at the party. I told her no.
She said “Well what about that guy over there?” and pointed at the guitar player in the band. “I’ll bet he’s ready to start a family. Here, hold my drink.”
She handed me her drink, walked over, introduced herself, married him a few months later and had a lot of babies.
I was replaced faster and with less thought than someone would use changing a burned out light bulb.”
—Reddit user BoredBSEE
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