Woman Shares How Her Boyfriend Abandoned Her In The Mountains, 79 Others Chime In Sharing Similar Stories

My ex husband left me in the middle of the ocean. We were diving in San Maarten and he left me and swam back to the boat and convinced them I was on the boat. We were exploring a shipwreck and I turned around to find him and he was gone. Came up to the surface, no boat, no land, nothing. I had a compass on my gear so I started swimming. Eventually came upon a catamaran and they took me back to port.

I couldn’t possibly respond to everyone. So here are some answers: 1) yes, attempted m****r but he and the boat crew and the police all decided it was a big mistake and that it was probably my fault for not paying attention. 2) If you’ve never been in an abusive relationship, you cannot speak to this and ask why I didn’t leave. 3) when I tried to leave, he actually tried to k*ll me with his own hands in my home in front of one of our children. 4) the final attempt on my life he was arrested.

Felony Attempted m****r. This charge was eventually dropped to a misdemeanor, he was fined $258, sentenced to pick up trash on the freeway for a few weekends, and an anger management class. 5) You can see the system in action right now. Absolutely no consequences for violence against women and children. 6) No book and no movie. 7) I did not m****r him and he is remarried last I heard. 8) I divorced him over 20 years ago and this happened in 2005. 9) He was a business owner and everyone loved him. 10. BELIEVE WOMEN

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My husband and I were hiking Virginia mountains. Got to the peak. He said I could throw you off this peak. No one would ever know. My dog and self headed back down. Calmly not to show any anxiety. Got to my car and left him there. 6 hours from home to date. I do not know how he got back. I called my dad and brother. To confront, they did. He packed some clothes. My dad had words and I filed for divorce next day. Brother stayed overnight. He was a cop.

In high school coming back from skiing in Colorado, my buddy and I came across a woman walking alone in a remote area with minimal warm clothing. Her BF had dumped her miles from any town and it was getting dark on a Colorado winter night in the mountains (10-0°F easy). We gave her a ride home to Denver. Murderous [jerk]

A long time ago I was married to this terrible guy. He essentially walked out on me to go hiking in New Zealand with his gf. I found her travel blog and would read it. He did this exact thing to her during their journey. She found him hours later eating tacos and drinking beer. I had to take screenshots of her blog for my lawyer and the whole divorce

Mine kept trying to convince me to go on a cruise before we separated. I kept saying no and that I was scared of open water. He would get furious. This just made me really glad I said no.

Thomas Plamberger was recently convicted for this very thing. She passed, and he had abandoned a previous girlfriend at the exact same location.

My dad abandoned me while we were skiing in the mountains because I kept falling of a lift. I was 8 years old and he just left me there for 4 hours. I finally took the cable car back down on my own and waited in a dark hallway of our holiday apartment building to get out of the cold until the end of the day, I had to return the skis so I walked back to the ski shop before 5 pm and that's when I bumped into him returning his skis. My mum was unaware of this and I never got an apology from him.

My ex stranded my son and me in Portugal. Took the car and left us. We slept in a bus station (there were no hotels available and no rental cars), then took a shuttle to Spain to pick up a rental car, then drove to Lisbon to catch a flight home. Locks were changed by the time he returned. At the time I could not walk well and my son was 6. It was unbelievably traumatic

Went to see my ex in the Vallejo area (1½hrs from home) while he was working construction. He asked me if I wanted to go for a night drive, which was not unusual. When I grabbed my purse, he said, "You wont need it. I got you." Also, not unusual. He drove for a while before pulling over in a rest area in a wildlife preserve. A highway in the middle of marshland as far as you could see. He didnt smoke in his car, so no red flags so far. He got out, walked to a bench, and sat down. I followed him. He pulled out a cigarette, patted his pockets, got up, and said he was grabbing his lighter. Then he started the car and peeled out, yelling curse words out the window the whole time. This is how I found out he had relapsed on drugs. Stuck in a rest area off the highway in the middle of the night, wearing pajamas and flip flops with no wallet. F**king awful experience that I've only mentioned to one person. I walked on the highway until I had phone signal, downloaded Uber, and walked to a place that I could get picked up from. I got a ride back to my hotel, and laid down to cry. He showed up less than 5 minutes later (tracker on my phone) accusing me of working against him with the police. 🙄 He threatened to k*ll me, and then smacked me hard enough he broke one of my teeth. I didn't get away from that p.o.s. for 3 more years.

This is terrifying!!!!!!!!!!! My husband noticed I was struggling out on the water while kayaking last summer. My wrists locked up and the wind made it impossible for him to hear me so we got separated. When he noticed I wasn’t keeping up, he paddled against the wind back to come get me. He tied my kayak to his, and paddled us both back to camp. He then massaged my hands and wrists until they unlocked and got me a beer while I decompressed in the hammock. I am so thankful he’s a good partner.

My ex-husband did something similar. We were island hopping in the Philippines, the current was way too strong and I am tiny. I held onto him and he pushed me off him. One of the boat people had to come save me. His excuse was we would both drown.

Oh there was a recent case in which a guy left his girlfriend on a mountain, she was found d**d from hypothermia hanging over the ledge. He left her with no supplies, turned off his phone, failed to raise the alarm, got back and went to sleep. Had done it before to an ex who survived. The outcome? 5 month suspended sentence, less than 10k euro fine. Even if they succeed in k***ing you they don’t face justice.

Reminds me of when a guy friend confessed to me when we were on the way to a casino. After I turned him down, he stopped at a diner in the middle of nowhere and just dropped me off. My phone had no service but I was able to use the diner phone after I bought a cup of coffee (all I could afford) to call my best friend to pick me up. It took 5 hours for her to come get me. The diner was closed by that time but the waitress was nice enough to let me stay inside till she was done closing and then 🧵

This is so insane and sad! My husband and I have been hiking for years and if I’m more than 2ft behind him (because I like to walk slow) he stops and waits or asks if I want to hold his hand. Y’all gotta stop being with men who so clearly hate you

I’m from FL & went to CO to hike the Rocky Mnt trail with a guy. Got to the trail head at 5am because he is a photographer & wanted a pic of sunrise. He had bear spray & warned me of mountain lions. I was a bit slow- never hiked in the mountains- he left me. In the dark. No bear spray, no map. Because he was afraid he’d miss the shot. HE LIVED THERE. could’ve went anytime. Another couple let me hike with them so I’d feel safe & not get lost. Why are they all the same?

My ex was this type of person. He used literal abandonment as a control tactic. He’d leave me at the store if I took too long, leave without me if we planned to go somewhere, and he’d often threaten to leave me on the side of the road in the country, knowing I didn’t have anyone to call who’d be able to come help. My husband has explicitly said that he will never do this, even if we are in a fight. Which should be the standard, not a f**king gold star. But thanks to men like my ex, here we are.

I was 9 mos pregnant walking a forest path with my husband when he decided he wanted to go for a jog and proceeded to leave me alone on a deserted path. And yeah - he was also an abuser.

my ex left me &my dog in the woods w/ no water or cell service for 3 fcking hours once, i was so scared he wasn’t going to come back. I had like 1/4 of a water bottle left and gave it to the dog. He had to leave &get water & propane, bc when I tried to ask him if he had these things to camp he snapped at me& had an attitude so I dropped it but he forgot both. He could have just listened 🤷‍♀️ I would have handled it myself. Camping is so much nicer & safer without having to manage a man’s feelings.

My dad abandoned me on a hike once to see what I would do…and got mad at me for not instinctively knowing the best thing to do if you’re “lost” is to stay put. Except I wasn’t lost. We’d hiked that trail before and I was familiar with my surroundings and where to go, so naturally I kept going, thinking he’d gone ahead or down the fork where two paths meet at the end. I was like 12, maybe. F’d up when I think about it as an adult.

My ex abandoned me my first time snorkeling ever in Hawaii. I had just moved 4000 miles to be with him. It was maybe my third day there. We had to watch a safety video before going that talked about the dangers and always staying in pairs and sign a sheet saying we watched the video and would follow the rules. He left almost immediately. At first I was sad, no one to point out cool things to, no one to tell when I saw a turtle. I was confident and naive. Then the tide went out. One of the rules in the video was that the reef was alive and stepping on it could k*ll protected wild life, some of which is also poisonous and venemous so don’t touch it. When the tide went out there wasn’t enough space between the top of the reef and the top of the water to swim. I remember floating trying to make myself as small and shallow as I could, while also desperately trying to figure out how to get off the reef and back to shore. I started to panic. I made the smallest motions possible to avoid touching the reef but it was no use, my wrists ended up scraping the reef and getting cut. I could feel the sting of touching the wrong thing making me more panicked. I had to keep my movements so small while also trying to get out. When I finally got to shore my arms and wrists were bleeding profusely from whatever it was on the reef I scraped against in order to avoid hurting the reef. I was all alone, rinsing my wounds in the showers. He showed up on the shore later with his friend who had apparently come join him to go surfing in “a better spot” - that’s why he unceremoniously left me in spite of all warnings and instructions. I cried to him and showed him my bleeding arms and wrists and he yelled at me for embarrassing him in front of his friend and making a big deal about nothing. I still have scars from the reef to this day, 17 years later. It took me years to recognize the gaslighting and absurdity.