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

My ex left me on the side of the road in the middle of Wyoming on way to Jackson Hole - on our honeymoon. It was a cold, late afternoon, nothing but land around me and a dead phone. 10 min later he came back and picked me up. I made sure my phone was charged all the time and I never went alone with him in the car,again. I certainly share the scary and shocking feeling because no one should ever have to go through this alone!

My ex once took me on a spontaneous "casual" hike that involved me basically scaling the side of an 70 degree cliff in Chacos, and then lectured me the entire time about being "unprepared" for a hike I had no idea we were even doing.

In China there is a VERY famous case of a woman who went w her abusive husband to a cliff in Thailand to “renew their love for each other” at his request. He pushed her down the mountain and she almost died w catastrophic injuries. He then followed her to the emergency room and threatened her not to tell anyone. Luckily she found a way to tell the doctors that he did it. He is now serving time. She lost her whole business, her health but now she’s a successful influencer, she survived

My ex-husband abandoned me while snorkeling in Hawaii as well. We were out snorkeling when we heard dolphins and we same toward the direction we thought they were in. Before I knew it I couldn’t see the bottom of the ocean anymore just deep blue nothingness. I got scared because I know there are sharks in Hawaii and I couldn’t see the ocean floor anymore. I asked him to stay with me and then in that same moment he saw a dolphin and just took off and left me all alone and freaked out.While I was still married I would laugh and tell the story about him taking off when he saw the dolphin thinking it was cute. After I left him I finally realized how f**ked up it was that he left me in the big blue after I asked him to stay. I also realized that this kind of behavior was all over my marriage. Your story sounds much worse and scarier than mine and I’m so sorry your ex boyfriend did this to you and then gaslit you about it. Men are impulsive and dangerously self-centered.

I read some AITA story about a guy trying to make friends and joined a local group that did activities, he had interest in one of the girls and they got paired up on a hike/scavenger hunt thing. He was directing them and kept getting them purposefully lost so he could spend more time with her. she was getting more and more suspicious/uneasy… finally made it back to group,I think he told her he wanted to spend time with her alone and everyone cut him off. And he was confused????

My ex was frustrated I was slowing my pace to accommodate our 5 year old on a 5.4 mile hike up and down a mountain with extremely slippery rocks, and left us behind and went way ahead of us. Can’t believe there’s actually a term for this and it’s a common thing.

This type of situation happened to me once. Right when he started to leave, he took my bag that had water and snacks in it. I grabbed the strap of my bag and yanked it back. There were no signs beforehand, it was random AF that he left. I was lucky I noticed him grab my bag and reacted quickly because it was hot as h**l. I would have suffered alone without water.

I was walking behind a couple today and the woman kept having to run up to keep his pace. A few regular steps and then jogging a few. He would not slow down. What is that

This makes me so angry that I may have to turn off socials tonight.
Is this why so many want “hiking first dates” now? Hard no and red flag.
Ladies, get a phone with satellite capability if you can. Download an app like Strava or another that allows you to send a text to family and friends about where you are starting your hike and when.
It looks like renewing my wilderness certs is moving up in need. I had let them lapse since moving to the desert and working full time.

Similar thing happened to me with an ex. Except we were in a foreign city. He took the car keys and phone, and abandoned me on in a shady neighborhood in the city. We were talking and all of a sudden I look to my left and he disappeared. This man had issues.

I used to hike six mornings every week trails familiar to me in Sedona. My husband was a chronic alcoholic who accused me every day of having liaisons in the woods with men I didn’t know. I made him come with me one morning on a short hike. He was so drunk he could barely walk. I said hello to a man 30 years my senior because we often volunteered together; that was the only contact I had with anyone. My husband never accused me again. I should’ve left him in the woods.

My ex did this to me in his home city (a different country to where I grew up and a language I only spoke a small amount of) after he took me there to 'show me his home'. He ditched me on my own with no money or knowledge of the city for hours. I was eventually rescued by some locals who spoke enough English (and me juuuust enough of their language... with some Google Translate help) to work out where the air bnb was. He laughed at me when I walked through the door in tears.

I went on a hike in Sedona Arizona. It was a third date. I felt like we were going in the wrong direction so I asked about it a couple of times and he got really upset because I didn’t trust him to know where he was going. I have a fear of getting lost. he left me and I ended up getting lost. I had no cell service and ran out of water in my camel back. When I got to the car he was laughing. Last time I ever spoke to him.

At a cafe in Switzerland, my ex asked me to wait for him so he could grab his belongings. 2 hours went by, he left me there. I went and caught a train to another country and I never spoke to him again. The "loml" left me outside of his friend's apt building so he could go to a bar (3AM). I had flown to the state to see him... I had to call my bff to get me a ride back to his house. I came into these relationships without ever experiencing abandonment. I ended up humiliated by these tactics.

paytonashleighn:
Oh man…. I came into my current ending/ended relationship with abandonment and all I’ve gotten since being with him is abandonment… this is eye opening reading all of these

My ex husband was a competitive swimmer, I was not a swimmer at all. We lived in the Middle East, he swam everyday in open waters, I didn't even swim in the pool. Went out for my first open water swim across the lagoon where we lived I got to the middle and panicked looked for him and he swam Diagonally and completely left me. He also left me in the dust on a 40 mile bike ride through the badlands in the rain. I tried my best to keep up and the rain just washed my tears away, he never knew.
lisabramhill:
He knew just like we know what an a**. And I’m trying to be polite.

danielle.nicole.west:
Yes, he definitely knew what he was doing but he didn't know I cried over it. I actually look back and think he wanted me to die. There were many signs to make me think that. Not only physical things he did to me but things like swimming off like he did knowing I wasn't a strong swimmer or even a swimmer at all. Actually, he point blank told me he wished I would d*e.

It wasn’t a hike but when I was like 20/21 a girl I worked with at a preschool, a fellow aide about the same age, was sharing that her boyfriend, when they’d get in arguments, would drive out to (at that time), secluded, poorly lit, industrial areas. They were just started to build warehouses where we lived and he’d leave her there. For hours to teach her a lesson. This was before everyone had a cellphone. This was like 2001/2002. I often think about her.

My dad did this often. But it wasn’t just the forest or hiking trails, it was definitely a thing for him. We went to Yosemite every summer until I was 17 (that’s when I began using work as an excuse not to go on family trips) and he would always either randomly disappear or get upset about something random and ditch. My parents continued to go hiking and camping even after us kids stopped going, and he still corniced to do that. I had no idea other men were doing this too

A boyfriend left me and my five year old son stranded without money in Niagara Falls.

My ex insisted on climbing this mountain when the sun was about to set. I told him i was uncomfy, he didnt care. It was either wait by myself in his car at the bottom or go with him and i went and on the way back down, it was pitch black. So i couldnt even see the ground while trying to go back down. Could have easily broken my ankle & he left me..went right on ahead of me and told me to hurry up..he was abusive as hell but that was when i really saw how much he didnt give a f**k about me


megannnsssss:
This is such a nightmare. Like he didn't need to go to that damn mountain!


brebangtan:
He really didnt. And his logic was if we move faster, it’ll be fine and i was like dude! It takes 2 hours to get to the top at moderate pace. So 4 hours in total..It was around 5 pm and the sun was setting at like 7. On the way down i was like I TOLD YOU!! And he was just like HURRY UP and left me lol i was like oh yea this guy hates my guts. And then when i did finally get to the bottom and we were in the car, all he kept saying was that we made it so i had no reason to be mad. I was silently plotting my escape the entire ride home

4-ish years ago I had a huge argument with my family and my ex husband of 7y realised he was not getting any more easy money from my grandparents (me wanting to not depend on that being the whole reason for the fight) so he called his daddy to buy him a ticket home, and f**ked off back to Brazil. Badmouthed me to EVERYONE. We had newly arrived in Belgium, I was recovering from depression, had no job yet, 600€ to my name, two cats to care for, and had to leave the Airbnb I was in in 15 days. When I dared to speak about the sh*t situation he’d left me I got called everything from crazy to GOLD DIGGER (????). I am in a phenomenal moment of life now with a much better partner, but I still deal with the psychological repercussions of this abandonment and betrayal, as well as the f**king bureaucratic ones which drive me crazy (I’m a dual citizen and it’s hell)