Most of us have had times in love when we questioned our own choices. Maybe we missed a clear warning sign, tried too hard to please someone, or accepted things we wouldn’t put up with now. Back then, it felt right, but thinking about it now can be a bit embarrassing.
Recently, Threads user gaabrielaa.g asked women to share the most embarrassing things they had done for a man that they can now laugh about. The question led to stories about questionable sacrifices, misplaced trust, and going much further in relationships than anyone should have to.
From taking long bus rides to do a boyfriend a favor to playing wife for 12 years without a ring, these confessions show just how far people sometimes go for love. Here are some of the most memorable responses, including a few experiences their authors aren't quite ready to laugh about yet
#21
one time i watched a situationship's dog while he went on vacation with a girl. honestly the weakest s**t i've ever done.
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#22
He took me to the Magic Castle and I got called on by a magician to be hypnotized. I pretended it worked like a real psychopath, then had to lie about it for years bc he told everyone about it.
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#23
Helped him pay for his mama's funeral. He then yelled at me not to come.
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#24
I went to eleven Phish shows in a year. ELEVEN. Love was a d**g more powerful than what I took to survive eleven nights of bad stepdad jazz.
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#25
Girl, I put my entire life on pause trying to prove to a man that I was worth choosing. Forgave things I should’ve walked away from, cried over things I should’ve laughed at, played detective when I should’ve been planning my exit, and accepted apologies that didn’t come with changed behavior. I was out here auditioning for a role I already had. BABYYYY, never again. The embarrassment wasn’t even loving him that hard; it was forgetting to love ME just as hard.
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#26
one day me and my fwb of 3 years after school got food, smoked, & talked like we always did but this day he cut it short and asked me to take him somewhere, when we pulled up i saw one of our classmates outside waiting for him all dressed up, i was like what yall finna do? HE SAID THEY WAS GOING ON A DATE! before he got out i locked the doors and dropped him back off at school.
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#27
I took him back after he strangled me halfway to d***h, among many other heinous acts of violence. My redemption arc being that his b***h a*s is in prison for 8-10 now and I put him there.
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#28
Marry him and not go to law school to “wait on him.” But no worries I’m divorced now and in law school.
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#29
He moved into my apartment while I paid the rent on his place *in another state* till his lease was up.
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#30
One time I bought my ex an outfit and dinner for MY birthday dinner. I slipped him a couple hundred dollars under the table to pay for it so that my friends didn’t know he couldn’t afford it… whole time this man had a secret f****n life and when I called him out on it, he told me he was going for a walk to clear his head and he never came back, next day he was driving his now wife’s G wagon.
But karma is a b***h cause I saw him a couple years after, dusty asf lol.
But karma is a b***h cause I saw him a couple years after, dusty asf lol.
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#31
Put my credit on the line for a situationship to buy a car for him. He was old enough to be my dad and I was 25 at the time, and he was bald. (pipe game had me folded at the time, okay?
Safe to say I chased him down the highway, cut him off, made him wreck said car into a metal barrier to total it.
He survived so all was fine. Never again.
Safe to say I chased him down the highway, cut him off, made him wreck said car into a metal barrier to total it.
He survived so all was fine. Never again.
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#33
Sent him a “send this to your crush” meme and he asked if I sent it to the wrong person.
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#34
I begged him to go to therapy and he wouldn’t so I deada*s made us do mandatory weekly therapy where I WAS HIS THERAPIST because that was the only way he would talk to me about his feelings. And yes I printed worksheets out and EVERYTHING.
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#35
This is why I vowed no matter what I lose in life or have to go through to become a great man who love women more than myself. I seen what my father put my mother through, and I saw how she put up with him and the other men. Women have more grace and mercy. And this thread proves it. May peace find every woman.
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#36
I went to get my then husband’s pregnant mistress out of the hot car he left her in, and invited her into my son’s birthday party so she could get some cool air.
That wasn’t even for him, it was for her cause she was at least 8 months in the d**d of the summer.
But it was embarrassing as hell to share the lore behind that toxic a*s marriage.
That wasn’t even for him, it was for her cause she was at least 8 months in the d**d of the summer.
But it was embarrassing as hell to share the lore behind that toxic a*s marriage.
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#37
I bought myself a new phone so I could give him my old on. Walked out of the store and shattered the screen so I kept the shattered one and gave him a brand new phone. I’m not going to give any more context because it actually gets even more embarrassing and my friends are on this app.
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#38
In college, I rode my bike 3 miles to his place at midnight because he wanted me to come over but didn’t want to pick me up (he had a car, I didn’t).
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#39
Everything I've ever done for a man is embarrassing because now I'm a lesbian.
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#40
I was working three jobs to keep us afloat while he was unemployed at home…he cheated on me in that home and dressed up for men in my latex saying he did it because he “needed attention” and I let him stay anyway because he had no where to go …. Never ever ever ever again idk w*f was wrong with me.
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