38 Brutal Relationship Endings People Online Still Can’t Believe Happened

We were planning our wedding and he married someone else without telling me. I found out from a mutual friend.

I was on the verge of calling the cops due to her starting to throw s**t around and her just f*****g *screaming*.

We never argued for eight months. She suddenly melted down in a fit of paranoia & complained I wasn't taking a threat of kidnappers seriously.

Things were fine then it came out of nowhere.

She accused me of not trying to find a job after graduating. Despite the several hundred applications I'd put out in the span of a few months

And it's not as if she'd had any better luck, she didn't hear back from anywhere either and was back at her pre graduation summer job.

She said the tipping point had been that I didn't drive to a job fair a friend of hers suggested. The job fair was **4 hours away** and for a company that was looking for warehouse workers with pay below my own states minimum wage.

I don't understand.

She got upset when I brought up marriage after a couple of years of dating. Said she wanted to date others. I reminded her she had my ring on her finger. She gave it back. Ended it all in a 20 min discussion which I didn’t even realize we were going to talk about. So there was that.

Told me she had to block me because her son’s schedule was going to be too busy for an unknown amount of time… 4 days later I got herpes.

He said “Can’t break up with me if you can’t catch me!”, threw his fancy coat at me and ran away across Green’s Park. So I either had to chase him to return the coat there and then or suffer the drawn-out break-up with the whole “you still have my coat” game plan.

So… I chased him. He kept ZIGZAGGING. All it needed was the Benny Hill music.

She broke up with me over text on my birthday. i read it three times thinking it was a joke. my roommate found me staring at the wall an hour later and said dude you good. i said yes. i was not good.

He told me completely unprompted that if I d**d he would be “kinda sad” for a few hours but then he would be over it.

I was going to law school and he was going to med school - about 4 hours away from each other. We had been together for 5 years at this point and were on track for getting married. His parents never wanted me to date him because they thought that having a girlfriend distracted him from his school. (Joke’s on them because I was a much better student (4.0 gpa) and helped him in all of his classes.)

Once he moved in to med school and I moved in to law school, he started ghosting me. Next call I get is that he’s going to come up to visit me. Turns out his dad drove him up to break up with me. His dad waited in the car while he broke up with me and then drove him back home.

Funny enough, I started dating someone else in about 2 weeks who I ended up marrying! And his parents reached out again, once seeing how successful I was, to ask if I was still interested in marrying my ex.

So while it was painful at the time, it’s probably the best thing that happened to me. I’m happily married to another very successful lawyer with an amazing child.

This definitely makes me think that a lot of things happen for a reason.

First gf of four years accepted a job out of college to teach English in Italy. Three months later I saved up enough money to visit her and on the first day she refused to kiss me or hold hands. During dinner she told me she felt like a bird trapped in a cage and informed me we would be opening the relationship. I had to spend the remainder of the vacation there, and then fly to Hawaii to spend another 10-days watching her FaceTime her new boo. She was my first love and I was naive, so I actually put up with this for several months thinking her fling wouldn’t last. Then when I pulled the plug, she told me I was making a huge mistake and threw a big fit when I gave her stuff back.

My second gf of three years cheated on me with my sister’s boyfriend. This happened several times during group hangouts. All my friends knew about it and didn’t say anything. My ex broke up with me on the premise that I was too autistic for her, and I didn’t find out until several months later that the real reason was because she cheated.

Been single since and it’s been absolutely blissful. Don’t know if I’ll ever date again.

Dated for 2 years. Went on a 2 week trip with family and they couldnt go. Right before the trip, started talking about moving in together and getting married. Everything seemed fine on the trip, texting every day, I miss you's. Etc. Day I got back they came over to "talk", said I wasn't taking things seriously, and accused me of cheating on them on the trip with zero evidence or reason to. They just "knew I did".

Was very confused and begged to give me another chance, they complied. Around the same time they moved into a new apartment with a new roommate. For 4 months I went on dates with them, was intimate, etc, picked them up from their new place, dropped them off. Looked like things were getting good and we would be back together officially in no time.

4 months in they told me out of the blue that they have a boyfriend now. Maintained a bit of friendship after that, still hung out a bit, maybe I thought I could still win them back.

Discovered about a month into that that the "roommate" was their new boyfriend. Obviously, was going on far sooner than I realized. Probably why we broke up to be honest, met them while we were still together.

For months I was picking them up at their boyfriends place, and taking them on dates, dropping them back off at their boyfriends home, thinking we were going to get back together.

Absolutely devastating.

Broke up with high school/college sweetheart two weeks before fully planned wedding.

I got her pregnant……she had an abortion….broke up with me and started dating someone else about a week later .

Not worst breakup, just most ridiculous. My high school to college boyfriend, first love or whatever you wanna call it. He had this group of friends who were all tight-knit. One summer, they all went on a camping trip. When they returned, they broke up with their girlfriends one by one. I was the last girlfriend still standing. I asked my then-boyfriend “all of your friends have broken up with their girlfriends… I’m not next am I?” And he goes “well, yeah I’ve been thinking about it..”. So he ended our multi year relationship. Then continued to be an emotional t*******t for the year+ following.

F**k you, Anthony.

After we broke up she had her friends collect her records from me. And she changed her number so I couldn't contact her. Honestly, it hurt. She didn't have to stoop so low.

Had doubts over time but were together almost 5 yrs met in high school(ugh) So i ignored the red flags for a bit.. which what were actually him acting weird since meeting several someone elses, and having a secret set of social media accounts.

It was christmas time he came over for the holiday with my family per usual, but he brought nothing… yet still gathered his gifts from us.. and left early. He didnt answer me much after then. Which was odd but I figured it could have had to do with him having his own family to deal with the day prior.

Then come NYE which also happens to be my Moms birthday, he showed up to celebrate even sent a heartfelt text to my mom. He came in, got a plate of food then last minute told me it had to be to-go since he had to be with his own family for the evening. I thought it was weird and gave him a hug goodbye anyway and figured he may fill me in later.

Well he didnt. He took that plate of food, then ignored me.. I waited for a few more days thinking something had happened and messaged to let him know i missed him but it was weird to not hear from him? No reply. Ever again. Was blocked from everything and that was it ?

Soo got real life ghosted by someone at one point I went engagement ring shopping with, experienced a miscarriage with, and lived with for a time. Its been a couple years now but that is genuinely the worst i can think of since it left me with weird unresolved s**t compared to other breakups where the person just spoke like normal.

Just as he pulled up to my house (so i could break up with him) my mum text me to let me know my nan had passed away. i burst into tears the second he walked in the door and then i had to muddle through breaking up with him.