If you say your pregnancy was also super chill or no big deal, I am afraid I must now hate you for eternity.

Omg how dare someone admit that they feel shallow but have an opinion anyway! Burn the witch, amirite...

Good point!

Truly, that is not something to get mad at someone about. She didn’t say he was a horrible human being.

Legitimate line of thinking, I appreciate that (wasn’t entirely being snarky in my last post, although I know it came across that way). I think my biggest issue with your comment is that, to me, it implied she didn’t have a right to now find him unattractive, as personal preferences change. I don’t think that’s really…

I'm kind of surprised some people are mad that you don't find someone attractive anymore. You don't have to find him good looking, they can still consider him attractive. Not worth getting butthurt about! Geez!

I wonder how you define “narrow standards of attractiveness.”

Maybe you weren’t a preteen when he was a handsome young prince, as I was. But I did get a chuckle at the suggestion that my standards are narrow because a blue-eyed, blond white man no longer fits them, so thanks for that.

These people are like outspoken atheists and PETA - I agree with them in theory, but in practice, they’re such fucking killjoys.

Oh God, yes. I have been reading through these stories thinking “You mean everyone else didn’t just devolve into a sad sack of tears and hibernate for a few months? It’s just me?”

I won’t bother you with the years of shit I put up with from this asshole - mainly because I’m so embarrassed and also hand problems, can’t type that much - but an example: birth control failed (all my responsibility, natch). Takes me to get the very much wanted right now yes please abortion ... and leaves me there…

Oh! This isn’t like a break up story but I stopped hanging out with my bff because he was into me like that and became pretty possessive.

The asshole cheated and then broke up with me before I could dump him. And I was very angry so I called him a few weeks later and said I was pregnant. I let him stew for a week and then told him I needed $500 for an abortion. He paid and I took my best friend on a road trip and had the best damn time EVER

That sounds terrifying, actually.

I was kind of seeing this guy for a while. I liked him a lot. We were in our twenties. He was an artsy weirdo musican type, and had been living with an older hippie chick who had two kids. They had recently broken up, and he didn’t have a specific place to live. He was moving out of their place but didn’t know where.…

Tried to stay friends.

Broke up with boyfriend of 3 years over the phone (LDR) because I couldn’t let him spend thousands of dollars on a vacation for us when I knew I didn’t want to be with him anymore. Proceeded to get black out drunk at a dive bar with my two best friends - and I mean DIVE bar. Like the lights were harsh, the bartenders…

I was going through a very ugly divorce. My husband cheated multiple times and eventually moved out. While this was going on, I had to change the locks on the doors to my house due to a burglary, and didn’t tell him. One day, he stopped by to get something from the house and couldn’t get in. He flew into a rage and…

after getting dumped in high school, i came home in tears and announced that i was going to slash his tires. i dramatically asked my mom where the box cutter was and she gave me a big hug and said “no, sweetie. what you want is a hammer and a screw driver.”

This was during the “pack your shit and get THE FUCK OUT OF HERE” part, but he was threatening to kill himself.