Advice from someone else – take your current age (35) and your life expectancy (40+), do you want to live with this woman and her controlling style and verbal abuse for that many more years?

— Peter

Aftermath: I left that marriage after 11 years and two children. I am now happily married and a grandfather. She is still single and bitter for 23 years.

After sex, he proceeded to say “You’re the type of girl a guy marries,” plus additional pillow talk, and then showed me all of his best friends on Facebook. It was the second time we’d slept together and we were friends with benefits.

—CT

Aftermath: A week later, he called to say I was emotionally detached and not being in a relationship was corrupting his soul and that this wouldn’t work. I’m still wondering what “this” was exactly.

We were each other’s first loves. Completely inseparable, we got together when I was 15, and stayed together for 3.3 years, even surviving several months of being in separate cities when I moved away for university. However, he stopped making effort, considered an hour to be “long distance” and he never listened anymore. So I ended it.

—Hannah

Aftermath: He is now with one of my best friends, and I don’t speak to either of them anymore. However, before they got together, I totally upgraded, and what I thought would be merely a fling has blossomed into an amazing relationship that is ironically what I would call real long distance—I am English and my boyfriend is Canadian. We met at university while he was here for the year and I couldn’t be happier with him. He is perfect for me and far exceeds my ex in EVERY way.

After several months of an amazing relationship, she moved home, a state away. I treated her like an angel and she was awesome. She visited home a few times and the last time she came back, it was over. We were makin’ out in bed and she stops and said, “You’re not gonna like me anymore.”
“Why?” I asked.
She said, “I’m moving.”

—Justin

Aftermath: She moved 2 weeks later and it was over. We are still friends but it’s hard kuz I love her.

My boyfriend and his best friend bought the same “banana hammocks” and thought it was “normal” to wear them together at a fraternity party. Did I mention they were roommates?

—Heather

Aftermath: I later found out that he became bisexual with that roommate and now has a fat girlfriend who LOOKS like a man.