I went out with this guy I really liked a few times. Things escalated. Guy disappeared because of work. Two months later he tells me how I’m hot and a very cool girl but he has to “weed out the bad ones to find the good ones.” Ugh. Apparently I’m just a hot weed.

— MJ

Aftermath: Apparently said guy is still single. Too many weeds in this world. I guess he’s looking for a flower but a wilted one…

Dating after a divorce with two kids can be a challenge, so when I found a guy I really vibed with I was excited. After a month of laughing, dancing and all-out fun together I talked to him about possibly meeting my girls for the first time. He told me he didn’t think he could do the “kid thing.”

— Proud Mom

Aftermath: Now happily married to a man who loves my girls like they are his own!

Sex was never high on her priority list, and frankly she wasn’t very good at it despite being quite easy on the eyes. I knew it wasn’t going to work when we went on a vacation to the Bahamas to a real nice resort, very romantic, and not once would she have sex with me. She could never tell me why either.

— mitmouse

Aftermath: We saw a counselor for 1-1/2 years and never got anywhere with the lack of sex issue. Too bad, I really loved her and tried everything to make it work. I still think of her now and again.

It was either receiving £40 worth of computer game vouchers (when I don’t own any consoles) for my 18th birthday or when I realized I hated his sense of humor. Nearly three years I wasted on him.

— Shorsha

Aftermath: We broke up. I moved away to university and met funnier and nicer people.

Things went well for a few months but in the last month or so, I was starting to feel like I couldn’t be myself.  I loved this man, so I had no intention ending it, I just wanted to improve our relationship. So immediately after I told him, he looks at me, takes off his glasses and says “I don’t think I ever loved you.”

— Jaded

Aftermath: He told random people that are regulars at my work about the intimate details of our relationship which one person recounted to their partner, while I served them. My ex called me to apologize and wanted to meet up but I cut him out of my life.