He told me that he’s too busy for a girlfriend and all my “needs”. I can stick around and he will support me financially but not to expect much else for at least the next couple years until he gets his business running smoothly.

—ApparentlyARoommate

Aftermath: Still trying to figure out how to extradite myself. I work in one of his businesses. Leaving him means being homeless AND jobless.

He hated my cat. My cat hated him.

After a few months of them fighting for dominance, he tossed my cat out one night. The next morning he found a steaming pile on the driver seat in his car.

—M

Aftermath: Cat was there first.

We were at a bar with friends. A young, attractive French man was showing interest in me. Later that night, when I asked my boyfriend if the incident made him jealous, he looked me in the eyes, and, with all seriousness replied, “No.”

—Jennie

Aftermath: Hint taken. Thanks for being blunt.

It should have been over when he sent me a text informing me that he’d been lying to me for a month about who he was – his name, everything. Being a forgiving person, I chose to look past it for his honesty, only to be dumped 2 days before Valentine’s Day because we’d “grown apart.”

—Squishy

Aftermath: The same night he dumped me, he called me because I hadn’t tried to contact him after, and said he missed me and that he can’t not talk to me. CHECK. MATE.

I was married for about 4 years and just had a child. My wife was crying about how she felt that she wasn’t a good mom. This went on a whole week, and then Friday came along and she asked if I would stay home with the kids while she went drinking. It was 1 in the morning, and when I didn’t get a call back, I was done.

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Aftermath: We fought the next few months and she kept asking if I wanted a divorce…On New Year’s Eve , I finally said, “YEP!” She only sees our child every other weekend – if it fits in to her busy schedule. What a New Year’s resolution, and I’ve never been happier!