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Divorce papers

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:00:41 +0000

I knew it was over when his wife called me to find out where she could send the divorce papers.

—Ali

Aftermath: She and I are friends. Who knows where he is now?

ABBA and Liza

admin — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:00:48 +0000

I couldn’t believe I had found a guy who shared my appreciation of ABBA and Liza Minnelli…until he told me “I’m not straight, but don’t worry, I don’t actually want to sleep with guys.”

—Amy

Aftermath: He lost his beard that day. He still can’t understand why I won’t just look past his orientation.

Random girl

admin — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 13:00:39 +0000

He spent the night out at a “friend’s house” after ignoring my phone calls all day. He told me that he “didn’t think I’d care” that my live-in boyfriend “got drunk and passed out” at some random girl’s place.

—E

Aftermath: We broke up a month later, got back together, then broke up six months later when he decided he’d rather sleep with his graduate assistant than me.

Pre-med rapper

admin — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 13:00:43 +0000

My boyfriend was a self-proclaimed “rapper” and a medical student. He only wrote me one song in our whole relationship. On top of the crappy lyrics of this song, half way through it, he described how he cheated on me. He then posted this song on Facebook.

—Leeann

Aftermath: It was over at that point. He said he hoped we would be friends, that our children could know each other. Why would I want my kids to know someone like that?

Snorting

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 13:00:15 +0000

When I heard him snorting up in the bathroom. Later in the relationship, he got mad at me because I didn’t set up an appointment for him to start seeing a drug counselor. (He was driving freight trucks and sitting on his ass for hours waiting and doing nothing, but I was supposed to set up an appointment for him while I was at my office job. Yeah, right.)

—jhordie

Aftermath: It was way too long for me to realize he wasn’t going to give it up, but I am gladly away from that now.

Brotherly Love

admin — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 13:00:13 +0000

His stepsister sent me a video message of them having sex, with my favorite picture of me and him hanging visibly in the background.

—Christiana

Aftermath: I broke up with him the next day. He cried and told me I was only dumping him because he was black.

Hooters

admin — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:00:59 +0000

I came home during my last summer of law school and my boyfriend of five years told me he was sleeping with a Hooters girl.

—LL

Aftermath: The next day he asked me for legal advice. I guess that’s not on the menu at Hooters. We haven’t spoke since.

Roommate kiss…

admin — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 13:00:41 +0000

It was over the minute his roommate kissed me. It just took me two years of bulls*** and misery to realize it.

—BlueCanary

Aftermath: Roommate and I have been together for three years now. (He thinks it’s only been two.)

Erotic stories

admin — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:00:46 +0000

We had a steamy long distance affair for several years. He was brilliant, successful and had a fantastic sense of humor. He would phone me daily and schedule romantic trips. We both had primary partners. Mine had agreed to a polyamorous relationship; his didn’t know. I kept waiting for him to come clean with his wife but he wouldn’t. We were in the habit of writing very personal erotic stories for each other and I would spend days perfecting mine. One day, I realized that his were plagiarized.

—Kira

Aftermath: It lasted three more months. Ten years, and many affairs later, he divorced his wife just about the same time that I married a talented writer who wrote an entire book for me.

Facebook

admin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:00:04 +0000

How did I know it was over? When he FaceBook’d someone else, talking about the kisses they had shared.

—Maria

Aftermath: I’m contemplating on how I’m gonna break it to him as I type.