It Was Over When: Tales of Romantic Dead Ends

Culture Shock

tdomf_feb82 — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 13:00:17 +0000

He started making plans for a joint vacation (after only four days of knowing each other) to New York’s Chinatown because he wanted “to learn more about my culture.” I’m Korean.

—anem0ne

Aftermath: He was a very clingy, sticky rice queen, so it wasn’t too difficult quitting him.

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I’m Fine, Thank You

tdomf_feb82 — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:00:18 +0000

I called to tell her I was in a wreck and the car was totalled.

— Jim

Aftermath: She replied “great now what are we gonna do” instead of Are YOU OKAY?

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Face-to-Face

tdomf_feb82 — Thu, 30 May 2013 13:00:30 +0000

She told me she was spending the weekend at the beach with a guy she met on an Internet video game to “figure out how I feel about him, face-to-face.”

—Derrick

Aftermath: She ended up with another guy she met on the same video game.

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Talk Dirty to Me

tdomf_feb82 — Wed, 29 May 2013 13:00:43 +0000

We went on two dates. After the second one, on public transit heading to our respective homes, he tried to convince me to go home with him. I wasn’t sure I liked him all that much, so I said no. He then proceeded to talk dirty to me the last few stops. We had barely even kissed. Ew.

—j

Aftermath: I stopped answering the phone for a few days, so I don’t know if he called.

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Spice Girls Surprise

tdomf_feb82 — Tue, 28 May 2013 13:00:58 +0000

My boyfriend & I moved in together, and one night I came home late after work. The lights were on, music was blaring. I opened the bedroom door and found my boyfriend drunk and smoking in my neon pink bra and panties. He was singing his heart out to the Spice Girls!

—Lindsay

Aftermath: I pulled out my camera out of my purse & our relationship was over in a snap & a flash. After I dated him, I became a lesbian. So just remember life is full of surprises—just like the look on his face when I opened the door and just happened to have a camera in my purse.

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Cheap-o

tdomf_feb82 — Mon, 27 May 2013 13:00:09 +0000

We had been dating for a year and a half and he gave me $20 in a card for Christmas.

—Lauren

Aftermath: Pretty sure he is seeing someone else. If I’m only worth $20, I’d hate to see what she gets.

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Vibrating Pen

tdomf_feb82 — Sun, 26 May 2013 13:00:32 +0000

We had been dating off and on for a year, and he was moving to a different state. To say good-bye, he showed up at my work with a present: A vibrating pen that made squiggly lines that he stole from his niece. He told me to think of him every time I “used” it… as a sex toy.

—Nicole

Aftermath: Let’s just say it was VERY easy to get over him. And I threw the pen in the trash as soon as he left!

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Pixel Girlfriend

tdomf_feb82 — Sat, 25 May 2013 13:00:34 +0000

Over our year-long relationship, we played video games together all the time, which was fine. The problem came when he canceled our actual in-person dates so we could play online from our respective homes. I realized he liked my video game character more than me.

—Nicole

Aftermath: A month later, he told me he could “never really love me.”

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Bailout

tdomf_feb82 — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:00:45 +0000

I hadn’t heard from him in a couple of days so I checked his Facebook page. There I saw that his sister had posted a request to borrow $2,500 for three weeks to get him out of jail. Nobody in their family could help him.

—Susie

Aftermath: If they can’t help him, I am not going to.

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Saw This One Coming

tdomf_feb82 — Thu, 23 May 2013 13:00:46 +0000

Met cute boy. Had sex with cute boy. A lot of sex. For a full year, had sex with said boy. Didn’t have much of anything outside of the bed play and dirty texts. I knew it was over when he left his current girlfriend of three years for his best (girl) friend from high school…although she left her husband because she has mental problems.

—Nadine

Aftermath: Turns out she really is psychotic and keeps a tight leash on him. They now have a baby girl. Isn’t that sweet?

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