He told me I had to wait for him to finish his 4-year apprenticeship before I was allowed to visit my very sick little brother in England. He’d only started the job 2 weeks ago.

—Mettlar

Aftermath: A week later, he asked my best friend out. Jerk!

She told me she ran 10 miles a day and she still wasn’t that thin. I knew it was all downhill when she really “let herself go.”

—Andre

Aftermath: About two more weeks.

She had a dream in which I did something to make her really angry (she couldn’t recall what). When she woke up, she couldn’t shake the feeling and remained angry for about a week.

—FRS

Aftermath: I stayed with her for a while and even months later she would bring up how bad I’d made her feel in her dream. Her rationale was I must have done something in real life to have triggered the dream in the first place.

She decided to mix my body wash with Nair.

— Matt

Aftermath: We broke up, and I currently have no hair.

I came home to find my live-in boyfriend had not only taken more than the recommended dosage of prescription pain medication for his injury, but he was selling the pills out of my house…the pills I paid for…

—Illustrated Girl

Aftermath: I left him…then sold his precious guitar…