My boyfriend suspected I was thinking of breaking up with him, so one night he snuck off the condom without saying anything. I noticed and asked why he did that. He said, “so I can give you something you can’t give back,” i.e. a pregnancy. I stopped everything, broke up the next morning.

— Sally

Aftermath: That’s the last time I date a Catholic.

He told me a week before Christmas, and 5 months after our 2nd daughter was born, that he didn’t want to be married anymore, sans explanation. By New Year’s I had my own place, and he had knocked up his new girlfriend.

— apdumped

Aftermath: His girlfriend left him. He tried getting me back and even wanted me to move 100 miles away to his new house he couldn’t afford since she left. I’m now living with someone else.

I was his soul mate but he couldn’t leave because his daughter was melting down. He and his wife weren’t sleeping in the same bed. His wife was a control freak and he didn’t love her.

— Amy

Aftermath: My best friend was on the phone with him and he slipped and said his therapist said he was too stressed out to make a decision. I made the decision for him!

For our one year anniversary, my boyfriend bought take-out Chinese over to my house. He was already drunk. After eating, and him spilling rice everywhere, he looked at me with a blank look and said, “I think you should clean up, since I bought it.” He then passed out on my couch for an hour before leaving for the bar, without me.

— Rachel

Aftermath: Words cannot describe my relief at being done with this one.

During a heated argument I pushed him and he pushed me back. He called 911 and the police came. I was so angry I argued with the police and they took me away for being uncooperative. I spent three days in jail until my brother (an attorney) bailed me out. When I came home my dad was there from out of state. He wanted to surprise me. Bad timing.

— EB

Afermath: Dumped him. Twenty years later I’m still in love with a man his complete opposite and we have five children.