My girlfriend of two years recently told me she wants to marry me and have kids—then suddenly stopped calling, texting or replying to me. She now has her ex-boyfriend in my position on MySpace.

—S.

Aftermath: My world feels like it’s been flipped and I lost all the ground I had. I miss her so much but she is very attractive and so she has lots of guys that want to keep her company. It’s easy for her.

My boyfriend of 3 years told me that he had his new girlfriend’s name tattooed on him after being with her for 2 months. He told me this after we had sex.

—Brittany

Aftermath: It didn’t last.

Shortly before our wedding, I was worriedly waiting up for him—he had gone to pick up a friend from the airport and five hours later, he hadn’t even called. Around 2 a.m., I got a call from the police station. He’d been pulled over for speeding, the cops had searched the car and had found random pills on him. That, turns out, he’d stolen from my dad—whom the cops made him call to assure them the pills in question were, in fact, Viagra, and not something more nefarious.

—Helena

Aftermath: We wound up getting married. Extremely dumb move on my part. Now getting divorced, 4 years later.

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.

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.