We’d been best friends for nearly 13 years. We touched, rarely kissed, never had sex. I finally said she needed to make a choice. She left her husband after he said he only loved her and their youngest son because he was supposed to.

She stayed 18 days. Her husband turned into a decent person – she had to give him another chance. But once she left me, I don’t give second chances.

—eridanis

Aftermath: and here she’s acting happy….but I am living real.

I’m not a religious person, but I never intend to hurt and kill anyone. This guy I knew for a few months told me one day that he had two women terminate their pregnancies.

—Ahimsa

Aftermath: It’s his Karma. I wanted nothing to do with him.

I sometimes fantasized about other men. He looked at porn online. In our late 30’s, we had sex once a month on average for the last five years of our union. During the almost twenty years we were together, I was sexually satisfied fewer times than I can count on my fingers.

—Not The One

Aftermath: He blurted out, “You’re not The One.” We’re now divorced.

We were having dinner at a restaurant the night my sister was flying in for an internship. He asked me what airline she was flying, and I replied, AA. He joked, “Well it’s probably going to fly into a building then.” I stared at him and bursted out into tears because I hadn’t heard back from her yet, and even the thought of that happening scared the shit out of me.

—Jane

Aftermath: He apologized for upsetting me, but not for the joke. He said I need to get a sense of humor.

She told me I loaded the dish washer wrong and was going to have to re-teach me everything my mother had ever taught me.

—So Long STL

Aftermath: Packed up a U-Haul and bounced back to the East Coast.