Advice from someone else – take your current age (35) and your life expectancy (40+), do you want to live with this woman and her controlling style and verbal abuse for that many more years?
— Peter
Aftermath: I left that marriage after 11 years and two children. I am now happily married and a grandfather. She is still single and bitter for 23 years.
After sex, he proceeded to say “You’re the type of girl a guy marries,” plus additional pillow talk, and then showed me all of his best friends on Facebook. It was the second time we’d slept together and we were friends with benefits.
—CT
Aftermath: A week later, he called to say I was emotionally detached and not being in a relationship was corrupting his soul and that this wouldn’t work. I’m still wondering what “this” was exactly.
He asked me if I wanted to lick on his danglers while another guy rammed him in his backside (NOT the words he used!).
—EssCee
Aftermath: HIV test.
I had just arrived to pick her up for our first date when her little boy ran over to me and said, “My mom says you are going to be my next dad.” Yes, he said, “Next.” We went out that night and never again.
—Dace
Aftermath: I ran into her a year or so later and found out she had gotten married but was getting a divorce, after only a year. Her kid’s new daddy number 4.
We were each other’s first loves. Completely inseparable, we got together when I was 15, and stayed together for 3.3 years, even surviving several months of being in separate cities when I moved away for university. However, he stopped making effort, considered an hour to be “long distance” and he never listened anymore. So I ended it.
—Hannah
Aftermath: He is now with one of my best friends, and I don’t speak to either of them anymore. However, before they got together, I totally upgraded, and what I thought would be merely a fling has blossomed into an amazing relationship that is ironically what I would call real long distance—I am English and my boyfriend is Canadian. We met at university while he was here for the year and I couldn’t be happier with him. He is perfect for me and far exceeds my ex in EVERY way.
