Broken? No. Deprived of oxygen due to a clogged artery? Also no, but that one is pretty much bound to happen. Based on family history, it won’t kill me, though.
Once was enough. She came up over dinner tonight (and not in a Hannibal Lecktor way) when the topic turned to shoeboxes in our closets full of returned love letters. Yeah…high school was pretty tough on ol’ Uncle Vinny, when he was just a young pup…
I did the heart breaking once, and it broke my heart in the process. But, it just wasn’t a good relationship (we seemed happy together and got along just fine, but I finally realized that I wasn’t happy). And I thought I was going to marry that girl too.
But, somehow I realized I wasn’t happy even though I thought I was and broke it off, as a surprise to both of us.
I think she would have pressured me into staying my course to be a high school teacher, which I’ve realized that I would hate life if I was one. Luckily my wife was super supportive to help me get a masters degree and now I’m doing something that I love.
Now that it’s been years later, I can look back and clearly see that it was for the best. I have an amazing wife and two super cute young children.
@drinkaffeine You’re welcome. Hope to get out? I haven’t told many people the details, so it’s easy to share online.
I look back to that decision often and think about how much it’s changed my life for the better. It sucked at the time, but I’m so much better off. Luckily I hadn’t taken the next step to get engaged yet to her, so that made things much easier.
In 6th grade this guy asked me to be his girlfriend around May. We would go bike riding every weekend til June then every few days in the summer, often stopping at a ice cream shop or McD for a treat. We never kissed or anything further. Then suddenly around late July he broke up with me out of the blue and without much explanation.
When I got back to school in the Fall, one of his friends explained to me his girlfriend had broken up with him and he wanted to make her jealous so apparently our bike rides ALWAYS passed her house at some point (and by the way I was not all that attractive, maybe a 7?). Between that and whatever else he did, she took him back, thus the sudden dumping.
I was hurt more because I realized how naive I was and that a 13 year old boy could already be so manipulative, not so much about him specifically.
@RiotDemon given he was a relative gentleman: didn’t try to get in my pants, bought treats, was nice to talk to, i consider it not terrible. More just unfortunate i had to learn how gullible i was (and probably still am given I’ve only dated 5 guys total, still married to guy #5 who i met in 10th grade over 30 yrs ago). It was more odd than heartbreak. I’ve never been heartbroken, I know that is much worse than what I dealt with.
I’ve had my heart broken several times. The worst was my ex, because not only did he break my heart, he continued to stomp on all the pieces until there wasn’t much left. My stupid ass stayed with him until I really didn’t care about anything anymore. Once I started talking to someone else and had some feelings for them, I finally realized that I didn’t love him anymore and was able to break it off.
There was two breakups that bothered me in a different way. The guys just disappeared off the face of the earth shortly after the breakup. Out of curiosities sake, I’ve tried finding them on the internet, and it’s almost as if they never existed.
I hope that from now on, anytime someone doesn’t treat you well, and any time you notice you are really dissatisfied or feel something isn’t right, you pay attention to those indications, try to negotiate it or fix it if it’s worth it, and value your independence.
Twice, both times were very much for the best, though it’s hard to see that in the moment. We weren’t well suited. Have been married for 17 years and happy as can be(with him) because I learned from those mistakes.
There’s a long story behind my heart breaker that I can’t type on an iPad. Suffice it to say that my ex-girlfriend is married to my wife’s ex-boyfriend. But everyone ended up happy. My wife and I will celebrate our 25th anniversary in July. Last I heard, they were still married too.
All those times I waited up for the Fuko that never came…
So many evenings at 11pm CT when I see what Meh is offering for sale.
/giphy “oh no!”
Broken? No. Deprived of oxygen due to a clogged artery? Also no, but that one is pretty much bound to happen. Based on family history, it won’t kill me, though.
Thanks for the reminder on a Friday night
Once was enough. She came up over dinner tonight (and not in a Hannibal Lecktor way) when the topic turned to shoeboxes in our closets full of returned love letters. Yeah…high school was pretty tough on ol’ Uncle Vinny, when he was just a young pup…
I did the heart breaking once, and it broke my heart in the process. But, it just wasn’t a good relationship (we seemed happy together and got along just fine, but I finally realized that I wasn’t happy). And I thought I was going to marry that girl too.
But, somehow I realized I wasn’t happy even though I thought I was and broke it off, as a surprise to both of us.
I think she would have pressured me into staying my course to be a high school teacher, which I’ve realized that I would hate life if I was one. Luckily my wife was super supportive to help me get a masters degree and now I’m doing something that I love.
Now that it’s been years later, I can look back and clearly see that it was for the best. I have an amazing wife and two super cute young children.
@luvche21
This gives me hope. Thank you for sharing.
@drinkaffeine You’re welcome. Hope to get out? I haven’t told many people the details, so it’s easy to share online.
I look back to that decision often and think about how much it’s changed my life for the better. It sucked at the time, but I’m so much better off. Luckily I hadn’t taken the next step to get engaged yet to her, so that made things much easier.
I have 2 ex-girlfriends and 1 ex-wife…
So, twice.
In 6th grade this guy asked me to be his girlfriend around May. We would go bike riding every weekend til June then every few days in the summer, often stopping at a ice cream shop or McD for a treat. We never kissed or anything further. Then suddenly around late July he broke up with me out of the blue and without much explanation.
When I got back to school in the Fall, one of his friends explained to me his girlfriend had broken up with him and he wanted to make her jealous so apparently our bike rides ALWAYS passed her house at some point (and by the way I was not all that attractive, maybe a 7?). Between that and whatever else he did, she took him back, thus the sudden dumping.
I was hurt more because I realized how naive I was and that a 13 year old boy could already be so manipulative, not so much about him specifically.
@mollama wow. That’s terrible.
@RiotDemon given he was a relative gentleman: didn’t try to get in my pants, bought treats, was nice to talk to, i consider it not terrible. More just unfortunate i had to learn how gullible i was (and probably still am given I’ve only dated 5 guys total, still married to guy #5 who i met in 10th grade over 30 yrs ago). It was more odd than heartbreak. I’ve never been heartbroken, I know that is much worse than what I dealt with.
I’ve had my heart broken several times. The worst was my ex, because not only did he break my heart, he continued to stomp on all the pieces until there wasn’t much left. My stupid ass stayed with him until I really didn’t care about anything anymore. Once I started talking to someone else and had some feelings for them, I finally realized that I didn’t love him anymore and was able to break it off.
There was two breakups that bothered me in a different way. The guys just disappeared off the face of the earth shortly after the breakup. Out of curiosities sake, I’ve tried finding them on the internet, and it’s almost as if they never existed.
@RiotDemon
I hope that from now on, anytime someone doesn’t treat you well, and any time you notice you are really dissatisfied or feel something isn’t right, you pay attention to those indications, try to negotiate it or fix it if it’s worth it, and value your independence.
Please don’t let anyone stomp on you ever again
@RiotDemon Keep up the plausibile deniability. I doubt the bodies will ever surface.
@mfladd shhhhhh
@mfladd @RiotDemon
I like @mfladd’s philosophy here.
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goto :
Or more efficiently…
life:
Or for all the youngsters…
while (life)
Well, mehdown parsed my code, so… like my life, that didn’t quite work as planned.
Twice, both times were very much for the best, though it’s hard to see that in the moment. We weren’t well suited. Have been married for 17 years and happy as can be(with him) because I learned from those mistakes.
Divorced now husband never could stop cheating
@Urethamichael i hear ya.
A life without suffering is a life without meaning
@karamazovsdevil
So relieved to hear that.
There’s a long story behind my heart breaker that I can’t type on an iPad. Suffice it to say that my ex-girlfriend is married to my wife’s ex-boyfriend. But everyone ended up happy. My wife and I will celebrate our 25th anniversary in July. Last I heard, they were still married too.