Worst Ways to Get Dumped?

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Worst Ways to Get Dumped?
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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 2:54pm
Remember when Carrie on Sex and the City was dumped via post-it? And you've probably heard the story about how Sylvester Stallone broke up with his girlfriend by FedEx. Seems like our modern age is providing us with increasingly, um, "convenient" (and inappropriate) ways to end a relationship... What are the worst ways to break up with somebody these days? Have a jaw-dropping break-up story of your own to share? Let's hear it!
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Registered: 05-01-2007
Wed, 08-08-2007 - 3:31pm
An email from my ex-fiance, while on deployment, saying that he was getting married!
I still shake my head whenever I think about it.

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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 3:43pm
My ex broke up with me via email as well. I had emailed him this flirty message suggesting fun things we could do on our next date and he responded by breaking up with me. When I later yelled at him about his lovely methods he said a guy friend told him it was okay to do it that way...men!
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Registered: 07-21-2004
Wed, 08-08-2007 - 10:34pm

My first boyfriend broke up with me by writing a note on the back of a piece of scrap paper he found on the ground and taping it to the window of my car with a piece of tape he also found on the ground.

And the stupid thing is, I took him BACK after that! What was WRONG with me? LOL



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Registered: 02-01-2007
Thu, 08-09-2007 - 1:10am
Well, my ex I guess "broke up" with me by ghosting. After 4 months he just stopped calling or returning my calls right around my birthday. I figure he did me a favor, what kind of coward does that. I had know him as a friend for about a year too before we dated. After a few dates I hate it when guys ghost, but this was the first time a guy had actually asked me to be his girlfriend, basically told me all I wanted to hear and then disappeared. Horrible coward! What is the point?, I almost think it's easier to date a guy you know is a jerk. It's just for fun, they are clear that they don't want anything serious so you don't get attached or think the relationship is more than it is.
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Registered: 04-07-2003
Thu, 08-09-2007 - 2:24am

I got dumped by my ex via one of his friends.

Kinda went like this:

Me: "Dude, what's with my other half? He can't stand whats-her-face, yet he's hanging all over her like a cheap suit."

Friend: "Pooh, they got engaged a couple months ago."

He never had the courtesy to tell me himself until after the wedding... when I told him off.


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Registered: 07-16-2007
Thu, 08-09-2007 - 5:50am

As far as I'm concerned, the worst possible way of breaking up with someone is doing it without actually letting them know in any way. As in, dissapear off the radar and hope she gets the message. Honestly, I'd prefer a post-it.
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Registered: 01-12-2006
Thu, 08-09-2007 - 5:11pm

I got the email too, right before Christmas. But he nicely summed up our three years together in a couple of sentences AND he wished me all the best. How nice....

I often get the "just like Carrie and the post-it note" comment...but I'm real, she's not!

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Registered: 08-11-2007
Sat, 08-11-2007 - 10:46pm
I was in a relationship in total for 2yrs with a guy. We started dating the spring of 2005 and by June he had moved in with me and my kids due to some financial difficulty. Right there I should have known, you have to have more than just a job to call yourself a grown man. During the course of the 1st year I caught this man in so many lies from how much money he gave his mom (eventhough he's living with me) to how many kids he actually had and was paying child support for. From lying about where the next contracting job was to me actually catching him in the act of deleting calls and messages from his phone and turning around and looking me dead in the face and telling me he wasn't. He was a hot mess to be 38yrs old. May of 2006, after the 1st year; him, my kids and I coming back from a wedding reception and was hit in the middle of an intersection by a boy who just turned 18 and ran the stop sign. My little Joell died he was 6yrs old. My other son suffered major injuries and so did my boyfriend. We had a grief healing period of 3-4 months after the accident. Til this day I will never be the same. We decided to make plans for a full committment in the fall and by the New Year here he was lying and acting up all over again. On Good Friday in April 2007 my dad died in a car accident on his way home. Do you know this punk after weeks and months of him sneaking,talking and seeing someone behind my back broke up with me the Tuesday after my dads funeral from that Saturday. We were having so many arguments I couldnt even grieve properly. It was April 17th and I will never forget it,and I asked him if we were still together as a couple and he being 38yrs old said to me he after alomost 2yrs being together and the terrible tragedy we shared said he dont do the boyfriend and girlfriend thing and what exactly is that. He never did have the guts to say he left me for another woman. But I'm glad he left because all he could think about was sex (eventhough he couldnt satisfy me) and both my son and dad were no longer here. Sometimes I just wanted to be held. Everything had to turn out to be not just sexual, but downright kinky. Who could feel that way at a time like that. But he was always inappropiate and he probably couldnt find the most appropiate time to break up and he didnt care as long as he got out.
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Sat, 08-11-2007 - 11:12pm

OMG... to lose one's child and then your father! God what a "dumped" story! That must have been such a sucker punch right in the gut. Talk about being kicked while you are down. It sounds like he really did you a favor for he certainly is not good partner material of course it would have been a lot more satisfying if you dumped him first.

I see integrity, to hold and being held, to hug, to care for are the basic qualities as a life partner.

I just met a woman with a similar story whose new husband divorced her after not being able to deal with her not "getting over" her grief of losing her new born daughter.

Take care,
Mark

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Registered: 08-07-2007
Sun, 08-12-2007 - 2:01am

Let's see here...I've been broken up with in a email...and over the phone....ummm, gotta love this one...in a IM over the internet (THANKS YAHOO!!!!).

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