Worst Ways to Get Dumped?

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Worst Ways to Get Dumped?
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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 3:01pm

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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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 4:15pm
I think via text message is bad. It seems to get more frequent then email now a days.
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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 4:25pm

I think the worst way is when the dumper just quits calling. You just don't hear from them again with no explanation. So you just sit there and wonder.

I just had to end it with someone and used my cell phone to call him. Right when I was going into the reason the call got dropped! I felt like I was on one of those commercials for Cingular! I sat there for the longest time deciding whether to call him back or not. Ended up using my land line to call him back so it wouldn't happen again.

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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 4:32pm

Well said Emma: I think the worst way is when the dumper just quits calling. You just don't hear from them again with no explanation. So you just sit there and wonder.


ITA


~s~

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Registered: 10-07-2005
Wed, 08-08-2007 - 4:56pm

Ok, may not be the way, but certainly the reason: he found someone else.


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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 4:58pm

I definitely agree to that but I rarely get an explanation anyways. Either is horrible: anything where you don't get an explanation and you are just made to sit and wonder.

I was dating this guy Mr. History recently and he just never gave me an explanation to why he quit on us. He just one day stood me up and that was that.

He showed up on my door step last night, almost 3 weeks later. Saying he really did love me and that he was so sorry for screwing up and wanting to work it all out again. Finally, decided to explain why he did what he did, etc. I think I would have DEFINITELY understood it back then and MAYBE have given him another chance, but after all the other stuff he pulled maybe not. He really laid it all on the table for me. About the way he lied to me and how scared he became, etc.

However, I told him that it was to late to work things out anymore, the way he did what he did and his singlehood frat lifestyle was just not my cup of tea, but that I really appreciated the fact that he felt he finally had to share the "why" with me.

I think the conversation lasted me 20 minutes, but it sure helped knowing and I was able to say what I had felt as well.

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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 5:03pm
I totally agree that is awful but, I think I rather know that then not know. It hurts severly, but if it's the truth then please just say it. To me it's better then the silence and you sit around over analyzing.
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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 5:25pm

To me, I would've taken, "thanks, it's been fun, but this just isn't a match for me"...


Instead, he went into a long thing about this other woman that he had SOOOO much more in common with, including not having a child...


I didn't need to hear how much "better" someone else was.


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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 5:32pm

WOW! I agree on that one! I don't want to hear the whole great.....

But I had that experience! My X and I were separated already because of my youngest daugher, but he was also cheating on me, so I found that out a little later. When I asked him why he did it, he went on about how fantastic the sex was. And he started going into serious DETAIL about where all over OUR house he did it and what they did! Let me tell you that was just a little TMI! And you know what I did the second he left? I called the movers and had all my furniture removed and dumped. I couldn't stand the fact that my entire house including my CHILDRENS bed was used. groess, shiver.

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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 5:43pm

Ewwwwww! That's nasty! On your kids beds!!!!

AGAIN,

EWWWWWWWWW!

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Wed, 08-08-2007 - 7:00pm
Rejection is bad no matter how you look at it. Ghosting is probably the worst. I think the 2 things that make me the most discouraged are when they get back with an ex OR when they jump to conclusions over something they didn't like.

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