13 Break Up Stories That Prove Exes Can Be a Real Disaster

Breaking up is never completely comfortable, but some breakups are especially intense and filled with drama. When a relationship ends this way, it can leave both people with strong emotions and memories that are hard to forget.

• My ex-girlfriend thought that I cheated because I smelled like a woman. I let her break up with me. I didn’t know how to explain to her that I use a cucumber melon body wash. © donte5O2 / X

• I came home from a work trip and found a pair of women’s panties in my bed. They weren’t mine. Instead of confronting my husband, I washed them and wore them. When he came home, I said, “Look baby, I finally found those panties I lost years ago!”
  I saw the fear in his eyes when I started to serve him dinner and looked him straight in the eyes, saying, “I made your favorite dish, lasagna! Promise me that you’ll finish it all.” He didn’t eat it, claiming he had a stomachache.
  For the next month, I was the perfect wife. I kept the house clean and made his favorite dishes. I was also extra sweet and kept smiling wildly. However, I made sure to watch a lot of true-crime series and read crime novels.
  My husband became paranoid and started to lose sleep. He couldn’t handle it much longer and eventually confessed that he cheated, saying it was a one-time thing. Needless to say, I kicked him out of the house and sent him the divorce papers.

• After regular begging for me to come back didn’t work, she kept texting me “I have something I need to tell you” and implying that she was pregnant but not actually coming right out and saying what she “needed to tell me.” I refused to meet her alone again, because I didn’t trust her at all. I told her to either text me or call me and come right out and say what she had to say. She never did. She apparently wasn’t pregnant so I assumed it was a last-ditch ploy to get me back. © oldatheart515 / Reddit

• After 5 years, 2 of them engaged, she said “I don’t love you and never did. I don’t want to marry you and never will. But you can still drive up here on the weekends to take me out.” © billdogg7246 / Reddit

• I was pregnant, and he wouldn’t get a job, help around the house, or support me at all. On Valentine’s Day, I came home from work early but had to run to my parents’ house for something. We lived 10 minutes apart, so I would have been gone for 30 minutes at most.
  He threw a huge fit about us never spending time together and how I was always at my parents’ house. I was over it and just walked out. He went to his mom’s that night, and I packed up all my stuff in one trip and moved back in with my parents.
  He has met his daughter twice in three years and hasn’t paid child support in months. I haven’t heard a word from him in almost a year. None of his family has ever met my daughter or even expressed interest in wanting to meet her. © bordermelancollie09 / Reddit

• The day I went to break up with him, he ’suddenly’ went blind. I brought him to the hospital, and we were there all day. They said they couldn’t find any reason for him to be blind.
  I had said in the past that if he went blind, I wouldn’t leave him, so I speculate that’s why he came up with this plan. He played racing games while blind. He biked to the store while blind, in a big city. He kept this up for a few years before miraculously being able to see again. © Frilledmeg / Reddit

We were married. She wanted divorce. After she got it she wanted time together. I said no. She called me in a hysterical fit wanting to NOW go to counseling and try again. I said no again. In the end we remain diplomatic (text once or twice a year) but man that was a confusing and difficult time. © crankyoldb***ard / Reddit

• College boyfriend. He acted like we were still dating and showed up at my parents house for Christmas with his parents and grandparents from out of town in tow (they stayed in a hotel but said there was no room for him in the hotel so he had to stay at my house!?) Made for a very awkward Christmas.
  My parents felt bad for him because his parents were terrible and we let him stay for the night. I kicked off Christmas morning by breaking up with him again (the 5 attempts prior hadn’t stuck). My family exchanged gifts with each other as he sat on the couch watching us and waiting for his family to come get him. It took 10 tries for me to successfully break up with him. © Accomplished-War474 / Reddit

• We were together for six years. She cheated, and I caught her. She stormed off, and after a few weeks, asked to come back to pack up her things. She requested that I not be there. I obliged and stayed at a friend’s overnight.
  She stole everything and fled the country. She even took the curtains and the food in the cabinets. The only things left behind were my clothes, left in a pile on the floor. © Itstotallysafe / Reddit

• My ex gave away my dog on Craigslist, so I couldn’t find her. I had two dogs. She claimed one ran away and that she gave the other away on Craigslist. I never found either of them.
  It’s been over ten years, and I still check the humane society for both. © feochampas / Reddit

• She said she was pregnant and sent me a positive test. I searched for positive pregnancy test results on Google Images, and it was the first one to pop up. © SpaceShipET / Reddit

• She started stalking me outside my apartment and following me. Once I confirmed it was her, I called and told her in no uncertain terms that I considered her a threat and would take whatever measures necessary to maintain my safety. She, of course, denied everything but did stop stalking me. © ancrm114d / Reddit

• My long-term ex went on a date with her co-worker 4 days after I left. She was in a new relationship within weeks of me leaving. She also stole half of my student loan money, which I justified at the time by thinking she needed it to start over too (I didn’t know about the new relationship).
  I found out later that the whole time we owned a house together, she was seeing this person. © Unknown author / Reddit

Sometimes, a relationship with an ex can stay friendly and comfortable, and you might even become good friends. But other breakups are hard to understand. Whether it’s the reason for the breakup or strange coincidences, some endings just don’t make sense and leave us puzzled.