15 Weird Breakups You Have to Read to Believe

We’ve all heard of messy breakups, but these stories take it to a whole new level. From bizarre misunderstandings to jaw-dropping betrayals, these breakup tales are so outrageous, they sound like they came straight out of a movie. Yet, every single one of them actually happened.

• I heard a story about a woman whose husband left her cause she got breast reduction done on her huge breasts that were debilitating her. The dude packed his stuff while she was in surgery without letting her know he was leaving. © OhTheHueManatee / Reddit
• The wife was sensitive to fluorescent light bulbs, but the husband kept insisting on having them to save the environment. He would change out the incandescent bulbs when she was asleep. She got sick of it and filed for divorce. © Commercial-Box-7437 / Reddit
• Two of my really good friends who everyone saw as “the perfect couple” split up. Two days later, my then-partner told me he was leaving because “it made him realize that if they could split up, anyone could, so we might as well get it over and done with now.” © Rustygurl / Reddit

• My husband told me his ex broke up with him because of how he used to squeeze the toothpaste tube. I thought that was funny. © InternationalSet8122 / Reddit
• The wife had a chronic dry eye which made her contacts uncomfortable. The husband could not handle the fact that her eyes were different colors. © rowenaravenclaw0 / Reddit
• I did work experience at a law firm and was allowed to attend court to listen to some hearings. He was divorcing her because when he criticized her food, she threw her plate at him. She was 97 and he was 98. © belladonna79 / Reddit

• Divorce: he was with her in the delivery room while she was giving birth to their first baby, after that he was grossed out by her any time he sees her, she said “he didn’t even sleep with me in the same bed anymore”, so she filed for divorce. © Unknown author / Reddit
• A guy divorced his wife because she ate his fries off his plate after he explicitly told her not to. Not cheating, not money issues, just stolen fries. © monistaa / Reddit
• Break up: my then-best friend broke up with her boyfriend because they couldn’t figure out in which house they wanted to live. They both owned houses. © Jane_Austen11 / Reddit
• I had two friends who dated and were both vegan. One of them broke up with the other because he was vegan “for the wrong reasons.” He was vegan for environmental reasons, and apparently, he should have been vegan for animal welfare. © friendsworkwaffles02 / Reddit

• My girlfriend kept complaining that after work —I come home early— I don’t clean her dishes that she leaves in the sink. I always clean after myself, but this constant demand to clean her dishes broke me, I had enough, and one day, when I came home after work, I picked up all of my things and left. © Hummusas / Reddit
• My girlfriend broke up with me because I was “too good of a guy and treated her too well.” She said she was jealous of my exes because I probably did all the same things for them that I did for her, so it wasn’t special. She told me she wanted to end it before she fell in love with me and eventually broke her heart.
  All this stemmed from me sending her flowers to her work. Not sure if she was cheating, wasn’t into me anymore, or if she just had relationship issues. © JRadically / Reddit

• My husband fell out of love with me after he got me pregnant. He started treating me completely differently, but refused to own up to it and kept insisting that he still loved me more than anything. I lost all the baby weight, worked full time — but he was always short-tempered and uninterested in me. Turns out the thing he was in love with was my utility. I paid most of our bills and did almost everything both around the house and for our daughter. I did eventually leave him, but it took a decade and him cheating 3 different times before I finally did it. © GlutenFreeNoodleArms / Reddit
• A girl broke up with me when she saw I was left-handed. © infamousCatfishOG / Reddit
• I know a woman who filed for divorce because her husband didn’t want to buy the fridge that she liked. He thought it was too expensive (he was rich).
  I mean, I’m sure there were other issues, but this was the dealbreaker. He ended up having to pay her a huge amount for a divorce settlement and for alimony too. The poor guy eventually paid for 10,000 fridges. © Antiquelaser / Reddit

Love may be unpredictable, but these stories prove that breakups can be downright surreal. Whether they made you laugh, cringe, or question humanity just a little, one thing’s for sure — reality can be stranger than fiction.