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What is the wankiest thing you’ve seen your ex do?

933 replies

Magpiesinthegarden · 03/06/2026 13:51

That made you think - what a knob! And that you are well rid of them!

lighthearted thread -

I’ll go first -

Recently my ex changed his profile picture to this wanky AI generated image of him in the middle with a halo and two angels either side… he actually gave himself a halo 🤣 What a knobhead! Like he was Jesus 😳(He was a massive narcissist. My ex. Not Jesus)

What are the wankiest things your ex has ever done?

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kkloo · 03/06/2026 20:45

Ashamedmuch · 03/06/2026 19:50

It was horrible for the kids as it literally came up on the infotainment screen in the car. One of my kids took a picture of it and showed me.

Poor kids 😢

liamharha · 03/06/2026 20:43

SeeYouLaterAlligator1 · 03/06/2026 20:04

What a rat..

Rats too kind for him 🫣😭 he was a lesson well learnt in what I'll never accept again .

ComfyKnickers · 03/06/2026 20:41

This was back in the 1990s.

My ex went on a lads holiday to Magaluf not long after we had split up. When he got back he came round to my house to show me the holiday photos and to see if I would like copies of any.

Um no, you''re OK thanks.

He accused he of having no sentimental feelings about him. He was right.

Twat.

Ap42 · 03/06/2026 20:40

Taking the dressing gown off our 5 year old's back in the middle of winter 2 days after he was discharged from hospital with pneumonia. The reason... he paid for it! We had separated a few months before for nasty stunts such as that one.

Catladywithacat · 03/06/2026 20:39

Not my ex but a guy I was seeing and stopped seeing after this.
was around him 5/6 months before he started moaning about his child’s mum, first he didn’t want the baby, then it was petty things saying he wanted to get the £20 he sent her because she was rude to him and asked her to transfer it back, she is someone with other children and told him she is struggling and he earned 4k month. Anytime he would have an argument with her it was “I don’t want child anyway I have my other child with a mum I get along with” and he was only giving this woman £30 a week and still moaned about jt

Delladuck · 03/06/2026 20:29

Esmeraldathe3rd · 03/06/2026 14:37

Sent me a screenshot of him chatting up a woman who was dressed as a baby, in a nappy with a dummy. While we had a baby together.

Gave DS birthday presents and then took them back off him because mummy wouldn't let him keep them.

My ex would take the kids out shopping,point out random but expensive toys and get them all excited about having them

Then he'd say 'mummy will buy it for you' knowing full well,I was scraping my purse to buy basics while he walked about with 10k cash (as explained somewhere in this thread) from his drug dealing

I'd then have to be the bad guy for saying no

He wonders why they dont want to know him as adults

Gonners · 03/06/2026 20:26

I have an amusing ex-wife story ... not me, but my partner's ex-wife. Is this allowed here?

sueelleker · 03/06/2026 20:26

ThatCyanCat · 03/06/2026 16:06

Your dad is 12 kinds of awesome.

Are you sure it was an accident?😊

Tunnocks34 · 03/06/2026 20:24

Omg I just remembered another one. Family BBQ - everyone outside, grandparents, aunts, uncles. A wasp lands on the rim of a can of coke (que flinching from me) he says proudly to my family ‘I can sort it don’t worry they call me the wasp whisperer as home’ grabs the wasp, gets stung and proceeds to spend 30 minutes inside with his hand under the tap

AbzMoz · 03/06/2026 20:17

👏 👏 👏
don’t have my own story to tell but just wanted to thank @Magpiesinthegarden for an inspired OP and thank everyone for sharing / congratulate on surviving!

SunshineOnIslington · 03/06/2026 20:14

Ohhhhhh I forgot the best one - he only takes his bits on the side out of town for dates, etc. because he cannot go into our town centre because people recognise him and want to talk to him as he's an ex-pro footballer.... aka he played about six times for our small-town team back in the 1990s when they were in the old Division 3. Deluded!

OhMyGoodieAunts · 03/06/2026 20:13

CalliopeFosterBeauchamp · 03/06/2026 19:25

OMG, this reminded me of the twat I dated in my twenties. He sent me an email literally fifteen years after we broke up WITH NO CONTACT AT ALL, to tell me he was sitting on a sand dune watching the sunset and he was getting married the next day. I was like “sorry, who is this?”

That’s so weird.

frozendaisy · 03/06/2026 20:13

What I like most about the as yet undiscovered musicians (I haven't dated one but knew one before they moved) is their absolute conviction that they should be treated as musical royalty before this is confirmed by, well anything else.

Beautiful

frozendaisy · 03/06/2026 20:11

There are so many failed music dreams out there

And a bizarre ownership of light bulbs seemingly

OneDaringAquaHare · 03/06/2026 20:09

This guy was another of those man child types. Still lived at home and his mum did his washing…

Anyway I’m pretty introverted and he told me ‘all that will have to change’ when he becomes a famous musician.

Last heard he’s still stacking shelves at Asda…

DierdreDaphne · 03/06/2026 20:09

TheWisePanda · 03/06/2026 16:53

You’ve just reminded me of my SIL’s ex boyfriend who got his guitar out and started singing oasis songs at the dining table…whilst we were having Christmas dinner…with all the kids, grandparents etc… he was 45 at the time. Total cockwomble.

This is so cringe it's magical!!

SeeYouLaterAlligator1 · 03/06/2026 20:04

liamharha · 03/06/2026 19:48

13 years , 3 kids and one on the way when he decided he didn't love me any more 🫣 he neglected to tell me he loved someone else until a week later when texted me messages clearly meant for her 🙄,16 years on me and the woman he left me for have both moved on whilst he posts victim posts on SM whilst having nothing to do with his grown children . His loss .

What a rat..

PickledMuffin · 03/06/2026 20:01

Wankiest 🤣🤣🤣🤣 love it!

Mapletree1985 · 03/06/2026 20:01

YourOnMute · 03/06/2026 17:51

You'd think so, but I have no "proof" (I'm 100% sure it has happened going by SM). It's not a crime unless he marries here, tries to register it here etc. I don't know his current location. And something that never fails to amaze me is that authorities don't seem all that much bothered - also by the fact that he's evading maintenance!

Oh yes - the ex whose thought his compulsive honesty had held him back in his career also married another woman, in a different country, while he was still married to me!

Tunnocks34 · 03/06/2026 20:01

So my ex is/was a friend of my husband. Sort of. We were all in a ‘group’, and worked together in our early 20s. We didn’t have a particularly nasty split, mainly because it wasn’t a serious relationship.

Anyway, my husband and I got pregnant off a friends with benefit type situation. When our first son was born, my ex wrote a poem to our new son with the premise being about making sure you keep hold of the woman that you love and don’t take her for granted because she will move on and you’ll forever regret it.

somethingnewandexciting · 03/06/2026 19:56

Ex deliberately avoided paying child maintenance for 14 years, his new wife left him and suddenly he decided to make contact after leaving the country. DD was bombarded with messages that he had always wanted to know her, loved her more than life itself and I was evil and had thwarted him, telling her I had mental issues and worse. 2 years on and he is still messaging her nasty things about me which she rolls her eyes at and shows me and we have a good laugh about. The latest is his sudden burning desire to help with her "schooling" just as she is finishing and he appears to suddenly know about every subject she is predicted A's in. Doubtless he will try to take credit despite having met her 4 times in her adult life and she has blocked him on all devices because he is a fruit loop

FlatCatYellowMat · 03/06/2026 19:54

Broke up during covid. He went to Dubai where there wasn't really a lockdown and would occasionally send the kids messages about the cool things he was seeing and doing, whilst they were stuck at home doing virtual school and really struggling.

Then he wondered why they weren't enthusiastic to speak to him.

Oh, and completely changed his dress style to favour skinny jeans.. it was not flattering.

Ashamedmuch · 03/06/2026 19:50

kkloo · 03/06/2026 19:45

That's awful.

I did this with a picture of a groundhog for an ex, to remind myself of groundhog day (obviously).
But not my kids dad and they never would have seen my phone.

It was horrible for the kids as it literally came up on the infotainment screen in the car. One of my kids took a picture of it and showed me.

liamharha · 03/06/2026 19:48

SeeYouLaterAlligator1 · 03/06/2026 19:41

Jesus. How long had you been together with this cretin?

13 years , 3 kids and one on the way when he decided he didn't love me any more 🫣 he neglected to tell me he loved someone else until a week later when texted me messages clearly meant for her 🙄,16 years on me and the woman he left me for have both moved on whilst he posts victim posts on SM whilst having nothing to do with his grown children . His loss .

Perimenopausalmanicmum · 03/06/2026 19:48

Asked me if I wanted an affair behind our partners backs, that was the easiest ‘no’ ever. He then got married a year to the day that I did.