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Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask you to share your stories of revenge on ex husbands/partners?

122 replies

WhatDaveSaid · 27/08/2018 16:32

Share away!

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Needsleepneedsleep · 27/08/2018 19:24

Sometimes in the searing rage of hurt and anger we do things to hurt and humiliate the person who hurt and humiliate us - but killing an animal is just plain wrong.

Myheartbelongsto · 27/08/2018 19:37

I watched a documentary about Tammy Wynette a couple of days ago. She left her ex husband at 23 and moved to nashville. When she told him what she was doing he said dream on baby, dream on. Years later she is signing albums etc for fans when he comes up to her and asks if she will sign something for him so she wrote dream on baby dream on. She said she waited 10 years for that moment.

SpringSnow · 27/08/2018 19:38

According to mumsnet if men deal with break ups by damaging property they're being controlling and abusive but women doing it is empowering.

londonrach · 27/08/2018 19:41

Why bother? Life too short. You sad person if you did. Just live your life. Ex for a reason....move on

RatRolyPoly · 27/08/2018 19:50

Well I heard a story about someone who totally wasn't me, obviously. But her ex had cheated on her. One night shortly after the break-up a male friend came over, one thing led to another and she thought "hey, why not get back on the horse?", and she rode him on the sofa like a cowgirl.

As chance would have it, minutes after her friend had walked out of the door who should turn up but her ex, begging for forgiveness and professing his love with tear-streaked cheeks. Now that was an opportunity too good to be missed, so she invited him in and made passionate, sensual love to him with all the words and actions of someone overjoyed to be getting back together. And she had the biggest grin on her face like she hadn't smiled in weeks.

And in the post-coital tender embrace she told him all about riding her friend not half an hour prior in gleeful detail.

I don't think she's sorry.

Giggorata · 27/08/2018 19:51

Just came on to say that having a great life has been the best revenge for me.. a life that included doing everything the abusive, controlling fuckhead prevented me from doing when together: driving, getting a degree, having a career, having friends, going away, being politically active, buying clothes I like, having opinions..... years later, we met for the first time since I got out, at our son's wedding. For our son's sake, I was absolutely charming, which he did not deserve.

Hertha · 27/08/2018 19:52

Sounds a bit rapey.

Hertha · 27/08/2018 19:53

Not Giggorata, obviously!

Handsoffmysweets · 27/08/2018 19:54

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newname43 · 27/08/2018 19:54

I cut my ex H best Italian suit up, this is years ago when they were fashionable
My latest ex is ghosting me, but he is scared i will tell his wife, [who i didnt know existed then.]
I wont, but i could i have lots of texts, but he will get a valentine card, and a birthday card from guess who? with a few kisses,[ unless i change my mind before then]

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 27/08/2018 19:58

RatRolyPoly... how is that revenge? He got his rocks off after hurting her. She could have just told him that she'd had sex and that it had been incredible (if she's the type to share that info). To have sex with him after what he did to her... yuck.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 27/08/2018 19:59

Well done, Giggorata, now that's classy.

AnyFucker · 27/08/2018 20:01

I told him to fuck off when he came crawling back

That was satisfying enough for me

Also, although I havent seen him for decades I heard he was still chasing after ever younger women despite losing his looks (and failing)

I of course am in my prime Wink

RatRolyPoly · 27/08/2018 20:02

Don't ask me lying, but she felt pretty good about it. He was pretty fucking devastated from what I hear. Apparently he hadn't realised how hurtful it is when someone leads you to believe that you're sharing something intimate and special with them from a place of love, but actually they're just lying with their body and it means nothing at all. Apparently that really hurts. Any more than that, you'd have to ask the people involved.

BoneyBackJefferson · 27/08/2018 20:02

According to some on this thread the fact that my friend had her car vandalised beyond repair by some people that she upset should be scream worthy funny or I am apparently a "miserable bastard". (not going to go in to details as it would be identifying)

MissVanjie · 27/08/2018 20:03

this thread is grim, apart from Hertha

Pinkunicorndog · 27/08/2018 20:10

I'm pretty sure anyone in the room with the throwing a fake vag into a workplace remembers it as 'that abusive woman making a twat of herself'.

I'm not sure that's revenge.

mummmy2017 · 27/08/2018 20:14

Revenge was being nice to him, once I got over being hurt.
He had been a high earner, and lost his job, she never had the job and lied to him..
When he saw me getting out of a newer car and learnt where we had stayed to visit.. Late rooms deal on 5 star hotel. I even paid for a meal for us all..
He broke down and told me he was now unemployed and that she took all the money for bills..
I just felt sad his life was not as it had been when we were a family, while mine had stayed the same.

Mariatequila · 27/08/2018 20:17

I’ve never been bothered enough to do anything I do like reading tales of it though. There’s always the classic ‘woman discovers condoms in husbands glove box, soaks them in chilli sauce’ 😭😂

squishee · 27/08/2018 20:20

I sold his clothes on eBay. And then got to see his jaw drop when I told him what I'd rightly done.

TeeJay1970 · 27/08/2018 20:24

Chilli sauce!!!

That's so funny!!!!

Ah ... what could be funnier that sexual assult.

A male friend of my mine once rubbed deepheat into his gf's vag when he found out she was cheating. It was so funny!

Hertha · 27/08/2018 20:28

I stuffed his fake vagina with chilli sauce, frozen fish, dead dogs and terrible threads.

WorldCupWidow · 27/08/2018 20:29

—accidentally— packed the remote controls to all his precious gadgets (TVs, sound system, lights, projector screen) when packing up my stuff...petty but I knew it would drive him insane

mineofuselessinformation · 27/08/2018 20:39

Three months after he left, I threw all the carefully saved (as in flung into a paint kettle) nuts and bolts from his precious vintage motorbike that I bought him, he never got me anything anywhere near the value or sentimentality of it, in fact after we split I found out a piece of jewellery which was supposed to have diamonds in it did not, in front of my children into the recycling. He has since rebuilt it (and had to buy every single bit to put it back together).
He never dared to ask after them.
Childish maybe, but justified in my opinion.

TeeJay1970 · 27/08/2018 20:54

Just childish