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what was the worst thing anyone ever said to you...

202 replies

Snapespeare · 04/03/2011 13:27

...in the context of a relationship breakdown..?

mine was, finding out my ex had been screwing around behind my back, having a huge fight and his parting shot was, 'no man will ever want you now! i mean, single parent - three kids!' Hmm

I'm pretty sure he isn't the biggest c*nt out there! :) (and i do know it wasn't true!) But i really think it's cathartic to write it down...

alternatively, what was the worst thing you ever said? ( I of course, am a paragon of virtue and have never said anything mean or cheap!)

OP posts:
ColdHeartedBitch · 05/03/2011 22:13

I have an ex who called me a cold hearted bitch because i decided i was quite capable of making my own decisions and left him.

I suspect there were probably worse but i dont recall them and have adopted this one as a bit of a joke.

garlicbutter · 05/03/2011 23:00

Fucking hell, meglet.

2010Dad · 05/03/2011 23:45

My dad apparently said to my mum "The day we got married was the blackest day of my life". They are no longer together, and I'm glad about that as he's a complete d*ck.

quiddity · 06/03/2011 00:17

Ex told me while we were breaking up, apparently as a way of persuading me to stay with him, "I'm your last chance at normality."

MissInvincible · 06/03/2011 00:38

I received a text message from Ex (he had just left me for another woman when I was 12 weeks pregnant). It read 'I wish I had never met you bitch'. My crime was refusing to abort my baby. He moved in with her the day I had an emergency C-section at 33 weeks. B*stard.

Yika · 06/03/2011 11:10

quiddity - what a classic! Grin Am mentally filing for re-use one day.

Appalled at meglet's experience. Good for you for escaping him.

hairylights · 06/03/2011 11:30

Parting shot from bipolar abusive ex (who had two children but didn't want them with me) as I left, age forty after fifteen years. "I'd have had ten children with you"..

Now I've met the right man I've had three miscarriages.

LornaGoon · 06/03/2011 11:46

When I was seeing a non-practicing muslim at uni, a muslim girl walked by, who he claimed, egocentrically and misguidedly, fancied him. (She did not.)

He then proceeded to tell me that it was ok to shag me because I was white and brought up Christian but he could never sleep with her because it would 'spoil' her and she was a nice, pure girl.

Delightful. There are few times I have been that angry in my life.

BTW he was the shittist shag. Actually laugh out loud.

LurkingBeagle · 06/03/2011 12:12

Completely Shock at some of these.

All mine are from my (ahem) delightful (and not at all toxic) mother:

"If I'd known you'd turn out like this I would have drowned you at birth"

"I will send you to an orphanage if you fail the 12+" (I passed, but loads of my hair fell out Blush)

When I about 7 and playing dress-up in a wedding veil "well, that's the only time you're ever going to wear one of THOSE...."

:)

hidenseek · 06/03/2011 12:18

Mine's a bit different (but I've found reading this so cathartic I have to add some).

An ex was wonderful to my face, but I found out he'd said various things about me behind my back, including:

"I'd never want to shag, she's too fat" (when we'd been together for a while)
"I'd have to be really drunk to go there" (when asked if we were involved)
"She's no threat to you, just look at her" (while showing a photo of me to a skank he was cheating on me with)

It still hurts now, and he is still in my life (though we aren't together). I wasn't even that big, but I didn't need to find out he'd been talking like that while we were still sleeping together. This is the same man who once thought a good way of introducing new positions into our relationship was to say "I want to fuck you in the arse", right out of the blue. Romantic. Hmm

No where near as bad as some of those stated above though. There are such bastards out there. Angry

hidenseek · 06/03/2011 12:19

I'd never want to shag her is what I meant!

mrsmillsfanclub · 06/03/2011 16:03

Ex from my late teens- 'You are just not intellectual enough for me.You are just a boring joke. Yet, I know I could just snap my fingers and you'd come running back to me.'

The worse part is I believed he was right for years Sad. Took till I met dh to realise what an utter knob he was, and no doubt still is.

Curiositykilledhaskittens · 06/03/2011 17:14

Mother when I was 12 and struggling with what we now know was the onset of severe depression possibly related to my thyroid disease and I had sweated on it for months and finally reached out for help by saying "I think I am depressed" responded "don't be stupid, you're not depressed. You don't know what depression is!" in angry tone. It isn't actually so bad in isolation but if she had taken me seriously then it might have stopped a cascade of events which really messed up my life in many ways and it was the first time I had ever opened up to her so it caused me not to open up to her again until recently and even now I struggle.

A friend after I told my friends I was pregnant for the second time to the abusive man who had just left me said: "well if he was that bad why has she got pregnant again, that was a bit stupid, wasn't it?!" they knew he had been abusing me and I was in women's aid but I don't think they knew I had been being sexually abused or that the baby was a rape baby so again, understandable but a very hurtful thing to hear at the time.

XP said to magistrate in family court that rape baby wasn't his and he didn't want to see her. Said I had cheated on him on a weekend away with my friend and our two children and it was physically impossible for her to be his. When eventually about to be court order DNA tested he said to his solicitor in front of me and his sister "well if she remembers the conception so clearly I suppose it must be true"

He also stole our rent money (mine and our two housemates) for 6 months and instead of giving it to our landlady used it to go out drinking all night and sleeping around (sometimes with girls as young as fourteen). He once told me it was because I was boring and needy. I OD'd he came in the ambulance apparently but when I woke up he was gone and I had to make my own way home from the hospital in my dressing gown and bare feet with no money and covered in charcoal sick the next day to find him packing to go away for the weekend.

We found out when the landlady tried to kick us out, he had also stolen one of the housemate's debit cards and cleared her bank account ordering pizza online when he was on a bender. I came home one day to find our house empty (all our furniture was mine) and anything that was left cut up. He told his mum I had stolen the card and his stuff had been taken/damaged and she hit me and threw a glass of wine in my face so had to be removed from the pub.

He stole a ring from me and gave it to his mum then told me I was imagining it.

He used to cut up my stuff while I was at work and tell me I must have done it.

He told me the reason he didn't want anything to do with our baby son was that he was boring and "didn't do anything for him".

Despite having great women's ad support via our children's centre at the time, and being told that he had been sexually abusing me, for years I believed that was how sexual relationships should be conducted and it is only now, after I have been happily married that I have realised the real truth of the situation.

Curiositykilledhaskittens · 06/03/2011 17:17

Oh and then the first boyf after xp who used to tell me off for looking at the floor because it made me look miserable and said if I ever weighed 12st he would have to dump me because he couldnt be seen with someone fat.

merrywidow · 06/03/2011 17:33

DD was six days old and crying. H told me to put her down, so i did and then screamed at me - what are you doing, if you don't learn to look after her i will send her away and you will never see her again.

H was a nasty piece of work, i was relieved when he passed away.

shimmerysilverglitter · 06/03/2011 18:13

Ex told me that I was "making ds's autism up, you are only saying he has it so you can get loads of attention from doctors for yourself".

I told my Mum that I wanted to be a social worker when I was about 13 and she said "don't be so stupid, what do YOU know about real life that would mean you could do a job like that?" this turned into a rant listing all my shortcomings the prize being that "you are just like my Dad, obviously it skipped a generation and came out in you". Her Dad, my Grandad was a career criminal with some horrifying convictions.

It might sound silly but I completely lost faith in myself in my teenage years and never did any work at school, I am a low achiever, despite being above average intelligence and I put it down to my dear old Mum.

She also told an assembled family gathering that "my children are utter failures, I just don't know where I went wrong" my and my dsis were both there sat at the table when she said it.

Curiositykilledhaskittens · 06/03/2011 18:24

Shimmery - just reminded me of my mum. I said I thought I might want to join the police and she said "you won't pass the fitness test, you're too fat"

shimmerysilverglitter · 06/03/2011 18:28

You know my kids could tell me they wanted to be a farkin lion tamer and I would march them down to the computer and google it to find out how they could achieve it! Why were our parents like this?

Jdore · 06/03/2011 18:36

Sil at Dds2 funeral
"well its a good job he died he would have probably been autistic like the first one"
My mum had to pull me off her

Jdore · 06/03/2011 18:37

Your so right shimmery, when ds announce he was going to be an elephant keeper we had great fun finding out how !

Curiositykilledhaskittens · 06/03/2011 18:41

I think I know why mine was, she had a combination of very high expectations of us (once said it was more important we achieved academically than were happy), she wasn't a particularly nurturing or comforting person (although she thinks she is, she was controlling rather than nurturing) and she was more connected with her work, which is challenging, than her children for a long time while we were growing up. She was also aware of this last one and spent years over compensating in all kinds of damaging ways with my little brother.

I've taken many things that are good from my childhood but it was quite and emotionally harsh environment to grow up in and I am quite sensitive and anxious.

hairylights · 06/03/2011 18:49

I'll rip my own skin off

you fucking whore

you are an uptight prostitute ... You think you are so fucking clever

(I was the breadwinnr AND did all the house stuff)

textualhealing · 06/03/2011 18:57

Not a serious one but a teenage boyfriend gazed lovingly at me and told me I had beautiful eyes. Which was just as well, as he then commented that I wouldn't be very pretty without them! I took my "plain" lower half of my face and went out with someone else that appreciated me!

TheCrackFox · 06/03/2011 19:10

Jdore - I think that is unforgivable what your SIL said.

There really are some arseholes on this planet.

Meikyo · 06/03/2011 20:24

During a post-separation handover when I was picking up our then 6 year old daughter, STBXH followed me out to the car ranting and shouted (in full earshot of his whole street) - "you are not even her f**king Mother"...which DD heard... DD is a (much wanted) donor egg child - conceived via IVF after 5 years of infertility/miscarriages. I carried her from when she was a 5 cell embryo and gave birth to her - and legally I am her Mother.
So I had to begin the explanation to my 6 year old DD of her conception (not how I wanted it to happen!).
Ex's Sister, later in Court at a Child Welfare Hearing, said, as far as she was concerned, the row that night was "no worse than other Meikyo and exH have had....and she wasn't even there!!

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