What's the worst 'I can't be with you anymore' line you've heard?

[redundantandbitter]

You all know my latest DP's crap dumping excuse is 'she's more warm & spiritual than you'. So, to lighten my day ...There must be folk out there that have been fed some fabulous excuses ... Or maybe YOU have made something up to escape??? Care to share?

Redundant, I didn't know this was your thread and I was about to come on and say "There's this poor girl has a thread where her dp said she wasn't spiritual enough" because really, that takes some beating!

One guy told me he might get cancer later so he didn't want to commit to anyone. I believed him but my best friend at the time didn't. A mutual acquaintance later told me he now had a boyfriend.

Met dh shortly afterwards and he has never dumped me!

"I don't just want to be your dh and ds's Dad, I want more out of life". Then he walked whistling out the door.

He came back though unfortunately and we limped on for another few years.

Ex h mid discussion where he was letting me convince myself to leave so he could blame me

"If you would just do what I tell you and not think it would be ok"

My response was I'm not a doll to sit on the shelf until he wants me and his reply?

"Why not?"

I also recall him saying having to go shopping on Saturdays made a strain on our relationship!

Thankfully I learnt my lesson :) and I genuinely hope he has changed for his latest partner!

Your family don't like me and I prefer your friend coz she has bigger breasts..... I was 17 and at college and he was 28 and "in a band" only met my family once in 6 months...

The one that stuck in my mind was 'I love you, but it's not enough'... Whatever arse biscuit... jog on there's a good chap.

My friend's XH told her that she had turned into a very boring person since their DD was born (DD was 4 months old) and he didn't want to spend weekends cleaning and shopping because he needed more excitement, and fatherhood wasn't for him.

She believed him, until he and the OW announced they were expecting a baby within 3 months of him walking out on her.

After living with XDP for 2 months, the day before Xmas Eve "we have more of a brother/sister relationship"
Me: "we had sex this morning?!"
I hadn't seen it coming in the 8 weeks we'd lived together and had bought him a pile of Christmas pressies. He'd obviously felt like it for a while as he'd got me naff-all!

Mine decided that he was so overlordly intelligent that he needed lots of time and space to think, create and be. Preferable with people as bright as him. All others (this included me) were fools to be suffered. Which was also his reason for being drunk most days. Narcissistic at all?

@LadyVJJ.. ouch! However, I remember my DB in his youth once dumping a girlfriend on the basis of it being her birthday soon and he didn't want to buy a gift. Don't think he admitted that to her face, however.

Cogito that could have been the reason behind it, he was a tight bastard frugal chap

Ex-P and I had been having problems for a while and I was finally learning to stand up to his abusive behaviour. He went away for the weekend to stay at his mum's and phoned me at about 2 in the morning to tell me that he was about to have sex with the neighbour. I don't think he got the response he was after from me, which was simply "I can't believe you are calling to tell me this. Do what you want".

He certainly didn't like my response the next day, as he went round for ages telling all our friends in a really aggrieved tone "I told Thistledew I slept with someone else and all she said the next day was "is this just another thing I am supposed to forgive you for?""

I still don't know what reaction he was expecting from me- probably more along the lines of wailing and gnashing of teeth than the complete indifference to yet another instance of his fuckwittery that I actually felt. Definitely in his mind we split up because I didn't react right to his infidelity rather than because of him doing it!

I'll throw in a good one - most of my bad ones have just been the classic of going quiet and calling less until you get the message!
The good one - we lived quite far apart and I was due to make a 4 hour drive to him for the weekend, he rang and said:
"I really enjoy your company, you're great fun and I like you a lot. But at this stage in my life, I'm really hoping to get married, and I just know already that's not you - and it's not fair to mess you around, or make the long drive, on that basis. I would really like to be friends, if you want to."

It was the least upsetting break up I'd ever had, I left feeling good at how much he liked me - he did stay in touch, all effort from his side, I believe the friends thing was genuine. We're not in touch anymore, but he's still my yardstick for a good dumping. Just be honest, guys!!

I told an ex that I just didn't think we should see each other for a while. That was just after Christmas 1995 and I haven't seen him since..

Dumped here by DS' Dad for being pregnant.

It was ok until i started to show, he was going to be a brilliant Dad

Then he said because it was winter and I was wearing a coat it wasn't obvious i was pregnant and looked fat so he couldn't been seen with me.

No problem sunshine, off yer trot.

After hearing rumours of ex-dp snogging mutual friend, I confronted him. His response? "Well, yeah, I'm dating her too... I thought you knew?"

Erm, no, must've missed that memo. Dick.

"It's like, I went fishing and caught a fish ( me).
I spent a long time reeling you in and I got you on the boat and realised I didn't want you anymore so I threw you back in."
Needless to say he want the fish bavk a few months later but by then the fish was already enjoying playing with other fish.

'we are on different pages'

I once went away for the weekend with a boyfriend of 6 months. We were early 20s and getting on well, but not that serious. It was his birthday present. We stayed in lovely place and I paid for him to go rally driving. When we got home, he said he'd had such a great time he should feel as though he wanted to propose, but he didn't, so we should split up. So we did. He could have saved me a fortune by dumping me 48 hours earlier.

After months of trying to be supportive and accommodating of his religion and taking on bits and pieces myself, despite being a confirmed atheist, bf dumped me for refusing to ' thank the chicken' we had for dinner. Thank the chicken?! I dont think it was a willing sacrifice.

@queenbitch... the fish metaphors sound like the sardine-obsessed Dad in 'Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs' :)

I was dumped by someone because 'the magic has gone out of our relationship'.

We were both 16 and I'd refused to toss him off.

sunshine that is so funny! Magical wank pmsl!

Not a line per se, but somebody broke up with me by... changing their relationship status on Facebook to "single". Coward! I sent him a text asking what the f was going on and he just said "I'll explain later". Turns out he was getting back with his ex. Deleted Facebook after that, couldn't be bothered with bollocks like that!

"I want it to be like it was 10 years ago!"

Right, you mean before we unexpectedly had our third child who has turned our lives upside down with his behaviour and extended our child-rearing years further than we wanted, when you were less stressed because you were having a whale of a time doing a job that took you away from home 12 hours a day with your mates and earned peanuts while I was doing all the childcare and earning most of the money? You mean before you had to GROW THE FUCK UP?

"All you ever do is whitter on about crap".

Said by my boyfriend just before we broke up when I was 21. That was ten years ago and I have never forgotten it - it has made me paranoid to speak!