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

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redundantandbitter · 01/10/2013 23:53

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?

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TheOrcHeadKeeper · 02/10/2013 11:40

After leading me on for 2 weeks and then sleeping with me (after I said I wouldn't sleep with him if it was just sex)...

'Actually, I can't commit to anything right now. I didn't realize until we slept together. Sorry'.

He shacked up with my ex-mate 2 weeks later Hmm Grin

But I am well shot Grin

TheOrcHeadKeeper · 02/10/2013 11:42

I have also had boyfriends ask me to stop thinking about things (funnily enough it's when they're acting like a bastard and don't like to be pulled up on it). It never gets old!

I remember your thread op and all I can say is jokes on him. Literally. His life has become a joke. What an idiot.

MardyPants · 02/10/2013 11:49

'You gave me too much freedom, you let me go out with my mates whenever I wanted, you never made me stay home, it's all your fault'

Probably wouldn't have let you go out so much if I'd realised you were out shagging other women, including your brother's girlfriend, love.

or getting arrested for being a drunken racist thug

What a catch, I have every sympathy for the poor cow who's stuck with you now Grin

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redundantandbitter · 02/10/2013 12:19

theorcheadkeeper yeah it's me. Still feel
Like its me that's lost.. But hey ho. Nearly 3 weeks and counting. They are plastered together all over FB - doh, god men think women are REALLY stupid don't they. I am just secretly hoping that she sees him for the weak man that he is and dumps him... Oh the irony... Please please let it happen...,anyway.. Keep up the dumping posts....

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Sparklysilversequins · 02/10/2013 12:24

mardypants. My inlaws said that to me, that the reason he treated me like he did was because I LET him go out. I LET him spend all the family money on the piss. And so on. I suppose I even LET him have sex with a multitude of other women as well.

scrazy · 02/10/2013 12:28

'I've only felt this way about 3 women in my life. It went wrong with the other 2 and I'm not running the risk of going through it again' [Confused]

dementedmumof6 · 02/10/2013 12:36

He said to me I didn't show him enough love or affection and didn't dress up enough or want sex enough or be there enough for him. he now with new girlfriend who he told after they had been going out for 2months that he had never felt this way about anyone before yes the 17years and 6 children with me where just a practice for your new relationship you complete arse. sorry needed to get that out.

and have heard from other people that as soon as the money runs out or things get difficult so am really hoping that's true because I know if it is he will come running back to me and I can tell him to fuck off

Kaluki · 02/10/2013 12:37

I've got a few crackers:
"We just aren't gelling - we want different things" (what he really meant was "I want to go out all weekend taking coke and shagging around and you won't let me")
"She's weaker than you are, you'll be OK on your own but she neeeeds me!"
WTF?
Well rid Grin

dementedmumof6 · 02/10/2013 12:37

sorry that doesn't make sense

as soon as the moment runs out or things get difficult she runs from the relationship

TheOrcHeadKeeper · 02/10/2013 12:38

some men do really seem to think women are stupid and the one's that aren't are not in their correct place & need putting back Grin

You may have 'lost' him but what did you lose? A shallow idiot who didn't value you. It won't feel like a loss for long I reckon Smile

TheOrcHeadKeeper · 02/10/2013 13:06

some bad break up excuses Grin

TheOrcHeadKeeper · 02/10/2013 13:06

(the 'spy' excuse is the best out of those lot)!

honey86 · 02/10/2013 13:13

i only found out i was dumped by my ex when i looked at his facebook page n it said 'single'. had no indication that he wanted to split.
when confronted, he said ,'i thought you'd have guessed for yourself'

fucking coward. Sad then he asked to stay friends. i politely declined n changed my number.

err not if you

honey86 · 02/10/2013 13:15

cant respect me

TroublesomeEx · 02/10/2013 13:46

I told someone many years ago that the tarot cards had told me to dump him. It was, of course, bollocks.

UnexpectedStepmum · 02/10/2013 14:03

I had a Boyfriend at university who dumped me with a poem FFS. It was Emily Dickinson: "Of so divine a loss/We enter but the gain/Indemnity for loneliness/That such a bliss has been".

I responded with a poem of my own: "The loss was really quite divine/It pains me to say this/But not for nearly two years now/Have I enjoyed such bliss". Grin

He was really annoyed at my lack of appreciation of his sensitivity!! Grin

MissStrawberry · 02/10/2013 14:21

I didn't actually tell one boyfriend it was over but it has been about 20 years now so I hope he knows Grin.

Mind you, I think he was trying to dump me too Hmm.

skyeskyeskye · 02/10/2013 14:24

Take your pick, why have one excuse when several will do?!

I never see my friends any more (OW and her H, his best mate).

We want different things out of life. You are obsessed with holidays and I need to concentrate on my business. (shortly before he jetted off to Majorca with OW and her H).

We didn't have sex one night in a Premier Inn and I especially went off and bought a condom (then he fell asleep)

Your family is too big, we are always doing something (two months after my aunt's funeral)

All of these things announced after he blindsided me by announcing that he no longer loved me and wanted to leave.

Frettchen · 02/10/2013 14:48

An ex told me he was calling it off now because he'd rather we parted as friends than struggled to stay together and parted company badly (I hadn't been aware of any struggles)... Then he said 'and it seems like you're more into this than I am.'

There followed a load of bollocks about staying friends, but I blocked the corpsebag on my social medias and have happily thought little-to-nothing of him since then.

drudgewithagrudge · 02/10/2013 17:24

Many years ago when I was a religious teenager I fell for a young man from another church near us,(Religious young men were about as rare as hens' teeth and eagerly pounced on by girls and their mums)

After a few weeks of trailing around with him to prayer meetings and hearing him preach,badly, he turned up at my house one morning and announced that during the night God had told him to dump me.
Who was I to question the will of God so I tearfully accepted my fate.

However I found out a few weeks later that he had got another girl into trouble and her mother got them to the chapel to be married so fast his feet didn't touch the ground.

All I had ever got from him were chaste kisses.

BelleDameSansMerci · 02/10/2013 17:38

I need to be needed. You're too independent.

I need to be the man in the relationship - you earn more than I do.

She needs me. She can't pay her rent so I need to look after her.

Blah, blah, blah. Yawn.

Of course, now he's realising that someone needing you is different from someone needing your money... Grin Oh, and I have a lovely, amazing! fabulous new(ish) DP.

goodenuffmum · 02/10/2013 18:10

My first hubby told me out of the blue that he loved me but didnt want to be married anymore Hmm
We had been married 8 months and just the week before he had sent me a love letter gushing about much he loved being my husband Confused

I thought he was full of bs but 18 years later he is onto his third long term relationship, all without marrying again...maybe he was telling the truth.

But he's still a prat Grin

gettingeasiernow · 02/10/2013 18:23

The only way I can earn money is as an escort and I can't do that with you around.

Ewwwwww, still cringe to think of it.

Glabella · 02/10/2013 20:31

At the end of my marriage, on my birthday, after me asking him why he had been behaving like a total wanker since our baby was born...

'I could make an effort to change, but just not for you'

Bastard. But I am now with someone lovely and ex is still moping about saying he will always love me, so karma. :-)

garlicvampire · 02/10/2013 22:04

'I could make an effort to change, but just not for you' Shock

Bloody hell, Glabella, that's harsh. Good to hear you met someone who didn't need changing!

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