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what is your most WTAF break up?

100 replies

Frogisatwat · 27/08/2014 21:01

Here are mine.. lovely boyfriend. Really lovely. Relationship was going swimmingly or so I thought. . He lost his job so I lent him some money on the proviso that he paid me back when his dole (as it was commonly known then) came through.
He was very honorable about this and met me on 'giro' day. As I could see his was struggling I said 'look if this is difficult then why not give me half now and half in two weeks'. To which he replied. ' Ahh the thing is frog I wont actually be here in 2 weeks I am moving to gran canaria' and he did. Poof! Gone!
The other that sticks in my mind is a boyfriend of six months. .again in my mind going well.. turned up on my doorstep for a date. . With all my possessions in a little bag. No pre emptive 'we need to talk' just a 'hi frog this isn't working out for me'
Possessions btw were just shower gel n shit. Like on SATC . I didn't scarily try and move in by stealth.
Strangely ... or not. . These were lovely clean break ups even though my heart broke at the time.

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whatadrain · 28/08/2014 22:46

MyChild - sadly it's true. I so desperately wanted to crash the wedding but I was frozen with rage and emotion! Total heartbreak. I decided to leave it as I didn't want the drama...

A few months later, his wife found out and blamed me completely. Then (and this will totally out me) she started stalking me, putting my number in phone boxes (for escort services) turning up at my house and posting things through my door. A personal favourite was the pint of maggots I found piled on top of my post!

Eventually it died down and I met someone else and moved on, got married, had babies etc etc. Then one day, out of the blue I bumped into her. He had left her with a three day old baby and she cried on my shoulder and begged for my forgiveness for all the terrible stuff she did to me. Poor girl, she was actually quite nice (if not a little crazy!)

vrtra · 28/08/2014 22:56

Have posted about this before, but got dumped outside the door of a house we'd just viewed as we were planning to move in together. He'd booked the viewing less than 24 hours before. Knob.

SignoraStronza · 28/08/2014 22:58

We'd broken up, got back together again. He'd learned to drive in the meantime about bloody time and I'd got seriously into the gym. Unfortunately, was seriously considering letting the personal trainer into my knickers.

I went on holiday with him. Worked for a travel company so got a brilliant deal on a Caribbean trip. Skipped off a few times to phone the personal trainer but had a lovely holiday with bf all the same. Don't recall ever discussing it but if was as if we both knew that the holiday marked the end of our relationship.

Flew home, spent one more night together, went to work and never saw each other again.

Personal trainer turned out to be a dickhead with a teeny tiny todger.

flanjabelle · 28/08/2014 23:01

At a new years eve party with all his friends that he invited me to. A few minutes before midnight he decided that he didn't want to start the new year with me. After a year together, thats how he decided to end it. Ouch.

teejayem · 28/08/2014 23:07

In the hooker vein.... Was 21 and I'd moved in with guy a bit older than me (28ish). I think I was at the point where everything was one big adventure. Do not ask me why, to this day, I don't know what made me ask him (in the middle of Asda in the cheese and dairy aisle)
'Have you ever paid for sex?'... The silence was palpable. By the time we'd got to the checkout and unpacked the shopping he'd come clean and had been having it off with prostitutes the whole time we'd been together (and felt it necessary to give me the graphic details) and then told me it was because he had anxiety!!

really.

I posted my keys through the letterbox and went and lived in a travel lodge for a month. Knob.

BeyoncesCat · 28/08/2014 23:42

Lostthermind! I've done that! Hahah terrible GrinBlush

RaRaSkirtsForever · 28/08/2014 23:45

First person I lived with admitted after only six months that he was only with me because he would not have been able to get a mortgage or rent somewhere on his own. His job had relocated from Essex to Slough in 1991 and we had bought a flat in Reading. I was earning a lot more than him, he drove ten miles to work, whilst I had a two hour commute into London. I should have read the signs when after only six weeks after we got down there he announced he would no longer drive me to the station (we only had one car that was mine btw). It made my day two hours longer.

I had no idea, we were supposed to be getting married later that year. Everything was booked, dress was bought. I was desperate to make it work, turned a blind eye for a year when I knew he was seeing someone from work. It was pride, as being only 22 and growing up in a violent home my boundaries were not where they should have been.

He spent almost two years trying to get me out of the property which involved locking me out until 1am everyday. I used to be in tears locked out, sitting on the doorstep every day 100 miles from family and friends. What made it worse is that my Father was dying of heart disease and was fading on a daily basis. My father spent the last 12 months of his life knowing that I was sofa surfing because I could not get into my own home. I still feel so ashamed.

I put up with so much from him but after being sacked from my job, dealing with my father dying (he was in a hospice at this point) and I gave up and moved out, my Father died only one week later.

I am totally outing myself as I know that he is now married with a young daughter, his wife is very possibly a MNer.

TheMagicToyshop · 29/08/2014 00:11

My god some of these are shocking! This is not as extreme as many but it's stuck with me. My sister's teenage first love type boyfriend. He met her in the park one afternoon and told her that he wasn't sure if he liked her anymore or another girl they both knew. Said he needed time to decide and would meet her same time the following day.
I spent the whole evening begging her not to, but SHE WENT BACK to hear his decision. He picked the other girl. Ugh I'm still disgusted all these years later!

Zucker · 29/08/2014 00:23

RaRa he sounds like a right fucker. Better that you're free of him than actually married to him with a small child. People like that never change, sooner or later their special qualities float to the top.

GaryShitpeas · 29/08/2014 00:49

Someone secretly installed a key logger on my laptop to spy on who I was talking to on FB, email etc

Then had the cheek to dump ME as, in his investigations, found I was talking to a male friend

He then came back wanting another chance, I then took him back, only for him to start acting strange again. He then dumped me on Xmas eve, for his ex

winkywinkola · 29/08/2014 06:04

I was 17 and my bf of about 6 months had turned into the most controlling person ever.

Wouldn't let me talk to any of my friends, got angry when he saw me pass them a note in class. He got sad and said he was jealous of my brothers because they would always have me in their lives. Wtf?

I binned him. He was gutted. That night was a school Christmas party followed by a house party. He begged me to get back together in a bus stop after Christmas party. I said no and he sat slumped in the bus stop, howling. Confused

He then followed me and my friends to the next party, hiding behind bushes and lamp posts, tip toeing along so he could get into the next party. He spent all evening, red eyed and sniffling, plucking at my sleeve and mouthing, "Please," at me.

His controlling and suffocating behaviour really upset and spooked me.

But heigh ho, he started dating someone in the lower 6th two days later and got over me pretty quickly.

Frogisatwat · 29/08/2014 07:39

My gosh some of these are awful. I was reading these yesterday dying to comment but I can't post from my mobile!
Not me but my friend. Her boyfriend of only around 3 months lived an hour away and was due to visit. Told her he was catching the 5pm train. She never heard from him again. She had fallen head over heels and he had done so much 'future faking' I think she went into shock it was awful.

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Frogisatwat · 29/08/2014 07:43

Gosh zebra that one I bet you didn't see coming..Sad

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Frogisatwat · 29/08/2014 07:45

VRTRA I remember your post. How are you doing now?

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Voodoobooboo · 29/08/2014 08:02

Had a torrid affair with a work colleague about 15 years ago. It was never going to last, but I thought it had a couple of years in it. He dumped me completely out of the blue and within days it was round the office that he was shagging the new HR Officer. Apparently it started after we broke up...., yeah right!

Then they started stalking me afterwards. Lots of dropped calls to my house, weird letters, odd actions at work, etc. I had a lot of sympathy from colleagues and ultimately got another job and forgot all about it. After about a year he started calling me and asking to come back as it was all a huge mistake, not that he mentioned it to her, etc. Then the same again after another few years. Second time got v short shrift. Not least because they had their first of two kids by then. We're now in the same industry so I occasionally hear what he is up to. Still with her, couple of kids, etc I ran into him at a business function about 2 years ago and he immediately started telling me that breaking with me for her was the most stupid decision of his life, he loved me and that he'd thought of me every day since, that he didn't want to be with her and wanted to leave but couldn't leave the kids and if i would take him back it would make everything work. I was his lost girl and everything wrong had started from leaving me and he just wanted to put it right.

ODFOD!

FickleByNurture · 29/08/2014 08:15

Urg GaryShitpeas I had one of those, along with a curfew of 8pm and an insistence that because I was bisexual I couldn't be trusted with either gender. I'm so glad I grew a spine.

wannaBe · 29/08/2014 09:00

was sixteen and going out with a 21 yo. I was his first gf, he talked of the future, waiting for me if I went to uni, etc etc. He was fairly immature, I was more mature, we never slept together fwiw.

So as time went on the relationship sort of ran its course as happens at that age, I no longer felt the same about him so I ended it. We stayed friends for a bit but then contact fizzled out really.

Fast forward about fifteen years and I happen upon him on an email list, so I send him an email to say hello, how's life, etc. We exchange a few emails, I tell him about then dh and ds, he tells me he still works for the same company and is still living with his mother and has never had another gf because he just hadn't met the right one. Hmm

Then one night we're talking on Skype text chat and he suddenly says "it's amazing that we are still able to have a civilised conversation all these years on after having such an awful break-up. I was Hmm Shock Hmm thought it was just a teenage relationship which had just run its course. he obviously thought differently.

ten years on and he still hasn't had a gf, well apart from one which he went out with for about ten weeks and posted every detail about their relationship on fb about how it was the best week/three/five/ten weeks of his life and then how some people needed to deal with their issues before getting into relationships. Grin and still lives with his mother.

Stupidhead · 29/08/2014 09:56

Jesus Wannabe Shock

I had a first love break my heart, I thought about him for years. Even during relationships. Just couldn't get rid of my feelings. Had a browse for him on FB a few years back out of curiosity (maybe!) and saw his profile pic. He looked like his bald dad looked. Totally burst my bubble haha!

kentishgirl · 29/08/2014 10:11

Wow some of these stories.

My worst was after our living together for 12 years. He told me he wasn't leaving me, but he was going to be living every other week somewhere else. Yes, it was at another woman's house, but they were 'just friends' and this was just a practical arrangement so he could do X and Y that he wanted to do with his life. Yeah, right. I blew a fuse and of course knew it was an affair, but he made me be the one to say 'it's over'. Cowardly twat.

A couple of weeks later out of morbid curiosity, got it out of him how he thought it would all have worked. Plan was that he would switch houses every weekend. I would get the weekends when his kids came to stay with us. She would get the kid free weekends. Also he was taking her to the Caribbean for a couple of weeks holiday (in 12 years we'd had a weekend in Wales that I'd paid for) and he couldn't see at all why this might have seemed a wee bit unfair, had I agreed to this arrangement. I asked him what on earth I would get out of all this, and he said 'happiness is infectious'. So I was supposed to be happy because he was happy with two women.

A few weeks after that he asked me out to see a movie because 'he missed me' and also thought I might change my mind about agreeing to this arrangement.

Talk about deluded.

pregnantpause · 29/08/2014 11:50

I have posted this before and it's not as bad as most but

I once dated a guy fir a few weeks. He asked me one day to give him a hand job- I said no don't fancy it sorry.

He then dumped me as this made it clear that we had nothing in common and didn't like any of the same things

My reply was " you expect me to like wanking you as much as you like wanking you?!" I left then.

No great loss, though I do wonder if he ever did find a woman who loved wanking him as much as he loves wanking himWink

Frogisatwat · 29/08/2014 13:39

Kentish. I am Shock at that one. Were you ok? Thats a superb WTAF ?Confused

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Minion100 · 29/08/2014 13:53

My absolutely lovely DH, who I was very happily married to and completely adored left me a post-it note to say he was gone completely out of the blue.

He moved out, refused to see me, speak to me or explain. Just sent me texts saying that it was over, he was sorry, he didn't love me anymore. I didn't know at the time (and neither did he) that he was having a breakdown but I suppose at the time he couldn't explain because he didn't know himself until he was eventually hospitalised with it a few months later.

I tried to support him and to get him to let me be part of his life, but he was too lost in it and felt nothing for no one and wanted isolation. He saw me and DCs as a burden, and saw himself as a burden to us. Thought we were better off replacing him.

I was forced to heal and move on myself facing that he was never coming back. Nowadays (2 years on) he is still depressed, still lives alone, has never met anyone else, is very skinny and just gets on with a quiet life. He sees DCs sometimes, and has sometimes told me he still loves me, that losing us was the worst thing that ever happened to him but instead of tackling it and fixing it he just gave up.

That was my worst breakup. Never got over it. Will never get over it.

kentishgirl · 29/08/2014 13:57

No, I very much wasn't ok, for quite some time. That's the bare bones of it, and there was much more.

kentishgirl · 29/08/2014 13:57

That fucking holiday is what still gets up my nose more than any other detail. He really thought I'd happily wave him off and wish him a nice time?

Frogisatwat · 29/08/2014 14:56

Minion thats an awful story..
Kentish. I went out with a workaholic whose idea of a good time was to watch tv
I did love him but I thought I am young and want to go out eat out do sports etc.
I broke up with him and he got himself a new girlfriend who he went all over the world with doing all the things I wanted to do as a couple. It still rankles.

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