Falling out of love is rarely a single, dramatic event. More often, it’s a quiet, gut-wrenching realization, a switch that flips without warning. A viral trend tapped into this painful experience, asking people to share the exact moment they knew they had fallen out of love with their partner.
The responses were raw, relatable, and brutally honest, revealing how love can vanish not with a bang, but with a whisper. From a thoughtless comment to a sudden feeling of indifference, these are the moments that signaled the beginning of the end. Get the tissues ready…
#1
He went away for work and the kids asked if he could stay at work forever. I realized I wasn’t the only one who enjoyed when he was away.
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#2
Not me, but I was on FaceTime with my best friend when her hair started falling out during chemo, and her partner walks in and tells her to “stop being dramatic”. I saw it in her eyes
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#3
He booked a vacation alone while our daughter was on her hospital bed fighting for her life. He came back to an empty house.
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#4
I was going out with my friend wearing a crop top & he didn’t like it & told me “if anything happens to you (referring to being assaulted) don’t come crying to me”
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#5
He saw a pregnant woman walk into the train, shivered and said “I’m so disgusted by pregnant women”. Any remaining feelings I had at that point were DEAD
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#6
I had the flu. He was standing in the kitchen, I asked him to cook dinner that night. He asked me if I would help him “set everything up to be cooked”. I said no. He put everything away, made himself food & I went to bed. I took care of him while he was on chemotherapy. Couldn’t even make me dinner while I had the flu.
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#7
We were fixing the roof. I didn’t really know what I was doing so he lost his temper, climbed down the triple ladder and then removed it. He left me on that roof in the rain for 4 hours. No phone, no coat. It was November.
#8
Told me, an orphan, that he would be fine if we broke up because he ‘actually has parents who love and support him’
#9
At his grandads funeral. His grandma told me not to make the same mistake she did.
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#10
My mum was diagnosed with cancer and I saw him message his ex asking to go to hers because the “vibe was weird” at my house. Even offered to cook dinner 🙃
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#11
Told me “men have needs” days after my sister unexpectedly died 🫥
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#12
He started quoting andrew tate 💀
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#13
when i started to wish he would cheat on me so i could just leave
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#14
he refused to teach our daughter to celebrate me on mother’s day
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#15
I told him I applied for a Masters in Library Science (my childhood dream) and he laughed at me and told me degrees are useless and I didn’t need another. Dude, bye 🫡🫡
#16
my cat started leaving the room, when he was there
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#17
When I finally realized he was never gonna brush his teeth every day
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#18
In therapy he couldn’t name five things he liked about me that weren’t things I did for him. Then he told the therapist he didn’t actually like me at all.
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#19
I had to watch my momma pass on FaceTime, in Korea, bc he was Army. I asked him to sit with me and hold my hand and he said no. And that I was selfish for even asking him to share that burden with me. Left with my daughter for her memorial and never returned 😩
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#20
I noticed he would ALWAYS start a big argument for absolutely no reason the night before EVERY SINGLE HOLIDAY AND EVENT!!!
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#21
When I starting planning how i would spend the life insurance if he died
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#22
I had a miscarriage and he told me I was a “lazy drama queen” for sleeping in on day 3 afterwards.
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#23
When I would hear him park his car after work and I would roll my eyes. I knew it was done
#24
Called himself a provider but provided me with nothing but headaches and anxiety
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#25
Everytime i would hear ‘someone should do the dishes’ ‘someone needs to fold laundry’ ‘sure would be nice if someone xyz’ .. said from his chair, as a perfectly capable human that can do the dishes, laundry etc
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#26
One day his body odour was different i would get disgusted and couldnt sleep in the same room
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#27
i clean, i cook, i do all the housework, solo parent our son, he plays video games 24/7 and sighs everytime i speak to him and one day i was just like “wtf am i doing”
#28
When I found a voice recording of how he cheated on me. Full details. With a man.
#29
When I started cheating back and he said “I’ve never seen you this happy before” lmfaoooo
#30
I joking said he looked like a tiki man and then realized I wasn’t joking and he did indeed look like a tiki man, out of all the horrible things he did, it was the tiki man that got me outta there.
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#31
He told me if he was gay rafe Cameron would be his boyfriend/type
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