Breakups are never easy, but for some people, they’re downright chaotic. Emotions run high, logic goes out the window, and before you know it, a simple “we need to talk” turns into a full-blown dramatic episode. Sometimes, the way people handle heartbreak says more than the relationship itself.
From dramatic exits and shocking confessions to petty revenge and movie-level twists, exes online are spilling their most unhinged breakup stories. Whether it’s jaw-dropping, funny, or just plain weird, these tales prove that love might end, but the drama doesn’t always go quietly. Get ready to laugh, cringe, and maybe text your best friend, “You won’t believe this one!”
#1
In high school my boyfriend had his mom tell me he wasn’t going to the prom with me, the same day of prom. After that, when I didn’t talk to him for a week, he had his mom come to my house and apologize on his behalf and give me a teddy bear. That boy is now my husband. No, no he’s not I’m totally kidding.
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#2
We lived in separate states and made the decision to move in together. She was under contract at her job, so I bit the bullet. I applied to a school in her city, saved up money, quit my job, packed up my car and started to drive the 11 hours to a new life.
She ended it when I was on hour 3 of the drive.
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#3
He told me to meet him at his house and when I got there he wasn’t home yet. After half an hour of sitting on his stoop another girl walked up and said, “I’m his new girlfriend, and you need to leave”.
Oh.
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#4
My husband cooked dinner, we watched a movie, then he handed me a typed letter saying he wasn’t happy and then gave me a spreadsheet of all of our assets divided. A spreadsheet. Spreadsheet.
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#5
Got dumped over a text. Couple days later got another text “Stop telling people I dumped you over a text and making me look bad”.
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#6
By mixtape. I was surprised to get one since it had never been a thing to make them during our relationship. The songs had an overall theme of breaking up and being sad and stuff. Needless to say, we broke up the day after.
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#7
I was hit by a car and nearly died. Woke up in hospital and with all the get well cards was a card from my girlfriend saying she doesn’t love me any more. That was about it. It hurt so much, not only because crying aggravated my fractured ribs.
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#8
I was shown pictures on Facebook of her wedding. She said she went on vacation.
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#9
This was back in high school, and I had only been dating the girl for a month or two. She was really religious (Baptist) and I wasn’t. I went to a few of her youth group things just to hang out with her.
That summer, she went away to a Baptist camp in Kentucky for 2 weeks. She called me when she got there and said she was having so much fun and couldn’t wait to get back and tell me all about it. I was happy she was having fun.
About a week later, I get a letter from her saying during one of their “sessions”, she realized she was prone to sin. Her words: “We can’t be together anymore. You make me want to sin.”
When she got back, we talked once on the phone and she said they made her write the letter and send it, but she agreed that we should stay apart. Her mom was real upset, and tried to convince me that it was God’s way of trying to save me, and that I should become Baptist and then her daughter and I could be together.
After high school, she found alcohol, lost Jesus and had a ton of fun experimenting. I found my wife, and have 3 kids. No regrets at all.
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#10
Voicemail. Because he didn’t like my haircut.
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#11
My first boyfriend broke up with me by telling me he was gay, and in love with some guy. He told me this in a letter.
I basically said, “you know hey I’m sad because you know you were pretty cool, but yeah not a choice and yada yada yada go have fun.”
Found out he was dating a girl a few months later. Asked him about it, confused. And he confessed that he made the whole gay thing up because he knew I’d be “supportive” of him, and I wouldn’t try to get like revenge or something.
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#12
Was returning a book to the library, he was waiting outside. When I came back put he said he had prayed to God to send a gust of wind if we should break up, and lo and behold a gust of wind came. On the windiest day that year.
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#13
Happened to a mate;
The girl changed her relationship status on Facebook to single. No message, text or any notification whatsoever. He found out they were “Broken up” the next day.
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#14
I got dumped over text because my ex ‘couldn’t marry me’. That would be a perfectly good reason, if I wasn’t in my first year of high school.
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#15
I was married for 8 years and have 4 kids. Normal family, normal life. My wife and I were gamers. She eventually stopped playing games with me and would go of to our room. Turns out she met a man in Brazil on another video game and took 10 months of rent money to fly down there to be with him. So to sum up, she left me and our kids to be with a man that in the end dumped her. By the way, I had been the one that worked while she stayed at home. We got divorced, I have custody, and shortly after the divorce I won enough in the lottery to buy my home.
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#16
I had a boyfriend who suddenly got cold & distant. I called a few times, but he kept making excuses to not hang out, but when I asked if it was over/if we were OK (we clearly weren’t, but I didn’t want to assume that yet) he’d say something along the lines of “Nahhh we’re great! love you!”. Then he just stopped answering his phone. Sad & confused, I finally tried swinging by his house, hoping to catch him at home so we could at least break up properly. He & his roomate had moved out. The place was empty. I didn’t hear anything from him until I got married years later & changed my facebook status to “married” – 3 hours later, I got a message from him, saying “Oh, I guess I didn’t rate an invitation”. We weren’t even facebook friends.
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#17
Two years into a relationship, this happens:
“Hey, baby. Wanna see a magic trick?”
…
“Poof, you’re single.”
That was his way of ending things.
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#18
My Girlfriend in high school broke up to me Using an IP relay system she used over AIM. Basically She typed on AOL instant messenger to a stranger what she wanted the stranger to tell me over the phone. yay.
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#19
I was dating this girl for about a year and on my birthday we were suppose to go out for dinner and just have a fun/relaxing night. I show up to the restaurant and get a table, about 10 minutes later she told me that she already is dating someone else and wanted to end things between us.
In short, she was dating me, then on my birthday told me that she already started dating someone behind my back.
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#20
Girlfriend tells me that she met an “artistic” photographer that wanted to take some photos of her. I told her not to because it’s the oldest trick out there.
So the next day she calls me up and tells me I was right. He wanted to do nudes, and when she got naked, he made his move.
She got upset and ran out. In fact, she was so upset that she went over to her last boyfriend’s place and slept with him. Now she was dumping me because, “it just wouldn’t work.”
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#21
My husband was cheating on me, I knew it but I was young and too afraid to be on my own so I never confronted him. One night he got ready for work, hugged the baby then kissed me on the cheek and told me he loved me, said “See you after work” and left. He never came home. He filed for divorce the next day.
A few years later, I met a man who was an international student from the UK, he lived with us for 6 years and we had plans to marry. One morning after we woke up he said, “I’m moving back to England”. He moved out 3 weeks later. See ya.
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#22
My ex wrote me a break up letter……… which he wrote in my yearbook………. which he gave to me on my birthday. The sucky part was that I couldn’t even tear out the break up letter since it had notes from my friends on the other side of it.
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#23
When I was in 9th grade, guy had our mutual friend in a 3-way phone call break up with me. “I’m just not ready to be in a relationship right now.” I didn’t care that much, but I did find out a week later that he was dating my best friend. That was awkward.
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#24
I’ve had one guy simply just cut all communication with me.
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#25
She told me I was too nice; she then started crying.
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#26
I got dumped over a text message while I was at work. The text message thing was bad enough, but apparently he was so much of a coward that he had to do it when he knew I wouldn’t see it for hours… Then the next day I got about a million text messages from his mother telling me how much of a piece of s**t I am and that her son was going to be really rich and find a girl way better than me. It was weird, to say the least.
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#27
My ex tried to break up with me over Facebook chat. He couldn’t get the words out though, so I had to do it for him.
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#28
I got totally blindside-dumped on my 16th birthday immediately before walking into my drivers education class full of 30 kids. We then had to watch those scare videos of what happens when you don’t drive with a seatbelt on. It was a brutal 2 hours.
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#29
My ex-fiancée left me in the middle of the night. I woke up with a letter in the bed, and the ring in the box.
This was 5 months ago and I haven’t heard a word from her yet. I do however get to speak to her control freak father every few weeks who demands I pay him $4000, for whatever reason.
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#30
Via instant-message. Just “I don’t think we should be together anymore.” via IM. *sigh*.
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#31
Ok, mine is ridiculous. His mother fb chatted me to dump me, with the help of his brother. When he found out they had done this, he dumped me anyway. Four years later were somehow friends again and hes sitting here next to me as I type this out.
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