These people heard things no one ever wants to hear in their life, but if it happens it'll break you down.
The Truth About This Friendship Was Devastating
“When I was in the third grade I thought I became great friends with a girl from school. She was more popular than me and wouldn’t really talk to me in school, but she would call my house and invite me over all the time. Sometimes though she would randomly turn on me like she was looking for a reason to get mad at me. One day I couldn’t figure out why she was mad at me and she said, ‘You only have friends because your mom makes people invite you over.’ I was very shy and my world came crashing down. I guess maybe my mom had been secretly having it arranged with her mom for her to invite me over.” Source
Playground Politics Hurt
“Nursery school, and we were all lined up on the sliding board ladder waiting our turn. Cute girl behind me that I guess I wanted to impress, so I smacked the kid’s a** above me, and said something like, ‘Let’s move it, fat hiney.’ Felt pretty good about myself for about two seconds until the girl said, ‘YOU fat hiney.’ That was 1975.” Source
Better Without You
“‘I wasn’t even in love with you, I just stayed with you until I could find someone better.’ Two years later and I’m in a happy relationship now but every time I think about that it cuts deep. I felt so inferior and worthless until I realized that I was better than believing him.” Source
That Hits Close to Home
“My mother: ‘I wish you’d never been born.’ I reacted with, ‘I don’t want you to be my mother then.’ I ended up not talking or seeing her for over five years. She was a strict, controlling mother. We got into a fight about me (19) staying late one night to help the drama club with a production. Guilt trip fails, she hits me in the face, screams that I’m no child of hers, and kicks me out of home. Leaves my dad a week later, blaming me for the marriage breakdown and throws him out of our house as well.” Source
She Took Away the Song in His Heart
“I play the piano/keyboard and I have written a song or two. I mostly play metal and a few years ago, I decided try my hand at other genres. So I thought some electronic music would be fun to try. So put my KORG KARMA workstation to work and started making some beats, melodies and sounds and I finally came up with something I thought was alright. Well I put it out to a few people and they liked it. I spent a lot of my time working on it and I really enjoyed making music then. Well I told my wife I was going to try to make some more music and maybe release something and she told me, ‘who the h*ll is ever going to listen to your music?’ Crushed me. Never really got into music as I used to be…” Source
The Silence Was Deafening
“Nothing. The most crushing thing someone has said to me was nothing. I had a miscarriage and people I thought were my friends said nothing. No ‘sorry for your loss.’ No, ‘let me know if there is anything I can do.’ Not even an insensitive, ‘well now you can go get hammered.’ Just complete radio silence. It was awful.” Source
Truth or Dare Gone Wrong
“My 6th grade class took an overnight field trip to a museum, with a charter bus to transport all of us. Late at night the teachers had dozed off and some of the kids started playing Truth or Dare. I asked if I could play but was told no, so I settled in with a book to read and just observed the antics. One of the girls was given a dare to kiss me. She walked up to me real slow, disgust on her face, everyone hooting and clapping. I kind of froze and just stared at her, not sure what the h*ll to do. She leaned in, gave me a fast tiny peck on the lips, then started flailing her arms shouting, ‘EEW EEW EEW!’ while everyone laughed. I went red with embarrassment and just slunk down into my chair to try and disappear.” Source
I Miss Everything
“My grandma had 2 strokes and could hardly speak because half her mouth wouldn’t work well, and had to be taken care of in a facility. She also developed Alzheimer’s and would continuously forget family and even her own son’s name (my dad.) While we were visiting her and introducing ourselves again as her family, she would kiss our hands and hug us and kiss our cheeks best she could. She never seemed all there and mostly just smiled and had her eyes drift about. My dad began to massage her back as he normally did because she was in bed most of the time. She would make subtle sounds of thanks and gratitude. My dad would talk to her and say things like, ‘Mom, do you remember when we went to such and such?’ And she would say something that sounded like an exhausted, ‘Yes…’ Then he asked, ‘Do you miss anything?’ And as clear as day she replied, ‘Oh, I miss everything…'” Source
He Was Let Go for the Worst Reason
“‘I’m sorry but although you have dedicated yourself to this company, and helped us achieve our best financial year in 8 years, we have to let you go because the bosses daughter doesn’t like you.’ Fking ouch! I am 30 years old and was the office manager of a pretty big hvac, electrical and plumbing contractor company. I excelled at every aspect of my job and had a lot on my plate. I NEVER EVER could have predicted this. I have a wife and 2 young children. This bullst is going to force us to uproot and find something better. Hard decisions and scary times ahead.” Source
Rising Up to the Challenge
“‘The university has accepted too many students into this course this year, and you should be asking yourself if you belong here.’ University lecturer at a tutorial session. He ran 1.5hr tutorials instead of scheduled 3 hrs. I asked for help in the remaining 1.5 hrs, rather than him just leaving, that was his pompous response. Seriously considered quitting that day. Then I got mad. Then I improved. Then I graduated. He didn’t get asked back for a second semester. No, I wasn’t the only one to have issues with him. What an a**hole.” Source
A Mother’s Love Always Endures
“When I was growing up, my mom had this thing where she would pick me up and say, ‘Guess what!’ The first few times she did it, I always answered ‘What?’ with a big grin on my face. ‘I love you a whole bunch of kinds!’ As I got older, she would keep doing, but I stopped asking what. ‘Guess what.’ ‘You love me a whole bunch of kinds.’ Then, one day when I was in high school, years since she’d last said that, she said, ‘Guess what.’ I said ,’What?’ She replied, ‘I love you a whole bunch of kinds.’ I kinda smirked and turned to face her (I had been on the computer at the time) and said, ‘It’s been a while since you told me that.’ She answered, ‘You stopped knowing the answer’. I almost started crying.” Source
The Reunion Never Happened
“After high school I lost contact with many good friends. I was a mess personally, and trying to sort stuff out. Many of my friends joined the military, and not having Facebook meant I didn’t talk to them much. I just assumed I would take a few years, sort it all out, and reconnect at the reunion later on. About a year and a half after graduating, one of my friends asks, ‘Hey, you know Jordan, right?’ Jordan was a friend of mine who was an infantryman in the Marine Corps.
‘Of course, why?’ ‘KIA. Yesterday morning.’ I really didn’t know how to respond. I mean, he was 19 years old, and now he’s just gone. It shook our whole town to its core. I’ve now lost three military friends, two KIA, and one recently to suicide, and it doesn’t get any easier. For the curious, my friend Jordan actually appears in a book titled, ‘Where Youth and Laughter Go.’ I highly recommend it.” Source
The Missed Good-bye
“This wasn’t something that was even said. My mother was dying of cancer. One day at work, I get my phone blown up by my sister. I had it on silent at the time because I was in a customer facing job. Soon as I check my phone I see I have tons of missed calls from her. I just knew. I leave work and race home. Soon as I run up to the door, my dad opens it and looks at me. All he does is shake his head. At that point I fell to the ground and began to sob. She was gone.” Source
If Only She Had Known
“After 4 years of dating and a prolonged and painful breakup, me and my ex met up where he told me that he would have married me and had kids with me. Those words have haunted me ever since because the reason we broke up was that I felt he didn’t want to take our relationship to the next level and move in with me.” Source
A Weighty Conversation
“I dated someone in college who was self-professedly attracted to tall, skinny, dark haired guys. I used to be 407 lbs, had lost about 120 lbs by the time I met her and we really got along well. She was little waif of a thing, like a 125 lbs soaking wet. Obviously I was still chubby, but was killing myself at the gym daily. One night, on the way to drop her off after a night at the bar, she gives me this speech in the car. The basic gist of the speech is what was crushing. She told me I wasn’t losing weight fast enough and ended the conversation with some little quip about dating people in your own league. My insides felt like she had just kicked me in the gut. So after I opened the car door at 35mph and pushed her out, I went back to my dorm and had a good night’s sleep. Hah, not really, I dropped her off, walked her to the door and then kissed her so hard, deeply and passionately that Rhett Butler manifested from the nearest copy of Gone with the Wind and offered a standing ovation. You know the kind, where the girl’s legs get a little shaky and they go all doe-eyed on you. Then she asked me if I wanted to come in and I told her nope, I had a date with the junk food aisle at Walmart, cause food might have made me look like a loser fat-a**, but it never made me feel like one on purpose. I never spoke to her again. And now Im close to having lost 200 lbs and finally getting muscular.” Source
Some Parents Just Don’t Understand
“I have ulcerative colitis. A few years ago it nearly killed me. I went from 210 lbs to 110 lbs at 6′ tall. I had 1/3 the red blood cells of a normal male. I was always tired, always winded. Bleeding profusely from my intestines. The doctors were amazed I was still conscious let alone walking. I had to literally run to the toilet every 15-20 minutes. There was no holding it, no matter how hard I tried. I couldn’t live my life and go do the things I loved in fear of s_*tting myself. My dad constantly berated me for being lazy for missing work, which was still a rare occurrence. Driving to work was a gamble of hoping I didn’t get stuck in traffic. It happened a few times. I’d call my boss tell him I had to go home and I’d be in a few hours late. Go home and shower wash my clothes out and get dressed and go back. One time it happened my dad was sitting on the computer right inside the front door. He asked me why I was home and I told him. He said, ‘How the h_ll could you do something like that? That’s disgusting.’ With a look of just pure resentment and disgust on his face.” Source
The Miracle He Prayed For
“‘The doctors say he has a 70% chance of not making it.’ My mom called me telling me that my brother tried to commit suicide. I was on my way to my last important college test. I asked to go see him but that he looked terrible and wouldn’t want anyone seeing him like that. I’m not a religious guy but I prayed in the test and said, ‘Let me fail every test from now on to let him live.’ I failed the test and he lived.” Source
Last Conversation
“My dad and grandmother were getting ready to move back to Texas and I brought my then 8 month old daughter over to visit. My grandmother was happy at first playing with the baby and she suddenly broke into tears. I asked what was wrong. ‘This is the last time I’ll ever get to see this baby, it breaks my heart.’ I told her that’s not true, but it was, she died a few months later and it was the last conversation we had in person. Still makes me cry thinking about it.” Source
A Heartless Point of View
“‘Life is tough. Sometimes people die and you just have to live with it.’ My old boss when I requested time off to go to a family friend’s funeral. He was basically like my grandfather and I didn’t get closure because I needed to pay rent.” Source
The Call That Ended a Marriage
“My father in law to me: ‘Hey, you need to bring her (my wife) here. Whatever plans you have, cancel them. Her sister is in the hospital. She really needs to be here.’ Me: ‘Why what’s wrong?’ Him: ‘Her sister is going in for surgery. It’s a fairly risky procedure.’ Me: ‘Okay.’ Mother in law in the background: ‘You didn’t tell him she was dead?’ Father in law fumbling to shut the phone off: ‘No. It’s better they don’t know till they arrive. It’s a long trip.’ My freaking sister-in-law died of long QT syndrome three hours before they called us. My wife was worried about her going into surgery the entire way. I had to drive the entire way knowing that one of the closest people in my life had died without looking grave. Keeping that secret for the eight hour drive ended my marriage.” Source
What Might Have Been
“‘She was hit by a drunk driver, they say that she died instantly.’ The last conversation I had had with her, we got in a fight and our last words were not kind ones. We were supposed to be married that June after I graduated high school and she turned 18 (I was 19 then). I had called her house to apologize, and got told the news. I’m 37 now, and engaged. I’m happy with my current fiancé, but every once in awhile, I wonder what would have happened if she had lived. I got the nickname ‘Sober Dude’ for always insisting on being the designated driver, or at the very least not letting people drive drunk. I also make it a point to tell the people that I love how I feel, even in the middle of an argument. Because I never know when the last time I talk to them will be. Even if they don’t say it back, I know that I’ve conveyed my message. I’m a better person because I knew her, and in some ways, I’m better because I lost her. I wish that she could still be here, but I love my life currently.” Source
No Longer Invincible
“‘I need help,’ was the last thing my father said to me. I was in the shower and heard my dad knocking weakly on the door. By the time I got out he was already unconscious on the floor. An artery in his brain had burst and flooded it with blood in under a minute. I was 12, and I performed CPR for half an hour until the paramedics finally arrived. I will never forget how my father sounded in that moment. It was the first and last time he ever sounded weak, and it shattered my perceptions of the invincibility of adulthood.” Source
The Worst News
“From ultrasound technician: ‘I can’t locate your babies heart beat.'” Source
It Wasn’t a Dream
“‘Oh honey it was only a dream, no one came into your room last night.’ My mom after I told her about being molested when I was 8.” Source
Best Friend Betrayal
“My former best friend essentially encouraged a guy to rape me while I was ‘sleeping’ on the couch just a few meters away. (I was tired and resting, but I heard everything they said). He didn’t, he called her out on it saying it wasn’t a cool thing to say in that situation. Suffice it to say she isn’t my friend anymore. The story: we were at a house party. Her sisters and their friends. It wasn’t that big but there was beer. It was getting late and I wanted to go home, but she wanted to stay for a while longer so I lay down closing my eyes. They were sitting in the same room just a few meters away. At this point it was pretty late and relaxed and people were just chilling and talking. I guess she thought I ‘passed out’. As I’m laying there they start talking about sex, the guy mentions that he hasn’t had sex in a while, my friend offered me out saying that he could ‘take me’ (or ‘have his way with me’) since I was passed out and that I was a virgin (I’m being nice and paraphrasing). She said it with a dead serious voice. And based on his reaction, silence and, ‘That’s not cool,’ I’m pretty sure she was serious.” Source