There are certain situations or people who you can only give so many chances. Sometimes the harder you try to make it work out, the worse it gets. The only thing left to do is just say, "Forget this, I'm done."
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If She’d Do That To Her Own Father, What Would She Do To Him?
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“I was dating a girl whose father was dying of cancer and was at home in hospice care. I found out that she was stealing his pills to get high. That’s when I said, you know what, this probably isn’t the type of person I want to be with.”
She Was Experiencing Pregnancy Complications, But That Didn’t Matter To Her Boss
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“I was rushed into emergency surgery when it was discovered I had an ectopic pregnancy. I called my boss right before, told him what was happening, and he asked ‘if it could wait for my day off.’ I just handed the phone to my fiancé and was rolled away. The next day, I left the hospital and called work again for the HR number so I could start my maternity leave paperwork. I said, ‘Hi John, it’s me.’
That’s when he said, ‘You know you’re 15 minutes late, right?’
Yeah… Done With This City, population me.”
The Wife’s Call Is What Put Him Over The Edge
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“My ‘best friend’ of 17 years just got married and he was in desperate need of a job. I knew my work was looking for someone and the pay was double what my friend had been making. So I informed him about the job, gave him my boss’s number and email address, and hand-delivered an application to his apartment for him to fill out. I also offered to pick him up and drive him to my company’s office. I even gave my boss my friend’s number, which he called four times.
My friend never filled out the application. He didn’t call in, email, or answer my boss’s phone calls. My job actually passed up on a few other well-qualified people just so my buddy could at least get an interview. They were going to give him the job on the spot. After we hired someone else, I got a call from my friend yelling at me for not following up on the job for him and getting back to him about it. His wife also called me, asking me why I didn’t refer him to my boss. At that point, I got rid of his number and I haven’t spoken to him since. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink.”
Her Grandmother Was More Of A Mother Than Her Bio Mom
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“My grandmother adopted my older brother and I when we were very young because my mother was far too concerned with herself to take care of the two children she had.
Maybe 10 years later, my mother was doing better and we went to live with her. She had married this wannabe cowboy with a temper and he beat the crap out of us on a regular basis while my mother cheered him on and always blamed us for a 40-year-old man punching preteens in the face. Later when the conversation would turn to those years, she was very adamant that none of those things happened.
I’m 28 years old and my mother has always refused to acknowledge any wrongdoing or any fault in anything. She refuses to acknowledge that, according to my reissued birth certificate and the state of Texas, her mother is legally my mother (because of adoption).
The final straw was when my grandmother died March 30, 2016. My mother and my uncle chose to exclude my brother and I from the obituary, even though my grandmother had prewritten hers and was very specific when she said that my brother and I were to be listed as surviving children and treated as such. They attempted to cut us out of the will. The very next time I see or speak to my mother it will be in a courtroom.
I feel that family has nothing to do with blood relations and that my real mother died March 30, 2016. My biological mother can go eff herself and die slow. I hope she gets trapped under a slow drip of acid.”
This Woman Acted Like She’d Never Heard Of Sales Tax Before
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“I was at the grocery store yesterday and this chick ahead of me in the line didn’t know what sales tax was. She started yelling at the guy working the check out because ‘It was $33 and now it’s $36!’ Yeah, you stupid bimbo, because $33 is the subtotal before sales tax. The guy tried to explain this to her but she made him re-ring everything, expecting it all to change.
When it wasn’t any different, obviously, she started yelling again. I had a really bad headache and was tired so I said, ‘It’s the effing tax!’
And this bimbo said, ‘Excuse you,’ without even looking at me. I saw red. I only had a bottle of water and a pre-made salad, so I took out a $10 bill, put it on the counter and just walked out while calling her a fairly nasty name. The alarm went off and everything, but no one stopped me.”
He Had No Idea Why His Friend Would Take HER Side Over His
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“My girlfriend cheated on me, so I told her I need space to think. One of my friends texted me a few days later to find out what happened. I dived really into the details with my friend about my relationship with her. He kept making weird excuses to ‘justify’ her behavior like, ‘Maybe she’s scared of how she feels about you and that’s why she cheated.’ I ended up super angry, so I stopped talking to him. I texted him the next day to confront him about what he’d said the night before. Turns out, he didn’t have his phone that night. My ex had invited him to a party, stole his phone, locked herself in the bathroom, and impersonated my friend to try and convince me to take her back. NOPE!”
Before That, Getting Back Together Was Still On The Table
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“My ex-girlfriend and I were on a break. We ended up at the same bar and I ended up giving her a lift home. I didn’t want to come inside, but she wouldn’t take no for an answer. She refused to get out of my car for like an hour, screaming at me all the while, and she only got out because she was going to pee on herself. And then she did pee on herself in the street a few minutes later. Just crazy.
It’s safe to say we didn’t get back together.”
Her Bad Hair Day Meant More Than Their Friendship
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“‘Sorry, I can’t take you to ER because I have bad hair.’ That was all I needed to hear to understand that person is a piece of crap and that I did not need to have anything to do with her.”
She Was Like A Different Person When She Was Drinking
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“This girl that I’ve been friends with for a good few years (I’m a male, by the way) has a tendency to throw irrational temper tantrums when she’s wasted, even if it’s in public.
We actually stopped hanging out for a while after one of these but then we made up again and we were hanging out a lot for a good while.
So one night, we went out drinking together and she was trashed. We were having a pleasant time when some girl randomly texted me. This other girl is also just a friend, and she has a tendency to overshare when she was drinking, so of course, she texted me something about a hookup she’d just had with some guy. It was a little TMI but kinda funny, so I laughed and shrugged it off.
So the crazy girl that I was hanging out with went, ‘Ohhh, what was that all about?’
And I was like, ‘Nothing, my friend was just being gross.’ She wanted to see it, so I showed it to her.
She then flipped all the way out over some girl texting me about her encounters, as if I was at all in control of what she texts me. She threw a huge tantrum at the bar and I was like, ‘Ok, I think we should leave.’
So we left and she was screaming at me the whole way while I was trying to take her home. I was mostly keeping my cool and being like, ‘Hey, remember how we had a long talk about how you get really irrationally angry when you’re wasted and you take it out on the closest person? You’re doing that now.’
We finally got to a red light, still a good ways from her home, and she went, ‘That’s it, let me out.’
We were in the middle of a busy street but there was no way I was gonna get out and chase this girl. I warned her, ‘Okay, but I’m not coming after you and I want you to try to remember when you sober up that you were the one who wanted to get out of the car. I really think you should just let me take you home; we don’t have to talk the rest of the way.’
‘EFF YOU.’ Then she got out of the car.
That was my ‘Nope, I’m out,’ moment. There was no way I was going after her. I texted her to please let me know when she made it home safe because we were in a random part of town. She texted me a few hours later, of course claiming I let her walk home in the rain.
The next day, she texted me a novel-length apology saying she’s sorry she acted like an idiot and understands if I don’t want to be friends anymore, but she left some stuff in my car so could I please meet her to get it, she can come to me, etc. So we met up, I handed her her crap and the entire exchange was:
‘Thanks for bringing this to me.’
‘No problem! Have a good night.’
I haven’t spoken to her since. It sucks that she gets crazy when she drinks, but people like that are toxic. Sometimes I miss hanging out with her and I feel bad for her because she’s got a lot of issues, but I can’t keep putting myself through irrational tantrums. She’s done this with a LOT of people, mostly guys. She’ll get wasted in public, find something she doesn’t like and then pick a fight over it. I’m far from the first friend she’s lost over her behavior.
Nope. I’m done.”
Everyone Started Talking About Her Behind Her Back
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“When my boyfriend left me for a friend, who moved into the house I used to share with him, I put up with it. When the friendship group stopped inviting me out because they felt awkward having us all there, I put up with it. When rumors, gossip, and snide remarks circulated about me, I brushed it off. When I moved interstate, then came back for my birthday and every single one of them bailed hours before the reservation, I cried and got mad but said nothing. When I went through a tragic loss and was depressed, they all fell out of touch with me. I never received a call, not one.
I went away, got some counseling, and learned to love myself a little more. When I returned to their world, I discovered they knew about my issues and had been derogatory. The first night I saw everyone at a house party, they all gathered in one room where I was not allowed to go. Finally, I realized, after 10 years: these people were not friends. I left and I have never looked back. Now, three years later, I have a wonderful life with a loving boyfriend, many genuine friends, and I am on track to achieve my career goals.”
He Always Blamed His Family For His Nasty Habits
“My old housemate used to tell us about his awful family and how messy/nightmarish they were. He wasn’t the tidiest out of everyone at our place, but I figured he’d just picked up bad habits. I always felt really sorry for him about his family situation, so I tended to give him a bit of a pass.
Fast forward to us moving out after a year. His parents came to help and his room was in an absolute state. I cannot adequately describe how vile it was, I’m amazed he didn’t have rats in there. When challenged on it, without missing a beat, he swore that he’d been staying with his girlfriend and that in the meantime I had moved into his room and trashed it, which obviously I hadn’t. His parents went nuts and went to the landlord, who believed them and took a cleaning fee out of my share of the deposit instead of his.
I was so angry at the guy, I had always stood up for him against his family/our other (pretty crappy) housemate and then he decided to take advantage of me for $300.”
Getting Kicked Out Of Her Dorm Room Was Starting To Wear On Her
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“About two months before I graduated college, my roommate stopped leaving the dorm entirely and her boyfriend came over every two weeks or so. I was told to leave the room for those nights because it made them more comfortable.
My ‘I’m done’ moment was when, at 7 pm, they were banging in a blanket fort on the floor, as I knew they would, and I needed to get my stuff because I was being kicked out of the other place I was supposed to be sleeping for the night (the girl two doors down the hall, she wanted her boyfriend to come over, too). So I texted my roommate, waited about a minute, then just opened the door.
They were indeed banging in a fort on the floor. Nope, not having it. I stood there and talked to them for three minutes about the weather. They were mortified and I could almost hear him go flaccid.
After that I just told her he could visit, he could sleep over, but I wasn’t leaving the stupid room.”
She Thought Because It Was Her Birthday, She Could Get Her Way
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“My friend told me that if I made it to her birthday party, she would pay for my gas (she offered after I told her I wasn’t going to go because I lived so far away). It was 400 miles each way for a one night visit. She later told me that she wouldn’t pay me what she said she would. So later when she asked for me to buy her something because she didn’t have her money on her, I told her that she still owes me $50 for her birthday. Then she whined to her other friend, who was right next to me, ‘He wants me to pay him for coming to my birthday party!’ I have no problem loaning money to friends, but people who renege on a deal are the worst.
I’m never letting her get a penny out of me again. She’s poor now, so she asks all the time.”
There Was Nothing He Could Do To Keep Her
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“I dated a girl for two and a half years. We separated three months ago in part because I wanted to get married and she was uncertain about marriage at all. While separated, I moved out of the apartment we shared, but we continued dating. She could not afford the apartment on her own and would not qualify for it on her own. I had told her if we ever broke up, she could keep the apartment, although she’d have to illegally sublet and get a roommate.
This is the bay area though, so no problem finding a roommate for a one bedroom. I told her I would keep my name on the lease so she could be sure to stay there. Anyway, about six weeks ago she came around on the idea of marriage. I said great, but I didn’t want to rush things in case she was only saying that because of loneliness, separation regrets, etc. I was also beginning a six-week work project and wouldn’t get to see her much during that time.
Four weeks ago, she went to a three-day conference for school with an attractive male classmate and was also suddenly colder and more distant to me. Three weeks ago, she went out on a date(s) with the same classmate. Two weeks ago, we talked and she told me she needed space and time to be able to figure stuff out. We weren’t 100% done but it wasn’t looking good. I asked her to give me two weeks of not dating that guy so it wouldn’t cloud the issue of whether we should be together, what with new relationship energy, etc. I asked if she could just think about our situation – no contact from me or that guy – and when I was done with the work project if she wanted to permanently split we could and it’d be clean. She said no promises.
Apparently, she saw the guy every day over the last couple weeks and introduced him to all her friends. I found out that they started sleeping together and she was hiding any proof of my existence at our apartment. She even threw away my toothbrush so it looked like only she lived there. That’s it. I had enough, I was done.”
She Soon Found Out About His Cellular Affairs
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“I found out my husband of twelve years was cheating on me. I decided maybe we could get past this if we tried and got counseling. I tried and did a bunch of stuff to make things better for us, then I got into his phone one day (I didn’t intend to, the perfect opportunity was just there in front of me). He was still professing his absolute heartbreaking love to that woman. AND he was also chatting with two others who he told were so hot and was trying to set up dates with them.
Forget that, if he could cheat on a woman he claimed to love, not just me who he said he was ‘trying to love again,’ there was no chance of anything working. That was definitely my ‘I’m done’ moment. Divorcing his sorry tail was the best move I’ve ever made. It’s been a year now and I’m loving life. I hear he is alone and miserable.”
Their Night Of Nerdy Fun Took A Sour Turn Almost Immediately
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“I played Dungeons and Dragons in college. There was this one guy… Ugh, everyone knows that one guy who forgets that people play games to have fun.
But in any case, he wanted to be Dungeon Master and we wanted to play an epic game, so we started at level 25. We built our characters and the very first encounter the DM threw against us were monsters specifically crafted to be all but immune to our characters. Like, seriously, the most effective move any of us had was to turn into a giant red dragon and sit on one them.
So after a grueling and un-fun hour of trying to do anything against these monstrosities, my character unfurled his (magical) wings and flew home.
And I packed up my stuff and just left. Apparently, me leaving opened the floodgates because shortly after I left, everyone else was like ‘This isn’t fun. We’re done here.’ That dude never got to DM again.”
Nothing He Did Was Right, But She Could Do No Wrong
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“I kicked my now ex-girlfriend out, even though I knew she had nowhere to go. Why was I so cruel? Well, I could deal with constantly being treated like crap, being ignored, taken advantage of, and just dealing with a constant feeling of walking on nails with her. I put up with it, bit my tongue, and pushed it to the back of my mind. Then she got pregnant and red flags started to go up. There were multiple ‘close call miscarriages,’ then it was a suspected ectopic pregnancy, but she wouldn’t quit smoking or go to a prenatal appointment. I was on the fence about it all because, well, I wanted to be a dad.
Then I went out to her car to get her something. When I lifted up a hoodie in the backseat, I discovered a box of tampons. Normally, that wouldn’t mean anything, but in this case, it did. I had cleaned her car out and detailed it inside and out only a few weeks prior, and this box of tampons was not there before. She doesn’t hang out with other girls, as she hates other girls really. She had lied to me about being pregnant, as well as lied to my family and gotten their hopes up. So that was the final straw. I had decided then and there to rid my life of this lying and manipulative leech.
So I went inside, and the first thing out of her mouth was, ‘I’m going to Virginia Beach at the end of the month with another guy, it’s gonna be fun!’ Wait, hold on. Rewind that. Another guy? Oh, no. She wasn’t asking me if I wanted to go, as a courtesy to, you know, YOUR BOYFRIEND THAT YOU ARE HAVING A CHILD WITH? So she left to hang out with someone and in the meantime, I threw all her crap in the driveway, texted her and told her to get her crap and stay the eff away from my house and my family. If that isn’t an ‘I’m done’ moment, I don’t know what is.”