Feeling blue from a break-up? Others have walked in your shoes.
Think your break-up is bad? Well, who are we to judge? It probably
is bad. But you might feel better knowing that other people have been through tough times. From our title, "How to Survive Dating," we've collected a few break-up tales of woe.
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I dated a guy for over a year, and it was amazing! I was going to marry him. And then he broke up with me over the phone - over the phone! I was like, "If you're a man, you'll come here and break up with me to my face." Then he came over and we made out. Then we hooked up twice the following year, and he gave me a urinary tract infection. Then I saw him out with someone else. I was calm. I went up to him and said, "Hey, what's up?" He wouldn't even acknowledge me. He had never done that before. I was fuming. I couldn't believe he was doing that. The next thing I knew, my drink was all over him. It made me feel very liberated.
ROBYN
ATLANTA, GA
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One of my girlfriends broke up with me over email. Don't ever do that to a guy. It was bad because I wasn't able to get a real explanation from her. All she said was, "We are broken up, goodbye."
YONI
WASHINGTON D.C.
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My first serious boyfriend broke up with me on our one-year anniversary. But he still had a plane ticket to come and see me in Europe for a month. He came and stayed with me at my house, and I was trying to get back with him the whole time. Then I found out he was calling his new girlfriend on my phone bill!
LAURA
IOWA CITY, IOWA
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I was engaged to this girl who was living with her grandmother in Colorado while I was stationed Ft. Lewis, Washington, on active duty with the Army. Because of my schedule, we sometimes went months without seeing each other. One day, her grandmother, who adored me, called me out of the blue and told me that my girlfriend was pregnant - with someone else's baby! In the span of a couple of months, my girlfriend had moved to Alabama to be with the guy who impregnated her, realized he was a complete ass, had an abortion and moved back to Colorado. She had no idea her grandmother told me any of this. She called me up and asked innocently, "When are we getting married?" Needless to say, my answer was, "Never."
JADE
CENTENNIAL, COLORADO