13 Times People Realized That Breaking Up Is the Best Solution

They say that love is blind. But sometimes such circumstances arise that even the brightest feelings fade. The heroes of our article don’t regret breaking up with their partner, because they have suffered all sorts of things.

• My ex left me because he thought I wasn’t ambitious enough. A couple of years passed, I started my own business and became successful. Recently, I met him by chance in a shop.
  He was standing at the cash register and didn’t have enough money for chips. I snorted and paid for him. He recognized me and said he would definitely pay me back. And I replied, “No need, it’s my contribution to your business.” © Caramel / VK
• A friend started dating my ex. At first, I thought: well, okay, it happens, we parted ways a long time ago. But then he started telling her everything that was between us. She calls me and says, “Do you know what he thinks about you? He told me that and that!”
  It was too much. I told her, “If you stay with him, I’m out of your life.” She chose him. I guess friendship isn’t that important to her. I’m waiting for her to crawl back to me crying that this smart guy dumped her. © Caramel / VK
• My ex-boyfriend hated it when I talked to his mother because he thought I might say something unnecessary about him. If she called me on the phone, he would ask me to turn on the speaker and then stand next to me and listen to the whole conversation. Seeing her without him was also impossible — he didn’t want us to get close.
  Eventually, I told his mom how difficult it can be with her son sometimes, and she agreed. We broke up and haven’t spoken to each other for several years, but I meet his mom regularly. She’s a lovely woman! © Caramel / VK

• The ex was very greedy. I had to beg for money, even for diapers. But in public, he acted like a perfect husband.
  I decided to get revenge and persuaded a friend to go shopping with us. We approached one of the stands, and she began to criticize the groceries he wanted to buy. She said this is not tasty, and this is of poor quality. And then she started to put what I wanted to buy in the trolley.
  I sometimes had to spend hours proving why it was necessary to buy these items and not those that are cheaper. My husband was shocked, but had to agree because he is a “perfect” family man. In the end, he silently paid for everything. I’m happy we got divorced.
• My ex read a post on my page, “I don’t want a bouquet of flowers, better give me a bouquet of money.” And he did. I was pretty surprised.
  But I was even more shocked when a week later I found out that it was his salary. Naturally, he asked the money back. It was a shame, but I did.
  I spent some of the money, so I promised to pay him back next month. He kept calling me and trying to get back at me in every possible way. In the end, of course, we broke up, and I decided that I would never accept expensive gifts again in my life. © Caramel / VK

• My ex was a dentist. Sometimes I complain about him to my girlfriends for good reason. And they all say, “Well, he at least did your teeth?” Yes, he did!
  But, firstly, not for free, but at full price. And secondly, after him, I had to redo everything. That’s a real shame. Not only I wasted a lot of my time and nerves on him, he lived at my place for free, but he also profited from me.
  They say that the older a woman is, the more mercantile she is. But I was a fool in love — and here is the result: no money, no teeth! © Caramel / VK
• My sister’s mother-in-law came to the city to work and study. She didn’t know anyone. So, she met a guy, they got married. He left her after their son was born, didn’t help them at all. She raised her son alone, gave him an education, bought her own apartment.
  All their lives, they had only each other. And now 40 years later, her ex-husband shows up and says, “I want to communicate with my granddaughters.” And, imagine, he visits them, and they let him. © tatiana skvortsova / Dzen
• My first mother-in-law couldn’t stand me. She was always making things up about me, lying to my ex-husband, saying she saw me with other men. But he knew her character and didn’t believe her.
  In the end, we moved into my flat, so we almost didn’t communicate with her. We lived like that for 5 years, then divorced, and he found a new wife. And then the most interesting thing began: the former mother-in-law began to call me!
  She complained that her new daughter-in-law was bad, said that I was gold, and even invited me to visit. In the end, she safely got rid of all his women. Now he is 48, lives with his mom — as she wanted. Though they live like roommates: different refrigerators, no talking. Wonderful! © Caramel / VK

• A friend of mine divorced her husband. They shared a nice 3-bedroom apartment. She didn’t want to sell the apartment, so she offered to give him the money for his share in installments. But her ex-husband’s young fiancée needed the money, so they had to sell it.
  The friend still bought a nice one-bedroom for herself, and he spent all the money on his new wife. After a year, he ran out of money and health, so he decided to return to his ex-wife to her apartment. But she didn’t accept him. He was extremely indignant, thinking that she would wait for him at the window. © mgolanskaya@yandex.ru / Dzen
• The uncle’s wife left him. She left behind cut socks and shirts, and 2 eggs, half a jar of dried mustard and an open can of sprat in tomato in the fridge. She even poured the soup she had cooked the day before into the jar and took it away. © Evgenia Andreeva (L-G)
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• I got married at 19, I wanted to get away from my mom as soon as possible. After 7 months of marriage, I left my husband. Those were difficult times.
  At the age of 26, I returned to my mom to give birth in my home country. And my ex somehow found out I’d given birth. He made a concert under the windows of the maternity hospital, tried to climb through the window, shouting, “She won’t show me my daughter.” The nurse there was a powerful lady and quickly escorted him out.
  So many years have passed, and he is still trying to prove that he is the father of my daughter. Was he originally such a weirdo, or is it acquired? © Evgeniya Polyakova / Dzen

• My ex decided not to tell me that he was moving to another city. He talked about the move as if it was just changing apartments. And then he simply presented me with a done deal. That was the end of our relationship.
  I was angry with him, but that anger actually helped me get over the breakup quickly. A year later, he came back to the city and tried to act like nothing had happened. He kept texting me all the time, but I kept telling him to get lost. He probably didn’t leave me alone for another year, but by then he was already a stranger to me. © RemoveMost541 / Reddit
• I was working at a resort and fell in love with a guy there. Everything was very romantic: we walked under the moon, we were together everywhere. He swore to me in eternal love. It was time to leave for hometowns, the season was over.
  So, we say goodbye tearfully. He hugs me, I weep. In this atmosphere of drama, he suddenly says into my ear, “Honey, I have only one request for you...”
  Dramatic silence. I ask what I need to do, and he says, “Give back the watch I gave you.” And that’s how my love for him ended.

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