breakups
When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.
Innocent
My ex-boyfriend broke into my house and slept with my best friend when I was on vacation with my mother and brother. Now that I've gotten your attention, I'll add in that we were just at the tender age of fourteen; I was mere months older than both of them, I had been "dating" (loose definition here, as the farthest we'd ever gone was hand-holding) this boy for about four months, and this friend had lived with me when her aunt kicked her out of her own home just before her birthday, and had only just returned at the start of the new school year, a process that was a bit less than a year. I didn't know betrayal had roots so deep until I got that fateful phone call from my father alerting me to what he had come home to. I had left for a long weekend with my mother and my brother, leaving my father at our family home. This was the one detail I had neglected to mention to them when excitedly detailing my plans, as it was my belief up until the last second that he would be coming with us, but alas, work got in the way. I was four hundred miles away when my phone rang, my father's number flashing on my screen, and I picked up immediately. He told me what he had walked into, and asked if I had known anything about it, which I did not. To my knowledge she, and only she, was going to hide out in my open backyard until her aunt came to pick her up from our middle school, as my home is within walking distance and hers was a fair distance away, which had happened countless times before, and was okay by my parents. I was rather heated as I got off the phone when a text came through.
By Rebecca Williams8 years ago in Humans
Toxicity and Sublimity
Now that we have been to the past, we realize the future is a much better place. We were different. We never held hands because we didn’t prefer the moist uncomfortable connection. We would die for one another but there was no remorse in inflicting pain on each other. You were my greatest revelation and my biggest downfall.
By Kaylen Grace8 years ago in Humans
Everything I Want to Say
You are probably wondering why I sent this to you. I don’t want you to feel bad. I want you to know what I wanted to say, what I was feeling, and what I went through. This “story” is one sided because I have no possible way of knowing how you feel or wanted from me. If you want me to know how you feel, then tell me. Don’t leave me in the dark. I still worry about you and want the best for you and if that isn’t me, I will learn to accept that.
By Lillie Mogharbel8 years ago in Humans
The Day I Went Back to My Ex
It’s weird seeing someone you tried to hate for so long. I was supposed to hate a guy for breaking my heart and wanting someone else. I always believed he was only seeing me because he wanted someone to lean on if the other girls weren’t available. He was on Tinder while he was dating me and he did tell my “friend” that he was down for anything, but my heart still had hope and my mind told me there will never be anyone better than him. He was the boyfriend that I always dreamed of, he was tall, had a car and didn’t have to hide me from his parents. Perfect, we were perfect. But once the rose-coloured glasses come off, you see the real person.
By Rajpreet Sahota8 years ago in Humans
Worst Date That Lead to Worst Breakup
I'll give you a little background on my ex-boyfriend. We'll call him George. Now, George was Hispani, about five foot five; he had dark brown curly locks, and these beautiful green eyes. George and I met during my senior year when I was a teacher's assistant for one of my old teachers, and that class was full of juniors. Yes. George was a junior and I was senior. He was this shy fellow who hardly caused trouble or misbehaved. In fact, we started talking because he caught me looking at memes during class. George was absolutely hilarious. We would have conversations about the most random topics and it never got boring. Our first date was at the movie theater like every other typical couple, except we were not a couple yet, and I had no idea that this was a date.
By Rosa Torres8 years ago in Humans
Open Letter to My Ex Who Is Not My Ex
Hello J, Congratulations. You have a hold on me no one before you (or after you) will ever be able to achieve. You know that feeling? When you jump into a pool at the deep end? When you friends convince you to do it with them, promising they won't let go of your hand? But then, during those brief seconds as you're in the water, they let go and all of a sudden, you feel like you're drowning... But it's not a bad feeling. You're not dying, but you don't feel alive either. It's completely silent. Deafening. This is the calm before the storm. Then you float up and your head emerges from the water, and you gasp for air, while struggling to keep your head above water and kicking furiously so you don't drown. That's how it felt to love you. For that one moment, I forgot how temporary everyone is in your life, despite childish promises and fake compliments. I forgot that at any second, everything you've ever built can be destroyed.
By Destructive Rose8 years ago in Humans
To the Woman Who Took My Place…
Seven years, two months, eighteen days, four hours, twenty minutes, forty-five seconds…. that was how long he said he loved me. Three years, two months, eighteen days, four hours, twenty minutes, forty-five seconds… that was how long he chose to let the world believe we were happily married. Let me believe we were happily married. I will never deny that times were hard, but never did I believe he would do what he did to me all because of you. The catalyst, the newer, shiner, prettier, laid-back beauty that is you. You gave him the reason to walk away, to throw in my face all of the things I gave him that he took for granted. You replace me and yet, you will never be me. In an effort to spare my soul, I write you, I forgive you, I wish you well, and I continue to believe that maybe you are what he needs to change. Maybe you will make him a man. Make him someone who never lies, would never dare be selfish, who for a change wants what someone else wants. Someone who gives equally, who loves just as wholly and deeply as the other. Maybe you will be his inspiration, his muse, and his desire. He tells me I never had it, whatever it may be. I gave him the world, any request, I fought to make it happen, I put my life and desires aside for his happiness and well-being. My one-sided love. My mistake. His flourishing. His escape. His discovery of you. And so all I do is hope for you, and pray you do not fall into the same downward spiral. I hope you really have changed him. Maybe you are the one.
By Autie Buttons8 years ago in Humans
Our Sad Story
It's been seven years, this year, that we have been together. I fell in love with you in high school and never wanted something more in my entire life. I finally got your attention our senior year, and I now wish I hadn't. Our first year together you cheated on me, but I believe in second chances. Our second year together you went off to college and cheated again. I believe in third chances so we stayed together. You decided you needed a "break" and left me crying in my car at 3 in the morning. A month later I find out you had sex with my best friend, but was furious when I started seeing another man. For some reason I couldn't stay away from you and six months later I was back in your arms. You then joined the military, and things were starting to look up for us, I was madly in love with you and wanted to spend the rest of my life with you.
By Amanda Long8 years ago in Humans
