5 Women Reveal The Most Humiliating Ways They Were Dumped By Men

When I was younger, I thought if someone was going to break up with me, they would do it in some gorgeous fashion. Perhaps after being buzzed on some rosé, he'd touch the edges of my split ends and tell me I'm just some overbearing vision of perfection, or he'd dump me right before going on a skydiving trip. 

But after a guy texted me that he was over and done with our whole thing, I decided to lower my breakup standards.

Anyone in the future could literally leave a note with my doorman, comment on my blog, or have their mom call me and tell me and it wouldn't hurt as bad as someone you care about ending it all — ending everything — over a text message.

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Though these breakup stories about the worst ways to dump someone will make your heartbreak a little, remember that you aren't alone.

1. Using the Comic Sans font is not gentle.

"In the summer between our sophomore and junior years of college, my longtime (high school) boyfriend proposed. One afternoon in early fall, as I sat in a computer lab frantically trying to finish my homework before class, I got an instant message: 'I don't think I can do this anymore.'

I asked him what was wrong. I knew he'd been having a rough time at work, he didn't particularly like one of his roommates, and school was stressing him out. 'This. Us. I thought this was going to be different. I thought I meant more to you. I can't do this.'

And he proceeded to detail the reasons I was no longer suitable for the role of girlfriend/fiancée, the reasons he was breaking up with me... in bright green, 12-point Comic Sans." —Amy K., 30

2. A few moments before meeting his parents is bad timing.

"There was the guy that broke up with me *just* before I met his parents, and I had to sit through lunch with them for 3 hours afterward. Then I got the bus home." — Shula S., 24

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3. Through a mixtape can be a little bit more creative.

"He used to make me these mix CDs filled with love songs. He signed them all 'Love,' in blue sharpie marker. I played them until they skipped.

Then he started getting weird. He once told me my go-go boots made me look like a streetwalker. He'd stand me up on our coffee dates, then accuse me of not showing up saying he'd waited for an hour. 

When he made me buy my own Junior Mints at the movies, I knew it was coming to an end, but when he showed up with a mixed CD with Billy Bragg's 'A Lover Sings,' well... that was the official end of the road. 'You and I are victims of a love that lost a lot in the translation' was the lyric that did it. 

He stopped calling, stopped emailing. We touched base a few years back, had an awkward and sad kind of lunch, and haven't spoken since." — Libby C., 30

4. Asking someone out again as a joke is mean.

"A guy, hurt that I asked to take it slow, sulked for a month, then decided to take me out to dinner on Valentine's Day, showed up an hour and a half late, no apology, took me to a restaurant, didn't talk much, and when the bill came, hesitated about paying then walked out without giving me a hug.

The whole thing was to make a point that he was breaking up with me and not the other way around. 

Then after about six months, he started texting me every single Thursday for a year. Never once asking me out but always saying something bizarre like, 'Hey, I saw a squirrel and thought of you,' or, 'Hey do you know President Obama? So do I.'

Then he asked me out... on April Fools Day. As a joke. It's one of the worst ways to dump someone, I think." — Brenda G., 38.

5. Disappearing suddenly brings no closure to the person you ghosted.

"After being single for a year, I jumped back into the dating pool and was randomly introduced to a guy by his sister. Great guy, was totally what I wanted in someone, and we seemed to be hitting it off great.

I met his family, we talked about going on trips together (we love to travel), and so on. But one random day he texted me and said, 'Let's get dinner and talk about where we see things going. I do not think I'm ready for a relationship and think you are.'

I knew exactly where this was going. I kindly responded that there might be a misunderstanding and that we could talk. Poof — never, ever heard from the dude again. He did the famous disappearing act." — Anna D., 25 

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Jen Glantz is the author of 'All My Friends Are Engaged,' and creator of The Things I Learned From.