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“Love hurts, love scars, love wounds and marks.” This classic song, performed most memorably as a power ballad by 70’s classic rock band Nazareth, rings so true to the people behind these ‘How I Got Dumped’ tweets.
Featured as one of Jimmy Fallon’s famous hashtag challenges, ‘How I Got Dumped’ uncovered an absolute goldmine of eye-opening responses. From the most hilariously petty, to the most viciously heartbreaking, this list compiled by Bored Panda gives us a flavor of the many different ways people choose to end a relationship.
Because after all, we’ve all been there right? Whether you’re the dumper or the dumpee, there are methods of moving on that are dignified, tasteful and cause as little emotional suffering as possible. Pretty much none of these fall into that category.
Scroll down below to check them out for yourself, and feel free to share your own experiences in the comments!
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JillVille Child Care 6 years ago
Well that was completely appropriate, lol Hope you got over her Brian!
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The Cappy 6 years ago
There's a couple of possibilities. One is that she perceived you as being unprotective, realized that in a dream accurately reflecting her waking perception, and decided that wasn't what she wanted (which is what Mimis things). Another possibility is that she had a dream which did not accurately simulate your behavior (and we've all had those), and she wasn't able to perform proper reality checking afterward. Either is possible, though I'll admit I've had a girlfriend who was mad at me for a couple of days, and when I finally forced the issue and made her tell me why, it was about something I'd done in her dream. The only thing is to make sure that picture of you isn't accurate and move on.
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Shruti Naik 6 years ago
Good for you Girl! Congratulations! Proud of you that you got A after just getting dumped!
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Ross Carter 6 years ago
Reminds me of a time I got binned because she found Green Day on my iPod!
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JillVille Child Care 6 years ago
They publish that kind of thing in the paper? Or was it an actual announcement?
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Christina Sersif 6 years ago
I would have messaged the husband screen shots of our convos and tell him to get out if he's smart.
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Kate Szymanski 6 years ago
Wait, you're also the pineapple pizza girl! Either you're good at using your imagination or you've dated some very bizarre dudes
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troufaki13 6 years ago
How could he know that Susan wanted to see other people? hmm... maybe he was one of them??
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Lara Kashdan 6 years ago
Same exact thing happened to me. He told me how all of these girls he dated turned into "stalkers." When he disappeared on me (after getting back from a vacation together), I tried to go over a few times to get some closure and talk about it. If he knew I was coming (like when I finally said, I guess this is over - I'll come get my stuff), he'd leave. I realized, in my desperation to understand what happened, I was starting to act a little like a "stalker." After a few days I realized it and finally just said - oh well. He won't be labeling me that way to his next girlfriend. I didn't even like him that much, I was just confused about what was going on!
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Shruti Naik 6 years ago
i would've kicked him in his nuts as he was laughing. its so rude to make a joke like that, get someone's hopes up and tear them down. the level insecurities and self-doubt, due to a cruel joke like this, that can build up in someone's mind is not a small thing. Karma will get him.
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Phoenix Martinez 6 years ago
Wait.. there's more than 1 person in the world named " . " ???? That's Amazing!!
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Shruti Naik 6 years ago
could've kissed someone else nearby! it would've been fun watching his reaction!
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Tanja Caloi 6 years ago
it's also annoying. there's already too many stupid and annoying people on the internet, don't be one of them.
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Kaiden Coughlin 6 years ago
this person posted another one earlier so we're at two rough breakups?
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_WEIRD_ONE_ 6 years ago
soo.. three girls are running away from a lumberjack, they run up a hill and find a barn, the brunette hides behind a horse, the redhead hides behind a pig, ad the blonde hides behind a sack of potatoes, the lumberjack comes in and the brunette says 'neigh neigh', the redhead says 'oink oink', (heres the twist) and the blonde says 'potato potato' (btw im blonde and i dont mean any offense to anybody who has these hair colors)
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Just Amiable 6 years ago
As a chick that smokes like Wiz Khalifa with a husband that only smokes once a week, this is one b.s. Excuse .. Heavy smokers like light smokers because then there's always weed, he just wanted to break up.. Take it from a stoner 💯🚬
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Alwin Langevoort 6 years ago
Good riddance of that family of psychotics. Hearing non existing entities is never a good sign...
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Alysha Jones 6 years ago
I feel like he was trying to politely show you that he was taken by being friendly and inviting you to hang.
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NuckinFutNixxed 6 years ago
Sounds like my husband, he has had the same velcro wallet for 20 years and he made me see Jeepers Creepers..it was terrible and we left half way through. Ah memories lol.
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Anjelica Coutts 6 years ago
Haha I had heard over the weekend in grade nine, that my boyfriend Jeff as gonna break up with me. So first thing Monday morning I marched up to him & he said hey what’s up, and I said, As of this moment, you no longer have a girlfriend! All sassy like & walked off with my bad self. Lol. We’re friends now & have been for years & he still brings it up lol calling me savage. Hahaha kids.
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Elizabeth Bowen 6 years ago
This sounds like when my ex didn't tell me he was going to New York and then said he'd be moving to Florida when I asked him when he'd be back
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JillVille Child Care 6 years ago
That was just a dumb waste of money - unless you can add to the engraving to make it sound positive? Ugh.
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Alex Craig 6 years ago
That is sort of cute in a way. You are what 12 or 13? This certainly would not have been the end of the world.
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Susanna Vesna 6 years ago
Elementary school? Wow, some people got into this relationship thing early! Gosh, ur mum must have been sweating not knowing how to tell you and not hurt you. :'(
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therealpixie 6 years ago
I really try not to be a grammar nazi, but honey, when you complain about somebody's misuse of the English language, try very hard not to make a mistake of your own. "She didn't like being corrected."
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Mohd Sharif 6 years ago
im thinking she is making some of these stories up since she also had a few more post dont know if its real or fake
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Blue Cicada 6 years ago
My marriage of 4 years had the stereotypical ending--this isn't working out, I'm not happy, you don't cook and clean enough (he was very chauvinistic). He denied he was seeing the woman our entire small town knew he was seeing. They were living together within weeks, married 2 years later. 10 years later, he's finally seeing the light, divorcing her. On one of his regular calls to talk to our daughter, he unloads to me, despondent, how could this woman cheat on him, how horrible is his life? I asked if he had anyone to talk to about this. Only you, he says. I asked if he had anyone who wasn't his ex wife.
Neeraj Jha 6 years ago
#HowIGotDumped She said I am too much into Linkin Park and she can't take it any more.. so I told her fine as In the end it doesn't even matter... #NotMakingItUp #iSwear
NuckinFutNixxed 6 years ago
I was 16 and got conned into a blind date with a 18 yr old guy. I met him and he was 24, then he told everyone I was his girl and started making plans for me to move in with him. I was so embarrassed by this creep I dodged his kiss, reached into my purse grabbed my new pack of smokes, gave it to him and told him I wasn't interested. I turned and walked away as fast as I could and never looked back!! It was the only thing I could think of lol, he was creepy!!
anarkzie 6 years ago
Jesus, it sounds more like your story belongs on the "how I avoided being that girl that gets looked in the basement for ten years" list.
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Pamela 6 years ago
I had been dating a guy for about a month. He was well off and had an amazing home in Hollywood Hills. (This isn't why I was into him, just a fact) One day he sends me a text saying he's going out of the country for a quick trip. He never came back. It turns out he was on the run from a huge lawsuit from a large company here, I found it all out online in a news story. I'm now very weary of people lol
Ashley Say Wha?!? 6 years ago
In tenth grade, I dated this guy who got upset that I wouldn't go past making out with him. So the idiot told everyone in school that I was sleeping with him even though I actually wasn't. A week later he broke up with me and the reason he told everyone? Cause I wouldn't sleep with him... he looked like the idiot I thought, but it gets better... in my first year of college I ran into him and his friend at a car show while with my best friend also. He was telling me how I became even more beautiful and so on and whatever. I acted like I was super interested in him and when he asked for my number I instead said why don't you write down your number for me since I didn't have my phone with me. He happily did. When walking away from him and him watching us walk away, I marched right up to a trash can and threw his phone number away in an exaggerated way so there was no mistaking. Sweet revenge!
Elizabeth Lord Cary 6 years ago
Most of these are better off without the people who dumped them!
Daria B 6 years ago
At university, a man told us his story. In Korea, young couples break up a lot before the guy goes for military service, because for 2 years straight they can't be seeing each other every day (maybe only weekends and holidays, but I guess that depends on various things). So, him and his girlfriend were one of these couples. He said she dumped him because he was going to do his military service (remimder - military service is mandatory in Korea). However.... After the health checks... Turns out he wasn't eligible for the army and that he got dismissed of the duty, didn't have to go. She didn't come back to him, though.
BusLady 6 years ago
My Senior year in HS, I was dating this guy, and out of the blue, he called me and told me I "needed to get out and jog or something". Then he listed his complaints about me: I was fat (I weighed 102 lbs, and he was 30 lbs overweight), I needed to stop wearing my glasses(my eyesight was like 20 over 200), I needed to change my haircolor, I needed to get a tan like his sisters (My Irish heritage gave me very pale skin that only burns, and his family had Mexican heritage), etc, etc...Needless to say, I was the one who dumped HIM.
Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
He literally screamed in his voice message, "If you don't call me right now, it's over!" I didn't call. Best breakup ever.
Hamsini darshan 6 years ago
I was in college and he was in navy. We dated for two years. one day he stopped talking to Me. Not even a text .I never know why he break up with me.
Guinevere O'Brien 3 years ago
My gf told me that she was cheating on me and that was a lie then told me she only liked me as a friend that was a lie it turns out she just needed space bc she was figuring out if she was trans she was just scared to tell me bc she liked me so much we are in a healthy 4 year relationship now no lies! #howigotdumped #thenwegotbacktogether
chantel marshal 5 years ago
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Bianca Du Toit 6 years ago
In high school, my boyfriend broke up with me because of an off-handed comment I made the night before while ice-skating, that I "don't just kiss anybody"... because I'd barely had a first kiss by then, and was hoping he would kiss me. Instead he dumped me. Cut to a few years after high school, and we turned out to be pretty good friends. We were playing pool one night, and he finally kissed me and afterwards asked me out. I was thrilled. The next day he texts me. "I think it was a mistake to start dating again. Would you mind if we went back to being just friends?" Since it barely had time to sink in that we were dating, it didn't feel like a breakup and I just shrugged and went back to our friendship. The kiss rocked my world, though.
Julián González Frugone 6 years ago
My girlfriend never like to help with anything at home. She was "always" tired, sleeping, headache. There was one Saturday morning, we woke up and couple hours later, she said "let's do cleaning". I knew that something was very wrong. She dumped me right after. #HowIGotDumped
BusLady 6 years ago
I was in HS and lived 2 houses down from my bf. After school, he would pick up me and his younger brother to bring us home. He also dropped off his brother's friend, and the guy gave him gas $. One afternoon, me and the 2 guys walked out to the car as always. I went to the drivers side to give my bf a kiss. His Mom was in the car, and there was a girl sitting between them! I was shocked and just walked away. His Mom was clearly surprised to see me. The bf came running after me, explaining "I'm, I... She's my... Uh...Cousin" Then he proceeded to tell me that his Mom was surprised bc he never told her he was picking me up from school, bc she expected him to ask me for gas $. (His gf who lived 2 houses away! ) I just kept walking. This guy had some serious problems.
Luca Gotta 6 years ago
#HowIGotDumped we spent a beautiful afternoon together, smiling laughing and kiss, then she said "we should break up". It was the April 1st (April fool). That was no joke :D
Luca Gotta 6 years ago
Yeah forgive my grammar mistakes, I was writing with the wrong hand
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Ethan Slusser 6 years ago
Well here’s two stories. So, I started a relationship a while ago which they moved after it started so we became a long distance relationship and than we talked for a while so than they blantantly said outright that they started going out with another. I was cool with it because of polyamory and they said they told the other person. But a few days later they said nothing and when they did talk they were complaining about Supernatural. Take note that they’re suicidal and I was worried they were dead and they just said after 2 weeks of worry and I quote “They killed Dean” and how am I supposed to react to that. So later they told me that they hadn’t told the other person and, this has a lot of similarity to a post on here “What if I broke up with you?” That’s what they asked and I asked if that’s what was happening and it was basically an unspoken breakup. So than I got with a person on a dating website who was apparently friends with my ex so we talked for a while and than they stopped
Nadine Ducca 6 years ago
My God, Ethan. You need to take a deep breath and put your ideas together before writing! That was unbearable to read! (I didn't downvote you, though. It's clear you just need to pause, maybe make some bullet points, and only when things are clear start writing.)
Load More Replies... Blue Cicada 6 years ago
My marriage of 4 years had the stereotypical ending--this isn't working out, I'm not happy, you don't cook and clean enough (he was very chauvinistic). He denied he was seeing the woman our entire small town knew he was seeing. They were living together within weeks, married 2 years later. 10 years later, he's finally seeing the light, divorcing her. On one of his regular calls to talk to our daughter, he unloads to me, despondent, how could this woman cheat on him, how horrible is his life? I asked if he had anyone to talk to about this. Only you, he says. I asked if he had anyone who wasn't his ex wife.
Neeraj Jha 6 years ago
#HowIGotDumped She said I am too much into Linkin Park and she can't take it any more.. so I told her fine as In the end it doesn't even matter... #NotMakingItUp #iSwear
NuckinFutNixxed 6 years ago
I was 16 and got conned into a blind date with a 18 yr old guy. I met him and he was 24, then he told everyone I was his girl and started making plans for me to move in with him. I was so embarrassed by this creep I dodged his kiss, reached into my purse grabbed my new pack of smokes, gave it to him and told him I wasn't interested. I turned and walked away as fast as I could and never looked back!! It was the only thing I could think of lol, he was creepy!!
anarkzie 6 years ago
Jesus, it sounds more like your story belongs on the "how I avoided being that girl that gets looked in the basement for ten years" list.
Load More Replies... Pamela 6 years ago
I had been dating a guy for about a month. He was well off and had an amazing home in Hollywood Hills. (This isn't why I was into him, just a fact) One day he sends me a text saying he's going out of the country for a quick trip. He never came back. It turns out he was on the run from a huge lawsuit from a large company here, I found it all out online in a news story. I'm now very weary of people lol
Ashley Say Wha?!? 6 years ago
In tenth grade, I dated this guy who got upset that I wouldn't go past making out with him. So the idiot told everyone in school that I was sleeping with him even though I actually wasn't. A week later he broke up with me and the reason he told everyone? Cause I wouldn't sleep with him... he looked like the idiot I thought, but it gets better... in my first year of college I ran into him and his friend at a car show while with my best friend also. He was telling me how I became even more beautiful and so on and whatever. I acted like I was super interested in him and when he asked for my number I instead said why don't you write down your number for me since I didn't have my phone with me. He happily did. When walking away from him and him watching us walk away, I marched right up to a trash can and threw his phone number away in an exaggerated way so there was no mistaking. Sweet revenge!
Elizabeth Lord Cary 6 years ago
Most of these are better off without the people who dumped them!
Daria B 6 years ago
At university, a man told us his story. In Korea, young couples break up a lot before the guy goes for military service, because for 2 years straight they can't be seeing each other every day (maybe only weekends and holidays, but I guess that depends on various things). So, him and his girlfriend were one of these couples. He said she dumped him because he was going to do his military service (remimder - military service is mandatory in Korea). However.... After the health checks... Turns out he wasn't eligible for the army and that he got dismissed of the duty, didn't have to go. She didn't come back to him, though.
BusLady 6 years ago
My Senior year in HS, I was dating this guy, and out of the blue, he called me and told me I "needed to get out and jog or something". Then he listed his complaints about me: I was fat (I weighed 102 lbs, and he was 30 lbs overweight), I needed to stop wearing my glasses(my eyesight was like 20 over 200), I needed to change my haircolor, I needed to get a tan like his sisters (My Irish heritage gave me very pale skin that only burns, and his family had Mexican heritage), etc, etc...Needless to say, I was the one who dumped HIM.
Marnee DeRider 6 years ago
He literally screamed in his voice message, "If you don't call me right now, it's over!" I didn't call. Best breakup ever.
Hamsini darshan 6 years ago
I was in college and he was in navy. We dated for two years. one day he stopped talking to Me. Not even a text .I never know why he break up with me.
Guinevere O'Brien 3 years ago
My gf told me that she was cheating on me and that was a lie then told me she only liked me as a friend that was a lie it turns out she just needed space bc she was figuring out if she was trans she was just scared to tell me bc she liked me so much we are in a healthy 4 year relationship now no lies! #howigotdumped #thenwegotbacktogether
chantel marshal 5 years ago
EMAIL ROBINSONBUCKLER@HOTMAIL (. COM )……..!!!!!!!!!!! CONTACT HIM NOW FOR SOLUTION TO ALL YOUR RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS…….........🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Bianca Du Toit 6 years ago
In high school, my boyfriend broke up with me because of an off-handed comment I made the night before while ice-skating, that I "don't just kiss anybody"... because I'd barely had a first kiss by then, and was hoping he would kiss me. Instead he dumped me. Cut to a few years after high school, and we turned out to be pretty good friends. We were playing pool one night, and he finally kissed me and afterwards asked me out. I was thrilled. The next day he texts me. "I think it was a mistake to start dating again. Would you mind if we went back to being just friends?" Since it barely had time to sink in that we were dating, it didn't feel like a breakup and I just shrugged and went back to our friendship. The kiss rocked my world, though.
Julián González Frugone 6 years ago
My girlfriend never like to help with anything at home. She was "always" tired, sleeping, headache. There was one Saturday morning, we woke up and couple hours later, she said "let's do cleaning". I knew that something was very wrong. She dumped me right after. #HowIGotDumped
BusLady 6 years ago
I was in HS and lived 2 houses down from my bf. After school, he would pick up me and his younger brother to bring us home. He also dropped off his brother's friend, and the guy gave him gas $. One afternoon, me and the 2 guys walked out to the car as always. I went to the drivers side to give my bf a kiss. His Mom was in the car, and there was a girl sitting between them! I was shocked and just walked away. His Mom was clearly surprised to see me. The bf came running after me, explaining "I'm, I... She's my... Uh...Cousin" Then he proceeded to tell me that his Mom was surprised bc he never told her he was picking me up from school, bc she expected him to ask me for gas $. (His gf who lived 2 houses away! ) I just kept walking. This guy had some serious problems.
Luca Gotta 6 years ago
#HowIGotDumped we spent a beautiful afternoon together, smiling laughing and kiss, then she said "we should break up". It was the April 1st (April fool). That was no joke :D
Luca Gotta 6 years ago
Yeah forgive my grammar mistakes, I was writing with the wrong hand
Load More Replies... Ethan Slusser 6 years ago
Well here’s two stories. So, I started a relationship a while ago which they moved after it started so we became a long distance relationship and than we talked for a while so than they blantantly said outright that they started going out with another. I was cool with it because of polyamory and they said they told the other person. But a few days later they said nothing and when they did talk they were complaining about Supernatural. Take note that they’re suicidal and I was worried they were dead and they just said after 2 weeks of worry and I quote “They killed Dean” and how am I supposed to react to that. So later they told me that they hadn’t told the other person and, this has a lot of similarity to a post on here “What if I broke up with you?” That’s what they asked and I asked if that’s what was happening and it was basically an unspoken breakup. So than I got with a person on a dating website who was apparently friends with my ex so we talked for a while and than they stopped
Nadine Ducca 6 years ago
My God, Ethan. You need to take a deep breath and put your ideas together before writing! That was unbearable to read! (I didn't downvote you, though. It's clear you just need to pause, maybe make some bullet points, and only when things are clear start writing.)
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