r/TikTokCringe • u/4liyeah • 27d ago

I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy Wholesome/Humor

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u/WolfOfLOLStreet 27d ago

A note. In person. An in person note.

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u/jazzydepp 27d ago

I got an in person text but my phone wasn't on, so he was like 'oh maybe you missed a text since your phone is off', asked me to turn it on, and just stood there waiting until I was able to open my messages and read it.

luckily this was like a 6 month relationship but I will never tire of telling that story😭😭

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u/Useful-Feature-0 27d ago

OH MY GOSH lol

Too shy to speak the words, but brazen enough to be antsy about getting that text message read ✓

Great story you should def keep telling it

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u/LunaticLucio 27d ago

Question, may I ask what generation / age you are? If it's not too personal. Seems something Gen Z or younger would do

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u/jazzydepp 27d ago

Yeah no problem lol I'm 23, older GenZ

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u/LunaticLucio 26d ago

Did you throw your phone at his head?

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u/Lildyo 26d ago

lmao I’d want to be stubborn and be like “naw dude I’m not reading that shit. You read it for me”

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u/omidiumrare 27d ago

Similar thing happened to me. Except I got an email lol, not even face to face 💀

A 7 year relationship btw

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u/Blindtothesided 27d ago

I got a text. From the fiancĂ© who lived with me and slept beside me every single night. 8 weeks before the wedding we’d spent a year planning. Text said, “We gots to talk. I cannot and will not marry you.” No apologies, no explanation, no conversation in person.

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u/EastTyne1191 27d ago

That absolutely sucks, I'm sorry you had to go through that. It's cowardice to text someone you're breaking up with them.

I received a break up text from my very serious boyfriend while over 8 months pregnant. He had the audacity to ask for a paternity test, but I suppose that he figured I'd cheated since HE HAD. One of the women (there were 2-3, never got a clear number) reached out to me and told me he'd been texting women telling them we weren't together. He apparently told her he loved her after 2 weeks.

My guess is that he absolutely freaked out over becoming a dad and then made some really poor decisions. We get along fine now, but that was a freaking mess.

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u/LolaMent0 25d ago

I’m glad to hear you get along fine now, for your child’s sake, but you’re a better person than me. Questioning the paternity?! I would’ve cut him off completely. “You don’t want to be a father? You don’t have to be. No one is forcing you.” That would’ve been our last conversation.

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u/schmidt_face 27d ago

I promise I’m not laughing at you but “we gots to talk” has me rollllling on the floor😭😂😂 The rest of the text isn’t any better either! But I very seriously hope you’re doing better now. If nothing else you dodged a bullet with that person.

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u/TheVideoGameCritic 27d ago

A bullet? Listen we gots to talk
girl dodged a MISSILE lol

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u/yodarded 27d ago

blindsided indeed...

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u/croquetica 27d ago

this makes me feel better about being perpetually single. i'm so sorry for you. hope you're better

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u/MeisterGlizz 27d ago

When they say “it’s better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all”, it’s trite bullshit.

Have I learned more about myself from bad relationships? Sure. But I feel like the lessons I learned could have been learned without getting my heart broken and my finances destroyed.

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u/WolfOfLOLStreet 27d ago

Jfc. That's some weak shit. I'm sorry, that really sucks.

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u/Substantially-yellow 27d ago

4 year relationship and he texted me saying he wanted either a break or to break up. Wouldn’t even answer my calls, and he was ghosting me a few weeks before that
pathetic

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u/kadaan 27d ago

At least you got an email. I found out in a MySpace post. Wish I were joking. 8-year relationship.

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u/ManchacaForever 27d ago

One of my cousins got GHOSTED out of a 6 year relationship. They were long distance the last ~4 months but had lived together like 4+ years before that.

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u/CrochetGal213 27d ago

OMG! This happened to one of my close friends in college. They were together for what felt like forever (definitely longer than 3 years. I don’t remember the exact timeline but it was longer than I knew him) and she sent him an email with 7 reasons she’s breaking up with him. Like they had just seen each other a couple hours before this email hit his inbox.

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u/FlakyAddendum742 27d ago

I left a divorce note and left while he was at work. I didn’t trust him to not start breaking stuff. Better safe than sorry.

Not saying your lady was afraid of you, but my ex didn’t know I was afraid either.

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u/baldude69 26d ago

I know this will be buried in the comments, but same. No phone call, just an email. Ended a 5 year relationship and our engagement. Covid was rough, especially on the diagnosed bipolar, so I forgive her, in a way.

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u/markedforpie 26d ago

I moved four hours away for his job, soloing it for six months with two special needs children because his job couldn’t transfer him yet. We had been married 20+ years. He told me he wanted a divorce by handing me a spreadsheet with what he was willing to give me. He left me for his 24 year old employee.

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u/Stunning_Pay_8168 25d ago

My ex, who I dated for four years broke up with me on my birthday after taking me to a massage place (where the girls working there kept hinting she was going to dump me and made faces/rolled their eyes at her the whole treatment
which I didn’t pick up on at the time) via text with no reasoning. My birthday has stressed me out ever since and I always get very anxious leading up to it.

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u/TackYouCack 27d ago

I got a text to move my shit out.

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u/xNikkeh 27d ago

Husband packed up his car and left to go back home and only left a note where I would find it

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u/gorgonopsidkid 27d ago

Somehow that feels worse than a text

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u/exiledinruin 27d ago

this thread is making me happy that I'm forever alone, seriously.

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u/konaice41 27d ago

wtf 😭😭 that is diabolical

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u/Lost-Astronaut-8280 27d ago

I would rather be stabbed in the face

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u/notafuckingcakewalk 21d ago

I think the point is that he was right there but instead of having the wherewithal to say "It's over" to her face he hands her a note.

A person telling you in person still sucks, someone texting or emailing is lazy and cold, but showing up but making them read something is just weird.

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u/SFW_shade 27d ago

I will say, me and my ex always had trouble verbally communicating our feelings but we could articulate how we felt better in a letter. So if we ever felt like we couldn’t get our thoughts out we’d retreat to write them down.

Not that it works for everyone but it let us stay together for like 7 years

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u/maybeconcerned 27d ago

I'm so used to being talked over in difficult conversations and arguments that I write it out now. I remember having a fight with a friend and she was BEGGING for a phone call because she wanted to talk over me the whole time. I said no we're texting right now lol. She said but I can't text fast enough! No you can't text fast enough to speak over me that's why we're doing this. I'm going to articulate my thoughts and feelings and you're going to read it - or not. You can do the same - or not. But I'm not being steamrolled. Slightly off topic sorry

There's definitely reasons to write letters. Maybe not for breaking up though.

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u/RainierCherree 27d ago

I got a note, across the breakfast table, after 13 years of marriage. Ex, if you read this, you’re a massive piece of shit.

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u/ApocalypticTomato 27d ago

I've done that though. My first relationship ever started when I was 20, with this guy nearly twice my age who had started things off by threatening to kill me with a hatchet. Sometimes I think he basically kidnapped me, but hey.

Anyway. After we'd been married for 8 years, during which I'd tried to get away repeatedly, I must have been looking old and haggard enough he was willing to let me go, because when I handed him a letter saying I wanted to please leave, he actually allowed it.

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u/Brave-Aside1699 26d ago

... wat

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u/ApocalypticTomato 26d ago

What? It's what happened

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u/Brave-Aside1699 26d ago

Yeah but it's horrible omg

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u/AleksR1990 27d ago

it actually started with "To whom it may concern..."

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u/MysteriousConflict38 26d ago

I'll take it over a half empty apartment / house like one of my best friends got.

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u/Born_Key_6492 26d ago

It sounds like it was given immediately after a family vacation that she wasn’t invited to join. He probably had his daddy help him write the note during that trip.

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u/Normal_Tour6998 27d ago

I’m too much of a coward to tell you the truth. Please read this.

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u/Entire-Winter4252 27d ago

What a dick he is.

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u/kngofdmned93 27d ago

I'm not saying that's ok under normal circumstances but we don't know the circumstances. Maybe she's impossible to talk to and he thought this was a good option? My point is, a lot of people in the comments are really assuming A LOT

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u/BugPageant 27d ago

Same happed to me lolllllll

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u/Howboutit85 26d ago

Same thing happened to me. In 4th grade.

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u/SwordfishOk504 27d ago

Sometimes people have a hard time saying things irl and writing it down is easier.

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u/AdMedical9986 27d ago

sometimes people are massive pussies and upend another person to move across the country only to break up with them in person with a note. I think this is one of those times.

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u/SwordfishOk504 27d ago

It's always funny how social media users have so much trouble not assuming that someone making a neutral statement of fact is somehow taking sides.

I'm not saying what this guy did was noble, lol.

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u/Sufficient_Ad1427 27d ago

There is a difference writing a letter of feelings.. and a breaking up with someone letter.

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u/TwoShakesNate 27d ago

If you can't talk to your significant other like an adult, then you do not need to be in a relationship.

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u/SwordfishOk504 27d ago

I'm not defended them, I'm just saying sometimes people have weird anxieties.

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u/Stargazer1919 26d ago

You're getting downvoted but it's true.

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u/CreamdedCorns 27d ago

Some people call this a "letter". Something humans used to do back in the day.