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How did you handle the end of a romantic relationship? (more than 1 OK)

  • I killed him and ate him like tarantulas do

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • We just went our separate ways and remained friends

    Votes: 7 41.2%

  • Heavy drinking

    Votes: 5 29.4%

  • I smeared his/her name all over the internet just like high school

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Didn't worry about it, a better one came along right away

    Votes: 5 29.4%

  • It made me sad for a long time

    Votes: 4 23.5%

  • It was a relief because the relationship was so bad

    Votes: 5 29.4%

  • I started dating her sister

    Votes: 1 5.9%

  • We got back together

    Votes: 2 11.8%

  • other, describe

    Votes: 4 23.5%
  • Total voters
    17
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Being as how breakups are in the Fauna news recently, I thought I'd start a thread having to do with the end of romance.
Very few of us marry our high school sweethearts and live Happily Ever After, my respects to those who have done so; so most of us have been through a breakup or two or ten. How did you handle the end of the relationship?
 
about 6 months ago I called it off with my fiance because he broke my trust. He was my high school sweatheart & first love. He broke my heart back then. I found him again on myspace 13 yrs later, moved back to CA to be with him, thought it was all roses til he broke my heart again. I've been drinking a bit more than normal (but not excessive) and we've been staying friends simply because he's not stable and I don't want any crazy drama. Now that he has a new g/f (what, already!?) I'm stopping the friends thing slowly but surely.

break ups suck
 
lucille said:
Breakups DO suck, I'm so sorry that happened to you April :(
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thanks Lucille! It's all good, I am :D now and I'm glad it happened when it did and not after we had gotten married (was going to be in Oct).

There are a lot of good aspects to being single. :yesnod:
 
AbsoluteApril said:
about 6 months ago I called it off with my fiance because he broke my trust. He was my high school sweatheart & first love. He broke my heart back then. I found him again on myspace 13 yrs later, moved back to CA to be with him, thought it was all roses til he broke my heart again. I've been drinking a bit more than normal (but not excessive) and we've been staying friends simply because he's not stable and I don't want any crazy drama. Now that he has a new g/f (what, already!?) I'm stopping the friends thing slowly but surely.

break ups suck
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Im just now finding this thread... so forgive the late response.

April... its his loss... cause your a cutie.
 
Southern Wolf said:
Im just now finding this thread... so forgive the late response.

April... its his loss... cause your a cutie.
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Amen to that......

Break ups...... what an interesting topic.... something everyone can relate to..

Well it's always better to be the breaker.... rather than the break-ee... but they still arent easy....

Best relationship I had prior to the one Im in now came from a break-up...... My divorce...

My exwife filed for divorce on my Birthday in 2001...... Well that night I went out and met this amazing girl..... so the joke was on her.... She was amazing and I realized that my marriage wasnt even close to this relationship. We were actually engaged until she was hit by a drunk driver one night on the way home from school and was killed..... It was probably the worst day of my life.... Not technically a break-up..... but similar I guess.... That was 2005... right after hurricane Katrina....

That was a bad year.... all of my snake drowned in the hurricane... lost the love of my life.......... Cant really say anything else about that......

I have finally moved on and am going to have a go at marriage again....


ANyway... the whole point of that DARK story is..... It seems like relationships are all part of a progression... each time you learn more about the person you are and the person you want to be with.... Each time you realize the last one is better than the one before......
 
This is the first time i'm talking about my most recent breakup, cause it still hurts, even though i know i'm better off without my ex. He really wasn't my type to begin with, very conservative, liked to stay at home instead of going out when we were together, and he's a much older man than i usually date (48), but we hit it off right away and things seemed to be going really well, until something unexpected happened, i got pregnant. His reaction broke my heart, basically telling me to get rid of them (which i have discussed before here) that he was not going to do diaper duty again at his age( he has an adult son from a previous relationship) and if i didn't get rid of them, our relationship was over=(

There are other incidents that have occurred since the breakup, but i'm not gonna discuss them, cause it makes me cry thinking about them:(:(

Breakups stink, and when they involve kids, they are heartbreaking:(
 
Done drugs-scripts & street variety, drank myself stoopid, mailed a scorpion to one of them for a birthday gift (he screamed like a woman when he opened the box)-tried therapy and more drugs, and gave up on men completely.

I think they're all allergic to me...or retards.

Now I have animals.
 
crissabella said:
This is the first time i'm talking about my most recent breakup, cause it still hurts, even though i know i'm better off without my ex. He really wasn't my type to begin with, very conservative, liked to stay at home instead of going out when we were together, and he's a much older man than i usually date (48), but we hit it off right away and things seemed to be going really well, until something unexpected happened, i got pregnant. His reaction broke my heart, basically telling me to get rid of them (which i have discussed before here) that he was not going to do diaper duty again at his age( he has an adult son from a previous relationship) and if i didn't get rid of them, our relationship was over=(

There are other incidents that have occurred since the breakup, but i'm not gonna discuss them, cause it makes me cry thinking about them:(:(

Breakups stink, and when they involve kids, they are heartbreaking:(
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Honey-he isn't worthy of you.

You'll find the right guy when you least expect it, and he'll love you AND your babies!
 
What I find disheartening(sp?) is that all the reptile girls are in other states. None around here. Im sure ya'll feel the same way about the reptile guys.

If your addicted to these critters like I am... then just a normal person wont do. They would never understand our passion/addiction
 
I hear ya, Kevin.

And not too many herper guys are in their mid 40's to mid 50's. And those that are, are into BIG SNAKES or monitors.

Not that I have anything against any snakes or monitors, as long as they aren't hots, but I also have dogs and cats, and I won't put them on the herps' menus.

I just got back into herps for the fourth time about 6 years ago.
 
Southern Wolf said:
What I find disheartening(sp?) is that all the reptile girls are in other states. None around here. Im sure ya'll feel the same way about the reptile guys.

If your addicted to these critters like I am... then just a normal person wont do. They would never understand our passion/addiction
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There are beautiful people here on Fauna, and I'm talking the kind of inner beauty that will carry a relationship through the years.

Distance should not prove to be an insurmountable obstacle. If you see someone you are attracted to, talk to them in chat, email, phone. If it looks like you share ideas and you are attracted, buy a plane ticket.

I was talking to a coworker last week and she was saying how much it cost to take the family to the movies, $10 each for movie tickets, then popcorn, then going out after. About $100.

You can get plane tickets for that. amount. If you are not wealthy just agree that you will KISS, keep it simple, and not spend a lot on entertainment.

I think that sometimes, media does a disservice by making it seem that true love suddenly just happens and then there is Happily Ever After. No. It takes a little bit of planning, but it is worth it, don't you think?

It would warm my heart to see a few of you from Fauna meet and fall in love.
So.........get a move on, lol.
 
Christine, I'm sorry about your horrible experience. :( You and your babies BOTH deserve someone better than that.

Relationships Blooooow. I haven't been in many, but the one I've been since a lil before I turned 18 is just going horribly, it's one of thooose...off and on "long term" relationships..and I'm now 21..and it's still going that saaame way, and there's a 5year age difference between us. :ack2::ack2::ack2:
And the ONE time I broke up with someone else he'd show up to school CRYING everyday for like a week :notallthe
I seem to get horribly emo guys or horribly cold hearted self centered childman..man children..whatver you wanna call them. :bandhead0
 
SamanthaJane13 said:
I hear ya, Kevin.

And not too many herper guys are in their mid 40's to mid 50's. And those that are, are into BIG SNAKES or monitors.

Not that I have anything against any snakes or monitors, as long as they aren't hots, but I also have dogs and cats, and I won't put them on the herps' menus.

I just got back into herps for the fourth time about 6 years ago.
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Not into the big snakes..... but do like older women. Ever since my ex-fiance decided she wanted to screw a married man (while we were engaged).... I haven't dated anyone younger than me.

Someday I might date younger again.... but my track record thus far is not.
 
lucille said:
There are beautiful people here on Fauna, and I'm talking the kind of inner beauty that will carry a relationship through the years.
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Yes there is.... and there are some that have an outter beauty that will make you want to stay in bed with them :thumbsup:

Distance should not prove to be an insurmountable obstacle. If you see someone you are attracted to, talk to them in chat, email, phone. If it looks like you share ideas and you are attracted, buy a plane ticket.
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As much as I would LOVE to take this advice.... there are a couple things Im gun shy about. Me and my ex-fiance had a long distance relationship. She lived in WA and me in AR. I drove a truck at the time so I was able to get up there to see her occasionally and it didnt work out. Im a chicken :censored: when it comes to flying.

I was talking to a coworker last week and she was saying how much it cost to take the family to the movies, $10 each for movie tickets, then popcorn, then going out after. About $100.

You can get plane tickets for that. amount. If you are not wealthy just agree that you will KISS, keep it simple, and not spend a lot on entertainment.
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Definitely not wealthy.... unless you count snakes... then some might say I have a healthy number.... or some might say YOUR NUTS!

I think that sometimes, media does a disservice by making it seem that true love suddenly just happens and then there is Happily Ever After. No. It takes a little bit of planning, but it is worth it, don't you think?

It would warm my heart to see a few of you from Fauna meet and fall in love.
So.........get a move on, lol.
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Oh it definitely takes work.
 
SamanthaJane13 said:
...tried therapy and more drugs, and gave up on men completely.

I think they're all allergic to me...or retards.

Now I have animals.
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AbsoluteApril said:
LOL I hear ya and right there with ya!! :D
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You aint alone in this club.... not alone at all. Im sittin right next to ya.

I suck at reading suttle hints.... if someone wants to get my attention and let me know they are interested... they better slap me upside the head with a frying pan. Im to the point now... Im getting so good at rejections... that I expect them.
 
Southern Wolf said:
Definitely not wealthy.... unless you count snakes... then some might say I have a healthy number.... or some might say YOUR NUTS!
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Don't think you'll find any of those last people around this forum... you see, we're all NUTS here! :D
 
Southern Wolf said:
As much as I would LOVE to take this advice.... there are a couple things Im gun shy about. Me and my ex-fiance had a long distance relationship. She lived in WA and me in AR. I drove a truck at the time so I was able to get up there to see her occasionally and it didnt work out.
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Cry me a river, it didn't work out with one person. So did you stop keeping snakes altogether because one bit you one time?

Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try again, did you NOT just AGREE with me in a post above that this stuff takes work? :beer:
 
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