breakups

When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.

Young Love and Broken Promises
That bastard, the liar that broke my heart and all the promises he made... My ex boyfriend. His name was Eli. In all honesty, the day I found out his name I should've ran for the hills. His name is basically saying that E (his once upon a time nick name) lies. Anyways let's get to how this story connects to figurative fear.
By Anita Rose Kennedy6 years ago in Humans
Stay by Antoinette
The world around you is dark and gloomy. Every decision feels like a wrong turn on a twisted path, every minute a sharp hit on the brakes.
By Antoinette6 years ago in Humans
My First Love
Since I was little I have always looked at things from the outside, an observer. When my siblings would get in trouble I would take it as a lesson of what not to do. However, I've also always been shy, and protective over my heart, I've never given it away easily. Everyone has their first love at some point though, right? Normally that comes with your first heartbreak too unfortunately. More often than not though, people have some small "relationships" before they have their first real love. When we're young and dumb, this always ends up being the person we believe we will spend the rest of our life with. This is exactly what happened to me too. When I first met him, he was sweet, kind, and never treated me bad. He became my best friend. However, as things progressed, life happened. His home life wasn't great, he had some health problems, he developed some anger issues, and struggled with the "long distance." Before I knew it he gave me a promise ring. When I first took it, I thought OMG YES! As time went on though, I though, what happened, and I grew scared of the future. About half a year passed by and we began to grew apart. Things weren't getting better, and we were always fighting. One day I broke up with him. I was devastated but relieved because I knew that even though it hurt now but things were going to get better. A few months passed and I was still hurting, I did stupid things to try and feel better but nothing was working. So what did I do? I reached out and before I knew it we were back together. Things were slightly different but I felt happy. Come to find out it wasn't the same for him though. New Years Eve, we talked about everything, and what all we wanted to do in the next year. The next day told me something different though... we broke up. It was odd, how he changed his mind that fast, literally within a few hours. How do you go from loving someone, and wanting to spend years together, then not want anything to do with them? Later I found out, he changed his mind quicker than I thought. He went to lunch with one of his friends and heard all about how his friend loved seeing his girlfriend everyday. That was the moment he decided that he wanted to have someone else. He didn't want me anymore. It was odd, not knowing how someone could change their mind about you that fast. I still loved him. How do you not love someone that you spent nearly a year with? It's hard not to, I'll tell you that. For a while you're numb, but time goes by and you learn to be okay, and start to love yourself again. You move on, and you find someone else. First loves are the one of the hardest ones to go through. You never truly forget your first love. They're apart of who you are.
By Grace Sharp6 years ago in Humans
documenting heartbreak day 1.
I don't really know what else to do except write. So here's my heart. It's broken real bad, but I'm going to try and let words fill the gaps. This is documenting heartbreak; no edits, no revisions, just raw truth and hurt.
By Jennie Harluk6 years ago in Humans
THG III
I still think about you from time to time, though I did delete your number from my phone to remove the temptation to text you. Which sucks, but there's Facebook that helps me keep in contact with you. I still think about our last time hanging out sometimes. Last time was the 2nd time I ran to you when I was in trouble emotionally and also mentally. Which, both times that ended poorly.
By Peter D6 years ago in Humans
Dear Ex-Boyfriend
Dear ex-boyfriend, I never thought I’d write you another letter, but Misa died in November and she was as much your dog as she was mine. Sometimes I thought maybe I should have left her with you, but I know that wouldn’t have worked out. I would have missed her too much and you didn’t want a dog anyway, but I felt guilty because she loved you. Maybe you wouldn’t have even missed her, but she’s not the only reason I’m writing you. I also wanted to apologize, but not to you. You don’t deserve an apology, and you certainly didn’t deserve any of the time I wasted with you. I remember when we were breaking up, you asked me the most important question you’d ever asked me. We were sitting at a table at Chili’s and you asked me what was so special about you. At the time I remember feeling sick to my stomach, as I pushed my plate away. I’ll probably never forget the look of disgust you shot me as I tried to name anything that made our relationship special. The only thing I was able to come up with was our mutual love of video games and movies. There was nothing about you that stood out, I could have been with anyone. It took time for me to realize that I didn’t like anything about you. I certainly didn’t like the way you made me feel. Being with you changed the way I view relationships. I was innocent when we were together. I was the sweet girl who still believed in soulmates. I think my naivety made me blind to how unhappy I was with you. I stayed with you, despite the fact you treated me poorly. I even excused your behavior as a result of your rough childhood. If I could go back, I’d end our relationship sooner. I’d end it before you had a chance to change me. I don’t trust myself because of you, or maybe it’s more accurate to say that I don’t trust myself to find a non-abusive partner because of you. So, why did you cross my mind today? Well, I remember you showing me a postcard we’d gotten from the vet. The picture on it was a Christmas picture of the staff. You pointed out each woman you thought looked better than me. You didn’t care that I was crying, and you certainly didn’t care that I was only eating once a day because of you. You wanted to make sure that I knew you thought I was ugly. I even believed that I was ugly for years after we broke up. You know who didn’t find me ugly? Men. Not all men, but there have been several men who’ve tried to get to know me since we ended things. I wanted to get to know some of these men, but I ended up pushing them away instead. I didn’t mean to push them away; it was something I couldn’t help. I wasn’t even aware I was doing it at the time, and I regret it. Most of all, I regret being the person you made me. Now I’m the type of girl who hurts people to protect herself, the type of girl who is closed off. Most of all, I’m the type of girl who will have to preface any relationship I get in with ‘my ex abused me, and I still have emotional scars from that.’ My apology is to the woman you’ve forced me to become. I’m sorry for the time I’ve wasted on you, and the impact I’ve allowed you to have on my life. I’m sorry for the ways in which you’ve changed me, because none of it was for the better. I’m sorry for the way I’ve allowed myself to treat other people because of you. I’m also sorry for the next person I care for enough to let in. I know that person won’t have it easy, because I won’t love as easily or be as carefree as I was with you.
By Jade M.6 years ago in Humans
Missing the invisible
I miss the invisible. I miss what can't be seen and never really could be seen. It's something that was or is a part of all of us. A link to your past and evidence of your innocence and your honour; depending on your values. I miss my virginity. And even now I'm not sure if it is really that that I miss. Maybe it's the things that come with it that I miss or maybe I just miss the girl I was before I knew about loving and desire.
By Carolyn McMurray6 years ago in Humans
Down Low Brotha' Game Play
Yeah... This is what you think it is. My 'Man' had a 'Man'. One of the First things that I would like to say is that, if you are a woman reading this right now and you have a sick feeling that your man is into other men and he is lieing to you then you may want to go off of your instincts and do some investigation.
By Tina Gooch6 years ago in Humans
"Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”
I finally understand why women get caught up with abusers. I have had my share in my lifetime (definitely not by choice) but whatever it is what it is. My ex-husband was an abuser and if you know me I’m an abuser myself (to a certain extent). I have a good and bad side (sexual abuse or physical at times). This story tells the truth. Nothing to laugh about, but I truly believe that time heals all problems. So let’s get back to this poor ex-husband of mine that is still not over the breakup. He continues to wonder why I don’t want him back. Dude, I’m disgusted by you (if you know what I know, you would be too). Don’t want it (seriously), don’t want to deal with it and it’s no longer my problem!
By Insatiable-ness6 years ago in Humans
Why Can't You Love Me?
Saturday was the last time I talked to him. I yearned for his light brown hair and dark brown eyes, reaching for me, tempting me to fall into his arms. But, he pushed me away and shook his head at me.
By Monica Zhang6 years ago in Humans
Broken heart takes form a person
Lately i started staring at walls and windows, imagining what makes people get hurt. Many people in the world has full of hate for a person and doesn't control with the hate. A friend once told me that people may hate you but never forgot what you did for them. I start to think that might be true because even you love that person but they are full of hate towards you. Takes time for them to realise what they miss, the kind and caring part about you.
By Petra6 years ago in Humans
I had a boyfriend with a needy ex-girlfriend and what I learnt which I will use in future relationships
The relationship lasted for ten months, but I feel that the only time where I felt the happiest was in the first month and a half. After that, it was pretty much a rollercoaster where I put myself through a lot and became someone I never wanted to be, which is scary to still think about it.
By Annie Curran6 years ago in Humans