Whoah, there. Where did I ever say that I hold my partners to a standard of 100% honesty?
I imagine that every person has their own standard of how honest a person should be: how “big” a lie is before it is really wrong, what situations it is appropriate to lie in, etc. And I imagine a relationship works a lot better when the two parties’ standards of honesty are similar. My standards are very different from the OP’s, so if I found that the person I was dating were like the OP’s, I’d probably end the relationship.
FTR, I asked my husband, and he said that it was “totally unethical” to lie in order to get the sale price. I’m not saying everyone has to agree with that, and I’m certainly not saying that neither my husband nor I ever lie, but my husband and I agree that the OP’s lie was inappropriate.
In the future, Ghanima, you might want to read a little more carefully, rather than making hasty assumptions and blindly attacking anyone who disagrees with you.
I broke up with a guy because he flipped out over losing a game of cards. He, I and 2 others were playing Hearts (again). On a particular hand I dumped the King of Hearts fairly early on. The girl who won that trick went on to ‘run’ as she was holding all of the other high hearts, high spades, etc. That run won the game for her and my boyfriend starts yelling, in Denny’s, “Who played the GD King of Hearts?” I told him that I did, and he gave me a look of disgust, and walked home.
The rest of us played some more, and eventually I got home, kicked him to the couch and informed him I was leaving.
To be fair, that relationship was essentially over already, I just needed one more straw. But, I still refer to it as the King of Hearts Break-up.
In eleventh grade, I broke up with the greatest guy – probably-the-most-perfect person for me, come to think of it – after several weeks of really fun dates and great smooching, because I just couldn’t handle dating a fellow who was younger than I. No, he didn’t act younger. No, he didn’t look younger. He just was. We were both in eleventh, and his birthday was November, and mine was June.
Never told him the real reason for our break-up; it was too shallow.
Found out several years later that his parents had elected to start him in school a year later than usual, as his birthdate was so close to the cutoff, and he was older than I, all along.
Johnny So did you get a good deal on the laptop? How good of a deal was it? Not including the price of a friend of course…man that sucks.
Myself, personally I’ve NEVER dumped anyone. I’ve had three serious relationships thusfar in my life.
The first ended when she left me (fucking ridiculous) when I discovered that she and my roommate/best friend had been fucking around while I was at work. Neither of them even HAD a job. All in All it ultimately worked out for the best. I was 20y/o.
The second one started downhill when I tried to explain how she needed to try to enjoy the everyday events, “the little things” in life after saying that she “wanted too much”. The actual breakup however was her doing. She decided that life with me was not exciting enough I guess. She wanted to start shooting up drugs again and knew that I didn’t care for that life. So, back to Dallas she went. Good riddance I think. Damned shame at the same time though. I was 26.
I met My Love when I was 30. I’ve already told that story.
BTW That subject line is a bit awkward/confusing. I was thinking you were talking about falling down the stairs or out of a tree. I was gonna tell you about the time I was running bleachers in practice and got a cleat stuck between the seats and fell/rolled all the way down the stadium seats and under the rail down onto the track. I didn’t actually “get broken up” but I was beat and bruised all to hell and sprained my ankle and wrist pretty bad. It was by every definition of the word, ridiculous.
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A lot of guys consider haggling over electornics, cars, and major appliances to be a blood sport to which the rules of honesty do not apply. I would not necessarily break up with a guy for extreme haggling. I wouldn’t want to watch, but that’s another topic.
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The difference is that what the OP did wasn’t haggling. It was deceiving. There’s a difference.
The final straw in one of my relationships came when I took her to a showing of Lawrence of Arabia. Afterward, she called it “Dances with Camels,” so I called it off.
Oh gosh, you’re right…oh no wait, no you aren’t.
I read it again and I take absolutely nothing back. There were no “hasty assumptions” or “blind attacking”. I called Kalhoun on what I thought was B.S, stated my opinion, and I certainly didn’t attack you personally. Yet you somehow feel justified in attacking me personally. (Rather ironic really, to personally attack me in a post while claiming you were the one subject to a personal attack. How do you justify that? It’s OK to attack someone if you think they are attacking you, even if they haven’t actually said or done anything to you? It also suggests a little bit of paranoia. News flash: not every post is addressed personally at you.)
But since you asked, you are, IMHO, an idiot and delusional. But then again, (IMHO) so is everyone in an organized religion, so don’t feel bad, you’re not alone!
Enough with this hijack. Start a pit thread or something if you want to keep making excuses for your judgmental pronouncements.
I was once broken up with because of my “paranoia about being broken up with.”
Ironic, since I was going to break up with him the very same day he left a message on my (shared) answering machine. I was actually the last person in the apt to hear it. He was 21 years old, so he should at least have been able to break it off over the phone while actually speaking to me.
At least I was planning on doing it in person. Also, I was going to break up with him for legitimate reasons - he was an idiot, and he bored me.
I fed my border collie a bite of potato salad off of my plate with my fork. He (the boyfriend, not the dog) threw his napkin on the table and slammed the door as he left.
When I was thirteen I was dumped because the guy liked me too much. In his words, “You’re my best friend and I’m not used to dating people I’m friends with.” Oooookay. Strangely, we still are friends. We’ll probably try again sometime, seeing as how he’s not a stoner anymore.
All right, let’s stop this stupid hijack right now. It’s becoming far too heated for MPSIMS. Ghamina, I’m especially looking at you: personal insults are not permitted in this forum. Try the Pit, if you must.
I can’t believe the amount of time some people invest in such a semantic non-issue. The OP obviously isn’t a thief, since he didn’t steal anything. He was able to negotiate a price both parties agreed upon. The WAY he did this was dishonest, which makes him a liar. A little white lie, if you ask me, and certainly not something to break up over, but that’s up to the partner-at-the-time to decide, not me.
Now, please get back to some more amusing break-up stories already.
Emphasis provided for purposes of clarification. Contents may have settled during shipping. No, my best friend’s name wasn’t Spring. :rolleyes: :smack: :dubious:
Threw wedding band at me screaming that she didn’t want it, and then was surprised when I left. (I don’t think she was cheating on me, but she told if it weren’t for me, she would have been able to date this other guy.)
Sorry, the only ridiculous things here were the people I dated/were married to.
