# Who broke your heart? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 28, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513 "2000-04-28T03:02:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/1 "2000-04-28T03:02:00Z")
Advisory; Do not read on if you tend to get depressed easily. I was feeling a little melancholy the other night, and let my mind wander in my past. I got to thinking about my One True Lost, and actually felt bouyed by my recollections. A lot of us, especially those over 30 or so, have at one time been “dumped” by someone who really meant a lot to us. Someone who still pops into our mind once in a while, even though we may be in a perfectly happy relationship. Feel free to “unload” here. Me first. Mine was Ella. To this day I’m not sure what I saw in her, but there was something. We had a lot in common, but were different in many ways too. We had great times together but something was missing, I guess. The end wasn’t bitter, or tragic, but it was devastating. Now most of my memories of my time with her are pleasant. Life is _wierd_. 🙂 Peace, mangeorge * * * Teach your kids to bungee jump. One them might have to cross a bridge someday. ---
**Author:** ![Osip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4491bb/32.png) [@Osip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Osip)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/2 "2000-04-28T03:12:00Z")
Was nice of you to post the “depresssion alert” warning. A lady named Vickie, did me in _sigh_ well, this ruined a perfect beer buzz. * * * Destroyer of grammar matser or typos. Patron saint of Exit Signs Typo artist of the world Untie! ---
**Author:** ![saucy\_potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@saucy\_potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucy_potato)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/3 "2000-04-28T03:16:00Z")
I’m responsible for some breaking… apparently… * * * Homepage: [www.idahospuds.com](http://www.idahospuds.com) Occupation: Side dish Location: the oven, 400 degrees for 45 minutes Interests: fine dining, sour cream and butter. _-custom profile by UncleBeer_ ---
**Author:** ![MissMonica7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@MissMonica7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissMonica7)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/4 "2000-04-28T03:45:00Z")
Even though I’m not over 30, I’ve experienced a true broken heart that I have still not yet fully recovered from. My first real boyfriend did me in. Three years ago. And I haven’t had another true boyfriend since. * * * “I am so smart, I am so smart, s-m-r-t, i mean s-m-a-r-t” ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/5 "2000-04-28T03:50:00Z")
I was led on by a guy who preyed on girls who were insecure and needy. When I was down, he was right there, patting my head and enabling me. When I was happy, he brushed me off like a fly. * * * Sing glogalimp, sing glugalump, From deep inside the Wuggly Ump. ---
**Author:** ![mega\_the\_roo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mega\_the\_roo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mega_the_roo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/6 "2000-04-28T04:00:00Z")
The only times I’ve had my heart broken, I’ve done it myself. Which reminds me, I was going to phone him today… * * * “Mega the Roo - Patron Saint of Marsupials and Shampoo” -Ms Riddles ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/7 "2000-04-28T04:14:00Z")
I am depressed anyway, so it doesn’t matter. It is truly odd you would bring this up as I had a dream last night about an ex boyfriend. Damnit. What is it with me and my dreams? ---
**Author:** ![lswote](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lswote/32/5737_2.png) [@lswote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lswote)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/8 "2000-04-28T05:34:00Z")
I met someone in a chatroom and carried on a year and a half online/phone relationship with her before we finally met. When we did I found out she had lied about her age and what she looked like. She had been sending me pictures of one her attractive friends and saying it was her. She totally destroyed my faith in humanity. * * * **L** et’s **S** ee **W** hat’s **O** ut **T** here … **E** ngage The world’s loneliest doper. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/9 "2000-04-28T07:21:00Z")
Wow…this is grounding! I Hooked up with a foreign exchange student in high sKool, and fell in love(oy). Well, she went home and I was devastated. I pretty much didn’t get outta bed for like a year(besides working and going to sKool). I still kind miss her ☹ * * * And remember kids, crack doesn’t smoke itself! ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/10 "2000-04-28T07:22:00Z")
Did I mention she was a **Finnish** Exchange student? 🙂 * * * And remember kids, crack doesn’t smoke itself! ---
**Author:** ![pipefitter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/97f17d/32.png) [@pipefitter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pipefitter)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/11 "2000-04-28T07:33:00Z")
I’ve had my heart broken twice. One I will not tell. The other one happened over 20 years ago, and it turned out that he didn’t mean to break my heart. He apparently had no idea that my heart was involved at all, and he just walked away… I found out a few months ago, way too many years too late, that he cared too, and was too afraid to say it. I harbored the pain for so long, for nothing as it turned out. I have my hubby, who I love very much, and wouldn’t/couldn’t go back to that time. I do still carry warm feelings in my heart for him, and wish him only the best in his life. Bittersweet, that. * * * Hand me that wrench. No, the one that looks like a hammer. Sig Courtesy of Wally ---
**Author:** ![purrplebear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/90ced4/32.png) [@purrplebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purrplebear)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/12 "2000-04-28T07:35:00Z")
Oops!!! I completely forgot that pipefitter got on my 'puter this evening, so I forgot to change it back to my name. The post above by pipefitter, is actually by me, purplebear. :o :o Geeesh!! I feel dumb now! * * * You are more than a human being, you are a human becoming. Og Mandino That’s my name, not a description. I am neither purple nor a bear. Okay, so I’m purple.\ ---
**Author:** ![Cowboy\_Greg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Cowboy\_Greg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowboy_Greg)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/13 "2000-04-28T08:24:00Z")
Kevin. Boy done broke my heart. Took me quite some time to get over him. _sigh_ Why is it that they always tell you they love you when they’re leaving? * * * “It’s a sunny little doomed planet, inhabited by a number of frisky little doomed animals.” ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/14 "2000-04-28T10:15:00Z")
Well, my sob stories aren’t nearly so bad. I’m only 18, you see (almost 19… almost). I have two stories. One was with a girl named Becky who was really manic depressive and suicidal… just talking with her was an adventure, and more often than not an unpleasant one (suicidal references came up often). We were “together” for one day… not even 25 hours. My only real relationship to date. Second is a girl named Katharine, whom I’ve had a very bizarre fixation with for a couple years now. No romantic aspirations, but for some reason she just stands out in my mind as someone “special”. So I haven’t had my heart “broken”… just a couple of needles jabbed into it so far. And I probably think my perspective from a younger angle (I really don’t want to offend anyone by implying they’re old… sorry sorry sorry!!) makes me react in a more melancholy of a manner… you know, make things into a much bigger deal than they are. Anyway, my story… in ten years, I’ll probably have several more. Stay tuned! * * * -SPOOFE ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/15 "2000-04-28T13:58:00Z")
“Better to have loved and lost then never to have loved at all…” * * * “I go on guilt trips a couple of time a year. Mom books them for me.” A custom made Wally .sig! ```auto My iguana's sick. He's all floppy. Could he have Reptile dysfunction? -Chef Troy, Haiku Master ``` ---
**Author:** ![ultress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/7c8e57/32.png) [@ultress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultress)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/16 "2000-04-28T14:07:00Z")
My very first boyfriend, John, I thought he broke my heart. Then the last guy I was engaged to, he really did break my heart. We got back together three years later, which was last year. I broke it off with him in October. Funny, I didn’t love him like I thought I should. Maybe because he did break my heart, or maybe because I outgrew him. I wouldn’t go back for any of the men that either hurt me or that I hurt. They say the right one is out there for every person. We shall see. * * * \*\* I’m a 'silly little southern belle ass. _Sigh_. \*\* _Original by needs2know_ _I’ve learned that if someone says something unkind about me, I must live so that no one will believe it._ ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/17 "2000-04-28T15:06:00Z")
Where the hell do I start? John, Darryl, John, Ron… I could go on. See, I always get dumped, except for like 3 times, when I did the dumping. It’s sad. The major number one, though, remains Tam, and I’m still not over him. Missed him by a matter of days, and my life would be totally different now (like I’d be living in Canada probably). I’m not depressed, though - I still love him, we’re still friends, and I’m moving on (slowly). I do, however, think of him every day. Esprix * * * Evidently, I rock. [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/18 "2000-04-28T15:21:00Z")
I’ve been giving this a lot of thought. I really can’t say any one person “broke my heart”. I think I just started little by little losing faith in people and letting less and less of me care and trust. I can’t explain it. Why do I even try? :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/19 "2000-04-28T15:29:00Z")
My first real deep love dumped me so suddenly, so completely, and under such betraying circumstances that I sank into depression and flunked out of college. Other than that I don’t really like to talk about it anymore, as it was over a decade ago and still hurts to think about. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Cynical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@Mr.Cynical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Cynical)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2000, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513/20 "2000-04-28T16:21:00Z")
Christine. No doubt about it. I followed her around like a puppy dog for years, desperately in love. Of course, the words that she used to describe me first started with “friend”, then “Brother”, then the one that done me in was “Father Figure”. I mean it. I figure I tried for about 7 years to start the fire, but the rain was falling too fast. Sheesh, now I don’t want to do anything. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-broke-your-heart/16513.md?page=2)