When Rejection Stings: 50 Brutal Dating Comebacks That Went Too Far
I would find out later this all was a prank devised by my friends, and still can’t believe I bought it. I can’t remember the exact detail on how my friends “discovered” the identify of the girl, but they gave me the info one day and I took it as real.
I knew of this girl at school, but had never talked to her before. I was walking to class with my buddies, we see this girl in the hallway take a turn and is heading away from us to class. My buddies get on me to “go ask her out man!!! She wants to hang out with you”. They get me pumped up enough to go chase her down in the hallway. I get to her and say “Hey (her name here), I got your notes and definitely would be interested in hanging out sometime with you”. The look of puzzle and confusion on her was so incredible, It immediately hit me that this was all a joke put on by my buddies. She says back to me “I have no idea what notes you are talking about, and I have no idea who you are. And if you can not talk to me again, that would be great.” I still get hit with that random memory and it hits me in the chest just like it did then.
NearbyCow6885:
With friends like that, who needs enemies.
Girl here. He laughed, called his buddies over (some of them were girls too) and proceeded to make fun of me. I’ll never forget that feeling in my chest ever.
rivlet:
This happened to me in fifth grade. They chased me all over the playground shouting, “Why would anyone like you?! You’re gross/a nerd/have glasses/stupid!”. It went on for over ten minutes because they were just riling each other up to have a go at me.
I ended up standing my ground at some point and scratching one of them on the nose. I got sent to the principal’s office and forced to apologize to them. Meanwhile, when I got home, my uncle spanked me so hard I couldn’t sit down for a bit because I “attacked some boys”.
My aunt had me write an apology letter to one of the boys because his mom was a patient of hers.
0/10, would not recommend.
Female here he said “I’ve been thinking about whether I want or need you in my life and the answer to both is no”.
AppropriateAmoeba406:
“I don’t like or respect you. We shouldn’t be together.”
We stayed together for another YEAR! Because we were both idiots, apparently.
She said ‘Aww’ and patted my shoulder. I’ve never recovered.
EasyMode556:
This isn’t too far from when I mustered all the courage I had to call a girl I thought was cute and ask her to prom. Her response was to go “awwwww, that’s so cute!” like I was some small child. She said no of course.
She wasn’t trying to be mean but it was a devastating blow. Like at least take me seriously and treat me as a peer, instead of some confused puppy?
Furiously: “Don’t ever smile at me again like that. You’re ugly and I do *not* fancy you.”
The kicker was, I saw her outside of school, at a shop, with one of her parents. And all I did was smile at her because hey, there’s someone I know from school. I was under no illusions that she had any interest in me. Still emotionally devastated to the point where it makes me wince to remember, 36 years later.
Nebraskabychoice:
You can’t see it, but I am smiling at you RIGHT NOW.
She berated me for 2 minutes calling me fat, loser, ugly with all of the above in combinations. I was 13.
I had kids who bullied me and said “that was rough man, I’m sorry”.
NobodyLost972:
Imagine being such a jerk even your bullies we’re like “damn bro, that’s rough”
“Hmm, I’m not sure I even like you as a friend, but sure you can take me out why not.”
My confidence was torched for years and that was the worst most awkward date of my life lol.
MaxMouseOCX:
… You still went on the date… Shouldn’t have done that.
OP:
My brain went into “so you’re saying there’s a chance” full denial mode lol
Besides backing out is almost worse it was all bad.
10 years later and I wake up in a cold sweat sometimes remembering lmao
Nearly 19 years ago and I remember it clearly. After nine months together, we were on a bit of a break. I thought things were starting to pick up again, we go to lunch, I drop her at her house and then she hits me with “I didn’t miss you as much as I thought I would” and ended it.
That was a fun thing to hear and then have to go back to work.
vercertorix:
I went out with someone a few times, and then after a weekend when we didn’t go out, she basically told me she had a great time doing her favorite hobby and hanging out with her brother and sister, and that it made her realize she enjoyed herself more doing all that than spending time with me. At the time, felt pretty unfair that I was supposed to be able to compete with her favorite thing and a couple of her favorite people that early into it, but long after that rejection, I realize it’s valid. Sometimes people will grow closer, but she gave me an honest shot and decided she wasn’t that interested. Just a surprise because it seemed to be going well.
I’ve kind of come to the conclusion that any reason to break up with someone is probably valid or at least there’s no point trying to convince them otherwise. The rejection still sucks, but if they’re not that invested in the relationship, it’s not likely to last, you’d just be putting the ending off if you managed to be persuasive enough to get them to stay. Easier opinion to hold now that I’m married and out of the dating game. If my wife decides she wants a divorce, which I wouldn’t see coming right now, I’d probably think differently for a while.
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