Today, I had finally summoned the courage to break up with my boyfriend, something I've needed to do for a long time. Right before my speech, he presented me with tickets to my favorite band a month from now. FML
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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I finally worked up the courage to tell my boyfriend that I wanted to go separate ways. Before I could say anything, he proposed. FML
Today, I finally worked up the courage to break up with my boyfriend. His parents weren't able to pick him up for 5 hours. I ended up taking him to a movie to kill time and end on a positive note, but now he thinks we're cool and back on track. FML
Today, I broke up with my boyfriend. I had only been dating him for about a month. Thinking he wouldn't take it very hard, I invited him over so I could tell him in person. Little did I know he was going to start crying on my couch and not leave for 5 hours. FML
Today, I went to my boyfriend's house, intending to break up with him. Instead, I was greeted by his whole family throwing me a surprise party. I had to sit and listen to his whole family talk about what a great couple we are and how we're going to last forever. FML
Today, I had my sweet sixteen party. All my best friends came to the microphone to make a little speech. When my boyfriend came to do his, he broke up with me. FML
Today, my boyfriend's proposal speech somehow ended with him breaking up with me. FML
Today, I finally got up the nerve to leave my boyfriend. We have no spark and quite honestly, it's been really awkward. I planned to tell him when he came in, and I did. After all was said and done, he handed me the roses and new puppy he had bought for me, a puppy that I had been saving up to get. FML
Today, wanting to break up with my boyfriend, I invited him to dinner with my parents. I was sure they'd hate him, which would give me the excuse I needed. They ended up loving him, and now they won't stop mentioning marriage. FML
Today, I bought my boyfriend two concert tickets for his birthday to see our favorite band, and he told me he doesn't feel he loves me. FML
Today, I was going to break up with my boyfriend after we went out for dinner. To my surprise, our families were also in the restaurant, to witness him propose to me. FML
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el_angelroca 15
If you went with him I'm sure you wouldn't have had as much fun as going with any of your friends or alone even
MrSassypants 34
Now, I ain't saying you a gold digger but.....
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Comments (145)
Sonata90 26
Decisions decisions. You must follow up OP, we are on the edge of our seats.
jake_braves 25
Yeah. Please tell me you took the tickets and ran.
fastnachter 15
That's disgusting. He has feelings too. Just because a relationship doesn't work out doesn't mean the dumper has to be an asshole and the dumpee has to suck it.
djm2010 8
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It might sound bad but I would stay with someone as long as they bought me stuff.
MrSassypants 34
Now, I ain't saying you a gold digger but.....
daniel271 13
She ain't messing with no broke niggas
crazycly 7
Haha #20 That song popped in my head as soon as I read the FML! Great minds hey? Lol
VeryMuchDutch 12
you're not a ***** if theres no actual money involved
AmIReallyRenee 20
wow you are extremely shallow. I like getting stuff, lots of people do, but don't screw with people's feeling just to get shit
kalbrek009 20
"Might" sound like a bad thing? It doesn't just "sound" bad...that is bad, superficial & shallow.
Redgy22 26
That's just semantics.
djm2010 8
Hey, at least I'm being honest.
heartofhannah 28
It does sound bad.
SystemofaBlink41 27
Then be honest with every dude that comes up to you because I'm sure they'd like to know you're a gold-digger in advance.
izzajaneful 24
If the person they are with doesn't mind superficial and shallow there is really no harm done. I imagine people that buy unusually high numbers of gifts or expensive things for a partner all the time knows it's not just their sparkling personality that keeps them in a relationship.
Masift 21
That reply was an obsolute win.
clumsyninja13 21
Well...be like my cousin say "I lost my ticket" and just hide it somewhere else like a friends or a in a pillow and then shove that pillow in a pillow case
lurker_no_more 13
what?
Malecent 13
Why?
team_hale 11
Wouldn't it be awkward when you are sitting next to each other at the concert?
alitairi 18
trade seats with someone who has much worse seats
reneetlovesyou 30
@10 & 23, I think #4 is saying to accept the tickets, then breakup with the boyfriend at a later date. If he asks for the tickets back, his advice to OP is to say she "lost" them and go to the concert anyway.
cooltatgar 31
Long term peace of mind vs short pleasure ... BOTH Take the tickets, hide them , then break up a week later. He will call you names ... but yeah.
MeltedMango 8
What the hell? Don't break up with a guy and steal his tickets. It's not like the boyfriend is a scumbag that needs punishment, just let him down easy and say you can't accept his tickets.
marcranger 29
She wouldn't be "stealing" his tickets, as he bought them as a gift. You can't place conditions on the use of a gift once you've given it. Sure, refusing the tickets is probably the more noble thing to do, but that's entirely up to OP and her feelings. I also kind of disagree about OP's boyfriend not being some sort of scumbag who deserves punishment. While we don't know for sure, I recognize some of my own ex's desperately manipulative relationship-saving measures in OP's boyfriend, and I know I'd think of the tickets as a small repayment for the misery he'd put me through.
gichikku 14
It would be stealing, since you are saying tickets and not ticket, seeing as he bought one for himself.
marcranger 29
We don't know that he bought one for himself. He may have intended the tickets, plural, to be a gift, though with the assumption that OP would take him as her date. Of course the only way we'll know for sure is if there's a follow-up.
blackjack159 11
Maybe the ops bf saw her favourite band coming to town and thought it would be romantic to go together. I've done the same before it's nice to treat your S.O once in a while. It doesn't have to be for something you've done
marcranger 29
I just can't help but think that there's no possible way he could be that oblivious to what's going on. Most people who are unhappy in their relationships find some way of letting it show, and if OP has been this unhappy for as long a time as her post indicates, her boyfriend would have to be mind-blowingly stupid not to have noticed. And since he hasn't cared enough about her happiness to cut her loose already, it makes sense that he'd try playing the big, stupid, romantic gesture card as a way to try and win back her love. This reeks of calculation to me.
PANDORUM89 21
y'all are seriously stretching some things. if a person you are involved with buys a pair of something like tickets you can safely assume he intended to go. Also buying someone a gift is not manipulative. I buy gifts for my bf all the time. You can put conditions on a gift. Like if I buy tickets and my bf breaks up with me looks like I'm going with someone else. The tickets IMO are not being given to OP but are a SHARED experience. if OP chooses to back out of the relationship then her BF has full rights to go without her and keep the extra ticket. Now if they were a bday present and he said take whoever you want then they would be hers.
DoomedGemini 38
Op's boyfriend might be an oblivious person. It's ridiculous to say everyone knows when their SO is unhappy or wanting to break up because it's far from the truth. A LOT of people have no idea. And the fact is he just bought tickets. That's all he did, but you are labeling him like your ex. I'm sorry that happened to you, but, as the person before me said, that's /really/ stretching it.
Jenniesaurus 14
Don't put yourself through a month of relationship hell just for a concert, OP. There will always be other times, and I'm sure he can find someone else to take.
VeryMuchDutch 12
but... it saves her money
el_angelroca 15
If you went with him I'm sure you wouldn't have had as much fun as going with any of your friends or alone even
SoulEaterSE 23
Take the tickets and then break up with him
americanafrican 32
take the tickets, leave the man
9a_1z 12
It's times like these that you show your true qualities dude. You can either act with bravery and integrity or decide to string him along for the sake of going to this concert. If you do the latter you might find it a bit more difficult to call yourself a decent person.
MiLM 37
So basically what you're saying is that you're considering to use him for at least another month cause of the tickets to your fav. band? Yea, that sounds right. YDI.
teentee401 37
Why assume OP was thinking of using him? The FML here is that she was about to break up with him and he did something nice for her. That makes it a bit harder.
VeryMuchDutch 12
ahhrrggg... whats another month of being ****** by a guy i dont want to be with?? at least he gives me money
toaster87 19
Let's be honest, it's not about him doing something nice for her, it's about her getting free tickets to the band, but having to stay in the relationship for a month.. There would be no FML if the tickets for the next day or next week, she would have gone and broken up with him right after.
MiLM 37
I get your point, #21. However, personally, I wouldn't consider it an FML, since him buying OP tickets shouldn't really matter if she wants to break up with him. Yes, the band, but OP does imply that she wanted to break up with him long (or not) before, so...