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Spill the beans... on your worst free romantic memories

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  • Exboyfriend (obviously). Of all the stories I could tell about him I chose this:
    The Concert
    I was a very poor uni student, living on $40 a week in Miami, which is a very expensive city. He had more free money as he lived at home, worked fulltime and studied part-time.

    One special occassion, I think my birthday, he surprised me with tickets to a classical music concert. It was a huge surprise as he was not one to spend money on me, or do anything outside of his own interests. I borrowed a nice dress from a friend and took the night off work (missing a shift work of pay!).

    After I had gotten ready he asked me what happened to the tickets. I had no idea, as I had only briefly seen them, and assumed he took them home. I scoured my little one room bedsit with no results.
    Looking back, he did seem to give up looking rather quickly. And he didn't do his usual fly into an awful frightening rage (*ahem*).

    He had never bought me the tickets. Someone else he knew bought their girlfriend tickets. He borrowed them, showed them to me, then returned them.

    He got credit for a nice gift, and also got to punish me for losing the expensive gift. Win win for him, and I had a cheap meal in a diner for my birthday meal. Which was also a win for him, as they didn't have anything vegetarian and he could spend the whole meal telling me I was unhealthy and ungrateful.

    Jerkie jerk mcjerk
  • Sweet guy and we're still friends but not too clued up on the whole romance thing. After complaining about getting Fat Is A Feminist issue and Homage to Catalonia our first Valentine's together, the next year I got Scrabble and The Observor's Book of Cats!

    But you like Scrabble and you love cats he wailed...
    if i had known then what i know now
  • wondercollie
    wondercollie Posts: 1,591 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    mckenzzee wrote: »
    I'm living with my worst romantic memory, I have to ask myself do I really want to stay in this unhappy partnership, he's having a hard time emotionally & I cannot appear to be selfish, each time I think I’ve overcome my disappointment & try to adapt a new mind set, remind myself it’ll be ok, just give him some time, he then says or does something that makes me think is this really worth all this doubt, am I living a lie.........my worst romantic memory is live.
    :sad:

    you have just described the last 20 years of my life. Get out now before you have a mortgage, children, a dog, and more history.

    I wish I had but now it's too late.
  • My worst romantic moment? Enjoying a romantic moment whilst very newly married (and very physically inexperienced) and very much in love only to have him stop, tell me it wasn't working for him and could I excuse him a moment while he went downstairs, popped on some !!!!!! to get him more in the mood then he would be back as soon as he could.

    I'm not married to him anymore!
  • I had been seeing my boyfriend for 7 years and on Valentines Day I was presented with a card still in the cellophane. My boyfriend simply stated he hadn't had time to write it! It's true what they say about the 7 year itch.
  • I always look for the best so I don’t have any worst romantic memory.Romanticism has a charm in itself, if it is worst then it cannot be romance.
  • my ex brought me a pressie and spent the day bigging it up and telling me how wonderful and thoughtful he was, it was wrapped up beautifully and in a selfridges bag, I opened it and it was a tv ariel for the broken tv in the bedroom.

    we then went out and he got out of his face and spent the night telling me how noone else would want me and I should be grateful that he could stand the sight of me, we then went home, he passed out in bed and then woke up about 3 and peed across the foot of the bed thinking it was the toilet, and then tried to hit me when I asked him what the f**k he was playing at, tried to rip my engagement ring off my finger and pulled my necklace off, then passed out again, woke up and told me that I was talking sh*t he would never do something like that.

    other classics from him in buying complete cr*p included buying me trainers in a size too small so he could get them in the kids section as he didnt have to pay VAT. buying me an xbox with various driving games and fighting games which I never bothered opening (he kept that when we broke up).

    the only good memory of that relationship is that I caught him with his d*ck in the hoover one day and proceeded to tell everyone when we split up
  • foxwales
    foxwales Posts: 590 Forumite
    Having passionate rumpy pumpy after a great date only to fart when my partner was cowboying me.

    All that bouncing on my mid section.

    Even took me by suprise :o

    We did last 4 years together, so it wasn't all that bad
  • escortg3
    escortg3 Posts: 554 Forumite
    foxwales wrote: »
    Having passionate rumpy pumpy after a great date only to fart when my partner was cowboying me.

    All that bouncing on my mid section.

    Even took me by suprise :o

    We did last 4 years together, so it wasn't all that bad

    :rotfl::rotfl:I just nearly wet myself.:T
  • mckenzzee wrote: »
    I'm living with my worst romantic memory, I have to ask myself do I really want to stay in this unhappy partnership, he's having a hard time emotionally & I cannot appear to be selfish, each time I think I’ve overcome my disappointment & try to adapt a new mind set, remind myself it’ll be ok, just give him some time, he then says or does something that makes me think is this really worth all this doubt, am I living a lie.........my worst romantic memory is live.
    :sad:

    stop being a pathetic marter.you'll get no thanks just used and abused even more for being daft enough to hang about,grab your life with both hands and enjoy a lovely selfish life (he is)

    Oh,and it won't be ok,it never is
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