Lex Gabrielle
When it comes to breakups, we all have our bad ones. There are the exes we wish we could completely erase from our lives, the ones who made us swear off dating for quite some time, and the ones who haunt us for years to come.
When relationships end, people’s emotions are at an all-time high, so it’s not wild to believe that some people do some stupid things. But, some exes are so spiteful, they can’t help themselves but stoop to the petty level.
Recently, BuzzFeed asked their users to share the “pettiest thing their ex has ever done to them,” and some of the stories will make you probably appreciate your ex–who wasn’t a petty sociopath.
35.
Ex husband was a real gem. cheated on me and was a raging alcoholic. Found a replacement me within a month of splitting up. I spent the next 5 years happily alone raising my kids the right way. Then I met my boyfriend. Ex goes into a tizzy, starts bad mouthing me and decides to stop paying the very small, not even legal minimum amount of child support. Then he decides to call DYFS and housing code enforcement on me and tells my kids I called on myself. Hoping karma pays him a visit soon.
34.
At my parents request, I broke up with the ex when he turned 18 because I was younger and they thought it would lead to the “birds and the bees”…months rolls by, he breaks the news that he married some chick that had 2 kids previously, with different guys. Some years pass, I figured out he was divorced from him stalking me at my job. The cherry on top, was him asking my younger step sister out on a date. I wish I was making this up, this is petty on a vinegar-salty level.
33.
An old ex used to message me (a few years after we had broken up), often asking about my current love life and thoughts about getting back together.
It wasn’t until a few months later that I found out he and his current girlfriend were co-conspiring, in order to emotionally torment me.
32.
so i met this guy through this girl who WAS my best friend at the time, and i was dating him because he was part of our friend group (yes. i know. ) it only lasted a week (he was very childish). we were sitting in my car before he had work and he took the aux cord and plugged it into his phone. I didn’t think anything of it because we always listened to a lot of music together. so he plays a few songs and then he tells me to stop what i’m doing and listen to the lyrics. THIS ASSHOLE PUT ON “Friends” by Justin Bieber and Bloodpop. For those of you who don’t know that song the lyric that was most important for me to hear was “can we still be friends?” and he proceeded to ask me if i understood. WELL skip to a week later, i wrecked my car in a bad accident. he had been texting my friend allllllll that time since we’d broken up. i was in the car all alone. WELL he found out i wrecked my car and told me that i should’ve hit my head at some point because a vegetable would be smarter than i am (keep in mind he was absolutely in LOVE with me before i ever gave him attention. i’m incredibly out of his league). Then he asked my friend if SHE was okay. SHE WASNT EVEN IN THE CAR. ????????????? but anyways he started sleeping with her and now i’m not friends with her and he still messages me once in awhile telling me he messed up and he wants me back (try again buddy).
31.
Tried to make our mutual friends choose between us. He then tried to get sympathy by getting crossfaded every night so that our friends would have to take care of him and therefore not be able to hang out with me. So immature.
30.
My ex “accidentally” called me while he was fucking someone else.
29.
When he moved out, he took all my Tupperware lids and left the containers.
28.
My ex started a conversation by saying she felt she wasn’t mentally stable enough to be in a relationship right now and that it would be better to just take a break. We both had our share of instability and so I understood where she was coming from, so I agreed. Ten minutes later she posts on Twitter and she’s got a new girlfriend, and they’re trashing me in texts. She claims I wasn’t sexual enough for her and so she went ahead and tried to get the emotional need from me and the sexual need from the other girl. Not right man, I’m still salty.
27.
My ex would “accidentally” send messages to me that were meant for the girls he was trying to hook up with after we broke up.
26.
Broke up with me, then a couple weeks later got drunk and texted my best friend saying “if things were different I could’ve been dating you”
25.
It’s not super scandalous but I had an ex who would deliberately misspell my first name even though while we were dating he always spelled it correctly. Or he would mispronounce my name.
24.
Mine wasn’t an ex-boyfriend, but an ex-roommate. It was our freshman year in college and she managed to turn our entire friend group against me. I switched to a single room so I could get away from her, and when I moved out, I took everything I had brought. This included my Roku box that she watched all her Netflix and Hulu on, the rug that covered our entire floor, and all the silverware we had in our room.
The pettiest things weren’t even intentional, but apparently I took her Hulu access right before the finale of her favorite show. Bonus.
23.
After I moved out, I realized there were a few things I had left at the house. So my lawyer asked his if I could arrange a time to pick up any remaining items of mine- my speakers, picnic set and anything else. He responded that he didn’t know where they were and he probably thew them away. Ok fine, they were expensive.
A few weeks later, I pick my son up at his moms lake house and she invited in while kiddo got ready. Sitting on the counter? My picnic set.
Next weekend I was able to go through our old house – which was filthy – and get all my stuff back.
22.
My ex and I broke up while I was binge watching the last season of Breaking Bad, which he knew I was doing. After trying to contact me for a few days and me not responding, I got locked out of Netflix. I then get a text shortly after from him saying that he “forgot the password and had to change it.” He said if I still wanted to use it, I just had to let him know and he’d give me the password. I got my own account that day.
21.
Oh I got another one. I was dating this girl and things were great until we got into a playful argument over a cartoon frog and it somehow escalated to her being mad as hell. The next day I was super busy with work and when I got home I saw that her status changed to dating some guy her brother was friends with. I talked to her about it, thinking it was a joke, and she told me “oh, I thought we were breaking up”. They broke up two days later but ah yea haven’t even bothered speaking to her after that.
20.
Made his anniversary date with his new girlfriend on FB the same as my anniversary with my (now) husband.
19.
He cheated on me, yelled at me about how I was crazy for finding out, then broke up with me. Then when I wasn’t responding to his texts, calls, and had deleted him from all social media, he begged to take me out-his treat-because he ‘realized what he’d lost’. I reluctantly agreed. Then when we got to the bar for drinks, he ordered several doubles and shots. He then went out for a cigarette and just got in his car and left me there. Not so much petty as much as he was just a massive prick.
18.
I was abused child so I already had a bad self esteem and when someone said they loved I believed it because nobody said it much to me I had guys use me will this one guy beat me up and I left him after I realized this wasn’t normal and he would stalked me at my job I just quit the job and luckly he never tired to find me
I am now married for 20 years to a wonderful man and my self esteem is much better my health isn’t great and I am sick now but I feel like one of one of the lucky abused ones who made it
17.
A few days after we broke up, he came by my apartment to drop off some things I left at his place. Instead of meeting me in the lobby, he left my stuff in a box by the security door. On top was his copy of my grandmother’s funeral program.
16.
I broke up with my ex finally after several years of being in a shitty situation. After moving out what I thought was completely, he sent me several messages about these new shoes I needed to see because they were “fire”. Sure as the world I had forgotten my box of shoes, and he set fire to all of them. Then sent pictures of each individual pair while they were burning.
15.
I sent a glitter bomb to his office. He’s an attorney and I knew he’d be in a suit and have court. Apparently glitter went everywhere, he went to court sparkling and spent days cleaning it up!
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14.
He dated my sister a week after he broke up with him to get back at me and they actually ended up getting married, you can say the family is pretty divided.
13.
So the pettiest thing an ex has ever done to me was take pictures of him having sex with his ex who hated me, in our bed while we were “on a break”. He said he took these pictures because he wanted to be able to prove it to me. He didn’t think this was petty or childish. Mind you he was ten years older then me.
12.
My ex was good with Apple technology and somehow figured out how to monitor my phone remotely from his computer. After I broke up with him he would monitor my phone if I wasn’t responding to him to see if I was texting other guys, and when he would notice new names or read my conversations he would remotely reply to them with random messages saying “sorry i need to cancel our date” or “I’m really into my ex still” right before I would be trying to go on dates. It ruined a few things with people and I had to get a new phone he couldn’t access.
11.
My fiancé and I were planning a cruise to the Bahamas for our honeymoon next year. He PACKED ALL HIS STUFF while I was at an important doctor’s appointment (that he was SUPPOSED to take me to) because I yelled at him for not showing up. After he left, I booked that EXACT cruise for me, my mom, & my 2 daughters! So instead of getting married & going with him I’m gonna celebrate with the most important LADIES in my life! Oh, and when he was trying to talk to me after, I kept mentioning my vacation to the Bahamas, just to rub it in. Petty? Yeah. Satisfying? Oh HELL YES!
10.
My ex bought me Spongebob the musical tickets for my birthday after I was telling him how much I wanted to go. Not only did it “not work out between us”, he bought the tickets in his name and didn’t give the gift. To top it off? He brought my best friend.
9.
I had an ex contact me weeks after he dumped me to tell me our entire relationship was a lie and he had never loved me. After he spent almost a year telling me how in love he was and how much he wanted us to get married and all that crap. A different guy also left for a trip we were supposed to be on together without me, then called me from the hotel room to tell me he’d made it to the hotel and also we’re not dating anymore. He then kicked me off a video game server that I actively played on despite the fact that his exes had been on it for years and they never even played on it anymore.
8.
I’m terrified of vomit and after we broke up, he would go to my work in the middle of the night and vomit on the door so when I would go to open up the next morning, surprise! My worst fear would be waiting for me! He would never admit it, yet when he moved away, it stopped…
7.
Me, im the petty ex. While we were going through our divorce proceedings, my ex husband posted on facebook, “How can I force my b×××h of an ex wife to change her name?”
A friend of mine screen shotted it and sent it to me, so we are divorced so I still have his name just to spite him, because I was going to change it back.
6.
I once drive two hours to return some of his stuff and get some of my stuff back only to be “ stood up” and I waited outside his apartment for hours without a response, called several times, knocked on the door profusely. After several HOURS of waiting I ended up driving three and a half hours back in traffic to find out later he’d been inside tho whole time drinking coffee.
5.
I’m the petty ex in this situation, but a few weeks after we broke up, I went to his house to hang with his roommate. I found out my ex was hanging out with a new girl in his room, so I went downstairs, took the painting we made together off the wall, and left with it.
4.
I dated the most jealous guy ever in high school. He constantly accused me of hooking up with our friends (insert a million eye rolls because that was the most ridiculous accusation ever). There was one particular male friend of ours that he was convinced I was secretly cheating on him with. Fast forward about 10 years later and said male friend had passed away. It was one of those situations that was devastating to me because I woke up to the news on Facebook. My ex boyfriend had called me to see (I thought so anyway) if I was ok and then proceeded with the following question: “Since (insert my male friend’s name here) is dead now, you can admit you slept with him.” I immediately hung up the phone, changed my phone number, and blocked his ass. So petty.
3.
My ex and I lived together for almost a year. During the first few months, we got a dog together. Picked him out and fell in love with the dog together. However, he actually purchased the dog. I paid for the additional expenses (vet visits, food and supplies, etc). Fast forward almost a year. My ex cheats on me with MY OWN SISTER. Since he moved into my apartment, I told him to leave. He left and took our dog and GAVE HIM UP FOR ADOPTION. I understand that he paid for the dog so by law, it makes the dog his. But that was OUR dog. And with me paying more than he did in maintaining the dog as well as developing a closer bond than he did, it felt more like my dog. I would’ve gladly given him money for the dog. The dog was already in a loving home and my petty ass ex gave him away. There was no other reason to do it other than to hurt me. The price I had to pay for being cheated on was losing something I loved dearly and it wasn’t even the dude.
2.
My ex was a football player in high school, and he despised the wide receiver and kicker who was my best friend. A couple years ago my best friend passed away and my ex had heard about it through his old football coach first, my friend was brain dead and they would be harvesting his organs within the next couple days. He called and told me and I appreciated it more than words could describe. One week after the funeral he drunk snapchats me telling me I should sleep with him as a REWARD for telling me my best friend was brain dead…. pettiness to another level.
1.
2 years after breaking up with me I get a text from him reminding me of my $250 “tab” (my share of expenses from a trip we took when we were together), gives me a 3 month due date, and tells me he accepts PayPal, or Venmo. Happily paid so I could be done with it and him.
