Women Reveal Why They're Embarrassed About Dating Particular Exes

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May 21, 2022 3:00 PM EDT

Some guys we've gone out with are beyond embarrassing. Our friends couldn't see what we saw in them when we were dating them, but we simply couldn't take our rose-colored glasses off. We would claim that we saw a side of them that nobody else knew to justify our decision, or we would promise our friends that they were going to change. It took us way more time than it should to realize that these duds were definitely not boyfriend material. Now that we've successfully managed to escape their clutches, we've had some time to ponder the relationship, and we can confidently say that we have no idea WTF we were thinking. The heart wants what it wants, even if what it wants is a garbage dumpster fire. In an AskWomen post, women discussed particular exes who they are so embarrassed about. Hopefully, we've learned our lesson and will avoid guys like this in the future. 

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    Human body - r/AskWomen Posted by u/New-Worry-608 19 hours ago Those of you who are embarrassed particular ex, why? about dating a
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    The reason why we broke up with them in the first place was because they were embarrassing as hell. 

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    Font - ExpertOrganic808 - 19 hr. ago He was way too old for me omg i dont know what i was thinking. He was homeless too and refused to get a job and was a soundcloud rapper. The sad thing was that he actually was a good rapper/poet/actually talented but just made bad choices everytime. He was way too obssesed with the whole "you take care of me. A good woman builds the man" concept. I thought i was in some B movie dating this person. Everytime we hung out something bad would happen. His family w
    via u/ExpertOrganic808

    So dreamy. 

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    Font - albino_oompa_loompa 18 hr. ago 2 One of them is now an anti-Semite flat earther hardcore fundie Christian, so I'm pretty embarrassed about that. The other would only wear Hawaiian shirts, regardless of the temperature outside. He went by "Hawaiian Ryan". I'm glad we dated for less than a month.
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    Font - HolyShit I did it. 18 hr. ago Oh yay, let's take a trip down the memory lane containing all my poor choices! He was old enough to be my father. I liked him but I was embarrassed about photos of us together so I actually set my FB settings to make it look like I was posting pictures of us together to all my friends but really it was just shared with me, him, and like 3 mutual friends. I would be mortified if some guy went to those lengths because he was embarrassed to have pics of us toget
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    Font - demeter94 18 hr. ago Where to begin? My most regretful though was one that was way too old for me and definitely took advantage of my youth, that seems to be a recurring theme based on the comments so far. Who else? Let's see. The guy who turned out to be married. The guy who drugged me literally the first time he ever met me. The guy who thought he could play around with other people then save me for when he wanted to settle down. The guy who woke me up in the middle of the night to play
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    Font - NightoftheJulia 19 hr. ago 2 Guys were never romantically interested in me, so I was happy when one said he had a crush on me. I wasn't attracted to him, but I didn't want to be alone anymore. He turned out to be a Catholic alcoholic furry who complained about everything and tried to make me feel bad about choices he made.
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    Font - smolbibeans 19 hr. ago 2 I'm embarrassed because I was way too immature in that relationship and really only dated him because I wanted to be in a relationship and he was a friend, not because I actually liked him romantically though I thought so back then. We also clearly had incompatibilities, and I didn't handle those well. In general, I just handled the last few months of the relationship very poorly, including borderline emotional cheating. I'm not embarrassed because of who he was/i
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    Font - SleepFlower80 19 hr. ago 2 Because I was 14 and he was 27. At the time I thought I was cool shit because all the other girls in my year were really jealous that I had an older boyfriend who had money and a car. Now, looking back, I can see how dumb and naive I was, and just how badly I was groomed. I try to be kind to myself because I was just a child but still.
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    Rectangle - auroraidk 19 hr. ago He was not intelligent and behaved like a fuckboy. He also wore a way too large leather jacket to act tough and manly that just looked as if he stole it from someone and put it on his slim and small body.
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    Font - Puck-achu 17 hr. ago He was really two faced. He was the sweetest to me(not in a grooming way, truly sweet), but a trashy morron to the rest of the world. Back then I thought I saw the real him and the idiot was just a personage. Now I'm older I don't separate both sides, since you choose to be both. He IS both, and I should judge both. I struggle with how everybody talks about how rude he was at at this, or how he exploited that. Nobody sees the guy I fell for, and I don't want to look l
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    Font - recollectionmemoir. 18 hr. ago I ignored his social media on purpose. In my experience, looking at my partner's instagram, facebook, twitter, etc. was triggering because I'd fall into a rabbit hole and stalk them from here to mars. Well, when I lost tons of respect and love for him after he repeatedly abused me, I finally opened my eyes to his accounts for the first time. He would keep his embarrassing postings about satanism (cringe) up and overall he was one of those people who carried
    via u/recollectionmemoir
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    Font - cattheprogrammer. 16 hr. ago He didn't respect me, treated me badly and saw me as a piece of meat oh and I had PTSD from a previous relationship and wanted positive attention, I guess. It was a bad decision, but I can't change it. We tried to be friends afterwards and I have no idea why I haven't blocked him right away. He ended up ghosting me anyway, because "I wasn't texting enough". So yeah, I'm still embarrassed lol
    via u/cattheprogrammer
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    Font - C 17 hr. ago He was a hoarder, had a history with addiction to various things, had zero financial literacy, had mommy issues, was selfish, couldn't communicate, was scared of commitment, had a history of cheating... and yet I thought he was the best thing since sliced bread. I got the rose tinted glasses ripped right off when he left me for a married woman. I'm so embarrassed for myself to have seen anything in him at all.
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    Font - TransitionAshamed657 - 14 hr. ago So many reasons, mainly how absolutely incapable he is as an adult. I hid so many things from my family, friends and Co workers. That I drove us everywhere as he refused to drive (he does have his license). He never had a job or even attempted to get a job in the 3 years we were together. I lied to people about that too. His anti social behaviour I would make excuses for him that he is shy, but he was actually just really rude and made no effort to intera
    via u/TransitionAshamed657

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