Women Confess the Most Embarrassing Secrets They Know About Their Exes

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Jul 13, 2023 9:00 AM EDT

One of the weirdest things about ending a relationship is how much you now know about a person who is no longer an integral part of your life. Assuming you knew them pretty well, it gives you an intel file in your head that 99% of those they meet will never find out about. 

For those with more unfortunate love lives, this can be pretty juicy — as proven by a truly eye-popping r/AskWomen thread. Requesting that women spill the most embarrassing secrets they had about their exes, they did not hold back. The fact that all of these individuals were deemed dateable is nothing short of terrifying. 

From secret jerk behavior to many, many examples of men just being plain gross, it's enough to make single people want to live in a cave for the rest of their lives. Reading these responses, I feel blessed that my own previous partners have been normal in comparison. I'm kind of annoyed that I don't have better dirt on the worst ones, though.

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    Font - NSFW r/AskWomen u/Warm_Gur8832 • 2d 18 NSFW What embarrassing secrets do about your exes? you know
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    Human body - bookishsnack 2d One of my exes fell for the Nigerian Prince email spam when we were in college and ended up owing the bank $20,000.
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    Font - lizagna2 2d So I was sitting in my living room on my phone while he was in the bathroom going #2. Or trying to. He's in there for idk, 15 minutes maybe, when I hear the door creak open slightly and my name being called very faintly. I go over concerned asking if he's alright and he looks me dead in the eyes and asks, "do you have a pad?" Now, I know this boy does not have the parts that typically need those, so I'm like uh sure, why??? He told me was so constipated that he ended up bleedi
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    Font - brightdeadlights 2d My ex husband went to the bathroom in the dark. He tried using a tube of hemorrhoid cream, but also on the bathroom counter was some green crackle Halloween makeup. Apparently he really lathered it on. Told me in the morning and I almost died laughing. It was a joke for years. I should text him a reminder.
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    Rectangle - redjessa 2d He used to tell people he was in the military and sometimes used the word veteran. He was kicked out of bootcamp for getting drunk while on some sort of duty.
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    Human body - Important_Fennel_511 2d He farted before we went for a shower and a tiny poop fell out and onto the bathroom matt
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    Font - jengaclause 2d My ex was bored one night at work and decided to take a print of his ass on the copy machine. He broke it. What he didn't know was that it was caught on camera! They fired him the next day. We were parents of a newborn.
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    Font - iusedtobefamous1892 2d That his mum cuts his toenails for him
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    Font - chxitxli 2d I was with this guy for 4 years, he use to dress up in my clothes (shorts, dresses etc), wear my headband then walk around the house TALKING OUTLOUD TO SOMEONE IMAGINARY when there wasn't anyone home. I walked in on him one day when I came home early from college.
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    Font - MirageAnne 2d That he chatted up a 15 year old on snapchat when he was in his 30s. Showed me some of their chats and they were quite... suggestige. No clue what happened there but I reported him to the local police before leaving.
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    Font - km5248 2d My ex was an alcoholic and so he often would pee the bed while we slept. He never brushed his teeth. He would also pee In empty liquor bottles and store them in his dresser. He was so messy when drunk and did some embarrassing things. I would look through his phone to find he messaged girls constantly behind my back but they rejected him His routine turned into wake up drink, pass out, repeat. I tried so many times to help him stay sober but I couldn't do it anymore as the bottl
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    Font - whiskers MeowFace 2d He had only one pair of socks, and wore them every day without washing them. He worked as a mechanic. I have no idea how he didn't have some kind of foot fungus or trench foot. He refuses to wash his socks except once a week because his roommate would steal them, supposedly. His feet, shoes and obviously socks reeked.
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    Font - Newdaytoday1215 2d He's gay. He knew he was all of his life. He had an ex wife when he met me. A couple of months into the relationship I knew something was up. Also, knew he was attracted to his work buddy, a bi-sexual married to a woman. I told him that I needed the truth from him and our connection was good enough that he fessed up. He was never bi but gay and knew since he was a teen. I was pretty sure that was the end of the relationship but he asked me not to end it but bc he was tr
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    Font - Viocansia 2d That the only reason he got his college degree is because I wrote his last paper for him.
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    Font - Bubble TeaCheesecake6 2d He called all his exes crazy. We all know who the real crazy one here
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    Human body - ThatPinkLady 2d He confessed after we broke up he stole panties from random women in the laundry matt at our apartment complex.
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    Human body - Internal_Externally 2d He doesn't think space is real
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    Rectangle - dmg-1918 2d My ex who was a hotshot commercial accountant, drove a fancy car and wore expensive suits, was still living at home and sleeping in his childhood twin bed. Also his dad still did his laundry.
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    Font - Miss_Westeros 2d He never brushed his teeth as a kid and all of his adult teeth are filed down like a horse's teeth. A different ex was absolutely obsessed with me. After we broke up he joined the navy, went to the Philippines, and had a kid with a woman solely because she looked like me. I'm not Filipina. Same ex has a pinup tattoo of me, I think he cut it up himself when we broke up or something.
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    Font - Lopsided_Job_724 2d Faked an abusive relationship so people would see him as a victim... I figured it out way too late and now I'm the new villain in his story because I moved out. Dude has Bundy acting abilities.
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    Font - Htaylorw 2d not an ex but a guy i went out with for a few months. the reason he rode his bicycle to the bar during the winter was because he has at least 1 DUI, multiple tickets for driving without a license, and can't get it back because he won't do court-ordered therapy. he only told me after i background checked him, previously he said it was because he's trying to exercise more LOL
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    Font - Bubbabee2013 2d My ex didn't know what potholders were. After a few times of him refusing my help getting things out of the oven, I had to ask him why he never used potholders. He had no idea what I was talking about, and when I showed him the decorative quilted squares, he told me he thought they were just kitchen decorations that his mother hung on the over door handle.
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    Font - SpookyWithACookie 2d My ex boyfriend pretended to be a werewolf. Yes, he howled alot
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