'She told him 'it's the pig or me': 20+ of the wildest relationship break up stories

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Apr 7, 2024 1:00 PM EDT

Love is a very juicy topic. We wouldn't have thousands of songs, books, and movies dedicated to it if that wasn't the case—nor would they exist if romantic relationships were always plain sailing. A big part of the reason for our interest in love is that the highest of highs can be followed by the lowest of lows. 

Rock bottom means different things for different couples, and sometimes the worst is saved until last. Some may bristle at being ghosted after three dates, but that's probably preferable to some of the wild breakup stories that were shared in a recent Reddit thread. 

Ranging from a lot of unnecessary awkwardness to straight-up insanity, nobody would want to find themselves with a story like this to tell. It just goes to show that not every happily ever after is guaranteed, or will ever be exactly how it seems from the outside.

 

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    18 g? r/AskReddit u/Scar Tissue5.1d What's the craziest story you've heard of a couple breaking up?
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    PioneerDingus 1d Newly married woman (a teacher at a local school) cheated on her husband (also a teacher at the same school) with the principal. They got caught in the act on school property. Both their careers ruined and probably ruined the husbands life.
    via PioneerDingus
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    worker911 1d Husband was eating breakfast when he noticed a new tattoo on his wife's wrist. It was the name of her new boyfriend. She also would drive down toll roads in his car without paying. When the bills came in, she threw them away. He was on the hook for thousands of dollars when he figured it out!
    via worker911
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    gratefulelderflower 1d I don't know if they broke up but this was how someone found out her pilot husband was cheating on her. When a family in Canada adds a child, they receive a monthly tax benefit. It's a monthly payment dependent on your income but for a while there was one that wasn't income tested (it was universal). Mrs Pilot got a higher than normal cheque, so she called our Revenue Agency to check (the CRA). They said it was for baby girl Pilot, born {date}. What happened was her husban
    via gratefulelderflower
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    Timeless Travellor 1d Well... my ex broke up with me at the beginning of a 10 hour flight. We lived together, and his mother picked us up from the airport..
    via TimelessTravellor
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    AlaskaStiletto 1d Two of my old high school friends grew up and got married. Both are women. Turns out one was verbally and/or physically abusing the other and the victim divorced her and married the (her abuser's) father. They're still together. I found this out on Facebook.
    via AlaskaStiletto
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    Wrong-Currency5146 1d A truck driver gets married. He and the wife buy a nice house. He's on the road paying for it. One day he comes home and the wife is gone and six months of bills and a foreclosure notice is on the table. For six months she took every $ he made and kept it for herself until she eventually split with all his money.
    via Wrong-Currency5146
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    ega110 1d Heard this one from my old hair stylist. She had a female friend who was dating this guy who had a pet pig. It was huge, like a full grown pig. The pig hated the woman and pushed her out of bed to take her place next to her boyfriend. One day, she had enough and told him it is the pig or me. He told her that the pig was there first so he dumped her and stayed with the pig. Man that must have been a blow to her self esteem
    via ega110
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    CherryManhattan 1d I had an old coworker who was almost retired and did one of those dna kits with her husband. He was an M&A consultant who traveled for work for at least two decades. They found out that he had fathered 3 kids that were now adults. Who knows how many more. She divorced him after 42 years of marriage. I remember her crying in the office very vividly.
    via CherryManhattan
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    LoudBelchStabbyFart 1d This one couple i know would purposely break up in public and then make each other jealous by flirting with strangers before they eventually get back together. Like they would just ego-trip on getting attention from another person before deciding they were too afraid to lose the other. It was kind of fun to see which one of them would get more jealous of the other. Although whenever the guy was "winning," she would be a scary level of
    via LoudBelchStabbyFrt
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    867530nyeeine 1d Friend was an underwater welder. Terrible job but pays well, they won't let you work after a certain age though (40?). Friend and partner had bought an amazing house in the Philippines near where he worked, and every dollar was now going into his retirement savings because the career was so time limited. Work was a couple weeks out at sea, then a couple weeks back and so on. One day he gets home from a shift, discovers his partner has sold the house and put all the proceeds as w
    via 867530nyeeine
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    stevenconrad 1d I have a friend who was very insecure in high school, like... very insecure. She was dating a guy and accidentally farted in front of him. She was so embarrassed that she broke it off immediately after.
    via stevenconrad
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    TinyLittlePanda 1d My dad told me this hearbreaking story, back in the early 70s women in my country were not allowed to have or manage their own bank accounts. This lady, a stay-at-home mother of five, would often come to the bank were my dad worked. She came from a pretty wealthy family, so she had savings, but as she married her entire wealth passed to her husband. She comes that day and asks for some cash, as she would usually do. My dad checks, double-checks, triple-checks : the bank accoun
    via TinyLittlePanda
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    She came back a few days later absolutely devastated: hubby had abandoned them. Her and the FIVE children. Not only was he gone, but fully disappeared, like she could not trace him (after a few years, I think she discovered he had gone to South America), and she and the kids were left to starve. My dad tried everything in his small bank executant power to help her get her money back, but hubby had every right to do what he did. That poor lady turned from being one of the wealthiest clients to th
    via TinyLittlePanda
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    dreadfulwater 1d Story told to me by a friend Guy and girl meet online. Both married and in different countries. Guy was in US, girl was in Australia. For over a year they talked, developed strong emotional bonds, and built their whole lives around getting out of the situation they were in with their respective spouses and did so. The whole plan was the guy was going to move from US to Australia to be with her. and... After all that destruction they met and there was no physical chemistry. Not s
    via dreadfulwater
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    James Jakes000 1d Idiot X is seeing two girls, A and B, simultaneously. He married girl A, while still seeing girl B, who knows X is actually marrying girl A. Marriage lasted one and a half year, ends because girl A found out about girl B. X divorces girl A and marries girl B. Another year and a half passes. X cheats on current wife, girl B, with former wife, girl A. They go to an hotel on a weekend, leave the hotel and get hit by a truck right outside of it. Girl A and X end up in the hospital
    via JamesJakes000
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    WhatAGoodGirl8 1d Knew a girl in 5th grade and was in the middle school band with her. Likewise when we moved to highschool we were in highschool marching band together. Our middle school band teacher and our highschool band teacher are a married couple in their 30s, no kids. Junior year of highschool, the rumored rampant affair between the highschool (male) band teacher and my a junior in highschool classmate - Had been found out by school/ police/the whole town to be FACTUAL. The police came a
    via WhatAGoodGirl8
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    Catharas 1d Friend's boyfriend was building a house. He moves in with her during construction. The plan is she will move in with him when house is ready. He asks her input on architecture details etc. Moving day arrives. They're all set to move in, she goes to work with the movers coming that day. Comes back and the movers have only taken his stuff and not hers. She calls him in confusion and that is the first time he tells her he's having doubts and doesn't want to move in together. She's compl
    via Catharas
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    613Hawkeye 1d Dude I knew in high school was dating some chick. She didn't seem his type, but whatever I'm not gonna judge. One day, he's driving her home after a bunch of us hung out at the local coffee shop. She lived pretty far out in the country, so it was a fairly long drive. 45 minutes or so if memory serves. He has the radio cranked right up, to the point they can't even speak. After about 15 minutes of driving like this, she turns the radio down and asks "what're you thinking about?". To
    via 613Hawkeye
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    HowRemember All 1d on a date told me he convinced a bunch of friends to gaslight a loving couple they were cheating on each other and it took them 3 years instead of one bc they kept getting back together and he was glad bc they really loved each other. I can't think of how up that is and wish people like that would poof out of existence
    via HowRememberAll

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