Have you ever felt betrayed by a spouse, significant other or best friend when

[a kennedy]

they've hung you out to dry?? and how often does it happen before you finally decide to leave them behind.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. By work colleagues, but it wasn't long before I realized

that they had done me a favor by getting me out of that environment.

[Kali]

2. don't get me started on family shit right now

[Tobin S.]

3. That's a shitty way to spend your holiday evening.

I wish I could help, but all I can offer is a

[whistler162]

4. Yeah and once I got down from the clothes line

I showed them how ticked off I was!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

5. Yes.

It was my father. He hurt me bad when I needed him most. I will never speak to him again. If he needs help, he will need to look somewhere else. He does not know where I live, my phone # and he does not use the computer. And I will not fill him in. There is now over 1,000 miles between me and him. I wish for more.

[2theleft]

8. We might be sisters separated at birth...

But I only live 10 miles from my dad. Looking to move further away, but so far he hasn't bothered me and I will never set foot in his house again.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Oh boy, did you ask for it...ok, here goes:

Many many years ago, I had fallen in love for the first time.
As in madly passionately head over heels..you know, the once in a lifetime kind.
And after 4 years he dumps me for another woman he had met
and HER he marries,
and my heart was broken and crushed for a long long time, as befitting the madly passionately love who leaves you.

8 years later I ran into him, and he came over to my house "to talk with you"
He tells me, sadly, with great crocodile tears, that she was a mistake, and that she had cheated on him almost from the get-go
and she had broken his heart, and oh by the way, was I interested in dinner "or something"?
And I stood up from the living room chair, and he stood up from the couch
and I put my arm thru his and we walked slowly towards the stairs that led up to my bedroom
and I paused at the front door to the porch, by the stairs
and I opened the door, guided him thru it onto the porch
and locked it
from the inside.
Then I went to up to my bed with a smiling heart and a very deep appreciation of karma.

[pipi_k]

7. Good for you!

The one and only time I ever took someone back was many years ago when my first husband left me alone with two small children to care for.

I guess his girlfriend must have screwed him over or something. Anyway, he came crawling back and did it a second time.

When he wanted me to take him back after the second time, I said NO.

And it's been that way ever since, with whomever I was with...husband or boyfriend.

If I go through all the pain and trouble of trying to live through a broken heart, they don't get to break my heart a second time.

I have what I think is an effective way to get over someone who's broken my heart. Every time my mind would wander to all the good times (usually at the very beginning, when people are on their best behavior and trying to impress each other) I would make myself remember all the shitty, scummy, asshole things that person ever did or said to me.

And I also told myself that it wasn't ME who was defective...he had likely done the same thing to someone else, and would likely do it to someone after me.

Sure enough...I always saw them do the same things to other women. So, contrary to what these guys told me, it wasn't MY fault.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. My ex-husband for about 17 years.

[Locut0s]

10. My great aunt is estranged from her Lesbian daughter. The family doesn't know what to make of it...

That family always had issues and I don't think the mother ever treated her daughter that well. However I'm not sure if there was absolutely no love shown or if there was some kind of sudden breakdown. Nor do I know if it has anything to do with her sexual orientation. Anyway the daughter now lives hours away from her elderly and probably dying mother and hardly ever speaks with her. The mother gave her $100k some time back and the daughter took the money without so much as a thanks. Very cold between the two of them. It's sad to see. But then like I said I don't know enough to really judge them.

[Squirmworm]

11. if you're looking for revenge

you are way too late.