Did Katrina break up your relationship? Tell me your story.?
102294
yes, sadly, it did. and i feel your pain. my husband and i were having troubles before the storm. after the storm, the situation that was causing us problems didn't get any better, so 5 days after katrina hit, my husband left me. i should say that the on going arguement was about my daughter. she is involved in an interacial relationship and my husband is a biggot. he didn't want me to see my daughter after the storm. he had seen his family. he knew they were ok. i just wanted to see my daughter. she's 22. long story short. i packed up my 3 suits of clothes and hopped a plane for obx,nc. been here a little over 4 months now. new life. new job. new home. new friends. sure miss some of the old stuff. how bout you? if you need to talk to someone who knows what you're going through, you can email me at Clepine64@yahoo.com. i'll give you the details if you email. ok. good luck with whatever you decide to do with your life. i've tried to make this my new beginning. maybe you can too. keep the faith.
1067314
Your boyfriend is breakin up with you.  I've done it like that b4 myself.  dont need to come out and say it, just let it drift apart n by the time the girl asks whats goin on, i'm already with someone else.
13268
Can you be a bit more specific about the situation? How does SHE feel? Is she separated? Unhappy? You definitely aren't nuts though. Many have been there before and will be in this situation again.
1057871
I broke up with a guy I was seeing because he called me the N word in an argument.  After that, he became psycho - sending me diamond earrings and rings, sending flowers to my house etc.  He sent me a Fender Strat and an amp a year after I'd broken up with him.  He would send me cards with a picture of a supposed dead aunt and people he worked with even called me at work secretly to tell me he'd been trying to get in contact with me and his aunt wasn't even dead.\n\nHe would go to the places I used to hang and ask the people there had they seen me.  \n\nMessed up thing, is that he works not to far from where I live and I saw him at the gas station one day with my fiance and almost got into an accident to swerve out of the gas station so he wouldn't see me!\n\nI can't wait until we move to Florida because the last thing I want to do is run into that a-hole.  I could get over him calling me the N word but he was a considerably rude, arrogant a-hole.
842402
Thats a tough one to handle.I have been devorced 6 years now.After my ex did her thing I tried to date off and on for awhile but something kept me from getting serious with someone.I noticed that everytime I found a person I liked and wanted to get to know better this nagging feeling would get in the way.\nI thought about this for sometime and realized that it was me and trust was the issue.A couple of the ladies I dated told me that I had put up a wall and they couldn't find a way to get around it.Lately I haven't had as hard of a time trusting someone but its still there.I'm not sure if it will ever go away completely.
877499
Yes It was incredibly hard. If you know that it is bad deep down, you'll never be happy.It takes time but when you meet the person you were meant to be with it will all be worthwhile. Break it off, find yourself and embrace your future
392664
I have had an open relationship and things turned out to be a real mess!  Jealousy soon took over and then everything fell apart!  So, I know for a fact that I cannot have an open relationship!:)
229574
I dated a co-worker and it was a lot of fun... until he got me fired.\n\nEverything was great until I broke up with him. The company Christmas party was coming around (he was on temporary assignment in Atlanta, but flew in for the party) I was in Chicago. He told everyone that he was coming in to town and that "we" would be there. Then we broke up. I told him not to say anything to our co-workers about us dating, but he did anyway. When I showed up at the Christmas party with another man (2 weeks after we broke up), there was not only an issue between me and him, but my ex actually confronted my date in the men's room! Needless to say, that Monday I was "let go". I was devastated, but he was very close with the senior VP of the company. It worked out in the end though, I have a great job and the man that was my date that night is on my couch right now watching TV while I am online. (He still stuck with me after that night 10 years ago!) Best of luck sweetie, but I would not do it ever again.
612366
Why did you break-up?  Obviously, there was a reason it wasn't working out.  Did either of you cheat?  Or, did you break-up because you wanted to see other people (or because one of you wanted to see someone else)?  If it was cheatting, do you really think trust will be in the relationship, and suddenly faithful?  If someone wanted to see other people, do you think it won't happen again?  Some people always want something on the back burner.  (Well, if I break-up with her and things don't work out with so-n-so, I can always go back to her.)  Hurt me once shame on you, hurt me twice shame on me!!!
827038
Unfortunately yes.  I dated this person for a while and  I met his family.  They were totally dysfunctional, loud, crass and crude.  When he was around them he behaved like a lunatic.  But when he was alone with me he was a different person.  It was a Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde thing.  So i called it quits.  It was too much for me.
807121
At a bar. We would go to the same club regularly and he was friends with a friend of a friend. We would hang out the bar almsot every weekend for about 6 months. It wasn't planned though. We just liked the same scene. He was dating other girls at the time, but had his eye on me and I was interested in something strictly casual, but never tried with him because he was cool and I thought we'd be 'just friends'. \n\nWell, one night he called me because he broke up with his girlfriend and wanted to come over and eat mushrooms. I had nothing else to do and thought he was cool, so I let him come over and we had a good time. Nothing happened that night, but about a week later I got extrodinarly wasted and we hooked up. It started out as a casual thing scratch that as a very casual thing and I had little intentions of it being serious, but we ended up falling in love and I settled down a little bit. \n\nThis was after he moved in because his 'rents kicked him out of their place and he was staying in his car. We were already sleeping together, so I said he could stay at my place for a few days and that few days turned to months and that casual time with a guy who was actually worthy of my friendship unlike my other casual boys turned into a serious relationship. We've been together for almost two years and plan on getting married in 2008. \n\nWhat makes us stay together? Well, our geniune love for eachother and partially our own narcissisms. We love ourselves and I'm his female counterpart and he's the male version of myself. Our similar interests and goals and problem solving techniques help as well as compatible senses of humour.\n\nThe story I tell my parents and family? We met through friends of friends at church.
455055
when I was in college I was, I can't access IM right now due to my location, but I will tell you this. I sped up her divorce, which was good for him and her. I was her Rock, because her family didn't like what she was doing and basically shut her out. After the Divorce her family started to accept her again and at the point I became "to annoying to be with" and now she is living in AZ somewhere with her dream man from HighSchool. So in a sense I ended a bad relationship, Got really really heart broken (which I learned alot about myself) and now 2 other people are happier because of what I did
1179860
What do you mean break up ,,it sounds like you haven't been his girlfriend for some time now, and why in the hell are you worried about what your friends say or think,, they don't run your life or pay your bills,, be independent, tell him and all of them to kiss your a** ,,and go out and find some real friends !!!
757474
Oh my GOSH!  I literally just went through almost the exact same thing.  I've been with my boyfriend for two years and I found out about two months ago that he slept with his ex (of 4.5 years) once about three weeks into our relationship.  He was also my first and I was really religious too.  The only difference is that it was he who broke up with her.  It put a huge strain on our relationship for a while.  I eventually was able to put it behind me, but only having a million fights and eventually a sincere heart to heart, where he cried (for the second time in our relationship) and told me how hard it was for him to tell his ex that he didn't want to be with her anymore while she was crying hysterically and begging him not to leave.  I know he has never cheated on me since (we are painstakingly honest with each other).  I only share all this because I can understand how hard it must have been to break ties with someone.\n\nTry to think about if you two broke up for good.  Would you be able to let him go?  Would you maybe sleep with him for a while, not necessarily out of love, but guilt and what's comfortable?  It's really hard to break up and then be emotionally disconnected as well.  I say give him a chance.\n\nI don't know if I answered your question or not, because only you truly know what is right, but you aren't alone, at least know that much for sure.
362749
why did you break up with her?  What are you looking for in a woman?
1072105
i think we have the same problem. i'm sorry it happened that way but im sure trying to work things out is easiest by talking things over and doing wat is best for BOTH of you.\nGOOD LUCK!
1063716
something like this happen to me. I meet some one casually and fall in love at first sigh. I didn't know who was he and I love him in an unconditional way. Than he told me day by day that he was marry, have one child of 2 years, was in prison for 4 years and also I saw him taking heroine. He always was running and keeping arms,  I was afraid of him, although I loved him, it was so hard to break up with him. Once I told him "Is enough", I told him by phone. Than I saw him again, and I cry for him, it was so hard althoug I knew he wasn't good for me. He wants to get divorce and to live with me and her little daughter, I was only 21 years old, he was 29. No I couldn't do it.\nI cried so much but I broke up with him