Breakups can be rough, messy, and all around completely awful. While it's very, very easy to feel totally alone in your pain, rest assured that the rest of the world has experienced just as much heartbreak as you – if not worse.
INSIDER rounded up a few of the most painful breakup stories on Reddit. Some are sad, some are embarrassing, and some are (retroactively) funny.
Of course, INSIDER can't verify their authenticity, but we can all relate to the subjects of these stories.
"Ticket of course was non-refundable."
"GF was studying abroad. Went to visit her after several months saving to be able to buy a plane ticket. Arrived and she almost immediately told me that she had [met] someone else.
Ticket of course was non-refundable (cheapest) so I had to spend 5 days completely heartbroken in a city I didn't know filled with people whose language I didn't speak and without the means to go home.
F------- worst week of my life."— Redditor Finniemc
"Worst month of my life."
"A week after our 14th anniversary (15 years together), my husband comes home from visiting his brother and announces that he's leaving me for his brother's girlfriend. I knew her, we were friends, spent family vacations and holidays together. Bonus: she's 10 years, to the day, younger than me.
"Because he hadn't been working which was why he was at his brother's in the first place, he couldn't afford to move out so he stayed here for a month chatting on FB with her and leaving the chats open, talking on the phone where my daughter and I could hear ... etc. Worst month of my life."— Redditor LimeGreenDiva
"It was New Years Eve."
"A girl I was dating once asked me if it'd be okay if we stopped in at her office for a bit. She went in to talk to someone and I waited outside for about an hour, she then called me into the office to break up with me (which she'd been getting advice on for the past hour while I waited). It was New Years Eve. It wasn't a particularly good new year."— RedditorFrozenAllBran
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