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Worst Date That Lead to Worst Breakup

A True Story

By Rosa TorresPublished 6 years ago 4 min read
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I'll give you a little background on my ex-boyfriend. We'll call him George. Now, George was Hispani, about five foot five; he had dark brown curly locks, and these beautiful green eyes. George and I met during my senior year when I was a teacher's assistant for one of my old teachers, and that class was full of juniors. Yes. George was a junior and I was senior. He was this shy fellow who hardly caused trouble or misbehaved. In fact, we started talking because he caught me looking at memes during class. George was absolutely hilarious. We would have conversations about the most random topics and it never got boring. Our first date was at the movie theater like every other typical couple, except we were not a couple yet, and I had no idea that this was a date.

If you're wondering if this is the worst date I'm basing the story on, it isn't. This date turned out great and we both laughed at the end of the day when I barely realized it was a date. Fast forwarding two weeks, we were an official couple, but we kept it private for the first week. Soon, many people started catching on to our relationship because our friends were a bunch of snoops. Keep in mind, we were both still young and very stupid. So on our fifth date, he took me to our school's softball game, only to find out we were a day late for the game. Yes, very disappointing, but all hope was not lost when I suggested we just hang out and relax. A nice, chill date. It was all going fine and dandy until he confessed his deep feelings for me. That's right. He said "I love you." As I've said before, we were both young and very stupid—except I was not that stupid. This was also not the worst date. We got past the "I love you" incident and were fine, because I soon graduated. Now, I am not a picky person when it comes to relationships, but there are certain boundaries that I have to keep me comfortable. One of them is attention. I don't crave someone's full attention because I like to be independent. I am also not a fan of someone requiring my entire attention span because I am a busy person and like to spend equal attention on my friends as well.

Now, when someone wants your full attention at all times, it leads to them being clingy. Again, not a fan of that. I admit, I can be a bit of sweetheart, but I don't like the idea of being with them for 24 hours. I am a solitary person, meaning I like to be alone sometimes. Well, he was getting very clingy and I noticed that this was causing him to fall behind in school and he would lose focus on other things because he always wanted to focus on me. I had to talk to him about it—in person—so I asked him if he would like to come to the county fair. Fast forward to the day of the fair...we had a fair time there. I could tell that he knew I was going to have a serious talk with him so that put him down in the beginning, so I tried to lighten the mood, which worked for the most part. We had two more rides to go on, but I couldn't off the conversation any longer so I asked him to sit at the table with me. This is where things went very downhill. Now usually, when couples are about to break up, they use the "it's not you, it's me" tactic. Well, I had no idea that the conversation would lead to me trying to break up with him, but I used the "it's not me, it's you" tactic, instead. Now, before you think of me as a cold-hearted witch, let me explain why I did this. See, I tried to explain to George that he needed to put more focus on his own life because I was clearly distracting him. That fact just wasn't getting through to him because right after he, again, said "I love you." I did not know what to do in this situation because he was already emotionally attached to me, very strongly. So I had to hit him with the hard truth. I told him, "I can't force any feelings if they aren't there" because it was entirely true. I enjoyed his company and his positive energy he emitted, but I did not love him.

Well, after this conversation, we went on the last two rides and he dropped me off at home. As I was about to close the passenger door, he called out to me. I mentally sighed because I knew he was going to say something that would just hurt him more. So when I turned to look at him, he said "Can we try to make this work? I still love you." I don't know if it was the look he had on his face or how sad he sounded, but I couldn't bring myself to hurt him any further. But I also couldn't give any false hope, so I did the right thing. I told him to focus on himself and I went inside my house. The next day, our mutual friend messaged me saying that George was crying so he didn't come to school. Well, there was nothing I could do, so I hoped for the best. The feelings would remain for some time, but soon we'd both move on. So, ladies and gentlemen, this was my worst date that lead to the worst breakup, in my experience.

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