wefunction wrote:
abaisse wrote:
"I've met a girl online and by the time you read this, I'll be on my way to be with her. I know you'll take good care of the kids."
- how my marriage ended, via an email
WTF?!?!
+1
+2. I don't think there'll be a worse line than that. Sorry, Abaisse.
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My second one was bad because it was an outright lie intended to protect my feelings, except when it was revealed to be a lie within a week's time, it hurt twice as much. Because it went from "It's okay, she just doesn't want a boyfriend right now" to "Oh. So it was just me that she didn't want." It would've been a whole lot less hurtful to just say "I'm sorry, but I'm not interested in you like that."
Oh, I see what you mean...
I actually had that happen to me several month's ago.
I finally worked up the courage to ask a woman who worked for one of my clients out to lunch. She says "no thanks, I brought a lunch".
10 minutes later another guy asks her the same thing and she accepts and leaves with him - right in front of me!
Harsh...

Yeah, sparing one's feelings only works if you don't immediately reveal that it was a lie. Then it just seems worse.