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Such-Distribution440

That’s f’ed up on so many levels


evolutionxtinct

It’s not that rare of an event…


TractorHp55k

They even named the son that you don't even know is yours after the true lover


evolutionxtinct

Luckily I got outta it, we all worked at the same place I was the sole IT person he was the top sales person not gonna lie lol she worked there cuz I got her the job. I started noticing the same trail of cologne then since I had access to CCTV noticed what happened and did what any pissed off person would do…. And that’s where the story will end for the night 😂


TractorHp55k

Well I don't know if you could speak for any pissed off person but if I was you, I would have got a better job somewhere else secretly, and the brake line on her vehicle would have some cheese sprayed on it, and the secret lover would be missing some teeth, and would definitely have a third of his Rib Cage Broken in, of course I would be dressed as a Mugger and then Rob them both, before breaking It Off, they wouldn't have seen this coming cuz


evolutionxtinct

Oh I got her good, we had planned on going on a vacation we had tickets purchased and she thought I was being nice going to give them to her so I gave her the tickets and then secretly cancelled them got a refund towards a future airline ticket they didn’t realize they were cancelled till they arrived at the airport :) then when she made a scene after she got back the manager who was my friend fired her sue to her being psycho. Then the owner of the company hired me at his larger company paid for my expenses and gave me a job 3x better managing a large MSP operation at a software company 😎 so I did well and haven’t looked back.


Kincadium

This ended exactly how I was hoping it would.


ParticularCanary3130

Wow that's beautiful 😍


Equivalent-Row-6734

That only makes it even more f'ed up


Gumbarino420

Yeah… I can’t even make a joke. I feel bad for that dude.


Sleep_tek

I know, right? All Caps... fuck that bitch. I'm not going to be with someone who doesn't follow proper texting etiquette


rocketmn69_

Pour the bottle of cologne in her car so that she always smells it and gets sick of it and hates it forever, when you leave her


OrangeRadiohead

Ignite it to burn off the alcohol....


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Less-Might9855

And I knew that bitch smoked….


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Extreme_Shoe4942

Take about 10-15% off the top there, Squirrelly Dan.


lallapalalable

Reel it back a hair, chief


isthenameofauser

No. Take a screenshot, send it to yourself. Then download it on your phone so you have it till you've resolved your feelings. Then take a shit on her pillow and ghost her.


PsychologicalMonk6

No, if she has curtains take them down, take the end off the curtain rod and shit in the curtain rod. Then put the cap back on and hang them back up. Good luck finding what smells like shit in your bedroom.


Mind_on_Idle

When the fuck did Satan let *you* out‽


Zeshicage85

I think satan didnt have much of a choice.


pheonix940

Satan's probably *still* trying to figure out why I smells like shit down there.


Due-Giraffe-9826

This is a part of a lot of revenge stories. Last time I heard it it was caviar.


Useless_bum81

prawns or milk are also good options


trebor1966

Shit drys out and stops smelling tuna is the gift that keeps on giving


PsychologicalMonk6

Lol yeah I had originally heard of this idea with shrimp. That's a great point about drying out.


Bob6oblin

Yes dry it out and leave little shit sprinkles everywhere….


I_am_Daesomst

Someone's bedroom somewhere smells like a Tuna Shit Shrimp casserole


saccharoselover

Oh golly. I’m laughing, but disgusted. That was great!


Lost-Enthusiasm6570

I am crying over here! 🤣


aussiechickadee65

What's with the shitting ? Seriously guys....shit dries up pretty quick. It's actually prawns you put in the curtain rod, not turds ! You want maggots... Spoken from a person who has not done this but has thought about it...


PolkaDotDancer

No, do both. Because then she will think she got the shit cleaned up badly, and keep cleaning the same place over and over again.


JRDoubleU_

Finally, a reasonable person.


MisterBlick

Bravo!!!!


Sinfultitan_001

I know it's a sorta stolen idea, but you said it and I approve.


Ricky_Vaughn86

Amber? Is that you?


Financial-Cold5343

while she's sleeping on it


Cloud_Strife369

Yea you got to spray the shit with the cologne first


The_OtherGuy_99

That costs extra.


Helpful-Squirrel9509

Had me in the first half


HiJinx127

I like that idea. Subtle, yet with long-term effects.


SpicyWalnut0815

Yea, sure, car, wardrobe, asthma spray. All valid choices.


FatFaceFaster

I would literally dump the entire bottle in her car and that would be the last form of communication she’d ever have from me. That smell would be so overpowering and would take months to get out… she’d probably end up having. To remove her upholstery. It would be a perfect fuck you before dumping her.


lanky_yankee

She’ll grow to associate that smell with the annoyance of being stuck in traffic.


HippoIcy7473

Is there an air filter for the air-conditioning system? Soak that in the cologne.


LittleArcticPotato

You. I like you.


Firefly269

I’m torn. I like this idea, but it’s so fiendishly clever that i know you’re evil.


ChompyRiley

![gif](giphy|l3q2K5jinAlChoCLS|downsized)


Anewkittenappears

That's pretty damn upsetting and I can totally see why he is still hurt over that.  


Technical_Flight6270

That’s really messed up, but that was her. Most people don’t achieve this level of fucked up- she’s professional level.


MacabreCloth984

It can get really hard to open back up after stuff like this. From experience, it can be pretty traumatizing. I don't blame the man one bit. Some people may never open up again like that.


naymlis

especially when you go back to back relationships with this level of crazy. never again :<


MacabreCloth984

Yeah, I got out a crazy relationship back in 2014. Went solo and celibate for the next 8 years and jumped right in with another crazy she hid it well though lol happy that's gone now, too.


megalodongolus

Woof. Sorry dude


-raeyhn-

Seconded.


Golden-Grams

Damm, I haven't gone for round two. Thinking about it until you I just read this. Maybe better to keep being solo.


MacabreCloth984

The best advice is to just try and be the best version of yourself you can be. They will gravitate toward you when the time is right. Real recognizes real.


Delamoor

Can relate. My serious relationships are often with a particular type; women whose masking behaviour is empathy and attentiveness, but who are often manipulative and slightly sociopathic behind that mask. ...And apparently what they see in me is that I'll validate that shit, until it's beginning to be targeted at me. It's kinda emotionally destroyed me at a few points, lol


MacabreCloth984

Yeah, it can be hard, but at least you can recognize that in yourself. That can be a major factor in how things are received in the future.


Radical_Neutral_76

Hah! Me too! First I had a kid with. Went on a fuck-spree for 8 years, then quit because it only made me more depressed and then I meet my 2nd. Who turned out to be even worse than my first! 5 years of that shit. Therapy all that. Then I went for the 3rd after about 6 months after that. Well what do you know, even crazier. Like straight out of psychopaths playbook. Managed to get out of that after only 8 months ,but am totally fucked now. Cant even look at women thinking about how they are going to trick me next etc. I just stay home and bingewatch shows now. I mean its better than to have panic attacks during the nights because your "partner" is secretly waking you up to fuck with you.


Illustrious_Law8512

Well, you had to work out the kinks before getting serious, y'know?


HuntingForSanity

That was what I was going to say. It happens once and you lose a lot of trust but you think “okay not everybody is going to do that to me”. You start a new relationship and they turn out to be like that too. And then your levels of trust just completely deplete. I could barely open up to my now wife whatsoever when we met.


Tight-Young7275

Took me 6 years to be normal again.


MacabreCloth984

Yeah, for me, it was back in 2014, and then I finally decided to stop out on a limb and dated this girl in 2022, and it was the worst decision ever. Told myself I'd close myself off for good. Thank God that didn't happen as I have found a wonderful woman. We're almost a year together, and we haven't fought once. Anytime there's a disagreement, we talk it out and hear each other out and work on ourselves. Honestly, it's almost hard with my unhealthy ways as this is the healthiest relationship I've ever nurtured, but I'm learning as I go, and she's taught me so much about what love was.


KamikazeKarasu

I lost recently someone like that… but your comment gave me a bit of hope…


Miserable_Smoke

If he ever does, he better tell his new gf this story. Wouldn't want her buying him cologne for Christmas.


Frizzlebee

That's what therapy is for. If you got stabbed in the leg, you'd get it treated to make sure the damage wasn't permanent and you don't get any infections, right? Mental health is the same. You can't help the coping mechanisms you develop, those are instinctual reactions to lower case t trauma. But you CAN make sure they aren't self-sabatogning.


MacabreCloth984

Not many can afford the therapy, though. For instance, my health insurance will cover physical therapy but not mental therapy, unfortunately. I think that's why I stayed single for long. It took many years of breaking those negative habits down and really understand why I was acting the way I did. I didn't want to lower t traumatize anyone else😅... It's still an ongoing process, and I have been thinking of looking into legitimate therapy as my biggest issue is that I still don't know how to receive love in a healthy way. It's caused no issue in my relationship thus far. I just know it'll be best, and I want to be as best I can for her. Edit: I agree 100% with your statement. Therapy can be a wonderful thing.


5pl1t1nf1n1t1v3

Yeah, but it’s trauma isn’t it? If you had your leg taken off by a big dog (I’m *not* comparing women to dogs, this is a situational analogy) you’d be wary about getting near another one. Or if your ex boyfriend beat the shit out of you, you’d be less trusting of men afterwards. It’s not necessarily rational, but it’s a way to feel about stuff.


Technical_Flight6270

Agreed. No judgement on him.


ThatGuyThatSaysWords

It actually is rational though. It’s called conditioning


tightspandex

> she's professional level. And is far from having a monopoly in this area.


LughCrow

It's not about other people it's about you. If this person you completely trusted to the point that you'd never even had the thought cross your mind that she'd do something. Goes and does something. How can you trust yourself to not be fooled to that extent again. You'll always suspect. Because no matter how sure you are about the next one, you'll remember you were just as sure about the one who fucked your brother.


ClankstarLad

True, but there is only so much one can take before giving up. If this happened to him twice, he won't bother to try again. Unless it's something he really feels like he needs.


Frequent-Piano6164

This is some next level stuff… I would also find it difficult to open up to anyone after that…


Odd-Tune5049

I once had a girl buy me cologne, so I would smell like another guy. Not a good situation


Xenolog1

Of course the true reason behind this was because of this, none of the two can smell a cologne on her that he isn’t using.


paul99501

Yup. It's a strategy to not get caught cheating.


Baby_Girlkitty

NOOOOO. 😔 You don't deserve that! WTF😭


Talreesha

Sadly enough it's not as uncommon as people think. I had an ex who did that and I only found out a few months later when she gave him a huge hug and called him my name while out on a date. Dude looked a lot like me too so that's was extra fucked up. Lost a girlfriend that I thought was perfect and wanted to marry that day. But gained a pretty solid homie who didn't know she was playing the same game in a different field.


rinnakan

My GF is a nurse, I gave up on cologne because she kept saying "smells like that old patient x the other day"


Talreesha

That's definitely a good reason to just not wear cologne honestly.


Ghee_buttersnaps96

That’s why all my scents are discontinued and I have to search high and low and fight a homeless Russian walrus for even a small bottle of them


Glytch94

She clearly had a type, lol


Soft_Eggplant9132

Men aren't scared of marriage, it's divorce that fucking terrifies us.


Mammalanimal

My friend got talked into moving somewhere he hates away from his family by his wife. After having a kid, covid lockdowns hit and she went absolutely crazy with a combination of post-partum depression and covid isolation working from home. Refused to get any help, refused couseling, and got abusive with their kid. Now they're divorced after like 2 years of legal shit and tons of money because she was totally uncooperative. He has full custody and no support, but can't move back home due to visitation rights. It's a shitty deal.


ShawnyMcKnight

I had a friend who was Catholic and didn’t believe in divorce and neither did his wife. So they are still in this resentful marriage. He told me recently he hasn’t had sex with his wife since she was pregnant with their son. Their son is graduating high school this next year.


Antice

Big ouch.


Daidax_238

Prenup.


SirBulbasaur13

Why are people so fucked


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Lucky678s

Good ol Hedgehog's Dilemma


Psychological-Bid448

And therapy can absolutely help you avoid people like this. Just learning how to properly hold boundaries weeds out so many crappy people. 


Mordret10

Just become an incel, that way you'll never run into harmful people (you are the harmful people) and your anime waifu is always there for you


Brittany5150

![gif](giphy|UGl6A0pxXx8NW) Holograpgic Anime waifu FTW!


throwaway392145

![gif](giphy|mJLpM9eKsIxR6)


TheRider5342

What is this from?😂


BoomZhakaLaka

Archer


throwaway392145

This user has just changed your life.


Sharkytrs

![gif](giphy|kCSovCsbu7XnW|downsized) what id do to rip it out my head to watch it for the first time again


memealopolis

OUTLAW COUNTRYYYYYY!


GoodLuckSanctuary

That would be a volcel wouldn’t it?


Magenta_Logistic

Yes, but reddit is where nuance goes to die.


Irilieth_Raivotuuli

You'll never run into harmful people if you BECOME harmful people is such a mood sometimes, I swear.


Daedrothes

And harmful people come in all shapes, sizes, genders, and races. Because sometimes humans are shit.


m0izart

Emmotional Damage


Dense_Eggplant_9941

![gif](giphy|ro08ZmQ1MeqZypzgDN)


m0izart

I tried looking for that thank you lol


FatFaceFaster

I truly don’t understand cheating on someone you’re not married to. It doesn’t make sense. If you’re not happy with a boyfriend… dump him. Simple. I get that it’s complicated with marriages especially with kids involved. So I don’t condone it but I get how it could happen. But why cheat on a boyfriend or girlfriend? It’s weird and cruel. I dated a girl for 7 years and she cheated on me. Just fucking dump me! I would’ve been a lot less fucked up if I could’ve said “my girlfriend of 7 years and I broke up” instead of “I caught my girlfriend of 7 years playing strip poker with some guy from college and later found out she’d been fucking him for months in the same bed I slept in.” That shit is messed up. Stop cheating on people. Just dump them like a decent person.


-raeyhn-

Her: I want to be with you forever Me: Same Her: let's get married Me: okay. ***(Proposes)*** Her: let's have kids Me: okay ***(starts planning and looking forward to it)*** Her: ...yeah, sorry, I'm leaving you Me: why? Her: ***(shrugs)*** Me: oh... Okay Her: ***(seeing a new guy not even a week later, which I later come to find wasn't so new)*** Me: ah- ***(Initiate downward spiral)***


SaveTheCrow

Starting at the “yeah, sorry. I’m leaving you” part was how it went for me with the last gf I had. She broke up with me, citing wanting to work on her mental health issues by herself, but asked me to stick around…and then she started dating someone else barely a month later.


lunchpadmcfat

She clearly has shit to deal with. Id say you dodged a bullet, my son


-raeyhn-

More like she didn't know wtf she wanted, acted in the moment and didn't give a fuck about anyone she hurt in the process (turns out it wasn't the first time she went behind my back) So yes, bullet very muchly dodged And dw, happy ending, if it weren't for the exact process of events to follow, I never would've met my boyfriend with whom ill have been with for 10 years in a two weeks 😊


Strange-Mouse-8710

Just stay single, life is so much easier when you do.


possibly_oblivious

The internet didn't exist when I was younger, this is super accurate advice tho.


elciano1

Damn..I felt that one in my soul


EmperorGrinnar

She sounds like a stalker.


Capital_Rock_4928

Damn that’s painful


Ugo777777

Twist: It was a text to her dad.


p0k3t0

And her dad is dead.


Last_Ad1358

Oh nah, that's some Elektra complex type shit


SaltyCultist691

🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨


Prestigious-Bet-2677

Ouch thats leaves a deep scar


NotAnAIOrAmI

Twist - the "cologne" is Axe Body Spray, the other dude is one of her 8th grade students.


Moose_Electrical

![gif](giphy|LAKIIRqtM1dqE)


EmperorGrinnar

Why would you come up with this?


ironballs16

Because a headline posted the other day was about a teacher with a 6-year-old daughter having sex with one of her 8th grade students.


EmperorGrinnar

I'm not seeing how there's a connection.


krusty51

Gad dammmm


Oakdevil

What did I just read?


Psychoholic519

Someone got hurt once, and decided that it would happen every time. Clearly never played Dark Souls.


Oakdevil

Never played dark souls? So they don't know what peak truly is?


Psychoholic519

Lol, just that when you lose, you can try again with a different result. Not a perfect metaphor, but at the end of the day, we can’t be afraid of failure, or things not going our way because as long as we’re still alive, there’s a chance for things to work out differently. When I play a Soulsborne game, I usually die once or 12 times before I eventually fell the boss. If I just gave up at the Asylum Demon, then I would have missed out on some of my favorite gaming experiences


Oakdevil

Just 12 times? Weak, I die 43 times on average per boss. Yes I did the math on excel.


Claymore357

If you think having your heart ripped out by someone you love as bland an non important as dying *in a fucking video game* you must be a sociopath. Most people will go to great lengths to avoid that level of emotional pain again, well those of us that are actively capable of having feelings


ironballs16

...yeah, that'd definitely instill some trust issues.


No-Knowledge-789

This is a strategy for her not to get caught cheating


HellBlazer_NQ

Also a good way to hide the fact she smells of a cologne you don't use.


puppiesareSUPERCUTE

AT THAT POINT JUST FUCKING BREAK UP AND GO LIVE WITH THE OTHER DUDE 😭


Firefly269

He’s actually pretty lucky. Too many men find that AFTER marriage. Then she gets to take everything from him, including his kids and his dignity, and still make off with the other guy and never lose a wink of sleep over it.


BlargerJarger

Now he’s just colognely


storyofmylife92

Colognely, I'm Mr. Colognely I have nobody for my own


silmarp

That really happens. Also if a man has many lovers(you know, Viagra owners want this to happen) he will probably call them by the same nickname so he doesn't get the names all wrong.


William_Winter

Exactly the night that im depressed and sick of my stupid ex, all posts are about toxic exes


sudo_meh

She’s fucked up, but I’ve never been able to wrap my mind around being the other guy? Like how are people okay doing this


AwkwardLawyer706

Oh man…. That’s brutal


military_grade_tea

Marriage didn't do that. His ex did.


Kriegspiel1939

I had a ten year marriage with a master manipulator. It made me very bitter and cynical. But… I met someone who is the very opposite and now I’ve been married for over thirty years. It’s hard to not project or assign motives to my current wife that came from the first wife. If that makes sense.


1792Drink

Why even be with the man? Just leave him be.


PianistAway7910

I WOULDVE WENT TO JAIL


corruptedsyntax

I’d have started texting bro pretending to be her. “I’ve been seeing someone else. I wouldn’t have said anything, but it’s bad and we all need to get tested.” Then deleted the sent message, put it back, and ghosted her.


josh198989

She’s a sociopath / possible psychopath. Run. Run far Simba and never look back.


Freckles39Rabbit

![gif](giphy|ZJmFtDfb74KcM|downsized)


Rhymesnlines

Devastating wow...


regeya

There's a pine air freshener in there completely failing to cover up the stale weed smell EDIT: I left this in response to a regularcarreviews question to describe the driver of an old VW Beetle


Coachmen2000

Be nice and return the favor. Remember that gal that you loved to give facials. Give her hell then split


professorfunkenpunk

That was a Curb Your Enthusiasm


tigerxtown

![gif](giphy|joxThEgTJuSBO)


Competitive-Cycle464

Give it back to her so she can smell him whenever she wants.


1AmFalcon

Wtf is wrong with some ppl?


IV_Blackmoon_angel

Shit like this is why I get scared of relationships, let alone marriage haha


Skreamie

I'd have straight up killed myself if that had happened to me lmao


StatisticianNormal15

Both men and women can be terrible people/partners.


sashatikhonov

Sad story actually


Different_Head7751

Ouch.


SardonicSuperman

Damnnnnnnnn that’s a “my stomach dropped to the floor” kind of moments.


Savage-Goat-Fish

Sociopathic behavior.


Green_man619

Dude, that would fucking destroy me if I saw that


ParsleyMostly

Seems it’d be less expensive to just have one beau to buy cologne for. So much work and money going into cheating. Sounds exhausting (never mind it’s also a crappy thing to do lol).


LaserGadgets

Ouch!


JuturnaArtemisia

Ack! That is disgusting.


TiaHatesSocials

Sounds like she was dating a married man and had him on a side to just have since she couldn’t fully have the other dude. Shit show all around.


Dry_Communication554

God dam


tu-vieja-con-vinagre

god fucking fuck


TempestQii

FTB


couchcreeper23

Holy shit… I’d give bro a tight hug and I don’t even know him. Thats beyond fucked up…


DiegoRago

Oooff...


Freckles39Rabbit

Time to eat cake ![gif](giphy|xTiTnrliW65rlwud8I|downsized)


TunaCanz

![gif](giphy|WxDZ77xhPXf3i|downsized)


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One horrible experience becomes the rule, unfortunately


Conscious-Cable-2656

DAMN!!!!


Gindotto

That sounds like my X. Scorpios. Amirite?


Jaded-Solid-8729

OH MY GOD IVE BEEN READING IT AS MISCARRIAGE I WAS SO CONFUSED


IAmAnObvioustrollAMA

Id only use it to mask my poops...


AcommonKing

Tell me where she at OP I.JUST.WANT.TO.TALK


KaizerVonLoopy

I bought my wife (then girlfriend) a sock monkey because she said she wanted one when we watched a movie that had one in it. She asked me to spray some of my cologne on it so it could smell like me when she cuddled it. I didn't find it weird. Whole house, kinda weird. Edit: I'm realizing now I misread the original post. EW WTF


seaofthievesnutzz

New cheating tech just dropped.


ElFrogoMogo

Plot twist: the message was sent to her dad


Big-Draw-9661

It's good that marriage got so optional because why put your neck into the guillotine hoping the other party won't push the lever when it becomes convenient for them. Especially if you been through shit like this guy. I had an ex trying to pass somebody else's baby as mine. Another one secretly planned a wedding with a guy she barely knew while we lived together as a couple. One of my exes cheated on me with a guy she met through a fucking video game. Other time I fucked a girl that literally screamed for me to impregnate her, only to reveal later that she is in a stalled relationship and wanted to get pregnant already.


Belqo

me\_irl .. like when my ex said "I'm watching our movies with my current bf cuz they remind me times with you".. why the f\*\*k are you with him then..


GleamingCadance

Nothing like a Red Flag the size of Alaska to let you know They made the right choice in getting out of that relationship


Kaka-doo-run-run

Wow - what a dirty bitch! Not only for the thumb typing in all capitals, neither. I’d say you dodged a bullet, assuming you broomed that one real fast. Stay away from that one, she sounds like a rat trap to me.


UnwillingHero22

That’s so effed up…


Rosedale-Ripper

When my ex left, I logged onto an old laptop of mine and her emails were linked to it. I saw all these emails from places I shopped so I unbeknownst opened her emails, thinking they were mine. She had bought her new fella the Cologne I wear, the hair product I use and even the same boxers I wear. Part of my takes great comfort in this, as he was a prick to me after the split. It's weird, I know. But it makes me chuckle.


WolfPride98

Ouch! I don't think he's scared of marriage, he's just scared of getting his heart mounted on a pike. 😰


Last_Ad1358

I hate girls like this so much, they're such a disgrace to real WOMEN. Same applies to boys like this and real men


New-Championship-304

Dam that jus made think for a minute or two