I wish I wasn't still in love with my gay ex from college. Because, ya know, he's gay. But he's wonderful, and I am. FUCK HIM.

As for my most recent ex, we're on good terms- it helps that he's gotten fatter and I've gotten thinner ;-) Nothing like feeling more attractive than your ex.

I totally understand about Ex#2! I have one of these. What did you do to get him to finally leave you alone??? I'm considering some sort of restraining order. Thank God he lives three hours away or I'd expect to see him in the bushes outside my apartment with a pair night-vision goggles.

Ex 1: Married to my college best buddy. But it didn't happen till well after we were done (although she did date another buddy of mine less than a year after), so I honestly wish them well. Sadly, I recently learned through idle googling that she had a stillborn baby. Poor girl's had a rough go of it.

Ex 2: Bipolar. Got enaged behind my back when we went back burner. I found out throw a mutual friend who casually mentioned her 'new fiancee.' She's a born-again now.

Ex 3: Lesbian.

(note: above is just tip of the iceberg.)

Ooooohhh.....

Ex #1: (me = 14 he = 17) dumped me because his friends decided I wasn't cool enough for them. Is now trapped in loveless marriage with 3 kids (when he got his girlfriend-after-me pregnant at age 19). If it weren't for the kids, I'd be all HA!

Ex #2: Psycho. High school. Dumped him in 2nd year college. Didn't see warning signs of him cutting himself, burning himself, talking about self-hatred a lot until then. Stalked me for a few months, tried to kill himself on what would have been our 4 year anniversary. In psych hospital for a year.

Ex #3: Still one of my best friends. Semi-casual, open relationship for 1.5 years. Neither of us realised what we had until we decided to see other people exclusively. Only regret. Can't run him down.

Ex #4: Asshole. But incredibly sexy. Sex, sex, sex, nothing else. All exploded spectacularly at someone's birthday party with screaming, throwing things and all-around nastiness. Then I found out I was pregnant. Oh yeah. Fun times.

Ex #5: Polar opposite of asshole. Stayed with him for 4 years, mainly out of pre-emptive guilt re. dumping him. Small penis. Way too nice, let people (mainly me) walk all over him. I treated him very badly, feel very bad about that now. Broke up with him 3 months before moving to the USA. Started having sex with his enemy (sexy co-grad student with me) the same day.

few other scattered "exes" but only from 4ish-week flings so they don't really count. Hopefully no more exes in my future.

Got away with most of the good comics and anime because we were stupid and pooled our money together when we were dating and buying things.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!

Any ex of mine EVAR steals my comics, I'll, um... bitch about her here!!!!
...and that'll teach her!

Nothing like feeling more attractive than your ex.

Word, TPS. Or of course, moving on to someone more attractive.

Notable exes:

Paul from Brooklyn. So exotic to me at the time. A writer, scholar, and prince among men. With that accent. Ahh.

Remember the "Yes I Am" guy from the Budweiser Commercials? And in Oceans Eleven and Twelve, the little nerdy computer guy? Poor circumstances, age, distance. A lovely crazy elfen prince among men.

White guy with dreads and a six pack you wouldn't believe. Ended badly badly badly because I was in love love love but we were young and he had livin' to do. Took me a looooong time to forgive him. Wish him well now.

The Playwright with the temper and the kinks, and the unit that listed to the left due to hernia. Volatle, European style thing. I picture him as a Hollywood hack writer/private detective.

The younger guy who was so good looking strangers would stare. He had three fatal flaws - a lisp, and a serial monogamy thing.

My type: shorter, dark passionate Italians. I married one.

LunaticFringe: Living 3,000 miles away from him (me, Cali; him, Wash, DC) stopped him from showing up on my doorstep. But he would email me and we'd call each other and yell until I finally changed my number. It's because of him that I had to change a lot of my passwords, too, because a "friend" showed him how to look up the history on his computer or something like that to read my locked LJ entries about him and read some of my email.

Last creepy thing I heard from him was in 2004 about a few months after I got fired. I was talking to a girl who had been a mutual friend (she's stopped talking to him, too) and she told me that he had heard about my firing (by reading my journal) and said that maybe he should get me a gift? She said, "That would be nice... to smooth things over and all." He chortled and said, "Yeah, what do you think of black roses?"

I don't date. Saves heartache.

TrishaLynn: OK, you win. Yours is definitly crazier than mine. I just get msn messages (him on other people's accounts) and emails saying how horrible I am and what a slut I am for not dating him. Good times. No phone calls,thank God.

Ex #1: Dumped me to go back to previous boyfriend. Dumped by him. Married some other guy while still in college. Divorced. I've since lost track of her.

Ex #2: Dumped me to go out with a (not good) friend of mine. Dumped by him. Tried to get back with me but I stayed with the girl I was seeing at the time*. Married a country club golf pro. Divorced. Still see her now and then.



*Who I subsequently married and have been with the last 24 years.

I still talk to most of my exes. A couple were even at my wedding.

LunaticFringe: So what do I win??

Uhhh....a taser? Perfect for keeping creepy (with a captial CREEP) people at bay. Or go here to learn to make one for yourself.

jrossi4r: my nice ex was at my wedding (he flew in from London for it!). My mum still loves him (she loves mr. g too!) and he immediately made friends with all my american friends.

I'm going to an ex's wedding in October. She's still amazed her boyfriend is not jealous that we talk and hug to this day.

I've got a lot of exes and repudiated crushes, and I'm still friends with the vast majority of all of them. Hell, a couple of them were my bridesmaids. It would seem I have excellent taste in women.

I should note that those crushes were women that I was crushing on, not crushing on me. I think I've dated almost every woman who's ever expressed a crush on me, circumstances permitting.