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Mrs. McWilliams
Super December 2013

How Have Your Ex-es Responded to Your Engagement/Marriage?

Mrs. McWilliams, on November 7, 2013 at 3:51 PM

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Hey WW, Just curious as to how your ex-hubbys; boyfriends, significant others have responded to your status i.e. engaged, newly married. Did you call any of them and let them know of out respect, say for instance if you all remained friends after the break-up? Did they find out via social media or...

Hey WW,

Just curious as to how your ex-hubbys; boyfriends, significant others have responded to your status i.e. engaged, newly married. Did you call any of them and let them know of out respect, say for instance if you all remained friends after the break-up? Did they find out via social media or WOM?

If/when they did find out, did they blow you up via text or phone call and express their undying love for you and how you should call it off, etc?

Since I've been engaged, I get the occassional FB inbox message of undying love, the "should have been me" speech or the"you were the best woman I ever had sob story. I've had to block folks from reacihing me or unfriending folk, etc. I find it absolutely hilarious and pathetic all at the same time.

Just interested to hear your stories.

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60 Comments

  • Tiffany Nash
    Master August 2014
    Tiffany Nash ·
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    My very first bf acts like he's happy. We were together for 5 years, he enlisted in the army and I didn't see him until three years later. We broke it off before he left but I told him I would wait for him, when I seen him three years later he was married. It broke my heart. Now he is getting a divorce and doing the "what if" bullsh*t.

    My ex, before FH, is a crazy mother f*cker. He was stalking me for awhile. Sending stupid messages and crying like a big baby. He's mad because I'm with a former friend of his. He was the worst bf ever. He is an abusive alcoholic. He is still trying to get wedding info out of my friends because he said he is going to "crash" my wedding because FH doesn't deserve me. I don't want to run into him anywhere but there are times he comes to my work, good thing I work upstairs away from the gaming floor and customers.

    Not an ex, but one of my best friends said he couldn't be friends with me if I were engaged/married. Hurts him too much. Owell.

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  • Kimberly
    Expert November 2013
    Kimberly ·
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    My ex who I was with for 7 years will be at the wedding with his fiancee. My FH & him get along. My most recent ex (FH's former friend) is still a friend on FB but we don't talk really. He sent me a message a couple weeks ago wishing me well but that's about it. No drama!

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  • SunshineJenn
    Master August 2014
    SunshineJenn ·
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    None of my significant exes know. Well, I don't know if my ex-fiancé does or not. We are not friends but I am friends with his mother and she might have told him.

    I do have an ex coming to the wedding if you want to call him that. We really were just bang buddies many many many years ago.

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  • GettingHitched
    Super November 2013
    GettingHitched ·
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    I'm still very tight with my first boyfriend's family. I'm not tight with him but our families are very tight. His parents, sister and her husband are coming to the wedding. He was a high school boyfriend (15 years ago) so it wasn't real serious. He has a lot of anxiety and doesn't go out much socially with anyone so I didn't invite him and I'm sure he is fine with that. His parents are like second parents to me.

    I have a few flings that I'm friends with on Feb. Both are married with kids and "liked" my fb status about being engaged and liked my engagement pics but that's it. We never message each other so I didn't expect to hear anything from them

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  • Marisa-in-Love
    Master July 2014
    Marisa-in-Love ·
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    I'm friends with 2 of my ex's. One is my son's father, who FH considered making a groomsman. We're all really good friends. The other is my first "real" boyfriend. We dated for 2 years and he proposed twice while we were together. I finally broke it off when I realized that I loved him but wasn't IN LOVE with him. 7 years later we are still great friends, he'll be at my wedding, and I'm trying to hook him up with one of my very good friends lol

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  • Mrs. McWilliams
    Super December 2013
    Mrs. McWilliams ·
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    Congrats to those that still have amicable relationships with Ex BFs and Hs. For the rest of us who have still cray-crays lingering about - their loss!

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  • FutureMrsForbes
    Super August 2014
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    My ex-husband (and father of my two children) who is generally an insane person to deal with on a daily basis. Actually surprised me, I had told him out of respect and hoping to make the transition as easy as possible for my girls, that it was coming. At first it was a whole lot of nonsense, him telling me that I was dumb, and that my FH wouldn't really want to marry me, because no one would want to. (Yeah, being married to him was a real treat! lol)

    But surprisingly, when I told him that we were officially engaged. I just got a text message that said, Congrats. And I haven't really heard two words about it.

    Other than that I'm not friends with the ex-boyfriend that would pull the whole, you're the one for me nonsense

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  • Jennifer
    Super May 2014
    Jennifer ·
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    The ex before FH I dated for 3 years, he cheated all the time & I was stupid. He is blocked from mine & FHs facebook. My sisters still have him on facebook & they posted congrats & all he said was lol. He was ridiculous. He harassed my FH when we first got together at his work. He thought we were just taking a break when I broke up with him. RIIGHT!

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  • TheOGJesse's Girl
    Master March 2014
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    My ex right before FH texted me and told me he is so unhappy because he always envisioned us getting married. I was like, well then you shouldn't have stuck your penis in other women, lol.

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  • Just Dee
    Super May 2015
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    Lmao Katie.

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  • Julie
    Expert September 2014
    Julie ·
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    In my youth (I'm 52 now) I used to pride myself that I had several ex's that I was still friends with -- but I gradually learned that I was really just fooling myself, because in reality they didn't want to be 'just' friends. So later, for several years before meeting my FH, whenever I broke up with a man that doesn't want to be broken up with, I didnt' attempt to stay friends -- that person needs to move on, and even if they say they can just be friends, they always end up trying to somehow get back together, and make things uncomfortable at some point or another (there is always the inevitable endless questions of 'Why did you REALLY break up with me?? Why can't we work on it? We used to be so good! You didn't give me a good reason!" blah blah blah).

    So now, the only ex that I still talk to is someone that has been my very good friend for 25 years after breaking up and we are like brother and sister now - NEVER any thought of something more, so he is very happy for me now.

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  • Mrs Lisa M.
    VIP April 2014
    Mrs Lisa M. ·
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    My XH (father of my 2 children) and I were together 20 years, married for 11 of that. I have never officially told him! However heres the string of events that have taken place since our engagement was posted on FB.

    Sept 6 2013- FH asked me to marry him. (Same evening XH met and went on 1st date now GF)

    Sept 7 2013 we announced our engagment on FB.. XH introduced our children to the woman he met and went out with the night before. Which infuriated me since he had only know this woman less then 24 hours.

    Oct something. XH put a ring on said womans finger..rather odd if you ask me..

    FH and I always change our FB profile pictures to the same pic. Its goofy but we always do it. XH and his GF...start doing this as well.

    FH and I buy a house together..XH and his GF of less then a month start looking for a house together.

    Keep in mind that XH was mentally abusive to me, treated me like I was on his payroll and never ever treated me with respect or told me he loved me. (cont).....

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  • Mrs Lisa M.
    VIP April 2014
    Mrs Lisa M. ·
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    But now posts every day how much he loves his GF, how beautiful she is etc.

    I recieve text after text from his friends asking me if he has lost his mind. They all tell me he is fake as hell and just trying to make me jeolous. Thing is I could careless. I have the man of my dreams and his antics mean nothing to me. I ended up deleting him from FB..

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  • mrsrobinvalentine
    Master February 2014
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    Yes, I received a couple of "texts" asking Why? Why not me? It should have been me!.

    I didn't want any negative energy around me, so I block any further texts. I don't need any distractions or confusion; I'm planning my dream wedding.

    Karma is crazy; I don't want any of his exes reaching out for him & he response to it. So I shut the sh!t down, right away.

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  • Deborah
    Super August 2013
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    My most recent ex and I ended it very badly and I'd cross the street if I saw him coming.

    My ex-husband is deceased. I really, really wished he'd been at the wedding. He'd have LOVED my spouse. My spouse's ex-husband was her best man.

    I am friends with a couple of prior exes who are very happy for me. One came to the wedding.

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  • FutureMrsP
    Master October 2014
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    All but one of my EX (also mentioned on the crazy cheating stories) have said congrats and that they are really happy.

    My cray-cray ex went absolutely balistic and since FH and him were college friends - he started harrassing FH ...

    All ties have been cut and neither of us communicate with him anymore - so we dont know if he has calmed down or not.

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  • Patricia
    Super June 2014
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    I honestly don't think my ex husband knows, my kids are really good about not telling him anything they know how he is and they don't want to deal with it. I've been considering letting him know that way when he does find out it's not up to my kids to confirm it. decision decisions

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  • Megan
    Expert June 2013
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    One ex that is really good friends with my sister said "wow". My long term 6 year on & off again ex tried to convince me to leave my (fiance at the time) to be back with him. One ex was happy for us (my husband was best man in his wedding). The rest of ex's I don't speak to, so they either don't know or don't care. The ex that is happy for us is actually working on getting a divorce from his wife. She's the whole reason we stopped our friendship.

    These are all ex boyfriends by the way. I don't have any ex husbands or fiance's

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    Just Said Yes October 2018
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    I had an ex gf message my fiancee on FB and tried to get her to break up with me. LOL But then she messaged me and tried to talk to me. Crazy!

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  • Tara
    Master May 2020
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    I’ve never been married. I have a total of three ex boyfriends and none of them know (to my knowledge) that I’m engaged. I’ve never seen it necessary (for me) to keep in touch with exes, since I don’t have any children, etc.
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