DUMPED BY TEXT...
I’m not proud of it but when I was about 17 I finished with a guy I was seeing AND living with, by text.

It’s a complicated story and I’ll explain it the best that I can.

When I was 17 I had nowhere to live and was put up by an older couple that I knew (I say older – they we’re late 30’s but that was 20 years on me at the time). I didn’t know them so well but I worked with the guy, Mark, and they we’re a fabulous, kind couple that put me up for a few months during a difficult time.

They we’re fond of setting me up with people they knew and often the candidates we’re not so suitable and a fair bit older than myself.

Eventually they introduced me to a 30 something guy called Steve and me and Steve started dating. It’s wasn’t a whirlwind romance really, just one of those stop gap kind of relationships. Things we’re going okay until Steve lost his flat about 6 weeks into our relationship and Mark and Rachel offered him to move in with them also. As they had a two bedroom house this meant that Steve and I we’re inadvertently living together.

I put up with things as I had nowhere to go and not enough confidence to tell any of them that I wasn’t into this guy enough to be living with him after 6 weeks.

In the end I took the cowards way out and dumped him by text. I was as nice as possible but that doesn’t excuse it.

I left all my things behind and never looked back.

Understandably I lost the friendship of my kind friends and have felt guilty about my cowardice ever since. Gutted
( DUMBLONDE is a rubber lover girl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 16:44, 13 replies)

your line
"I’m not proud of it but when I was about 17 I finished with a guy I was seeing AND living with, by text."

When I was 17 the only texts I knew of were exam ones and they were made of paper and everything.

*olds*
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 16:46, closed)

@ HLT
You and me both.

When I was 17, "text" referred to a textbook.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Fri 6 Jun 2008, 16:52, closed)

When I was 17
the only texts I knew of were these new fangled thingies on mobile phones...
(Belgaer is, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 16:57, closed)

When I was 17
mobile phones resembled house bricks! I don't think they had a text facility - they only had a battery life of about one call.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Fri 6 Jun 2008, 16:58, closed)

When I was 17
I actually did read Just17
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 16:59, closed)

We're only talking 10 years ago
And i've grown up a lot since.
( DUMBLONDE is a rubber lover girl, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 17:00, closed)

We're talking...
1 year ago for me.
(Belgaer is, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 17:02, closed)

@hlt
so did I! I even had a t-shirt they gave away with the magazine logo on it - and wondered why I couldn't get served in pubs! D'oh.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Fri 6 Jun 2008, 17:02, closed)

@WW
It was shite wasn't it!

more was loads better...

Edit: @ Belgaer - really?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 17:07, closed)

I moved on to Cosmo
in a failed attempt to look grown-up and sophisticated. The fact that I could get a half fare on the buses until well into my twenties tells you how badly I failed.
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Fri 6 Jun 2008, 17:10, closed)

Yes,
really.
(Belgaer is, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 17:21, closed)

erm,
if you were 17 and they were trying to match you up with people in their 30s, I don't think they were as great friends as you think they were.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 19:43, closed)

please, please,
if you're using the word "we're" to describe how or what something or someone was, it's spelled WERE, not WE'RE.

sorry, but i had to say it.
*goes back to grinding teeth*
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 6 Jun 2008, 20:45, closed)