‘You’re too fat’
INTUITION isn’t always spot on, and nowhere is it as embarrassingly wrong as when you decide that the time is right to utter those three little words, and your partner freaks out.
You may have felt the time was right, that the butterflies and sparks were mutual, and planned the perfect way to make the big reveal, only to end up failing miserably, as the readers below share.
Kimberlee C:
I had been friends with this guy in college and we hung out a lot and studied a lot. One day after our third year of being friends I said to him, ‘We’ve been friends forever, we know each other like the back of our hands, and I think I’m in love with you’. Well, his response was, ‘Kimcee, I’m not, plus I’m bisexual’. Shocker!
Rebecca G:
I got tired of hiding my feelings and told him that I loved him and wanted to take the relationship further than a friendship. He said it could not happen as he saw me as nothing more than a friend and he didn’t see why I would be in love with him. He went on to say he hoped nothing between us would change.
Rory A:
‘I don’t.’
Jannett L:
You’re too fat. I’m not interested in women like you for more than a few months. You were just fun. Maybe if you were much skinnier I’d give it a second thought.
Anastasia P:
I thought we were friends with benefits.
Sean D:
She slapped me across my face and told me not to say what I didn’t mean.
Anthony E:
After I mustered up the courage to tell her, she responded saying, ‘Are you OK, Tony? Maybe we should just be friends.’
David S:
It was humiliating. I had taken her to a karaoke night and attempted to propose. After singing to her while she laughed, I said ‘I love you’ and she replied, ‘This is all awkward, you can’t sing and I don’t know why you would have reason to think I love you’.
Chantel J:
I had a nervous breakdown in the final year of my master’s programme at university. When my then boyfriend came to look for me and I told him how much his support meant to me, and that I loved him, he asked if I had taken my medication from morning, totally disregarding my declaration. When I came out of the hospital he said he had heard but he doesn’t love me and couldn’t say it then for fear that I’d have had another breakdown.
George J:
Well, she laughed then said, ‘You, love me? Is this opposite day?’
— Kimberley Hibbert
