Why did you break up?

Break-ups can be awkward, soul crushing or blatantly hilarious, all of them have a  story behind them and if we’re honest, a lot are inevitable at the start of University. Although it may hurt in the moment, some will laugh about them later. We asked people on campus to tell us about their experiences.

The ‘One’ who wasn’t quite that special after all.

Gregor, 1st year, Biomedical Sciences

“The main problem was that she thought that I loved the gym more than her. She just didnt understand that getting swole is a relationship in itself. I still love her, but she thought I was getting too big.”

Eleanor, 2nd year, Law

“Distance. Not much more to be said. ”

Ross, 1st year, International Relations

“She left me to go to Russia”.

Half a continent to get away? Ouch.

Phoebe, 1st year, History of Art

 “I was 16 and we were having sex for the first time. When he came, the ice cream truck drove by playing the teddy bear’s picnic, we were on his bunk-bed and it freaked me out so much that I had to dump him right there and then. He’d even lit candles, he was devastated and cried but it was just too cringe to deal with.”

Maddy, 1st year, Business and Marketing

“I had a boyfriend who broke up with me, his reason was that he cared more about his abs than me. I hope he’s happy with his abs.”

Zeina, 1st year, International Relations and Law

“I felt like I was putting in all the work, I spoke to him about it and he decided that it wasn’t worth the effort so it was over. Two weeks later he started going out with my best friend. Safe to say we’re not friends anymore, she’s dead to me”.

Poppy, 1st year, Applied Animal Science

“My then boyfriend and I had been going out for 3 years, when I turned 18 all I wanted to do was go out, I always invited him to come along with my friends and I but he always refused. He said that my clubbing antics made him ‘sick’ and he made me feel terrible about it. He even deleted me on Facebook because he didn’t want to see ‘evidence’ of me clubbing.

“Eventually we broke up. Ever since then he has showed up to the nightclubs that he knows I go to and on what night. Couple of weeks later I found him on Tinder and the only photos he had were the ones from those clubs and from when we were on holiday together. I still wear his hoodie and I use his old toothbrush to clean the dirt under my nails.”

Emma, Gap Yah

“I had been out the night before and I was absolutely hanging, my phone kept going off and beeping, when I looked at it it was my new boyfriend professing his love for me at 5AM. He had done this every morning before work and I had told him to please stop waking me up, I just couldn’t take it anymore so I text him back saying that we were over. We never spoke again.”

Angus, 4th Year, Media and Marketing.

“I went out with a girl who was in her 1st year of university when I was 16 but she turned out to be mental (as you would expect from a fresher going out with someone who hasn’t sat their highers yet). So I tried to break up with her but she’d cry and I’d feel so bad that I would not finish breaking up with her – It took me 4 times over the course of weeks before I finally had the balls to do it. She then continued to text me for months after.”

Callum, 2nd Year, Economics

“This girl broke up with me because ‘she was scared that I was going to cheat on her’… I found out she had been cheating on me periodically throughout the relationship. Surely that would end the relationship on its own.”