Yeah. It happens. It's stupid too. While I've pretty much sworn off the concept of relationships for the rest of my life, I can tell you some --really-- stupid stories of what's happened to me.
Alright.. this story I have requires a bit of set-up to make things understand.
So I was with a girl who I've known for quite awhile, and we finally decide, hey, let's try the whole relationship thing. It was sorta random too, cause we knew each other, but never really talked. More of a ... friend of a friend thing. Anyway, about a year into it.. or like.. right after a month of the 1st year goes by, she goes to one of those anime conventions..
..I forgot which one, Otakon I think, anyway..
.. So... she comes back.. like... broken heart? ..Apparently, she wanted to do some odd sort of skit, or hang with some guy or something, but they refused to let her, since she was a girl. :nono:
..So, anyway, she goes through these major mental changes and pretty much adapts this: "From now on, in public, online, I'm a guy except to the people who know."
...Besides not really getting it, and trying the whole be a good friend and talk her out of the idea, I follow along with it. But eventually, the whole idea of it grows --really-- uncomfortable with me. I think I just had enough.
So, anyway, I lost contact with her (and this is important to the story.) I begin dating another girl, a bit more normal, but her hormones are like.. exploding. (Catholic girl's school.) So.. I don't exactly blame her.. So, anyway, we're together, things are fine and all that jazz until suddenly..
Now, she starts developing this crush on this older guy.. I was... I think sixteen at the time, and this guy was like 25 and ran a newly opened anime / manga / type store. So.. we go on. So, as usual, it seems to have passed by, until one day...
..Now what this girl didn't know, was that I knew that girl 1*
*I do want to let know, that while girl 1 ..---- should I be saying "Boy 1?" --- we left on rather good terms, I just said I was uncomfortable with the whole thing, and that maybe our interests and times changed. We left on really good terms, though we lost contact with each other due to a change of interest. (She went on to college, play FFXI day in and day out.) BUT ANYWAY~!
..Now, I knew that "boy 1" had a message board on her--- his-- ... website that the girl I was with now happened to use.. quite often and then, thank you obvious screen-names, she posts a "Story" of how she kept throwing herself toward this shop guy, saying things like: "Well we're friends. We can see each other naked" trying to kiss him etc. But he kept rejecting her over and over and over and over again. (She was jail-bait for him...) So anyway.. I'm rolling my eyes and was getting ready to call it, when I notice the next post.
..Now, she's been mentioning to me about a school play she wished for me to attend too.. when.. all of a sudden... I'm reading this HUGE story about her part in the play, working on props, learning her lines, blah blah, that she apparently now has fallen for someone else, some kid who was working on the play, odd, but as per usual, he kept rejecting her. ...So in an essence, she --tried-- to cheat on me, but couldn't. (She was attractive, so I know it wasn't --that-- factored in. ) But, alas, that was --enough-- for me.
I called her on her, she went complete bonkers, claiming I'm psychic and all that jazz, wondering how I knew and all that stuff. So.. since she came to her own assumption. I just played off the whole: "Yes, I'm psychic, I know what you've been up to this entire time. Oh. Their names..? It's blah and blah."
..Freaked her out completely. I never did tell her the exact truth, and never will. Not like I can, seeing, as per usual, I lose contact with them. I hear about her every so often from random people who mention her and all that stuff. :shrug:
I didn't destroy or mangle things that was given during the relationship. I shipped off all the tapes of Evangelion she sent me to an online friend, and hell, I still have the Sailor Moon CD she gave me. It's some catchy music and hell, I forgot I even got it from her until just now when I wrote about it.
..I dislike the whole revenge, or going out of my way for someone or something that apparently really wasn't worth my time. I'll just play things cool and let the wind guide my actions sorta thing. If it feels right, then I'll do it, if not, hey, no skin off my bones.
The morale of the story? Try your best not to let it bother you. It sucks, but, if you let it get under your skin, you're letting someone who's not worth your time and essence to influence you that much. It'll hurt, but pain goes away and wounds heal over time.