42 Times People Decided To Get Back At Their Exes And Nobody Could Stop Them

Okay, this is going to sound cruel, but hear me out. After he cheated, I was in a rage and was going to throw all his belongings from my place in the garbage. My friend encouraged me to set them on fire, but I had a better idea. I live in a city where he also lives and works within the same few blocks. A lot of the homeless folks are familiar and tend to stick around their common areas of our blocks.

I took all of his clothes and sneakers, and things, and put them in a box near my alley where the homeless folks hang out, wrote a sign saying take what you’d like. So the folks got a whole new nice wardrobe and are rocking his clothes he would recognize when he’s walking around work/home. I never spoke to him after the breakup, but I did see the people wearing his jackets and sneakers mostly. I feel like I did a good deed because those people got some nice, expensive clothes to keep warm and feel good! And it gives me satisfaction imagining him realizing these people are all wearing his favorite stuff.

Ex was a "vinyl DJ". After he basically treated me really badly one night and we had a huge argument, I got up during the night and took out the vinyls and put them in the wrong sleeves. He had a fair few hundred. Took me ages. I then packed my little overnight bag I kept at his, and left. He was supposed to play a gig the next day. I heard he was raging.

He cheated and knocked the woman up. A couple of weeks later, I was drunk shopping with a friend, and we ran into his mother and sister. I congratulated them. They asked what for? and I said, "The baby!" His sister was shocked. His mom thought something was up because he had made some strange comments. When he found out they had heard his news from me, he was livid! Omg, it was great.

My then BF had a favorite T-shirt that he had bought overseas years ago. That shirt was wearing out, and although he had looked high and low for years, he was never able to find the shirt again. He loved that shirt. I mean, loved.

His birthday was coming up. I used to be a graphic designer, so I easily reproduced that beloved shirt and had a few made up in multiple colors for him, and one for me. Then I found out that he was cheating, and we broke up. I started dating someone soon after.

Being petty about what happened, I gifted one of those T-shirts I made to my new guy, telling him the story. We took a photo together of both of us wearing the shirts and posted it on social media. The ex saw the post of us in the shirts and freaked. He contacted me asking me where I found the shirts. I told them that I had made them for his birthday, too bad, so sad, but other than gifting one to my new BF, I had since given all of the rest of them to Goodwill. He was absolutely furious. I thought he might cry. So petty. So worth it.

My ex cheated on me. I turned his best friend against him simply by telling him everything he did. It wasn't nuclear in intention, but he lost his entire friend group over it. And props to his best friend and all his other friends who actually refused to tolerate how he treated his girlfriends.

My sister told an ex that no one would marry him because no one would put up with his [nonsense]. She recently got an invite in the mail to his wedding; he had written something like "You were wrong" on it. She RSVPed yes. When he got the reply card, he texted her frantically asking her if she was serious because he didn't intend for her to go (and his soon-to-be-wife didn't know he had invited my sister). She said of course and then said she was going to wear white. He's been texting her every few days begging her not to go so he doesn't have to explain himself.

Don't get into a petty war with my sister. Nothing is beneath her.

My girlfriend of 3 years, whom I dated through high school, broke up with me in my first semester of college. We went to different schools, and I later learned she was hooking up with one of her guy friends there. Anyways when we both were on break she asked me to bring back all the stuff she had given me, (presents, sweatshirts, cards, etc) so I drive to her house with all the things we've exchanged in the past 3 years, once I got to her house I saw that she had invited all her friends over and they were sitting with her along with her parents in the garage. Anyways, I walk up with her [things] and exchange, everyone there had that smirk on their face like they were laughing at me. Anyways, as I gave her back her things, I said, "If only I could give back your virginity." The look on her parents' faces was absolutely priceless, and I walked out of that lion's den with the biggest smile on my face.

Went through his Netflix continue watching section and changed all his shows to the last episode of the last season, so that he lost track of his shows and hopefully had something spoiled for him.

My first boyfriend. He went from calling me every night to completely ghosting me out of nowhere with no explanation. It left teenage me devastated. He reached out, out of the blue, a couple years later. He tried pretending as if we just had a falling out and said he missed me and wanted to meet up. So I humored him, let him get all excited for a date, we agreed on a time and place, he texted me that he was there, and then I ghosted him and never replied back.

Found out boyfriend of 2 years cheated on me again, after he swore the first time was isolated and “it would never happen again.” (I was so stupid for taking him back). I didn’t let on that I knew about the other woman.

I planned a fake, “all expense paid” trip to Hawaii a few weeks in advance. He hadn’t had a vacation in many years, so he was super excited. Got his input on hotels, excursions, etc. He arranged the time off work and was all set. Two days before we were supposed to leave, I sent him an explosive text that I knew about Sheri, and the joke’s on him. He was seething, and I loved the thought of him being so sucked in by the excitement of the fake trip and then devastation. That was 20 years ago, I’m in my 50s now, and I still don’t regret doing that.