Three weeks before the wedding (during Thanksgiving dinner), he told me that he had been cheating on me the entire time we were together.

After our guests left, I proceeded to destroy his kitchen. He threatened to call the police if I broke anything else. So, I threw a chair through a window.

I called a friend to come pick me up. He never did call the cops. I seriously thought he was going to.

Three months later, he married his girlfriend. The day he got married, I sold my engagement ring to my neighbor for $20.

Within five years time, his wife had a baby with another man, they got divorced, he moved back to his home state, and I got an email from his sister telling me that he had a heart attack while on a ski trip and didn't survive it.

After a 3-year relationship and 18-month engagement, my ex decided he didn't want to get married after all. 10 days before the wedding. "You're not much fun to be around anymore (as I'm finishing up my degree, student teaching and planning a wedding...) And oh, by the way, would you mind me asking out your best friend?"

My mom called all of the people on my side who were invited, left the rest up to him/his family. Apparently a good few of them showed up at the church on the date.

He ended up hooking up with the wife of a frat brother, they ended up getting pregnant and married and quickly popped out 3 kids, then she cheated on HIM (and apparently she's married twice more since then.) He's been in one long-term relationship after another in the past 20+ years.

I just celebrated my 30th anniversary. Dodged a bullet, I did.

Knew a guy whose mom [passed away] unexpectedly the week before the wedding, meaning the funeral would be a couple days before the wedding. He was emotionally wrecked and asked his fiancee if they could delay. Fiancée refused and started posting in Facebook about how she was being betrayed. At that point he formally called it off. Then her parents called him and demanded refunds for their deposits. Bride refused to return the ring, which had been his recently deceased mom’s, so he got a lawyer involved.

My fiance met me for lunch and slid a prenup in front of me two weeks before the wedding. I would get nothing, ever, and I would have to help him take care of his mother. There was no such provision for my mother. He took me somewhere to get it notarized and I refused to sign it. He tried to bargain with me, but I was not having it. I took the dress back to the store, kept the shoes because they were cool, and canceled everything. He suggested couples counseling and I went once. The therapist told me she thought he had a screw loose. Then he stalked me. *shrug*.

I have quite a few I could tell about my little sister. I'll stick to two.

My Mom bought her numerous laptops, iPhones, and cameras on the condition that she take care of them. Every one was broken in a month or two. Bought her a $900 digital SLR she knows I've been coveting for years, because my sister claimed she was going to take a photography course at school. Got the camera, bitched that she didn't get any other presents, used it for a day then let it sit around for 6 months. She uses it now for pictures on her tumblr, but she told my mom she never intended to take a photography course and she can only use [it] on auto.

For Easter I spent a couple hundred dollars buying her tons of Hunger Games stuff and random stuff for an Easter basket because I stupidly wanted to do something nice (I'd just pick up random stuff over the course of a few months that I thought she'd like). She was upset that my mom wouldn't be doing baskets anymore because she's 15. She threw a tantrum after she opened everything because Easter sucked because we wouldn't hide Easter eggs for her or hide plastic ones filled with money like her friend's parent's did. SHE'S 15.

I haven't gotten her a [single] thing since. I bought my mom a MacBook Air to pay her back for years of caring for me, and my sister threw the biggest tantrum ever. She clawed at my mom's face and tried to steal her car because it wasn't fair that my mom got something nice for the first time EVER. Literally, ever. My sister has since "accidentally" broken her laptop hoping I'd buy her one too. Not going to ever happen.

God, that turned into an epic rant.

My parents paid for my college (private women's college in the southeast) completely. They sent me away to school without the car they had given me in HS (a Maxima, a nice car) and gave it to my brother to drive back and forth to school. I had a formal coming up and called them to ask if I could have "my" car that weekend. They politely reminded me that it wasn't "my" car, it was the family's car and my brother needed it. I promptly threw a rich girl hissy fit over the phone, telling them that they were terrible, that they obviously didn't love me, that they were being selfish and uncaring, blah blah blah. They had planned to come visit me 2 hours away at school that coming Sunday but told me they weren't sure if they were going to come now... I said fine, whatever, stay home, don't care, all of that stuff. They showed up. With a brand new Mitsubishi Galant (this was in 1992). They wanted me to have a brand new car that I could put all of my friends in and go to the beach, etc. They had purchased this car home approx. 20 minutes before I called them and went off about borrowing a car. I cried and cried with regret for my terrible, spoiled behavior and drove that Galant until it fell apart. They've since forgiven me, of course, 20 years later, but I'll never forget that shame.

I used to work for a local car dealership. I was selling the cheapest car on the lot to a dad and his daughter. It was a 2000 Daewoo for $3,000. She was SO excited to have her own car and it was what her dad could afford to buy her.

At this same time another salesperson was selling a brand new Eddie Bauer Explorer to a dad for a present to his daughter.

As I was presenting the Daewoo to the new owners the daughter of the other dad comes in to see her new Explorer. She starts throwing a fit and yells "I didn't want an explorer, I wanted an Expedition!!!"

I was really proud of the dad of the Explorer as he walked back into the finance office. He changed the deal. He corraborated with the guy buying the daewoo and switched the names... So the girl crying over her "Explorer" now had a crappy Daewoo and the girl who was really grateful to have a car ended up with a fully loaded paid of Explorer... I would never have believed it if I had not been the salesperson.

After getting close to $500 in gifts for Christmas, my sister tore down the tree, kicked other people's gifts, started yelling and crying, because she didn't see a Wii among her presents (this was when they were realy hard to find). We actually did get her a Wii, she just didn't get to it yet. I even had to take on a second holiday job at an online gaming store to get it.

She was a 24 year old med student at the time.

My niece, no dad raised by my parents. My dad doesn't make much money, saved and saved bought my niece her first junker (car) he is a mechanic and made sure it was sound, just didn't look pleasing to the eye. (Hell my first car cost 10 bucks and that was for the tow) So looks at it and says "No way am I driving that, I wanted a nicer one" Dad left sold the car, said he will never buy her anything again.

When we were very young we were very poor. My sister's birthday was coming up, I think she was about 7. There was no money to buy gifts but my mother had a small piece of white satin cloth and a box of tiny little pearl beads. She hand sewed this beautiful little wedding gown for my sisters doll and sat up night after night hand sewing these tiny little beads on the dress. When my sister was given it for her birthday she threw it across the room in disgust, saying I don't want that it's my old dolly. I'll never forget the heartbreak on my mother's face.

Today is my niece's birthday and she just went to college so I thought I'd get her a laptop for her birthday. Now, I am a student myself but I still want to give her something special. So I searched for a great used laptop , and I found a decent Toshiba Satellite. I sold my PSP and some other things so I can afford it.

So there we were at the dinner table opening presents. She opened mine and has this grim look at her face. "This is it? I thought you'd buy me a brand new one"

"You know I can't afford it. It's the best I can do."

"I want a brand new one, not this. This [blows]! Worst present ever!"

She then shoved the laptop and box across the table and fell down the floor.

I picked it up, and walked out. My cousin tried to stop me, I just said "I would never give her anything again."

She even had the nerve to call back and asked for the laptop. Apparently her parents punished her for her behavior and she will now have to buy her own things. No hand-outs or gifts.

My friend bought it as a favor. He helped me pick it out, and knows how much I bought for it. The profit was only $10(roughly).

UPDATE: Niece called this morning, asking for the laptop, because she will need it for college and her parents told her she will never be handed-out stuff while she is in college. No apology yet, only demands. Her brother said I would cave and give it to her. [Hell] no.

Bought my cats some gourmet food and they looked at me like I was trying to poison them. Cretins.