My first girlfriend was the only one to dump me bad, We were together for 6 months when she text'd me saying "We are no longer together." Then she would not talk to me at all from that point even though i was dying with heartbreak...
Then, one drunken night in the city of Newcastle i get approached by ten hardarses saying that i'm a rapist and that i forced my ex to abort our rape baby (I'm not joking, i was 18 and i thought the entire world thought i did that, i think i nearly killed myself over it)
I was shielded by a great group of mates... but even they couyld not contend with the bullshit that was being spread.
So... i left that city a week later for Sydney, and have never looked back.
I have never put myself in that position again. I was alone, by my own volition.
Things have changed now, i was being really standoffish and ignoring girls that flirted with me until this girl would not take no for an answer...
We went out for drinks/dinner and ended up taking a weeks worth of sickies so we did not have to stop being together, and now we are getting married.
Cry not for me, Escapist.