IF Sex and the City taught us anything at all, it's that the worst possible way to dump someone is via a Post-It note… or so we always thought.
Because it appears as though one woman's outrageous break-up story might have stolen Carrie Bradshaw's crown after her husband cruelly dumped her with a message scrawled on a paper plate. Yep, REALLY.
Sharing her story with Mama Mia, the American woman explained how she met her ex-husband at university and got engaged after just three months of dating in the early noughties.
"It’s funny how when you’re young, three months can feel like an eternity," she said. "We rationalised the quick proposal by the fact that we would have about a year-long engagement."
Aware that it was every-inch the whirlwind romance, the woman – who was 21 at the time – said that waiting 12 months to talk down the aisle somehow made it seem like a "safer and smarter" decision long-term… how wrong she was.
As two very religious people, the woman and her ex never slept together before tying the knot – but once they were married, she claims she still felt as though sex was "sinful or dirty".
A paper plate message stuck in the mailbox was just about the worst way he could have ended things. It was done so hastily and without care.
The woman was so scared about losing her virginity that she even sought help from a doctor who recommended using "intercourse size dilators" to make her first time more comfortable.
Although friends and family tried to reassure her that her wedding night would be "amazing and worth the wait", the woman insists it was neither of those things – and continued to find sex "so painful that it became impossible".
On top of this, the woman – who had always imagined herself on a creative career path – tried in vain to settle in her new role as a housewife while her husband forged a career as a history professor.
Having dropped out of university for her husband, the woman says it didn't take long until she began to resent him and feel like she was trapped in the marriage.
It was at this point that the woman started to catch him out on small lies – such as claiming he hadn't had dinner when there were takeaway wrappers hidden in his car and coming home smelling of smoke.
As this was during the early days of Facebook (where only university students could have accounts), she also noticed her partner spending hours everyday on social media.
But the nail in the coffin of their marriage was when he began getting text messages from his childhood sweetheart – who he insisted was "just a friend".
She wrote: "My gut told me not to believe him, but I also knew that most people would call me a bad wife. If I couldn’t even give him sex, then surely, I deserved it."
The couple were married two and a half years until he scribbled down a note on a paper plate to say he was leaving her and shoved it in their mailbox.
To make matters worse, the entrance to their shared home above a Chinese restaurant in Illinois was around a back alley – meaning she had to go out of her way to find the devastating note.
Despite the fact she feels he somehow did them both a favour by leaving first, the woman wrote: "A paper plate message stuck in the mailbox was just about the worst way he could have ended things.
"It was done so hastily and without care that I wound up taking the end of our marriage much harder than I likely would have done if we had simply talked things out."
She claims it's taken 17 years to process the pain and made it hard for her to trust men she dated after her marriage fell apart.
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