Broke Off Engagement?

[WhiteDaisy128]

I have not...but I know someone that has...they found a lot of solace on www.theregoesthebride.com - I believe it's a message board for "brides" that are no longer engaged. I haven't looked at it too much.

[AGDee]

I didn't, but I should have and knew it days before the wedding. 14 months and lots of abuse later, I left, but I knew the day I married him it was going to end badly and that's a horrible place to be. In fact, I was quite the Bridezilla that day because I knew it was all wrong.

[Leslie Anne]

^^^ I'm sorry you suffered the abuse and I'm glad you're out of it now. How horrible.


My sister broke off her engagement. She was 19 at the time and her fiance was a very nice guy but my mother and I were really worried about it. She took a trip out to Utah to meet her fiance's Mormon family. For a while after she got back she was like a zombie. All I remember her talking about were embroidered dish towels for each day of the week. Finally she snapped out of it and called it off. My mother and I were SO relieved! My sister looks back in horror at the possibility that she could have been just a "baby-making machine."

[kstar]

My current boyfriend and ex-fiance broke off our engagement a few years ago on St. Valentine's Day. He was panicking because two of his best friends were getting divorced and another was breaking up with his long time girlfriend. (It didn't help that he was in the middle of his first year of law school.) We were in the very early planning stages and hadn't even agreed on a place or date yet.

It took him about 3 months to calm down and realize the mistake, but it took me about 6 months to forgive him and another 3 before I would agree to date him again.

[nittanyalum]

Originally Posted by kstar

My current boyfriend and ex-fiance broke off our engagement a few years ago on St. Valentine's Day.

Brutal!

It took him about 3 months to calm down and realize the mistake, but it took me about 6 months to forgive him and another 3 before I would agree to date him again.

He's a lucky man.

[ForeverRoses]

Two of my friends met at my wedding. One of them was engaged at the time, but her fiance bailed on my wedding to go to a hockey game. Four months later my engaged friend was no longer engaged and a couple months after that I set my two friends up. Now they have two kids (neither one was named for me even though I really think I should have had naming rights). They did dedicate a song to my husband and I at their wedding, though.

I do know that she lost a bundle on the non-wedding, but it's a small price to pay for happiness.