Twitter users share the petty things they do to spite their exes in hilarious thread
Love is a battlefield, and some people are clearly winning
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Your support makes all the difference.On a scale from one to petty, how far are you willing to go to vex an ex?
Dealing with a break-up can be a messy ordeal, fraught with tears, anger and lack of closure. However, laughing in the face of past relationships could be the key to finding your groove again.
Yesterday, writer Sophie Benoit asked her Twitter followers to reveal the pettiest things they do to spite their exes despite them having no idea of their actions, and the responses she received are hilariously vindictive.
“I’ll go first: my ex HATED when people would just stand on escalators instead of walking so now I always stand,” Benoit confessed.
Some of her 68,000 followers followed suit by responding to the thread with their own tales of secret revenge.
Mara Wilson, best known for her starring role in Matilda, wrote: “Befriend their heroes on Twitter.”
Another person shared: “One time an ex told me that when I do my makeup a specific way I look like ‘a cat but not in a good way’ - so now I do it like that almost every day."
Some of the confessions were more drastic than others.
“He wanted me to get my nipples pierced. I said no bc I was insecure and didn’t want to deal with the pain,” someone commented.
“Four months after we broke up, I got them pierced (with my now life partner) and felt hotter than ever. I don’t think he knows and that makes it even better.”
One woman described how she exacted her last act of vengeance when logging out of her ex’s Netflix account.
“When I finally logged out of his Netflix account (voluntarily and actually as a positive, healthy move) I noticed he’d renamed one of the profiles for his new (younger) gf so I changed her security settings to ‘Kids’ so she can’t watch anything worse than PG,” she stated.
Another person explained how they’d started slowing down at amber lights while driving as a matter of spite, rather than safety, because their ex had always demanded they drive through them.
Love is undoubtedly a big, treacherous battlefield and dealing with relationships that have fallen apart is a tricky business.
However, some clearly have a handle on how to one-up their exes, even if their former partners are none the wiser.
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