One night in August 1977 on a boat in the harbor of Charlevoix, Michigan, I punched my wife in the face after she told me she had slept with the 70-year-old Polish caretaker of her family’s summer property.
We were both drunk, and she taunted me after I hit her. She died in a car accident in Tarrytown, New York in 1998, so no one else knows what happened that night.
Submitted by: Bob
I slept with my husband’s sister. She’s hot. It only happened once. I don’t know what I regret more: that I did it or that it only happened once.
Submitted by: Caroline
my boyfriend for 5 years broke up with me and started dating this girl named megan 2 days later. so i did to his car like in carrie underwood’s song “before he cheats,” i carved my name in his seats, keyed his new mustang, and busted out his windshield. then two days later i saw megan (his new girlfriend) and i told her that he cheated on her with me and a whole bunch of stuff (that was the truth, he really cheated on her with me). then when he was at work she went over to his apartment and destroyed it and wrote stuff in red spraypaint all over his walls. i just wanted to say he deserved it!! ha! ha!
Submitted by: Heather
I’m sorry for betraying my best friend, falling in love with her boyfriend, and after they broke up, dating him and having sex with him, and lying to her about it.
Submitted by: Vanessa Rivera
I stole my mother’s engagement ring and pawned it so I could buy tickets to the Clash. I was an ass then. I may still be.
Submitted by: Ray
Emily: We all ganged up on you in 8th grade. We couldn’t seem to stop. It became what we did and went on all year and into the summer. We were cruel. It got away from us. I hope we did not ruin your life. I am a mother now. My daughter’s about to go to junior high, and I think about what we did to you all the time and hope you’ve been able to forgive us.
Submitted by: Karen
I keyed your car, Mike. You treated me like shit so I keyed your car but I feel bad about it. Your car didn’t deserve it.
Submitted by: Sammy
Come one come all, step right up to Paul’s Love Stand… made-up daily: affection, words that are sure to boost your ego, promises of life-long love, good humor and more! Just get in line, ladies, because it’s right here waiting for you! And you can have it all for the mere price of your soul….
disclaimer: Paul cannot be held responsible for lies, betrayal, drunkenness, etc. Love at your own risk.
I regret buying the crap at Paul’s Love Stand!
Submitted by: Anonymous
I regret ever having shared my most intimate thoughts with Paul. My gut kept telling me not to trust him and I should have listened to it. I actually feel bad for him, he needs help and really doesn’t know how to be honest, even though he wants it so badly.
I should have seen the big “red flag” when he shared with me about how dishonest he was with his ex. And, when he continued this dishonesty with me, what was I thinking? He lured me in with his beautiful words. He was good at that.
If anyone deserved my deepest thoughts it was Adam (my ex). He loved me unconditionally, he never lied to me, ever. He “got it.”
I regret running off to South Africa and having an affair.
Paris and Amsterdam were beautiful, traveling all over this world was beautiful with you….. thank you, Adam. I’m so sorry that I hurt you. You deserved hearing my most intimate thoughts and desires, you deserved better.
Submitted by: P
Tugboat, I am so sorry that I broke up with you. It haunts me every day. I’m so unhappy. You were the best thing since apple pie. I was too immature for your love. I didn’t even have the guts to end it in person, I had to runaway and hide like a child (I still do this whenever you come around). My life is totally meaningless without you. I saw you the other day — you came into the store were I worked, you looked totally hot. God I could just punch myself. I’m soooooo stupid. What the hell was I thinking when I left you! DUH. Now I’m stuck working for my dad forever and lost you baby because you’re with someone. I will never love anyone like I loved you. God what am I saying? If i loved you I would have never left you. I’m such a freaking moron!!!!!!!!!!!! Please come back to me, please!
Submitted by: Young Buck
these people, writing here, are amateurs. i killed my mother’s little dog. yeah, it was old and shivered all the time and fit in her fucking purse, but that’s not why i killed it. i killed it because she loved that thing way more than she ever loved me. i killed it because i couldn’t kill her.
Submitted by: eddie
I regret giving you a slice of happiness while receiving nothing in return. Chocolate cake for your birthday, a fancy blow job and 2 books for your niece at Xmas. What did you get me again?? Kangaroo jerky and vegemite.
I regret coordinating a focus group for you. You could’ve told me that you didn’t know if you wanted to be in a relationship with me before I went out of my way to get a crew together for you. To top that off you only paid everyone $50…How cheap can you be!!! I regret wasting so much of my time with you when you didn’t appreciate me. I regret not realizing that you didn’t know me and didn’t care to. Everything about you is superficial, and I regret not seeing that sooner.
I regret not listening to my friends who all thought you were gay.
Most of all I regret not telling you to go f*** yourself when we last spoke. Karma is a b**** and judging from your recent weight gain, it’s already catching up with you.
I feel much better now. Thanks for listening.
Submitted by: Plantation
I would have been better off shooting myself in the head than staying with him, but I couldn’t help it.
Some loves are like these death sentences you keep giving yourself, day after day. You know better but you keep lining up for it like you’ve got no choice. You do in fact. I did.
Submitted by: Freida
I hit my neighbor’s dog when I was seventeen and lied about it. I told everyone the dog had been hit, just not by me. I got help as fast as I could. Still, I have felt bad about that for over two decades now, even though the dog was old with a cloudy eye and these really alarming itchy-looking bald patches. It was always wandering into the street, and me, I was always driving too fast.
Submitted by: Seth G.
Shannon,
I am truly sorry I locked you in the dog kennel back in 1988.
We were so mean to you.
Submitted by: Willowood
i regret ever listening to your sweet, disjointed words. part of me wishes you would have kept them to yourself.
outside, i am trying so hard to keep it all together — to be respectful and ‘cool.’
inside, i am wrecked and writhing with pain and confusion. i don’t even know what’s real and what’s not right now.
i think i am grieving the death of a possibility that i have spent my entire life longing for. and i am ashamed of that.
Submitted by: I
I am sorry that I cannot forgive you. I want to. I want it all behind me, but I just can’t let it go. I know I made a choice to have a child that neither of us expected to have. For that I will never be sorry. For six years now she has made me the person I have always wanted to be and taught me more about love than any teacher ever could. For her, I will always be indebted to you. I am sorry you don’t know her.
I will always be sorry I can’t forgive you for leaving her.
Submitted by: Rebecca
i’m sorry for pulling you back.
i’m sorry that you search in my eyes for something more, and only I know that it’s not there.
i’m sorry that in 2 days i am going to push you away again.
i told you we can never be anything ‘serious.’
i’m sorry i will never find out, because i refused to give ‘us’ a chance.
Submitted by: punky brewster
I am truly sorry, my Lisa, for not having communication and for not stopping to think of the consequences. I still love you in my heart, and I am truly sorry for all the damage I have given to you, but I thank you for giving me my three beautiful children. I wish things could be the same, but you and me are moving forward. Just one last thing please keep our communication that we have. I learned my lesson and lost more than a wife I also have lost my best friend.
Submitted by: Nelson
This is to Virgil B. in Troy, MO.
I love you and I wish I didn’t. When you and I split up it was like someone slapped me in the face. I know that I am the one who left you but I didn’t see it any other way. You weren’t going to marry me. I was just comfortable for you and I guess it was easier to continue our relationship than it was to let it go. But I did leave and I want you to know that when I called you in December, it was for more than for deer meat. But I’m sure you know that.
Anyway, I just wanted you to know that I still love you and probably always will.
Love,
Mary R.
When I think back, I hear the sadness in your voice during our last phone call in your attempt to find comfort from a lifelong friend… but I was too rushed and distracted. Instead of listening I mostly talked at you. I dismissed your recent break-up so casually just a few days before Valentine’s Day. And then I forgot to even call you on V Day to check in and tell you I love you.
Since you died unexpectedly just days after V Day, I’ve regretted my selfishness in general. I always expected you to be there and I took advantage of knowing you would always love me despite my flaws.
I should have been as caring and thoughtful towards you as you always were to me. Your last birthday gift was the most generous gift I’ve ever received and I regret not having the opportunity to do the same for you.
I also regret my last email to you, which I’m not even certain you received since it was sent the morning of the day you died – you expressed how badly you wanted to take an adventure trip with me somewhere you had never been before. Instead of matching your enthusiasm, I needlessly brought up all my concerns about time/money and tried to put the brakes on your excitement until I had time to do more research. I wish I had fully supported the trip. I wish we had gone away together to have a 30th b-day vacation like you really wanted to. I regret that you never actually had a 30th and that instead of a party we had a memorial service in your honor.
I regret most of all that you are not here with us still, in person. I regret that you will not have children of your own and grow old gracefully, as I’m certain you would have. I miss your laughter and sunshine-filled presence. You deserved more in this lifetime, my friend. I hope you know how much I truly deeply love and value you always.
Submitted by: Elizabeth
Mine’s so stupid. It’s my own fault I screwed up and the whole time, I had the control to stop it. But I thought I could get away with it, so I did it, and now…
I can get out of it, make up the difference and no one will know. But I’ll still know I did it. There was absolutely no reason to. It comes down to my stupidity and selfishness.
Never again will I make this mistake.
Submitted: Me
Let me come home. I’ve been a fool. Let me come home to your arms.
Submitted by: Allan
And I should have married HER. Not only because she’s sweet and bubbly and cute as hell but because now she’s loaded. Her ship came in big time with this side business of hers. She drives a Porsche. She’s got a white brick house on three acres of land, some guy in a suit to keep her company, and a bungalow in Costa Rica. Me, I got a car that needs a new transmission, a landlord who’s screwing me, and tiny, tiny balls.
Submitted by: Dumbass
i should have married you. i regret it. i regret it every day of my life. i regret not coming over that night to talk to you. i regret not having the guts to get you back before you married her. i regret being so scared. i regret not realizing that you were the only person i would ever love. before it was too late.
Submitted by: Ellen