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You still wonder why I didn’t want to be with you. I wish you didn’t. You’re so bright and kind, but here it is: you’re too desperate and you wear it all over you like a bad rash. It’s oppressive to a woman, especially this one. Also, I’m sorry to have to say this, but you are so alarmingly hairy. Your chest hair was like hair from someone’s head — really long and straight a little frightening (like a coat). You were an unbelievable lover (I’m not kidding, all your intensity works soooo well for you there), but the hair was, well, overwhelming, and the neediness prevented me from respecting you as I should have. I couldn’t see past it to all your many qualities. Sometimes we can’t control what attracts us, what makes us stay and feel safe with someone, but I don’t want you to wonder anymore.

Submitted by: Wish I didn’t have to

I just regret every time I argue with my husband.  I feel unable to stop retaliating against being yelled at by yelling louder; yet, after, I always regret that I’m unable to restrain myself.

Submitted by: Anonymous

I regret arguing with you by saying that I was perfectly capable of texting while we were driving around town. The only reason why I argued was because the guy I was texting was cute. Now you, my best friend, are dead because of me. No cute guy, text, or anything is worth your loss. I am so sorry.

Submitted by: IamSoSorry

I’m sorry Isaac i was too stupid to realize you loved me, and proceeded to liken you to a brother. That must have hurt. I’m sure i actually could have loved you in the way you wanted me to. I regret my actions. No wonder you always snapped at me after that. After someone joked we should get married and all i said was “Oh no…he’s like my brother”. For this i am truly sorry Isaac, truly. The unfathomable irony is that, at that time and even now, all i’ve ever wanted was for someone to love me. I regret you didn’t feel able to say what you felt, and if i hindered that expression then i apologize. There will always be love there in our friendship. For that i am only grateful.

Submitted by: MountainGirl

I regret not telling Blake that I loved him back. I was too afraid.

Submitted by: Sam

I regret falling in love with you.

Submitted by: Wonderwall

I regret the time I wasted just being ‘your friend’. But it’s all changing. We have a date on Sunday.

Submitted by: LEMONLIVES

I regret so much.  I regret listening to that woman and going to that school, wasting 4 years of my life.  Not because of the school itself or the people within, not because they tried hard and made themselves unique despite their financial or staffing setbacks.  But because I let the opinion of someone influence a decision that has affected me for life perhaps.  I had always wanted to try wrestling.  Sure the stuff on tv was fake, but I at least wanted to prove myself physically that I could handle myself.  But I chose the school with no sports programs.  Certainly it was a magnet school and had some very beneficial programs, but I found out too late I was no longer interested in network technology.  Now, in the 3rd year of my junior, here I am in a rut.  Friendless.  Not confident.  Sure I could be the same if I hadn’t listened to that lady, but at least I could’ve tried.  Tried and test myself.  Maybe it would’ve been the motivation I needed to straighten up in my schoolwork.  But that’s now lost.  I wish I could have it back.  But now all I’m considered is an awkward shut in. This regret has caused me to absolutely loathe myself.  I wish I could make the hurt go away.

Submitted by: S.L.S

i regret not doing anything about my body. i regret that i was fat throughout my childhood and teenage years and did nothing about it. Now I’m 21 and i want to change that.

Submitted by: lifetimewasted

i regret that i love you. but i can’t go back now…

Submitted by: G

I regret getting pregnant by you only after a month of dating. I regret not getting a chance to realize what kind of person you really were, a month wasn’t nearly enough time to figure out your character. I regret seeing your true colors while I was pregnant and then and there realizing I was going to be a single parent of a son with a non-existent father.  I regret even taking you to court for child support because now you have all these rights to a son you do not love enough to include on facebook and twitter but you demand to see in real life. Most of all I regret the fact that even after spending 2 hours with him once a week you will never realize how gifted your son is and how blessed you are that God even gave him to you. What I won’t regret, however, is the look on your face when your son calls another man daddy. I will marry someone that will be a father to your son and will teach him how to be a man in a world filled with boys.

Submitted by: bcmamii

I regret that I fucking hate Christmas.

Submitted by: The Grinch Is Back

I regret that though I am loved, had good parents, have a wonderful partner, all I can see is fault in me and my face. All I see are fissures.

Submitted by: Never good enough

I regret being beautiful, because I hate the one that made me so.

Every time.

Every time I look in the mirror, I get to see all that you ever gave me. You never called on birthdays or holidays…you never saw me off to prom or to graduation. You never met a single boyfriend…(that I would never trust because of you.)

But when I got my pictures back, all through the years…all I saw was your face…your hair…your mouth…your shoulders, arms and legs…your hands…your feet. And although they are beautiful…perfectly shaped and set…they are the things I most regret.

I regret that I will never escape your memories…as they shine and bring me compliments…I am disgusted by every pretty phrase they play.

I am discouraged when people don’t realize I find myself ugly, and that I become so angry with compliments…because I look like the one person in this life I hate. And I regret pushing so many good people away and rejecting their offers…because I want to punish them for thinking the only thing you ever gave me is beautiful.

Submitted by: Kyler

My best friend and I had grown very close over the years. I’ve known her all my life. Then a separation happened where we lost touch for a couple years. Finally, we met up again and I had found out she had become pregnant from a guy who ran off when she told him. But being the loving friend that I am and always will be, I didn’t hold anything against her and welcomed her warmly. After a busy day where we were under the watchful eyes of our family members, we finally got some alone time to catch up.

Things quickly started getting heated. I was surprised that the magical little spark between us was still there. Kissing, caressing and touching areas of the female body I had only dreamed of touching. I could see it in her eyes that she was very willing to take it further.

And guess what? Nope. I’m still a virgin because I didn’t seize the opportunity. I wanted to, but I was just taking it way too slow and now I regret it. We ran out of time and that was that. She had to leave state the next day. I had wet dreams of that moment for a month, all the while I was smacking myself for being an idiotic turtle. I can’t believe I was just minutes away from taking a great opportunity to lose my virginity bareback (without a condom) to a woman I actually loved, without the consequences of her becoming pregnant as she already was!

(We were both 20, by the way. No sick stuff or anything.)

Submitted by: Someone…

i regret even being with you to begin with. i regret letting you get so close to me. then there’s times, i regret ending it with you. then when you begin to get me to turn against myself, hate myself, and blame myself, i realize: you’re like the sun, it’s so beautiful to look at, and it brings light to the world, lets you see things you wouldn’t be able to without it, but when you look at it for so long, you can’t see anything as well anymore. you’re blinded. actually in writing this, i realized what it is i regret, i regret losing my friends for you.

Submitted by: someone who regrets something but can’t put in words what it is

This is for several different people:

I regret ever having done stuff with you, it not only hurts me, I know it’d hurt my best friend if she knew.

I regret letting you take advantage of me, I was drunk…you weren’t, IT WAS MY FIRST TIME, and you took that away from me.

I regret following you up to that room. Even though you said one thing happened, I know what really did happen.

I don’t regret having sex with you, but I do regret letting you hurt me, because I knew what I was in for, just a booty call, something to satisfy you for a couple of hours, and then off you go, never to see each other after that.

I regret having become like this, I don’t know what’s gotten into me.

Submitted by: THAT girl

I’m also sleeping with a married man. I’m not proud of it! It just is what it is! Every day I think about how stupid I am and then he calls and I quickly forget those thoughts! I really want out!

Submitted by: cutestupidgirl

From editors: Also see post titled “I’m sleeping with a married man” from June 2, 2007 and all its attendant comments.

I regret meeting a girl named Hannah…

She seemed like the most perfect girl in the world. Caring, understanding, cute, funny, the whole deal. I took all kinds of shit for dating her, I had her FRIENDS tell me she was no good and didn’t listen… I walked 10 miles through the snow to make sure she was all right. Finally, after 8 months of dating, she became my first. Almost a month to the day later, she left me.

A year later she “apologizes.” We hang out for a couple of days, then end up “going out.” We almost get in to it again but we (well, atleast I) didn’t want it to be about the sex so it didn’t happen. The very next day she left me again.

Thanks, Hannah, for giving me all kinds of psycho/sexual issues.

I really regret ever meeting you.

Submited by: (Not) Virgin

My family has been broken, disjointed, unloving, unknowing, insane, and intolerable.

My first notion of love is of my mother, as with most people. My mother is clinically insane. She lied to me, on a daily basis, from the day I was born til the day I moved out. To this day, whenever I have to talk to her, she still lies to me. She lied to me about my father, my grandfather, my entire family, reality, the human race, and my own health.

As a kid I believed I had a possibly terminal disease and acted as such. When I finally got away, I was taken to a doctor who told me I have never had anything wrong with me.

I regret having to talk to all of those counselors after the divorce and move and not having the strength or knowledge to be able to deal with, and release, my issues.

I regret wasting 8 years of my life in complete solitude from the rest of the world.

I regret having everything I love turn in to a lie.

But what I regret most of all, is that I can’t truly express to my TRUE family, or myself, how much I truly love them. The family that took me in as one of their own. The one who accepted me as their son without even adopting me. The family whose son has been my best friend for most of my “free” years and continues to be my hetero-lifemate.

I do love you guys, I just wish I could really tell you that.

Submitted by: Mike

I regret losing my virginity at 13. I regret having an abortion at 15. I regret settling for less and staying with the same guy all of these years just to prove to my father that his choice for me to have an abortion was wrong. It’s like, I wanted him to see that we’re still together and could have raised that child together. I regret not making any positive decisions for myself after having that abortion. I regret being so co-dependent on the same guy for all of these years. I need to find out who I am at 27 now.

Submitted by: Nikki

Last night I was at a house party, and I had a few drags on weed. I feel really bad and ashamed. I have never smoked in my life. I don’t know what to do and everyone will be talking about it at school tomorrow. I hate myself for it. 🙁

Submitted by: J

I regret giving you 8 years of my life. I regret that you are a bad father to our children. I will never regret these precious angels, only the being that planted them in me. I tried so hard to be good to you even after divorcing you, and all I have gotten in return is you spreading vicious rumors even to our children. I will not regret my decision to see a lawyer this Monday.

Submitted by: Tears for My Babies

First i regret getting married to someone when i know nothing about her, a pen friend who got deeply in love with me so i was scared to break her down, so i marry (note: we are from 2 diff. cultures, country, language). foolishly now we got 3 kids. each time, each step i make to make our life become better happier NEVER works….she is sad all time, 8 years now with no friends, 100% dependent on me, on every move, following that, i’m born and raised in foster houses… so mistakes follow each one. i owe the bank more than 200,000.00 dollars. brain tumor and epilepsy patient. I REGRET not saying NO to her crashing my life and hers, I REGRET taking the loans from the bank, I REGRET removing the tumor from my head, not keeping it to kill me slowly…. I REGRET having 3 boys who are being beating by her, living a life isolated from the surroundings because she is always scared, paranoid, beating them…. cuz that’s the way she was raised, beating keeps kids close to the mother (slaves) and that is what she want….. for that and more i decide not to take my nurology medications for my head problems which i may die and they will get the house from the govt. the loan will be dropped. and i hope she get involve with someone who she love more than me…

Submitted by: KDD

I regret not defending my boyfriend while my mother was listing all the points she doesn’t like about him, to his face. I hate confrontation to the point where I couldn’t stand up for him; I wish I had have told her how wonderfully he treats me, how thoughtful, considerate, honest and loving he is. I am now so so scared that he will think I don’t love him; I haven’t heard from him in the two days since it happened and I can’t stand the thought of losing him.

Submitted by: b