When Your Crush Turns Out To Be The Worst Person You’ve Ever Met

Having a crush on someone will make you see them in a whole new light. Suddenly, they are perfect and can do no wrong—until they do. Then, it turns out they’re still just regular people and that means they can be rude, narcissistic, dumb, crazy, or all of the above.

Here’s some Redditors’ stories of when their crushes didn’t turn out to be their ideal match after all.

Not Funny

My crush and I were hanging out for a long time. She even told me that she had strong feelings for me…then proceeded to send me a Snapchat of her sleeping with a mutual friend of ours.

Needless to say, I lost interest. Later she said it was just a prank and the guy had bought her a bottle of booze. We were 16.

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Missed That Catch

In 8th grade, I had this all-consuming crush on a guy in my science class. He was pretty popular, but didn’t run with one set group. Meanwhile, I was at the epicenter of the anime club crowd, and very much obsessed with Lord of the Rings and similar high fantasy.

Despite our middle school social class differences, this guy and I had a good rapport going in 5th-period science every day. He would ask me for a pencil every day in class, and I ended up just keeping a bunch in my backpack just for him. We grew to be pretty good friends, at least in my mind.

Somewhere in this time, he was elected school president. This meant that at the end of the year, he would get to throw out the first pitch at our annual baseball game/fundraiser night. That was the night when everything went wrong.

I begged my parents to get our family seats at the game. They obliged, and by some miracle, our seats were right below his family’s. As we were all waiting for the game to begin, people were tossing around beach balls in the stands.

I could see my crush yearning to catch the ball, so I reasoned that if I caught it and tossed it to him, this would result in my declaration of undying love.

I began watching the nearest beach ball, half hoping that I had some sort of latent telepathy or something, since that was the only way my nerdy, uncoordinated self was ever going to catch the ball. Lo and behold, the beach ball drew near!

I saw it flying closer, closer, and then it was right over me.

Instantly forgetting my lack of athletic talent, I leapt up, arms outstretched like some olympian. I regretted it almost instantly. The ball soared right over my head just as I reached the apex of my jump. And then I began to fall.

What I hadn’t realized was that I had not only jumped up, but I had also jumped out quite a way. So when I descended, I didn’t land back in my row of seats at all. Instead, I landed in the row below me, smack on top of my pervy math teacher and his girlfriend.

This caused quite a stir in the crowd, and of course my crush saw the whole thing. He and his family had a laugh at my expense. It was utterly humiliating. Needless to say, there were no grand declarations of love that evening.

Of course, because I’m stupid and can’t let go of things, I continued to have a crush on this guy for the next four years. This crush also spawned a lot of angsty poetry and thinly-veiled wish-fulfillment fiction.

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Self-Centered

I went on a date with my high school crush. At first, I thought my dreams had come true. It turned out more like a nightmare. He immediately became very aggressive towards me whenever I looked away or tried to talk about the things I like.

He only wanted me to talk about him, to him, and to be as quiet as possible around him and his friends. Turns out, he was into “submissive girls.” He made me feel humiliated after just a couple hours with him.

I lost my interest, but I was very disappointed because my vision of him was a totally different person. I created a different version of him in my mind, and that’s the person I fell for. This was a long time ago and fortunately, I managed to escape him. He only got worse after high school.

Now we’re both adults and he was twice charged, first for beating his girlfriend and second for harassing a high school girl. He was very good looking though and still is but his behavior is just yuck.

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A Disappointing End

There was a girl who I saw at the club maybe twice in three months and she hit every attraction metric I had at the time. The third time I saw her, I got up the courage to approach her and we hit it off. She was great but she drank a little too much during the night.

At the end of the night she accepted an offer to come to my house. When we got to my house she asked me to make her drinks. By this point, she was wasted. I put her in my bed and during the night she peed the bed and was so out that she didn’t wake up.

I’ve never been so disappointed in another human being. We never spoke again but I looked her up years later and she got busted in a sting operation for selling fake purses.

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