[Discuss Thrower]

17-18ish for the "first time." Girl I met indirectly over MySpace. Broke up with her by sheer avoidance because she got drunk as well as insinuating I was practicing witchcraft.

22 the last time. She was dating another guy who lived hours away at the time, and I noticed her because of the mutual appreciation for a certain song one night at my fraternity house. We dated for a while, pretty much until the end of the fall semester when I didn't call her or see over the Holidays because she told me I was the worst boyfriend she ever had because I didn't want to spend every free moment I had with her. This was after mentioning her last (or second-to-last) boyfriend had physically hit her at least one time.

This came right about the time my mother told me her boyfriend was shoving her into furniture as well.

As such, I had several weeks to stew about stuff and was counseled into the idea that I should break up with her. Which I did, even though she got on her knees and begged for me not to leave her.

Fast forward three years, she's married to one of my former fraternity brothers who has allegedly laid hands on her at least once and failed out of college, while I have partied my ass off but haven't really figured out my life out.