Am I on crack? How did I not know that Regina King dated Malcolm Jamal Warner for two years? And it was recent too – they only split up in 2013. I have no memory of their relationship whatsoever. You probably recognize Regina from her incredibly varied work in film and television over the past twenty years. You probably best know Malcolm-Jamal as Theo on The Cosby Show, but he’s also been working consistently for decades, and good God, he turned into a good looking man. He’s on Major Crimes nowadays and I LOVE HIM. He’s also guested on Sons of Anarchy, American Horror Story and tons of other stuff. So, Malcolm and Regina were together. For a while, it sounds like. And then on Valentine’s Day 2013, Malcolm dumped Regina with a bouquet of flowers. Ouch.
Hold up! Did Regina King’s ex-boyfriend Malcolm-Jamal Warner break up with her on Valentine’s Day back in 2013? It sure sounds like it!
The Boondocks actress hinted just that while chatting with Us Weekly at the Elle Women in TV Celebration sponsored by Olay and Hearts on Fire Diamonds on Tuesday, Jan. 13, in West Hollywood, Calif.
When asked what her favorite Valentine’s gift has been so far, the actress told Us: “That’s tough because I don’t have one — someone broke up with me on Valentine’s. D—k! Yeah. I’m serious. Then he actually sent me flowers that said, ‘I still love you’ and I threw the flowers in the trash and he was upset that I threw them in the trash and I was like, ‘F—k you.’”
Although King, 43, wouldn’t name the ex with bad timing by name, she hinted people can assume it’s Warner, 44. “They’ll know,” she said, before adding, “I love flowers but he thought that was right. What an ass, right?”
In case you’re not up to speed on King’s past love life, Us exclusively revealed two years ago that the two former child stars — who lived together — suddenly called it quits on their two year relationship in March 2013. At the time, a source told Us King was totally blindsided and heartbroken after the Cosby Show alum called things off because he “wasn’t feeling it anymore.”
King was previously married to Ian Alexander Sr. from 1997 to 2007. Together they share 18-year-old son Ian Alexander Jr.
So, that’s another shock: Regina King is the mother of an 18-year-old son. Crazy. As for what Regina said… that’s a terrible break up. It’s always a bad break up when the guy won’t even tell you to your face that he “isn’t feeling it” anymore, but to do it with flowers on Valentine’s Day? Douche. Terrible douche. Terrible good-looking douche. With a voice like butter. No, I have to stop this! God, they were living together too! That’s horrible.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Getty.
Jerk. Though I broke up with my high school boyfriend at prom. I was going away for college and wanted to end things “on a high note.” Not one of my more sensitive gestures.
I was broken up with at prom ON MY BIRTHDAY after my boyfriend danced with someone else to my favorite song. 🙁 (I cannot listen to “Open Arms” by Journey to this day).
I am sorry that I am laughing at this.
That’s sucky. I’m feeling bad for you. Don’t laugh Wren33, its not funny.
I too am laughing, but only because it’s so awful. What a jerk!
Yeahh This was Big News Back when In Happened In Black Blogs and sites BIIIGGG
..Add Me on Ladies ..My abusive ex Husband Told me over the phone he cheated… On My Birthday…He Thought I was Gonna Forgive and Move past since I was already “forcing him” into counseling but by the time he managed to get back to Germany a Week Later I was Packed and Out the Country
UGH! So sorry! And good for you!
He missed the chance for a lifetime of laughter. Dumbass.
I had an ex dump me over the phone after I had been in the emergency room all day with a horrible UTI.
Nobody is Missing that Twatwaffle, You see, he called months later trying to beg, then asking about what did I do with The dog (I told him I sold him to a Schnitzel Factory) and trying to not sign divorce papers… It all ended when I threatened him with going to his High Command with all types of factoids about him .. got my stuff signed that very week!!
..And really After kissing all the frogs and Having every single crazy sex Thing a single lady could enjoy I went on to find The Boyfriend From Narnia sooo Toodles!
Aint Love Grand Ya’ll!! Keep em stories Coming
I owned a small yoga studio with my (then) husband, and he wanted me to demonstrate a class called “the Goddess Dance”. I had been to this type of class-once- at Esalen so I copied it (this lil’ lady did anything to please)
I was really awkward and not many people “got it” except my 2yr old who danced along by candlelight in his diapers. AFter my unsuccessful Spazzfest, my “husband” said, “your’e not the right woman for me, we should end our union” (conscious uncoupling style)
Lucky for me, that Jacka*s and the New Age broke up with me, and I’ve been consciously having awesome sidepiece sex w/my French bf ever since 🙂 No flowing scarf dance required
but by the time he managed to get back to Germany a Week Later I was Packed and Out the Country
It all ended when I threatened him with going to his High Command with all types of factoids about him .. got my stuff signed that very week!!
..And really After kissing all the frogs and Having every single crazy sex Thing a single lady could enjoy I went on to find The Boyfriend From Narnia sooo Toodles!
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Much awesomeness, such inspiration. Took a mental note of this and will apply when necessary!
Eek! I broke up with my first boyfriend on Valentine’s Day… so this story makes me feel like a jerk.
[We were 14 years old, and he gave me a heart-shaped pillow that said “I love you” and expected me to say it back. We were NOT anywhere near that point (and how could we be, at 14?). Maybe I could’ve waited another day (or week)… but it felt wrong to keep stringing him along.]
OMG me too! I broke up with my boyfriend at his prom. He cornered me on the boat afterparty and I couldn’t lie about staying together in college . So then I had to spend the next several hours hiding out because we were on a boat.
At least she was not dumped by text on Valentine’s Day while waiting at a restaurant.
Please tell me this didnt happen to you (Advance hugs if it did)
Yes, it did. Thanks for the hug 🙂
that’s the worst. so sorry for you doll!
::hug::
wow, what a d*ck! sorry that happened to you.
ETA: I had a friend that was going to propose at a dinner one night and the woman apparently found out that was his plan and stood him up. no call, no text…just a no-show.
No way. This is too cruel for words.
Had an ex break up with me over the phone. I was hurt and pissed, but what really knocked me out is when he went an married some chick two months later. Douche!
Dooooooouche.
My worst was in college. I was dating this guy for a few months and it was getting serious, for me, and I really liked him. Then I ran into him with a pretty girl, who he introduced to me as “my girlfriend, Sarah.” Ouch.
Damn, that is a mega douche move! Bet you’re glad you dodged that d-bag train. 😉
Ugh!
My worst was a guy I had been on and off with, we even lived together for 6 mo, but weren’t living together at the time he committed his douchery. I thought he was the one and he brought another girl to a dinner party…at my house. They’re married now. I secretly am glad that she cut off all her hair and looks like orphan Annie and she hasn’t aged well. Neither has he, he used to look like a cleaner verversion of Ethan Hawke but he went bald at 32.
Those stories are awful.
I thought my was the worst but I guess there is no shortage of douches. I was crushing on this guy for years and he seemed like the perfect example of a good guy all the mothers and fathers would approve. We finally started going out. It was getting serious and he would call me his girlfriend in public and then he just disappeared. After a few weeks I found out from Facebook (from his public pictures not even a private message) that he moved to another city across the country. A few months later he got some girl pregnant and had a shotgun wedding. They were both 20 at the time. I have no idea if they are still together and I don’t care.
Oh GNAT, that sucks. I had similar thing happen, although I wasn’t serious about the guy. But I did like him and thought he liked me. We’d go to lunch and he’d visit my office (he did business with a colleague of mine, which is how I met him). We talked a lot for months and he seemed very single.
He invited me to a party he and his roommates were hosting so I brought a bunch of girlfriends, thinking this would mean we would take it to the next level. He walked up to me to welcome me to the party, introducing me to the woman with him as his fiancee. My friends and I just burst out laughing. His marriage lasted two years. Bullet dodged.
My worst was the first guy I seriously dated. He broke up with me at his house while he was home sick… but first he had me pick up some milk for him on the way over and let me cook him dinner. Also, I had just lost my job about two weeks prior. I still seethe.
You were probably shocked, but you should have said, she’s your girlfriend? Odd how that never came up in conversation these months on our dates.
Gah! These stories are awful. I can’t believe how cowardly and insensitive these people can be. We all dodged a bullet.
Jayna, I should have, but I guess I was just so surprised and I didn’t want him to see that it bothered me. I just said, “Nice to meet you.” How’s that for a devastating comeback? Lol Btw, she dumped him for his best friend about 3 months after that.
I’m sorry, but these stories are cracking me up! I do feel bad for all involved, but now that we’re all away from the douches and so grateful to be away from them, it’s just damn funny what some dudes will do. It’s beyond cowardly. I almost feel bad for them ’cause they’re such an embarrassment to themselves. I had one too. Maybe we need to go through the douchery when we’re young to find out what we really need v. what we thought we wanted. But Wow! There’s no way some of these pitiful boobs you’re all telling stories about absolutely must have been horrified by their own behavior once they get ya’ all’s reactions. Like there’s no hole close enough they can crawl into. Don’t hate me for being entertained by this. I’m one of those people who laughs when people fall down. I have to cover my face while I help them. I didn’t ask for this. It’s just how I’m wired.
Mine is pretty bad too. My closet chauvinist closet racist ex boyfriend who was also shorter than me and much older than me, dumped me on text message the night before my MCAT exam telling me (verbatim) “I never loved you, you mean nothing to me, you add nothing to my life, you are not an asset you are a liability.” I told him “you are a cold unfeeling little robot of a man who expects too much and gives too little and expects people to behave as if they have no feelings just like you, cold hearted small hearted coward.” The sick part was we were friends for three years and I thought he was my friend and I gave him my everything but was his “dream girl” he idolized me and put me on a pedestal, but when I showed that I was human or vulnerable in any way, he would melt down and forget all the other ways I was there for him. WHATEVER F THAT DUDE THREE MONTHS LATER I MET A SEXY ASS DOCTOR WHO LOOKS LIKE JAKE GYLLENHAAL! Who is sweet and kind and evolved and understands women have thoughts and ideas and opinions etc etc but at the time I was devastated and he knew I studied 8 MONTHS FOR THAT TEST! Jerk. Broke my heart because I never got any closure and he never even really said why.
Ooh, what a jerk!
My high school sweetheart and I were together for three years from high school through college. We broke up. Miraculously, he was at the bar I had my 26th birthday party at. We went on a date two days later,I moved in to his condo a week later. We lived together for a year and a half when I came home from work one day, only to find him waiting for me. He told me that I should pack my things he would take me back to my parent’s house to live. He just said that he didn’t think that we belonged together and that was it. Though I can’t hold too much of a grudge…we argued like cats and dogs all the time. He actually died a couple years later while on a call (he was a firefighter). I still consider him my first love, but I really do understand that, no matter how in love we were with each other (his family told me he was in love with me until the day he died), we just weren’t meant to be.
I think this happens a lot. A good friend of mine was told by her husband on Valentine’s Day that that he no longer loved her and wanted a divorce. Her therapist told her that it’s not uncommon for people to break up on Valentine’s Day because of the pressure about true love and devotion. The person has probably been thinking of it for awhile, but they just snap when it’s time to declare their undying love. I think it’s so cruel, because forever after, you have that memory attached to a very in your face holiday. You couldn’t do it a week before or after?
that’s very interesting way of explaining that douche move. oddly enough i understand why someone would want to break up on that day now. however, man, you would think some of these people could just hold in a week or two more to not ruin a holiday like that.
That makes sense.
I’ve also heard that the day after V-Day is the biggest day for filing for divorce.
My friends ex-wife served him with divorce papers on Valentines day at his new place of work….girls can be douches too
I have this theory that will break up before Valentine’s Day, Christmas Day or a birthday so that a) they don’t have to buy a gift or spend money on the person or b) they already have a side piece and will spend the money on them instead!
Ha! Could be.
Can we just talk about Regina King for a moment. We spend alot of time talking about child stars and their “inevitable” downfall but Regina completely turns that stereotype on its head. Whatever happened to Laura Winslow from Family Matters?
She’s married with two of the cutest kids ever. I think she dropped out of the industry before she met her hubby. Normal life, no apparent drama.
Ok valentines is a stupid holiday that personally for me wouldn’t matter if I was dumped then. The not telling me to my face and sending a note coward move and that would piss me off. Not the random day on the calendar he chose to do it on.
And yeah sorry I can’t hate on him he is just too hot and his voice. Plus he was theo!! The kids (especially theo) are all I have left of positive thoufhts on my favorite childhood show. Curse you bill and phylicia! So yeah being a bad dumper not going to upset me. Although Regina King is amazing! still miss southland
She never said he didn’t tell her to her face. She said he broke up with her, THEN sent flowers and a jerky note.
WTF, Theo?! That is a master-douche move. I mean, they were living together! Grrr.
Yes, you owe someone a face to face at that point.
I didn’t get the impression that it wasn’t an in-person breakup.
Oh, maybe I misunderstood. Sorry.
It wasn’t clear and the article’s title is misleading. It actually says in the article that he sent flowers after he broke up saying he still loved her. I think that’s worse than the forethought breaking up with or through flowers. When a guy breaks up because he’s “not feeling it anymore” but then contacts you claiming he still loves you or has feelings for you, sadly, that’s usually a dude’s play to continue the relationship but without commitment. Can I get a Hell No?!
I forgot how much I like MJW. Attractive and talented. Love Regina King too.
Yes. I’d forgotten, too. He is smoking hot.
I LOVE Regina King, she has such great charisma on screen.
Serious question, how did that play out afterwards? They were living together so at some point, he came home and asked if she got the flowers and the breakup note??? HOW does anyone think this is a good idea?
If you read what she actually said, it’s pretty clear that he broke up with her BEFORE sending the flowers. I assume he left before she got the flowers, but he definitely broke up with her before he sent them.
At least he didn’t move and didn’t tell you………. He was really a jerk so I look back on it as a blessing.
:Hug: They were all jerks to do this to us, and we’re all better off!
The douche from my past might as well have moved. He just simply became completely incommunicado. He just fell off the face of the Earth. I couldn’t get a hold of him for anything. I was calling his family, the hospital, the jail. Somebody finally told me he had a new girlfriend. I DIDN’T KNOW I’D BEEN BROKEN UP WITH!!! How can I not laugh about it now? What a little boy and what a ditz I was for being with said boy.
Regina is such a good actress, she was amazing in Ray!
she SO was, I agree.
Sadly, MJW is one of those guys… who has a habit of this unfortunate behavior with women. I remember Regina’s interview with Wendy Williams after the breakup. And Wendy’s mentioning that it was his MO with women.
I miss Southland too! It was a really decent cop show. I was surprise when TNT ended it.
THEY ENDED SOUTHLAND??!!!?!!WTF?!!
What season of AHS was he on? Did he play that Papa Legba guy on Coven? I can’t tell if it’s him or not because Papa Legba had a lot of makeup on.
Edit: No. He was not Papa Legba.
He’s on this season of AHS. He plays Angela Bassett’s boyfriend. He’s been in two episodes for maybe five minutes.
No wonder I couldn’t place him in any of the seasons. I’ve only watched a bit of the current season so far (just can’t get into it).
Sounds like MJW makes poor life choices. Between Regina and Karen Malina White he lost two winners.
I loved her in Southland, and like everything else she does. I had no idea she dated MJW. She can do so much better, what a douche!
It doesn’t seem like she said he broke up with her via the flowers, right? It seems like she said he broke up with her and proceeded to also send her flowers saying that he still loves her. Not saying that wasn’t still all in all a dick move (breaking up on V-Day, and sending apology flowers along with it was just stupid), but not AS douchey as sending a bouquet of flowers with a note saying “yeah, we’re through.”
All that said, I broke up with a long term boyfriend on V-Day once. We were living together. I knew it was coming and I tried so hard to wait it out until it was an acceptable amount of time past 2/14, but he put his hand on my leg that night, I could tell he wanted sexytime and I didn’t know how to avoid it, my stomach felt like it flipped over 20 times and I completely spontaneously word vomited a break up. So….I can see how that can happen. Though it seemed like he planned it in advance with the apologetic flowers.
I don’t know how so many people think that breaking up with someone on a major holiday without an in person conversation is the right thing to do. Even worse, people who dump their fiance at the alter or only a few days before the wedding after thousands of dollars have been spent and the invitations sent. Real life isn’t a cute romcom movie. These decisions are made well in advance, it’s just that people procrastinate or hold out on the dumping until they reach a dead end where they feel trapped (a wedding, the expectation of sex or a romantic overture on Valentine’s Day/birthday/XMas, etc.) If you are majorly hesitating about someone, then have enough respect for your significant other to end the relationship before anything that would be important to that person comes up.
I’m confused… it was a jerk move, but we have no idea HOW he actually broke up with her. The flowers and note were sent afterwards; she never said that’s how he did it.
“…someone broke up with me on Valentine’s.”
“Then he actually sent me flowers that said, ‘I still love you’”
The flowers were a stupid gesture that he made *after* dumping her.
…maybe even be because he felt bad for beaking up on V-Day.
Happened in my mid twenties on Christmas day. Knew something was askew when I received texts about needing to talk during my family dinner. When I texted that we could talk when he picks me up later for the party, he broke up at that moment. I got up from dinner and went home without an explanation. Cried alone that night because who do you call for support on Christmas. Then went in to work on the 26th at 6am for an 18 hour work shift. I think he went on to the Christmas party.
Silver lining: I never looked back or mourned the relationship after that night. There’s never a reason to doubt the correct decision was made considering the timing of the gesture.
I like MJW on Major Crimes too, he’s pretty good. And nice to see a child star transition well to an acting career as an adult. But that’s a douche move.
I love Regina King. I always liked her but then saw Southland and she blew me away. She needs her own show.
I was living in NYC and dating a guy in upstate NY. We planned to spend Valentine’s weekend at his house upstate. I drove – through a terrible blizzard, traffic jam for hours – only to arrive at his house at 4 a.m. and find him not home. He’d been calling me periodically during the drive to check on me, but that stopped around 1. I was sitting in this guy’s driveway at 4 a.m., called his cell, no answer. I started to worry that maybe he’d gone out and been in a car accident. As I was sitting IN A DRIVEWAY AT 4 AM after driving for hours, deciding whether to call emergency services b/c I was so worried about him – it was really bad out – he pulls in, gets out of the car, literally *shoves* gas station roses at me, barely says a word. We go inside the house, he’s acting super weird. He keeps saying “I’m sorry.” I assumed he meant for not being there when I got home. Then his home phone rang at now 5 a.m. and it was the girl he’d been out cheating on me with that he drunkenly gave his number to – – while I was driving through a blizzard to see him – on Valentine’s Day.
Ugh. What a dick!
What a sweetheart.
The “shoves gas station roses at me” description, so romantic.
Aww geez, these stories are so bad….. my guy’s frat brothers had to sit me down at a party to tell me he was out with his previous girlfriend…. I felt so stoooopid that everyone knew, but me. That was the worst breakup of my life…. age 18, first boyfriend…… (he didn’t end up with her,) but, boy that shook me.
Since that time, I have always told significant others, “Please, just tell me if it’s not working, don’t sneak around and have me find out later”. It will hurt, but, it may prevent those awful feelings of thinking it was all a lie, you are so naive,….. how you can’t trust anyone……. sigh…..
OMG I so know how you feel. that feeling that you are such a fool for not seeing. I was newly married and so eager to please. I wanted to do EVERYTHING to please my husband. I had completely lost my identity to serving him. It was my own fault/weakeness-no self worth apart from a man. My entire self worth was tied up in him. I was trying to please him, ironing his clothes. He worked a weekend shift 3 pm on Saturday to 8 am Monday morning. He kept adding more clothes on to my ironing list–insisted his jeans should be ironed…I was ironing all weekend end while my husband was f—cking his girlfriend at his work. During this time period he also had to go to a meeting on my birthday–while meanwhile he was seeing the girlfriend. The feeling of being a fool, and of all the naïve crap I accepted …it just makes my blood boil. The thing is, it turned our relationship upside down, almost destroyed it, but 20+ years in the making, we rebuilt and are still together. Its far from perfect. Always wonder if I should have called it quits…we will celebrate 24 years in February. The trust is harder than hell to rebuild, and I can’t say there haven’t been about a million times I have wondered if he was cheating again. Honestly, you are probably better off to make a quick clean break and start again, no matter what day the axe falls, you are probably better off without them.
One boyfriend broke up with me the week before finals. And that week also contained my birthday. Jerk! Haha.. so much better off without him though. So hard to realize it at the time.
Well, this is awkward, but I’m the only one who doesn’t see him as pulling a terrible sick move. CHEATING is a terrible dick move, but telling a person the difficult truth to their face is what you have to do, if you’re out of love or werent ever in it. Timing it on Valentine’s does stink, but I believe it IS the day if you haven’t been feeling things are right, you don’t want to play act, act through some lovey dovey fakery, and break up a week later. And I think he cared about her feelings, and that’s why the flowers with the
Note that he loved her still, though. maybe I look at people’s best sides, but I just don’t think he sounds hideous. Now all YOUR boyfriend stories, THOSE dudes are hideous douche bags! Glad you all survived to tell the tales, and maybe even laugh someday!
I always think how could people end relationships so coldly and I had been very hurt before. Then I fell out of love and just wanted to run away and not face having to end it. I began to pull away, not sure if it was a phase and I still cared, but ultimately I realized didn’t care about him romantically anymore as a boyfriend. My feelings had changed. Maybe I wanted him to get the hint, but he didn’t. I suddenly realized if I were a jerk how much easier it would be to end it quickly by phone, because the truth is I just didn’t feel it anymore. I did the right thing, in person, but as he had tears coming down his face, I couldn’t feel the love for him that he felt for me. I did feel empathy and was kind, ending it a gentler way than saying how I really felt inside, that I felt nothing romantically for him anymore. But more than anything, it was so uncomfortable, I just wanted the breakup talk to end and for him to be gone.
It took me back to when my ex-boyfriend of years was walking away so easily and I am a sobbing mess, loved him so deeply, that you can’t believe they don’t feel about you the way they did because of your pain, but they really don’t feel anything for you anymore by the time they are out. They were probably passive aggressively pulling away for a while and you chose to ignore it or not see it.
What p#sses me off is when they are passive aggressive pulling away, then when you confront them about their behavior they deny that there is anything wrong, or that their behavior is not normal.
When I was in law school, I married my college sweetheart. Unfortunately, he stayed home, while I went to school 400 miles away. But we saw each other every weekend. Fast forward 3 years later, we get divorced; we grew apart, or so I thought. About 2 years after that, we attempt to reconcile, only to have his mother tell me she was so, so happy that I accepted his son. The son I didn’t know about. The son he had while he was married to me, while I was at law school. Needless to say, I said good-bye for good and never looked back.
omg!
Damn! That must have been such a nasty shock.
I know someone that was in the hospital, having just had her first, much-wanted and planned baby the day before, and her husband informed her he was in love with her friend and he was leaving her. She had no clue and was blindsided. It was the friend that gave her a baby shower.
My “friend” who gave me a baby shower was also the one my husband had an affair with. BEWARE of “friends” who give you baby showers! LOL
This must be more common than we realize. Douchebag husbands are especially vulnerable when their wives are big and pregnant. Maybe the baby shower is out of pity for screwing her friend’s husband.
@Kibbles, I don’t think it is out of pity. I think these friends already have no morals and are making sure to stay close to hide the affair and because they want to hear every detail of what the wife is saying about the husband. They have insinuated themselves into the marriage and have a vested interested in pretending to still be the friend and stay close to the situation. I call it cunning.
Such betrayal, because it’s by two people close to you.
But I will never forget when I was 22 and went to work. There was this woman, who was highly educated, married to a doctor. The story of how they got together was so bad. Her first husband had dumped her. Her close friend from college, now married to a doctor and newly pregnant, invited her down to the state she lived in to stay with her for a while, until she emotionally got on her feet. Good friend, right? So she was there during her whole pregnancy hanging out with her good friend. She has the baby and soon after the baby was born, which I don’t know if it was a week or a couple of months, but her doctor husband told her he was in love with her best friend. They had been having an affair for months right under her nose. He divorced his wife and married quickly the best friend. Then he put the best friend through more college to get her doctorate degree. The woman just had a cold, calculating air about her, while it was known by people who knew all parties that the first wife was really sweet.
Can you imagine the betrayal? And now that woman was going to be a part of raising your child.
I would be absolute bonkers over that kind of betrayal.
Jayna, that is so sad. Well, a lot of people will do anything to latch onto someone with money, and that doctor was her meal ticket. I would not allow that woman near my child if I were the betrayed friend, but what can she do in a shared custody agreement? It’s sad that you can’t trust anyone these days. I hope someday that doctor cheats on his second wife but she’s already gotten so much out of that marriage that it was probably worth it to her just to get a free education.
holy hell, what a prick!
Geez that is horrible. How horribly betrayed she was by her husband and her friend. They deserve each other though. Just hope that karma exists and they get what is coming to them someday.
Meh. We’re only getting one side of the story here, and there are always three sides. I left my first husband on Valentine’s Day, which happened to be four days before our wedding anniversary, but bear in mind the man could never remember said anniversary, nor my birthday, nor our daughter’s birthday. I figured at least every year when he saw all the Valentine’s Day crap all over stores, he’d remember the day I left. Timing is everything.
This is just me, but I think the breaking up in person thing is overrated, unless you’ve been serious/together a long time, in which case I think it’s usually really a *series* of conversations. But, really, if I’m dating someone for 3 months and he wants to pull the plug, I think I’d rather get a phone call or email. I know “the rule” is to do it in person, but I would really rather not have to sit there and go through it face to face. At least with a phone call or email, I can freak out, cry, eat ice cream, call him names, talk to my friends, etc, gain composure *before* responding.
Also agree that Valentine’s Day is kind of annoying b.s. thought up by Hallmark and candy companies to make money. Not terribly romantic. Roses at work on a random Tuesday is a hell of a lot more romantic.
Also high fives to all the ladies sharing the awful stories on here. God knows we’re all better off without those losers, so cheers to that!
This is my first comment in…oh, I don’t know HOW long. It’s easily been a few years. But way back in high school in the mid-90’s, my then-best friend and I were dating guys who also happened to be best friends. They were older than us – we were both 16 and they were in their early 20’s (it’s amazing how creepy that seems now, but back then we just thought it was a sign of how mature and sophisticated we were, rather than a giant red flag for how creepy, immature and desperate to be in control they were!). The night of a huge rave that absolutely everybody who was anybody was attending, my friend and I were on the phone with each other as we finished getting ready. We had already taken acid that our boyfriends had given us earlier. We each had another call come in via Call Waiting (remember, this was the 90’s!) at the same time. We had both been called by our respective boyfriends, who were calling to break up with us. When we hung up with them and returned to our call together, we were both freaking out – for about ten seconds. We realized right away that they had planned the entire thing, trying to be as devastating as possible by dumping us while we were tripping on the acid they’d bought us and watched us take. We started laughing our asses off at them, finished getting ready, and went to the rave and had a blast. We found out that our now-ex-boyfriends had waited by their phones all night, anticipating frantically devastated pleas to be given another chance to come flooding in from us. It could not have backfired more perfectly! My friend and I both met new guys that night and our exes were furious. They’d thought they would have been able to manipulate us into accepting all kinds of ridiculous rules and conditions in our heartbroken desperation to be taken back – and they’d been bragging about their ingenious plan to just about everyone, so of course we heard all the details that night. They never did get us back, but they did eventually started dating even younger girls, who apparently were easier to control, with no need to resort to convoluted and hallucinogen-based head games.
So that’s my awful breakup story! It ended up being pretty funny, but under different circumstances or for different people, it could have been a real nightmare. I’m really glad my friend and I were able to flip the script on those idiots!
Love Regina King. That is all.
I adored her in Jerry Maguire. She and Cuba Gooding, Jr., were both fantastic in their supporting roles in the movie and had amazing chemistry. That movie was so great because every person who had significant roles in it, whether lead or supporting, were amazing in their roles and so believable. And Regina does have great charisma on screen, like said earlier.
I too love her. I miss seeing her on television as well. Someone get smart out there and hire her!
I’m sorry this happened to her. But DAY-UM he is fine.
Did Malcolm Jamal Warner dump Regina King on Valentine’s Day 2013?
There isn’t enough information here to know whether he did or he didn’t, but this much is for sure: if he did, he is a clueless twat.