NWR: Ex's coming out of the woodwork

Hahaha! What is with these guys coming back and telling us they wish they would have treated us better??? Please.... Get over it. I'm sorry your life sucks, but don't you dare try to destroy mine!

OH MAN. So, I ran into an ex's brother (ex and I had a thing when I was 13, like really. Hardly a thing) but I messaged my ex on facebook to see how he was doing (because I am an idiot). We were friends before our fling. Well, he basically said he didn't know why I was messaging him out of the blue (I told him I ran into his brother and thought I would say hi and see how he was doing), and that if we spoke it would turn into me wanting a relationship with him. I was like HOLD UP. I am getting married. Then he said "well, then why are you contacting me?"

SERIOUSLY? Get over yourself. Apparently I have to want a relationship with a male in order to say hello. I'm an idiot for thinking, despite already being 3 years older than me, that he might have grown up in the last 5 years.

Mine wrote me a long email saying he was happy for me and is glad I am happy. Then he went on to say how he was sorry for how he screwed up in the past.

Mine texted me on my birthday "happy birthday" and when i responded "thanks." he proceeded to share "i just wanted to personally tell you congratulations on your engagement, i am so happy for you."

@FFW I would have been like, "Really? Are you REALLY happy for me? Or is that jealousy I smell?"

Ohh ohh, forgot this. One of my favorite part of my wedding weekend that I never posted.

My ex and i split, then 2 days later he had a new girlfriend that was an athletic trainer on his team. Always left a sour taste in my mouth. He had been with her for three and a half years, and the DAY BEFORE MY WEDDING he texts me "I know timing isn't great, but I just broke up with my girlfriend, can we talk?" the DAY before.

@Alexis I knew he wasn't happy b/c he posted some shade throwing in a saying we use to say when we were together that next day (which is Valentines day bc my bday is the feb 13).

@Bethie I had another guy during the course of my rship w/ FH rship who i dated (was never bf/gf) post a picture of he and I together from 2009 (he posted this 4 years later in 2013, not only that it was MY picture. he took one of my old pictures of us and reposted.... sooooooo petty). My FH made a comment to me (bc he saw the picture) saying "I'm glad you changed your hair (I had a perm, I'm now natural and have been the entire time I've been with FH) bc you had on that same shirt yesterday." We both had a good laugh. Then THE GUY I DATED RIGHT BEFORE FH whose bday is 3 days before mine offered to take me to Vegas for "our birthday" knowing damn well I'm with FH. And i responded "I have a bf" and he said "so you went and got a boo on me?" Like bro its been two years. SMH. nothing has happened since we've been engaged though so hopefully it stays that way, I tell guys "my fiance is crazy, you dont want these issues" LOL

I have an ex who comes out of the woodwork every so often. I used to be nice to him because why not? But the last time he messaged me he asked me if "everything was still on track for the wedding." When I asked why he replied that he "had a feeling something was wrong." Delete.

I'd actually like my FH's most recent ex to come out of the woodwork so I can laugh at her attempts to get him back.

This happened to me last summer just before we got engaged. So random!

FMIL invited FH's super clingy ex girlfriend to the wedding. At the end of the guest list fiasco she was just given a stack of invites and was told that was all she got. She decided to use one to invite the nut job. Our poor security guard will really have his work cut out for him. This girl has already gotten a flight and FMIL already offered her a room in her house for when she's in town.

Havent had any ex's contact me. I have had a few people message me on FB or IG and say my FH is very lucky to have me. The whole "you're so nice and pretty" "I wish I could find someone like you" Spill. I just say thank you and leave it at that. No ex GFs have came into play either. One "old childhood friend" recently came into our lives. At first I was a little weird feeling about it, because every time we would meet up, she and my FH kept going down memory lane, with me sitting there all awkward like. But that soon passed, and I really like the girl. So it all works out in the end. Just keep your chin up, and stake your ground when needed. Remember, he picked you. Not anyone else.

@JaKLyn oh my! My FMIL would have some serious issues with me. No way would I allow that. And I'm an incredibly passive person. Just, who in their right mind would want to go to their ex boyfriends wedding?!? Yikes..

@Olivia I have no idea why she'd want to come. When she still lived here we tried at one point to be nice to her and be civil. Then she made a comment about how while she liked me she just didn't feel right about things. So I have no idea why the hell she's flying in from Oregon to come to her ex's wedding.

FH says his guess is that FMIL and crazy don't realize that they don't actually ask for objections at weddings anymore. I want to just leave her off the seating chart but FH says that's too mean since we found out after flights were booked.

FH and I started dating our senior year of high school, so when I say my ex... i mean a really long time ago and barely a relationship... But we dated for a year in high school. But every 2 or 3 years he will text me asking if FH and I are still together and will give me a sob story about why he hasn't done anything with his life yet. Always weird... and he has a different number every few years?

Just strange. I haven't heard from him in a while, so I'm sure he will reach out sometime between now and the wedding.

@Jaklyn Oh HELL NO! There's NO way my FH's mother would be allowed to invite his crazy ex. The one he days before me tried staying friends with him after she left him and I tried to keep my mouth shut about it until she started asking him to hang out with her alone. That's when I really put my foot down. At first he didn't pick up on what she was trying to do, then he changed his relationship status on FB (because it's not official until it's FB official apparently lol) and she flipped. I just stood there like, "I told you so! I'm a frickin woman! I know women!" and he hasn't heard from her since. No wait.... We ran into her at a bar. They started talking and I went up to him and told him we were going to a different bar and I'd be in the car, and I leaned in to kiss him and if he didn't kiss me back, my knee would have been right in his nuts lol. But he did. He knew what was going on lol

Omg, yes!!

One guy recently stated liking a lot of my FB posts and another guy asked me yesterday, "are you married yet?" <.<

I also got a text from another ex not too long ago asking to get back together.

FH flat out told her it was never going to happen (them working out). What I don't get is why you'd be hung up on someone who you broke up with almost 10 years ago. They dated when they were 16 for fucks sake. I told FH if he's adamant on letting her stay so he doesn't feel like a dick then his parents can sit with the weirdo and I'm just going to see how long it takes for her to feel awkward and leave. I'm not above an impromptu make-out session with my husband mid reception.

I have had the opposite experience. FH is the only serious relationship I have ever had but I had what I refer to as 'things' with guys who I remained friends with. I have not seen or heard from any of them since FH and I started officially dating. It's kind of funny because FH and are are not bothered by exes. We both remained friends with them after the fact.

My nightmare is that i'll be at the altar and an ex will halt my whole ceremony with some scene or declaration. Its cute in the movies-NOT in real life

No one really said anything to me, but one of my exes ended a long relationship around the same time we got engaged and suddenly he followed me on instagram, twitter, everything. He used to be big into facebook when we were together but while dating this girl he would maybe post one a year or less (part of why I never bothered to unfriend him) then suddenly upon breaking up he was making several posts a week. He kept making posts about things we had been into together and it seemed really odd to me. The following me though was the weirdest.

Other than that there was an ex who promptly unfriended me as soon as I posted our engagement. He had been messaging me every few months for years asking to have lunch or something but I always was "busy". Supposedly he just wanted to hang out as friends and he knew I was living with my then BF now DH. Then as soon as we got engaged he unfriended me...funny.

Not an ex, but I also had a guy friend who for years had been joking that he was "next in line" after DH. He kept saying that whenever we broke up he had dibs (classy, right?) even though I had zero attraction to this guy and no interest in dating him. But then when we got engaged he started being really hard to get in touch with and just fell off the face of the earth. I think he finally realized we weren't going to break up and gave up waiting in line. Too bad because he was one of my good friends.