19+ People Share The Cringiest Thing They Did In Their First Relationship

We all have one of those relationship stories. Those moments of stupidity where even if our S.O. forgives us, we'll never live it down.

When it's in our very first relationship that it happened, the cringe always seems to be a billion-million times worse. You'll never forget your first, and sometimes, it's cathartic to share that embarrassment with others.

1. This person didn't even make it to the relationship stage.

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"Never turned to a relationship, but the way I wanted to declare my love to my crush was as follows: scream “I love you, [crush’s name]” during math class.

I'm much older now and I’m still recovering." Yes, they actually did that.

2. "In the 4th grade I wrote anonymous love letters to a boy I liked and left them in his desk."

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At first, this story from nicolejane seems pretty standard, except for what happened next.

"I saw that he threw them away, so I started writing my name on them. He still threw them in the trash." Ouch!

3. I think relationship breaks should be banned.

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"We took a 'break' and I posted a video to Creep by Radiohead with the caption 'For that special someone,'" shared dmey91, "Ugh. I almost cringed off my chair writing this."

Me too, dude.

4. Oh honey, no.

"We were in seventh grade and had been dating for maybe two weeks. I printed a marriage certificate and showed it to her the first time she came over to my house. She called her mom and asked to go home immediately."

5. "Told her I loved her within the first 24 hrs at the school parking lot." —TheLastSannin

Yeah, don't do this. If a guy used the L-word in the first 24 hours, I'd wonder what creepy stalker thing I'd just gotten myself into. It's not a good look.

6. It's stories like these that make me think romcoms need disclaimers.

"After I saw Eric propose to Donna on That 70s Show I went out and got a 25¢ ring from the local Pizza Hut and proposed. At school. In front of everyone. I was 16," explained TheNoslo721

Since TheNoslo721 left out the most important part, they added a clarification later.

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"I'm glad you all could share a cringe with me. To answer the burning question, she did say yes. We didn't last. Sorry, no happy ending here, just teenagers doing impulsive things."

Aww, I'm heartbroken!

7. "I was 17," begins mastercait, and I'm already wincing.

"We had just had a fight. I drove to his house and blasted “Scars” by Papa Roach from my car and just stood awkwardly at the end of the driveway waiting for him to come out.

I really wish this weren’t true."

8. "I hit my girlfriend with my car. It was a complete accident." —Oxibase

Oops! At least she seems to have forgiven him and they're still friends. It's an incredible argument-winner, though. Can't decide between pizza or sushi? "You owe me for the time you hit me with your car!" Win.

9. How could their mother do this?!

"Let my mom purchase custom matching airbrushed shirts of two people kissing, with my girlfriend and my name on them." —ArpeggiatedAnt I would never forgive her.

10. This is not how you respond to a break-up.

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"I practiced singing the song for weeks on my ukulele and figured that I would wait until after her softball practice was done and surprise her," mdicke3 says, "I sang 'You're Beautiful' by James Blunt."

It did not end well.

11. When flingthepoop was making out in the dark with his girlfriend, they both found it oddly...wet.

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"Light comes on and turns out I’d had a massive nosebleed and there was blood EVERYWHERE. I was covered In it, she was covered in it and there were bloodstains all over her room."

It didn't end there, either. It got worse.

"If that wasn’t embarrassing enough, when she went to the bathroom to clean up, her mum caught her in the hallway. She sees the blood and immediately screams. Her assumption was that I was beating her daughter up and I get chucked out the house."

12. BAC200proof decided to take his father's boat out for a nighttime makeout session.

"The boat was SINKING so I start freaking out bailing water out with cups, sopping it up with my t-shirt and ringing it out of the boat, you know just panicking. Right after I accept the fate of my Dad's 12,000 dollar inboard-motor skiboat and calm down I remember that I didn't put back the drain plug before dropping it in the water so I replaced it drove back."

13. Far too many of these stories involved throwing up...

"I was so nervous on the way home. Being 14, his dad drove us to my house to drop me off. I leaned over to kiss him on the cheek. A quick peck and then I threw up his mom's fajitas all over myself."

I guess the saving grace is that the fajitas ended up on themselves and not the boyfriend. Or worse, his dad. Yeesh.

14. Even if you're your young and nervous, don't react like this to a kiss.

"After the first date of going to the movies (I never put my arm around her because I was too scared), we sat in my driveway, and she didn’t say good night because she was waiting for me to kiss her," said BlueSkyPeriwinkleEye.

"I did nothing, so she finally kissed me. In defence mode, I lick my lips all the way around with my tongue like Scooby Doo does with the cotton candy in the theme song intro. I even did the 'reeheeheeheehee.' Kill me."

15. No no no no no...

"Told my first real GF that I’m glad she wasn’t the most beautiful girl in the world so I didn’t have to worry about every guy trying to steal her." —Vebop

16. "Was walking her home in our neighborhood. She says her parents aren't home."

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Okay, lazy_blazey, you got this!

"I say, 'Cool, you have the whole house to yourself!; and walked back home, wondering if I'd ever get a chance to touch her boobs."

17. I actually think this is kind of adorable.

"First real girlfriend in high school, we used to talk over the voice calls on MSN messenger late at night. She wanted to just hear my voice, and I very quickly ran out of things to say, so she said I should just read whatever book I had around," said sexesand7s.

She spent the next 30 minutes listening to my "Your new Gateway Computer and how to use it!" booklet."

18. "Broke it off because I thought I was a stud, I was single about 3 years after that." —juggilinjnuggala

Let this be a lesson to everyone who gets in in their head that they're some sort of prize specimen.

19. This guy clearly has a way with words.

edgarpickle said, "I wrote the girl a poem. It included the phrase, 'slightly too large nose' and also used the word K-mart."

20. This is pretty awful!

"I broke up with him on the phone while my best friend was on the another phone giggling and writing cue cards of what I should say," said slowfadeoflove.

The real reason I broke up with him? He forgot to flush his poop at my house..."

21. "We planned, to the minute, when our first kiss would be," starts green_green_green's story.

"Not_too_bad, right? We were both nervous and it was both of our first relationships.

I made a website with a countdown clock." BOOM. Cringe.

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