30 Stories About Couples Who Made A Pact To Get Married If They Were Both Still Single By Thirty

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13. Not successful but I think it’s worth mentioning. I made a pact with a boyfriend I had at 17. We said if we somehow broke up but still weren’t married by 21, we would marry each other. (Yes, looking back, 21 is insanely young but it seemed so much older when I was 17.)

We broke up 2 months later and lost contact. A few years later, my parents and I moved to a new home. The person they sold our previous home to contacted us to let us know that a note addressed to me was left on their door. The note was from my ex, asking me to call him. By this time, I was in a relationship with someone else but I was curious so I called him. He asked me to meet him for lunch so I did.

While at lunch, we caught each other up on our lives and then he brought up the pact, which I had forgotten about until then. That’s when it occurred to me that he had JUST turned 21. I reminded him that the way we broke up did not leave the door open for a future together, and that I simply wasn’t interested. He kept persisting and I brought up that I’m in relationship that I’m happy in and he still wouldn’t let it go. After that day, he pestered me online for a few weeks but eventually let it go.

The thing that I don’t understand is why he would try to make it work after the events that unfolded after our break up. I had a “friend” who pestered me with personal questions about my relationship right after the breakup. What I didn’t know is that she had secretly called him on my cell phone so that he could listen in on the conversation. However, he didn’t answer so the entire conversation recorded to his answering machine… about how he says his “penis is only 4 inches…from the ground” but it’s actually smaller than my thumb. And how he lasted less than 10 seconds and as soon as he came he said, “I’m done” and got up. His parents are the ones that heard the message and then played it for him. He called me after to tell me about it and I shrugged it off, so clearly he knew about the message, so I will never understand why he’d want to get back together after that.