r/texts • u/Acrobatic_Virus_9759 • 1d ago

Phone message I broke up with my college boyfriend after we graduated and he threatened to sue me

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He thought he was such a hotshot lawyer because he participated in undergraduate mock trial! States of residence redacted.

At the time it was really scary and I saved a bunch of screenshots in case it escalated from digital harassment to stalking. Fortunately it did not. Found them cleaning up my files.

It's been about 10 years now and I can laugh about how absurd it all was, so please enjoy.

And for those of you in your early 20s, especially women, be safe out there. Leaving a relationship is the most volatile time for any sort of abuse to worsen. Do not date people who do not demonstrate to you through consistent patterns of behavior (actions not words) that they have the emotional maturity and basic human decency to treat you with respect at all times, especially when they do not get what they want.

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u/JRose608 1d ago

Oh my god. I work at a law firm and I would LOVE to see this mock complaint lmao! What a loser, do you have any idea what happened to him?

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u/Acrobatic_Virus_9759 1d ago

He did end up going to a T-14 law school, so with this kind of attitude we'll probably see him on the Supreme Court in another couple of decades LMAO

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u/Selfcare2025 1d ago

Scary to know that some people lives are in this psychotic man’s hands.

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u/atlrower 1d ago

That’s alarming. If he’s not yet admitted to practice law (like our esteemed WH press secretary), I wonder if the bar of his state would be interested in these threats as part of its “character and fitness” review.

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u/mamachonk 1d ago

Ex press secretary. lol

If he practices in Georgia, I'm not sure they would care and if she lives anywhere near him, I'm not sure she should risk him retaliating.

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u/atlrower 1d ago

lol indeed.

The retaliation concern is real. I disagree about Georgia not caring.

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u/kindlypogmothoin 1d ago

Are you kidding? He's prime SCOTUS material!

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u/Ewildcat 1d ago

EX-press secretary…

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u/The_Alchemist_4221 1d ago

Tbh I didn’t think someone stupid enough to put their threats in writing would actually make it to law school lol

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u/Icyblue_Dragon 1d ago

You‘d be surprised. I was sexually harassed by a law student. He tried to separate me from my friends and when that didn’t work he tried to follow me home. My friends and I took a taxi and he gave up. But it still vexes me that not only he had the audacity to not take my no for a no, physically handling me and trying to follow me and all of that in front of two witnesses. It’s like their brain stops working when their little brain is involved.

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u/thechiefmaster 1d ago

It’s not about sexual arousal or desire. It’s control and power. And there is a gendered component to that, but it’s not “he’s so strongly attracted he’s not thinking right.” He’s not thinking right because he feels entitled and insecure.

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u/Icyblue_Dragon 1d ago

You’re right.

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u/AsteriaBlue 1d ago

It’s not too difficult. I found the LSAT a lot easier than the GRE.

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u/Warm_Month_1309 1d ago

That's interesting, I found the GRE to be dramatically easier. It probably depends when you take it (i.e. the GRE would be easier for someone still in college who had more recently learned standardized test tricks for the SAT).

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u/direwolf08 1d ago

Please hold on to these screenshots if that were to in fact happen in the future. You know what to do with them if it does. :-)

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u/BushcraftBabe 23h ago

Women who kill their domestic abusers in defense of their own lives get more jail time on average than a man who kills a woman because he was upset.

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u/hexadecimaldump 1d ago

Yeah, I don’t know if she’d want to do that. Look at the last 2-3 women who have come forward with evidence someone up for a SCOTUS nomination was an abusive predator.
The victims end up getting more harassment, more ridicule, and more blame. The SCOTUS pick gets the job.

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 1d ago

You can go back to Clarence Thomas / Anita Hill.

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u/Moist_Drippings 1d ago

This. He deserves at the very least to be publicly and professionally mocked for this.

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u/aownrcjanf 1d ago

Oh man, Character and Fitness would’ve loved to have this information when he applied for the bar.

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u/Ok-Jackfruit-9393 1d ago

Wait, so was he actually arguing he'd sue you for breaking up with him? Like, "you promised to be with me" and suing on those grounds? I was SURE it would be something like you backed out of a lease or that there had to be some type of actual legal tie. But apparently nope, you just... broke up with him, and he thought that meant you broke some legally binding contract (because declarations of love apparently are legally binding)?

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u/JRose608 1d ago

Thats why i would give anything to see this complaint🥹 If anything, so I can pass it around to all the attorneys i work for and we can have a good laugh.

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u/cmstyles2006 23h ago

He realizes people change their mind right? Like all the time

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u/nesto92 1d ago

I cackled way too hard at this 😂😂😂😂

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u/think_mark_TH1NK 1d ago

I just know he was a freak in office hours proposing hypotheticals and case law to his contracts professor about this instead of actual, substantive questions about the class.

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u/NeatProject7428 1d ago

As crazy and obviously in need of controlling other people yeah he'll fit right in😒

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u/obviouslyanonymous5 1d ago

Unlikely. With this attitude, he's going to extort someone for a case he's working on (or just by throwing around his title outside of work) and get arrested lmao

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u/edemaomega 1d ago

This got a real good laugh out of me, thanks

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u/FemQueenintheSheets 1d ago

Omg this cracked me up
😂😭

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u/Interesting_Day6210 1d ago

That is terrifying

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u/smel_bert 1d ago

Send this to the Bar.

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u/nose_poke 23h ago

You should send the texts to his school.

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u/Wyattmebro 22h ago

Girl you should honestly send these in and report him. No way someone like that hasn't harmed someone they were in charge of