What is your experience turning down someone who doesn’t handle rejection well?

OH BOY.

First there was the guy in middle school who constantly was fiddling with a rubix cube or dropping scientific facts/jokes. He was nice enough and we could have gotten along well except that he had a crush on me. Like, gave me a picture of my face he had drawn, asked to swing dance with me all the time, and called my family’s phone asking to talk to me which resulted in much taunting. Don’t think I ever told him to stop, but my attitude always teetered between friendly and slightly creeped out and eventually he would push past me and stomp around and didn’t say a word to me. I did hear him muttering a lot of derogatory things about me tho.

Then my bestie got a boyfriend, and once she introduced me he turned into a sleezeball and started texting me and asking for a lot of pictures...not nudes but wayyy too much contact. Once I told him to back off, they broke up a little later.

Most recently was the guy that within less than a month of knowing me gave me a $50 gift card to a restaurant and apparently bought me a promise ring, all within like three conversations between us. But then I started dating someone else and apparently he put my name on a “rape list” he had and also stomped around when he saw me.

Basically, my being nice and never full out rejecting some losers and creeps resulted in them becoming pissed at the sight of me and they talked shit about me to their friends and cold shouldered me into sulky oblivion.

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