Seattle woman’s boyfriend breaks his leg. Then she dumps him for what he told her on the way to the ER: ‘Don’t ever let them tell you twice’
A Seattle woman says she ended her two-and-a-half-year relationship after her boyfriend broke his leg. Specifically, because of what he told her on the way to the hospital.
TikTok creator Mariah (@mariahs.days17) shared a clip offering a short explanation, garnering over 1.7 million views.
“I broke up with my ex-boyfriend of two and a half years because he broke his leg,” she says. “And when he was being shuttled to the ambulance and to the hospital, I asked him what hospital he was going to, and he said, ‘I don’t want you here.’”
She concludes with advice for her viewers. “And ladies, if a man ever says he doesn’t want you somewhere, get rid of him,” she says.
Commenters Initially Found the Premise Funny
“You could’ve stopped at ‘he broke his leg.’ Bc what do you mean your bones were too weak to function?” one person wrote.
“Go see him anyway. It’s a good place to meet a doctor,” another joked.
“Don’t ever let them tell you twice,” a third added.
She Shared More Details in a Follow-Up Clip
In a longer storytime video, Mariah explained that she and her ex both worked for the same company, though under different management.
In October of last year, she says they traveled to Vancouver, where he suggested trying on rings together.
“This man is like, ‘I wanna try on rings with you.’ We go ring shopping,” she says.
Then, the week before Thanksgiving, he broke his leg.
Mariah says he left her apartment that Saturday morning, telling her he was excited to spend Thanksgiving together, something that meant a lot to her because it would have been her first holiday without her family.
Around noon, he texted her that he thought he had broken his leg. When she called, she could hear commotion in the background.
“He’s like, ‘Everything’s fine, everything’s fine, everything’s fine,’” she says. “And I was like, everything’s not fine. What hospital? Are you going to let me come see you?”
According to Mariah, he told her no.
“I’m like, ‘What do you mean no?”’ she recalls. “We’ve been dating for two and a half years.”
She says she then didn’t hear from him for 48 hours. During that time, she discovered he had blocked both her personal number and her work phone.
Concerned, she contacted his boss to let her know he wouldn’t be coming into work. “She quite literally tells me, ‘Oh, don’t worry, we talked on the cell phone this morning,’” Mariah says. “The audacity!”
He later called her back and, according to her, told her she needed to “stop.” That was the final straw.
“I said F you. You don’t want me at the hospital. You don’t clearly see that I’m trying to care for you,” she says. “And I broke up with him.”
She says he has since tried to contact her repeatedly, sending flowers and attempting to call, text, and email her for months. The last time she saw him in person was shortly after Christmas.
“I kid you not, my body went to full-on panic mode,” she says. “Like, I do not feel safe. Like, mentally safe.”
“Cheers to moving on,” she concludes.
Was This a Red Flag?
The answer to this question will vary from couple to couple and depends on the boundaries each person feels comfortable with.
Some people simply dislike having visitors in the hospital. For example, one Reddit user said her boyfriend refused to let her see him before surgery because he felt embarrassed. Another user shared a similar experience, writing that her partner didn’t want her to visit because “he feels vulnerable and weak.”
However, many commenters under Mariah’s video speculated that something else may have been going on. Some suggested he could have been managing another relationship, while others believed he may have regretted inviting her to spend Thanksgiving with his family.
Ultimately, it seems that for Mariah it wasn’t just the request to stay away from the hospital that unsettled her, but the prolonged lack of communication that followed.
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