Love: Today, I got back from a 6 month deployment overseas. My girlfriend...

By Anonymous - 26/03/2009 07:06 - United States

Today, I got back from a 6 month deployment overseas. My girlfriend of 3 years couldn't pick me up from the airport because she had an intramural softball game to go to. FML

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By Crud - 06/02/2010 05:09 - United States

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By Leftattheairport - 09/02/2019 18:00

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By sadgf - 25/07/2009 04:25 - United States

Today, my boyfriend came home from being deployed for the past 3 months. As soon as he gets out of the car, he walks right past me and goes to hug his dog. FML

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By wookieewhosshe - 28/09/2022 09:00

Today, my fiancé left for a 6-month deployment overseas. I waved him away, came back inside alone, and cried. I know this is what I signed up for, but the cat could've shown more sympathy than staring at me and walking away. FML

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By FUSMC - 12/08/2009 06:01 - United States

Today, I came home on leave from a 7 month deployment to Iraq. I wanted to see my girlfriend today, but she needed to spend time with her sick grandmother. As it turns out, her sick grandmother and my cousin are the same person. FML

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By saywhat - 26/01/2009 15:51 - United States

Today, I met the girl who dumped me because the distance between us was too great. We're in the same city again. She's now dating a Marine in Iraq. FML

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notfromearth7 0

Thursday 26 March 2009 16:57

Aw...that sucks. But at the same time, good to see you got back safely soldier *salutes*

lolyouareanidiot 0

Thursday 26 March 2009 17:01

lol, at #3. No one takes intramural sports seriously. Certainly no one considers it a responsibility to play intramural sports where half the people show up drunk. This was a burn big time. You should take as much offense to this as possible.

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happygoluckyhh 0

Sunday 7 June 2009 17:04

Maybe the softball game was important to her. Get over it.

veliki 0

Thursday 11 June 2009 11:05

Your girlfriend of three years is cheating on you. Man up soldier.

sun_babe 0

Saturday 13 June 2009 19:23

SO WHAT?! GET A LIFE AND GROW UP.

mikew85 0

Monday 22 June 2009 3:56

that sucks man. thank you for serving though.

buckweat420 0

Monday 20 July 2009 13:26

Dear overly sensitive soldier, I regret to inform you that you GF of three years is NOT in love with you. YOU

rayray091 0

Thursday 30 July 2009 0:32

what branch are you in??

eribo 0

Thursday 30 July 2009 9:29

That sucks, but I don't think this is that FML worthy. I know some people in Japan do find sports to be really important. Also, how do you know if it wasn't an important game of her little brother or something? I feel like this isn't very specific, I mean unless it was to meet other men or something, this shouldn't be that big a deal. Also where you were deployed matters too. As far as I am aware of, Japan has pretty good relations with most countries, their biggest problems are with China & N. & S. Korea. Slightly off topic but I heard there was a cruise liner for some "charity" in Japan last year I think and they commented on how Japanese soldiers should stay in Japan, but they should be allowed to bring a few for their protection (their charity was something controversial) for their cruise around the world. oTL Also if it was in Korea, I feel for you man, there are a lot of nationalistic people there that are hostile to Japan.

jswizzle 0

Sunday 23 August 2009 8:08

do you know what intramural games are? their is no such thing as an imprtant intramural softball game. and where he was deployed has absolutely no relevance to the situation at all.

allergic_2_broke 0

Thursday 3 December 2009 4:07

that totally happened to me as well... i spent 12 months in afghanistan (minus the mid tour EML) and when i arrived back stateside, my wife didn't pick me up because she didn't want to take the night off work (or clock out early). i had to hitch a ride from one of my soldiers.