STORIES

This is a collection of stories written and submitted by COABH viewers. Feel free to browse and read, be inspired, be motivated, and submit your own. If you have any questions regarding story submissions, refer to the Q&A page located under SUMBIT on the navigation menu about, or e-mail your question at cracksofabrokenheart@gmail.com.

Broken and Betrayed

I can honestly say that I've had my fair share of breakups and heartbreaks. However, it was my last breakup that hit me the hardest. I was hooked to a boy with a past--he was a player, he was a major flirt. Did I take these into account before I started dating him? Yes I did. Did I think... READ MORE

Broken Promises

“To infinity and beyond, my love. I promise you that.” Promises are meant to be kept, not broken. After going out with my ex-boyfriend for three years, I’ve learned that promises are meant to be broken. April 11, 2011; the start of a new chapter in my life. Hi there! My name’s Joy. Three years... READ MORE

Long Distance Tolerance

Back in September 2012, I started talking to this girl, let's call her Ari. She and I live in very different places. I'm on an island, and she's on the mainlands. I already knew that it was going to be an unhealthy relationship. I mean, who wouldn't? It's a long distance, majority of the people that has... READ MORE

What Are We?

What do you do when you've liked someone for so long and you're pretty much sure they're never going to feel the same? What do you do when you find out they might've liked you at some point? I'm going to tell you right now. Honey, if you are the "go to girl" whenever he has issues with the girl... READ MORE

Overly Attached & Brokenhearted

I never knew what it was like to be in a relationship. I was a fan of romance novels and cheesy chick flicks, but I’ve never had a real encounter with a guy. I was deemed “innocent” by most of my classmates and friends. So, what I’m about to share is not something that’s been ever expected from me... READ MORE

I like you so much it hurts

People live for different purposes. People spend their whole lives to get a higher education, to get a well paying job, or to accomplish a life long goal... But in the mist of it all behind the back of my mind, the crevasses of my soul, I crave to give myself whole heartedly to a love I could never... READ MORE

Time passes & people change

Let’s call this guy Austin. There’s a back story to all of this; his step dad and my aunty are close friends. Austin would come to my house every single time his step dad wanted to catch up with my aunty. Eventually, Austin and I got close. Since he was the only boy and the oldest of his three siblings, it was... READ MORE

Being Nice

Valentine’s Day in middle school, I was feeling the love in the air and ready to look for that one person. I had flowers, a gift, and the courage to ask this special someone to be the one for me. With enough courage I walked up to her, presented myself and asked her. She said she was going to think about... READ MORE

It Was Ended For The Best

There are some teenagers nowadays who experience painful heartbreaks. I could say I'm one of them. Why do we feel pain when the one we love let us go or why do we feel our heart breaking when we let go of someone who means the world to us? For some of us heartbreaks... READ MORE

Just Like That

It all start as strangers, then friendships and it grows to even deeper feelings--relationships or the time we want to be with that someone and call them our "other half". We really don't know who we fall for until we get to know them. However, some people fall too easily, and that describes... READ MORE

He was never really mine

Freshman year, I fell in love with this guy. Let's call him Jason. I fell in love with Jason, but not in the way that most people fall in love. We were friends first. I told him absolutely everything. He listened to what I had to say, contributed to conversation, and was an all around amazing guy. To this... READ MORE

Unrequited Love

"Cause I can't make you love me if you don't," once again, Adele got it right. I developed a crush on this guy in the tenth grade. He was in one of my classes and I just grew fond of him. I was the only girl in class and I had no problem interacting with the others though I'd always get nervous... READ MORE

It is what it is

It all started when I was in 5th or 6th grade, I met this girl from a dance studio which I was in a long time ago. I didn't know how being in a relationship felt like but it felt like those "love at first sight" type a way because I already had a crush on someone I barely knew, the fact that I barely knew her... READ MORE

I left my heart in San Francisco

When I close my eyes, a few things immediately comes to mind. First, I see her holding me and swaying with me as we watch OMAM at the Cosmopolitan. Second, I see her holding my hand in the car while we listened to our favorite bands. Then, I see the last kiss that we shared, right before... READ MORE

Giving It Your All

I'm the type of person that doesn't think to well about the person I want to be with. I always go with what I see and hear. I met this person when I was at a cross country meet by the COED bathroom. I know what you might be thinking, but sorry know I didn't do anything bad. She was... READ MORE

It hurt like hell

Everyone has been hurt in many different ways but getting past it is what matters. From my past heartbreaks I've learned so much. So here's my first heartbreak.I met him the ending of my freshman year of high school. I thought he was the best I could ever find. You know how it goes, rainbows and... READ MORE

My November girl, JGB

What sucks is that she could have been with me, but I'm always too far away. For this story, I'll call her Jay. Jay was always the type of girl who fell for those guys who wouldn't understand how beautiful she was. I was the "nice guys always finish last" type. That being said, I only worked up... READ MORE