People are sharing their best responses to unwanted messages from exes

Breaking up with someone can be a truly difficult moment in anyone's life.

The heartache. The regret. The lingering thoughts of what could have been.

What comes next really depends on how amicably the relationship ended.

It either ended on a high, and you'll continue to be good friends, or you're now mortal enemies who despise the very sight of one another.

Despite your best intentions though, an awkward text or two after a breakup is fairly inevitable.

The Instagram account textsfromyourex has spotted a gap in the market where this is concerned, and has compiled a plethora of terrible messages from exes and the brutal replies from their former flames.

Here are some of the best.

HT Daily Mail

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