Mortifying Reason Woman's Ex Will Get Love Letters From Her for Next Decade

Many would do anything to escape an awkward interaction with their ex—but one woman's former partner doesn't have much choice in the matter.

This is the situation Emina Sonnad, 29, found herself accidentally imposing on her ex—a mishap she documented in a viral TikTok video. When Sonnad and her former partner were together, she found a website where she could send him future letters for the next ten years on special occasions. The two broke up, however, and Emina has since discovered she's forgotten the password to cancel the service.

The video has over 619,000 views since it was posted on March 4.

"My Roman Empire is the fact I thought I would marry my ex, so I found a website to write him letters from the past with predictions of where our future selves would be," she captioned the video.

The Roman Empire trend on TikTok, popular last fall, featured women asking the men in their lives how often they thought about the Roman Empire. In most situations, the answer was shockingly frequent. Since then, many online use the term to describe something they cannot stop thinking about.

Being a musician, Sonnad included one of her "really melodramatic love songs" to play over the video, Sonnad told Newsweek. She said she and her ex were together for about one year.

"I was young and naive, so I thought it would be cute to write some letters our future selves could laugh at later. I made a compilation of predictions and inside jokes and used a website to schedule them for anniversaries and birthdays," she said.

"I figured if we ever broke up, I could just cancel them. Unfortunately, I got locked out of the email account I'd used for the website, so the letters outlived our relationship."

Sonnad said she didn't expect her video to resonate with so many people.

"It was cute seeing everyone comment with their own stories," she said. "I guess a lot of people can relate to that feeling of looking back on the ridiculous things you did for someone you used to love. It's embarrassing and bittersweet at the same time."

Indeed, viewers chimed in with their own experiences, often funny—and some heartbreaking.

"I feel you! I was unable to cancel a beef jerky subscription I gifted my ex. mortifying. I wrote a poem about it and it got published," @m_w_c_z wrote.

"We sent our names to Mars," @katakutie wrote. "Even though we couldn't be together on earth, at least we'll be together on another planet."

Sonnad said that if she could go back and talk to her past self, she'd mainly express praise for her ability to love deeply.

"If I could go back and talk to my past self, I'd tell her that it's a beautiful thing to have such a great capacity to love, even if it takes some time to find a more deserving recipient of that affection," she said. "I would also tell her to update her recovery phone number."