11 life lessons to learn from people who've been in horrible relationships

As much as people love to think about only negatives in past relationships, you can also draw experience from someone who left you with emotional baggage and a broken heart.

Brittany Wong of Huffington Post asks that what if instead you looked at a split as an educational experience (albeit a really painful one) that taught you valuable lessons about what you want and absolutely don't want in your next relationship?

Here are some of the most insightful responses from Reddit and readers below according to Wong: