What's the meanest thing you ever said? To whom? Did you mean it?

Me, I said, "I don't need you" to the man who would become my ex-husband. What I meant to say was that I could take care of myself and was with him by choice and that he shouldn't feel pressured to perform or provide for me.

But he was someone who desperately needed to be needed, and "I don't need you" was the last thing he wanted to hear.