Have you ever said/did something that you strongly regretted saying/doing?

[TravelingMaaike]

Like something you said that insulted another, or doing something and realising you made a big mistake.

And do you wish you could take it back?

[Zenpanda]

TL:DR
I think weird and made my mom cry by not formulating my thought well.
Also almost broke up two relationships.

I have a weird way of thinking I've learned to not just speak my mind anymore.
Once me and my mom were watching TV and a boy said "you are the best mom in the world".
My mom laughed and asked me if she's the best mom in the world.
My thought process was:
I don't know all the mothers in the world and it depends on how you would rate that. I couldn't image someone better for me though.
So I said "I don't know, there are probably mothers than are better or worse depending on how I'd have to judge that"
Before I could tell her that for me she is the best mother, she started to tear up and my heart sank.
I made my mother cry for the first time in my life.
She started to cry...
I made was the reason she cried.
My world broke down and I went into a full blown panic attack, my knees buckled and I crumpled to the ground.
My mom picked me up and hugged me, in between my sobs I explained what I meant and how she was the best mom I could imagine specifically for me.
She smiled and hugged me tighter, she explained that it just hurt her because she thought that I didn't think she was a good mother.
This couldn't be further from the truth.
It took about half an hour for me to calm down and we talked a bit more.
Since that day I first process my thoughts and then formulate them into sentences that others would understand without miscommunication. I sometimes still fail.
I once almost ruined my own and someone else relationship by not formulating my thoughts well enough.
She asked that if she didn't have her boyfriend and neither did I do have mine (I'm bisexual), if we could work.
For me this was a hypothetical and I answered "yes definitely, you're an amazing girl and I would very happy to have someone like you". Because yes, if my boyfriend wasn't in the picture I thought she'd make for an amazing girlfriend.
I didn't include this was a hypothetical answer to what I thought was a hypothetical question.
She thought I was suggesting that we'd be great together now.
She almost broke up with her boyfriend, the same boyfriend I was helping her with because her relationship was rocky.
When she told me what she was planning to do I explained I didn't mean it like that and that I was in a happy relationship.
She became very angry and tried to ruin my relationship so it could still happen.
She tried to convince my boyfriend I was emotionally cheating on him with her.
I said that was a blatant lie.
She then threatened to expose all our private messages.
That backfired, I said give me 5 minutes.
I sent my boyfriend our entire chat log.
"there, no need for you to do it"
She was lying about a lot of our chats and now my boyfriend could see that it was a lie, but he didn't doubt me to begin with.
Our group turned against her for doing this to me and she went off the rails after that. None of us have heard of her since then.
I suddenly realise how much I have written.
Sorry about that.

[Keyboardkat]

I think the lesson of the story about your mother is, don't overthink everything! I've known other people like this. I knew a girl years ago who was like this. A group of us went to a movie and I asked her a simple yes-or-no question: "Did you like the movie?" Her response was, "Compared to what?" She said she could not answer my question as asked. For her, nothing could be simple. Everything had to be analyzed to death! I hope she got some help!

[AmeerX]

I did a few things which I regret.

1. Saying a prayer regarding a girl, "God please make her happy and give her a husband who will take good care of her even if it's not me" and 1.5 months later she married my brother's friend in arranged marriage.

2. Not being decisive enough and going to Russia.

3. Not taking care of my health. by the way, this is most regretful thing

[TravelingMaaike]

Russia?

[AmeerX]

Yeah I had a chance to go study Medicine dentistry their back in 2012.
Now I talk to Russians and boy are they lovely people

[DizzyDesii]

I hardly regret what i say. Like I might hate that I said it “too soon” or “too late” because it may have ruined certain ways that keeping quiet benefitted me OR it might have made life miserable by keeping quiet too long. But yea when I say something, its cause i meant it. I’m hardly ever sorry

[Simslover92]

Yes I have with my boyfriend. It hurt him a lot and I wish I could take it back but I can't sadly.

[Mansearching]

Not really.

I've said things that shouldn't have said and shouldn't have said it the way I did.

But regreting it, no. Take it back, no.

[DerekC321]

I gave my opinion about someone in confidence. Then that person told everyone what I had said, and it caused pain.

I've always regretted that.

[TallAnon]

Yes, mostly as a kid; You just grow up realizing you were immature and live with having caused pain.

[BLP11520]

Yes, when I young I didn’t think things through enough

[BCRanger10]

Plenty of times.

[Bricealan]

yes, and too many to recall!!

[CubaPirate]

More than once

[love_conquers_lust]

Yes.

[msc545]

I have