not me but my friend went back to her abusive ex(my former best friend) recently, even though she knows about his plan to leave her in november for another girl. apparently love makes you very dumb, and just for reference the abuse is what killed our friendship and made us enemies.

Not me personally, but I feel that I should regale a close friend's story. He was taking a high level chemistry class. He got a D. Not because he didn't study, but because he was smitten by the teacher's student assistant. Every test day he couldn't focus on the test because she'd be right there, administering it. Happy ending, though. Seven or so years later he has completed his medical degree and they're married with 2 kids.

This Troper is the sheer epitome of this trope. Our tragic hero, lets call 'em Siggy, has been in love with this girl for four years at least. He has proceeded to promptly ignore attentions from other women for about four years, constantly be jerked around, and pretty much be at her beck and call - all while clueless to the fact she might actually know his feelings. Recently our hero revealed his true feelings, finding out she did indeed know all along, and that he was just "The Friend". Came to a head when the Hero insulted the Love Interest's Love Interest, but he has resolved to Nobly Sacrifice his Love and kick the guy's ass should he ever fuck up. Still hopelessly in love though, much to his friends' chargin.

This troper dropped a class, saying that it would be too difficult for him. Though this was partially true (as he would find out later), the real motive for this was so that he could take it with a classmate he liked next semester. Then he re-added the class, deciding that now his semester was now easy and would end up sucking.

Why isn't this page about ... 2 and a half miles long? Are people embarrassed? Eh, I'm dumb enough anyway, so I'd probably fill a third of that with my stories.

DesertDragon here. My ex ''skipped work'' the first weekend we spent together and was fired as a result (I would have never agreed to it had I known. After getting fired, he told me he was laid off). But then again, he was a total moron in general. I myself fit this trope in how I put up with his shit for ''8 months'' instead of dropping him after 8 days.

This troper is cynical enough to qualify. He spent the better part of two semesters befriending and trying to win the heart of a party girl. Plenty of late-lunches on him, offers of and uses of his aid for studying, two denied birthday-related dates, some unfriendly gossip, and a $70 birthday present later, this troper has almost managed to give up on the idea. But is still using her as a motive to take out a math course in the summer and then take a higher level economics course next semester so that she has a competent study buddy. In this troper's defense, the math course was going to be taken sooner or later anyway.

This troper is this trope incarnate. While his personality is pretty much untouched when he has a crush, that does not apply towards his love interest at the time; he becomes dumb towards her, all the time.

My grades and speaking skills suffered spectacularly in high school, mostly due to the proximity of my crush at any given point, so love not only made me dumb, but gave me the appearance of being just plain stupid to boot.

This troper managed to: fail an important exam so her crush wouldn't think of her as a loser who actually studied (yeah I know, I made it up with the next exam and a retake of the first, but still..), missed the final train back to her home one night so she could TALK to him for a bit longer, stopped giving in various homeworks etc- thus dropping several grades- so she could spend her entire time at home trying to talk to the boy on various instant messengers. This troper has realized the error of her ways and is now desperately trying to make up the grades she lost. Stupid young love.

This troper, who is usually a pretty coherent, focused person, gets completely lost around her love interest. She's used such lines to try to cover this up as, "I'm sorry, I've been popping painkillers like crazy today and they're making me a little loopy, anyway..."

This troper to a T, both in the traditional 'Love makes you act like an idiot' and the more amusing and annoying 'Love gives you terminal foot in mouth disease.'

This high schooled troper has a massive crush on his English teacher, who notices a sharp contrast between my literacy, wit and good grades ''on paper'' and when I actually have to speak to her for anything. Another similar, embarassing occurence was him having a crush on the only girl who regularly hung around with his group of male friends, and thereby being the only member of the fairer sex he spoke to on a regular basis - I couldn't get a word out half the time, and as such, my friends assumed I simply couldn't talk to girls at all. Ugh. There was also that one time my grades really started slipping when I ended up in a relationship over the internet with this chick who was in a different timezone, leading me to stupidly neglect proper sleeping time in order to speak to her.

I'm happy to say I'm probably the only person I know who is unscathed by the love-struck stupidity. Crush around? Cue calmness. Crush not around? Cue silly yet sophisticated retartedness. Ironic opposite.

This troper will do absolutely retarded things in the pursuit of love, for instance he put a poem he wrote that goes as follows:

I wish I could offer you more than I have

I can't protect you from the wrath

of those who would cut you down and change you

I can't swear I would do

Anything for you, but I'll try

and fail and fail agian till I die

but know I would never give up

in any situation, down on my luck

I can't say I'll save you, but I'll be there

ready to rip and tear

and do everything I can

but I realise I am only a man

and you deserve so much more than I can give

but mark my words I'll try for as long as I live.

into a christmas card of the person the poem was written about, this troper really had no idea what he expected to happen, but it didn't end well.

This troper has quite a few stories, and she's not afraid to share 'em if it's for the good of the trope. As a straight A student (and something of a Ditz), she generally never acts that stupid. Cue Tall Dark and Handsome senior in her marching band, who she meets when she enters the high school (as our high school has sophomores, juniors and seniors only). He brings no ends of trouble, including, but not limited to:

One friend asked me what time it was, as his back was turned and he was trying to write down the current time for a project we were working on. This Troper's crush walked past and stood a little ways away from her, and she couldn't focus, so she temporarily forgot how to tell time.

This Troper trips countless times whenever he passes. Especially when she's trying to look cool.

Not to mention trying to impress him by buying a skateboard with her allowance for that much, which she proceeded to put in her closet and never take out again...

...as well as, totally irrationally, break out into dramatic sobbing when she thought that he had a girlfriend, which later turned out to be completely stupid because he's nearly asexual and hadn't had a girlfriend in years. Yes, folks, love makes you dumb. But in This Troper's experience, it's still a good feeling.

Definitely this troper. Judgement impeded to the greatest degree that it's been in all of my life. Kind of sold out one of my friends in the process, but he's a much better person than I am and has not only forgiven me but looks back at the whole thing with laughter.

Luckily enough, this was averted by me. I got into this tumultuous LoveDodecahedron back in November, the same time the third grading period began at school. Things got more and more romantic as time went on, but until the end of the school year I was able not only to keep my grades the same; I improved them.

I'm a {{deadpan snarker}}, {{Crazy survivalist}}, Memetic {{Career Killer}} and, as I'm told, able to make a conversation from anything. Cue girl with bright red hair, glasses, a sexy secretary fashion sense and generally every other attribute that's Fetish fuel to me bar being a catgirl enthusiast (that's more my ex's forte, but that's a whole other story in itself, I instantly become a {{shrinking violet}} as my speech centers in my brain shut down in the immediate vicinity of her. Now everything I try to break the ice (including buying her a locket for her birthday) end up making me look like a {{stalker with a crush}}.

And now for ''The Amazingly Inane Crush Escapades of 0dd1''!! *Price is Right theme plays*:

Who says TV ruins kids? I do. As a child, I'd always act shy when near a crush because TV shows told me that that's what happens to people with a crush. You heard me: ''I was acting shy purely for the sake of being shy.''

Seventh grade, right in the middle of my "Pretentious Poet" phase: I had a crush on a girl who could only be described accurately as Category 12 CloudCuckooLander. One day, I decided to write a love poem (>_<) and stick it in her locker (Digression: It was a tad hard to get it in there, for some reason--I think something was blocking the grate I had to slip it through). She found it (assumedly) the next day. Somehow, everyone found out that someone had slipped a poem into her locker (how is beyond me--it was a huge school, with hundreds of people in my grade alone). My then-best friend and wannabe motivational speaker ("d00d j00 h@ff 2 f@c3 ur f33rz!!!!") came up to me during lunch and asked me if I wrote it. After a moment of hesitation, I said yes, and he promised not to blab. Twenty minutes later, he told me that he blabbed, giving the pitiful excuse of peer pressure. (HOW?!?? JUST SAY "NO I KNOW NOTHING!!!", YOU IDIO-) Later, in a class about nothing, I noticed someone saying something to Crush Of Mine and vaguely gesturing in my direction. I pretended to be working on the nothing we had to work on as she looked my way. Long story short, after that single day of commotion about that one little thing, everybod--EVERYBODY forgot about it by the next day. ...So...yeah... Also, if I was just going to duck away when she found out, why did I even do it in the first place? Because Love Makes You Dumb and saps your sense of common.

I've gotten better about this in recent years, though. I can't really think of anything really big coming out of any crushes since then. (Including relationships. Zing!)

And recent developments (read: me growing some backbone) have allowed me to finally see a crush through. I now have a girlfriend!

This troper has a guy friend. Said friend gets all A's, takes Calculus BC, and went to a leadership conference in Washington this summer, all while earning finals at Debate competitions. Okay, now in the presence of his crush, he can only mumble and scuffle the floor with his toe. The closest thing to a witty remark to charm her was "Uh, weather nice huh right nice weather?"

This clinically depressed troper has been pushed to a new low by girl troubles and now no longer gives two shits about school and is headed for failure. Dunno if it counts, but meh.

This Troper has walked into walls, lost track of a conversation while speaking to someone, forgotten where she parked her car, said ridiculously moronic things, and to top it all off has answered a phone call from a guy she liked with the phrase "WHARRGARBL" for reasons that even escape her. The only minor subversion is that her sense of wit goes up significantly.

This troper actually followed a girl into a homeschool group. He had been considering it, but she started homeschooling and joined the group so he made his mind. Turned out that, while the creepy conspiracy theorists homeschoolers were fun, he wasn't getting any work done. So he went to public school a semester late and got put in the dumb classes. Now she's starting to show obvious signs of affection, but he doesn't like her that much anymore. Now, he's hopelessly in love with a girl that he can't date because she's taken and barely knows him that well. Why? Because she's nice and her perfume smelled good. Sense that one-on-one conversation we had, he can't get her out of his mind very much. And that's not it - now, he goes to the school football games and wanders through the crowd just to see where she is. And when he sees her while we're waiting for our rides outside the school, he tried to start up a conversation with her, overthinking it to try and come up with a good joke. It's so dumb. Most "jokes" are just lame, like when her and her friend were wearing shirts with E and H and I asked if they were Canadian. I'm like a pathetic loser trying to be clever and failing - something I'm normally good at. Pretty girls need to stop being nice to me.

This troper WAS an A student. Until she met this lovely man, who's in nearly all of her classes. now she can't stop thinking about him long enough to relise that her grades are slipping. I've started to get B's and C's now. the weird thing is, his grades are slipping too. makes you wonder.

This troper dated a lovely, amazing girl for a short summer. It ended before it could really start, though, because she decided she was in love with her ex-boyfriend, even though he'd abused her physically in the past. They got back together for a while, but it dissolved like always. Even worse, I know I shouldn't want to be with her after how it ended (and because I'm with a wonderfully nerdy guy now), but now that she's single again, she's all I can think about.

I'm... an interesting case. When it comes to dating, I'm surprisingly savvy. I can be the devoted boyfriend, know how to get in a girl's good graces. I'm not bragging, honestly, it makes me feel guilty. So I go out of my way to be a fool for someone else, rather than trying to be in control. I'd rather love make me dumb than risk the alternative.

I have a friend who was really...absent-minded while dating his wife. One occasion deserves a special mention. I was in a vehicle with him, the girl, and a few other people. He had to get out to do something, and a few seconds later she got out too. He got back in before she did and STARTED TO DRIVE AWAY! So busy thinking about her that he didn't even notice she was gone...talk about ironic.

Subverted by one of my besties first boyfriends. He ignores her once, he ignores him for 8 weeks afterwards. She got him down to a fine art. She ain't stupid. She learnt from my complete stupidity/dumbness/blindness/paraniodability and she's so much better at love then me! I was worried, but now I know she's got her brain intact.

This Troper did something very, very stupid. He essentially ran away from home, to live with his (now ex) girlfriend. Literally, ran away. He left a note for his parents, took some clothes, and drove off. Said ex-girlfriend lived roughly an hour and a half away. Luckily, he was able to come to his senses, but not before his GPA dropped like a stone, something he's still trying to fix.

This Troper becomes monumentaly stupid when he has a crush. Among other stupid things he did, it includes ranting for hours on MSN with her about his neurosis (making him look like a complete emotional wreck), becoming completely incoherent or MUTE around her, and trying to fix those things... by looking like an arrogant jerkass (this troper is also Schizophrenic, and bipolar by proxy)

Played straight with a friend of mine. If you had access to her grades, you could track when she had a boyfriend by the fact that her grades took a nose-dive whenever she got into a relationship, then climbed back up when she got out of it.