nope, i haven't had to and never had any situations where i'd ever come close or thought i'd need one ... some guy in my gym keeps cornering me though so i'll give that a few more days before i get my boyfriend to kick him in the nuts

I had to get one a few years ago on my ex-boyfriend, it was a horrible situation and I wish I hadn't had to but as soon as I did everything (threats etc) stopped.

yep two years ago, an ex friend of the family that sent me threatening texts n voicemails (after i havent even seen him for a year an I moved away for college... he just liked starting trouble) saying he hoped i got raped/gang banged and murdered... i'm glad i did because he just got arrested last week for attempted murder...

I was tempted to, but never did. In a way, I wish I did because my ex is very unpredictable. But then again, nothing happened.

I never have. But my brother almost did because of a crazy ex gf who tried to run him off the road several times with her car.

Nope.

Yep. And I got a little pistol just in case. The guy would show up in my bedroom in the middle of the night. Creepstore.

Yes, my mom when i was 15. She displayed some really horrible lapses in judgment when my sister got sick, even being barred from the hospital by my sister's doctors. The order was only for a year, but it gave us all time to heal and recover from her terrible actions.

Yipes. Thankfully no.

No, I haven't.

I am saying prayers and sending good wishes to you all, I can't imagine feeling that scared or violated. good for you for protecting yourself and being strong!!

In high school i had a boyfriend who harassed me non stop for 8 months after we dated. Being young I was trying to handle it myself and keep my parents from getting mad. When i wouldnt pick up his calls he would call my parents cell phones from a blocked # to get my attention. it was terrible. he once threatened to come over and put a gun to my head and make me tell him the guys id hooked up with since we broke up. when my parents finally found out they called the cops and i changed my number but i didnt have to get a restraining order. Close though and equally as scary.

Nope....I've never even come close to that type of situation to need one thank god

We never got a restraining order, but my older brother's ex gf was a total stalker. She would call at all hours of the night and park her car outside the house, waiting to see if he would come or go. It was really weird. If he brought a different girl over to the house, she would gun her engine and tear off down the street.

She never made any explicit threats, but that whole fatal attraction thing got my imagination going, especially since she never liked me to begin with.

Yes I have. My lawyer requested one when my ex husband and I split up. I had it framed.
More so I would know where it was if needed than anything.

No, but I should have.

Nope, but I might should have.

My ex stalked me for nearly 8 months after I left (more like ran from!) him. It was mostly cyber stalking aimed at ruining my personal and professional life and death threats. He also liked to call me and my friends on our cell phones and use something to change his voice and the number he was actually calling from but I still recognized it was him. I never knew how mentally disturbed he was until I got out of the situation and now looking back I can see how crazy he was going all the way back to day one. I never got a restraining order but I did go to the police multiple times and they couldn't do anything without proof of which I had none. It was just my word against his. Very frustrating.

No thank God!

I never had to get one....however, I issue them, although they are called protective orders and only for domestic situations. And let me tell you...people abuse them. It is absolutely ridiculous the reasons people come down and try and get them, and point blank lie to you under oath about stuff in order to have them issued. I bet you 90% of the ones who try to get them from me, are feeding me nothing but crap, which is a shame, because when someone TRULY needs one, they might not be taken as seriously as they should...simply because too many people cry wolf.

I was on the verge of getting one after I broke up with my ex. He would call me 10 times a day, threaten suicide if I was at work and couldn't pick up, Ruin my plans with my family and current (now ex) boyfriend and was generally very stalkerish. Thankfully he never showed up at my house though he did come into my work a few times.

thank the Lord I never have had to, but a friend of mine in high school did. it was so pathetic too, because she had to file it against the mom of another of our friends. this girl had become involved in drinking, drugs, and sex because of this idiotic guy she dated, and her mom blamed it on my friend (despite the fact that she did not drink, do drugs, or have sex). she kept coming to school and trying to talk to my friend; then somehow she found out my friend's address and would come every day and yell obscenities at her, then, one day she threw a rock through my friend's bedroom window and tried to break into the house. finally my friend got a restraining order. it was just so pathetic because a 16-year-old had to protect herself from an adult who was clearly unbalanced...

Yep. I had a stalker in Uni and I had to get a restraining order out on him.
He seems to have left me alone now though. =)

My mom almost got a restraining order for my boyfriend, because she was afraid that we were going to run away together, but she didn't. Thank god, because then I would have ran away for sure.