A woman who was just trying to get over her ex ended up lighting her apartment on fire when she tried to burn letters from him.

The Lincoln Police Department in Nebraska took to Facebook to reveal that they were recently called about a fire that was allegedly caused by a young woman burning letters from her ex. The unnamed woman had trouble actually igniting them, so she reportedly left the romantic messages “smoldering” on her carpet while she took a nap. That’s when disaster struck.

“On September 16th, shortly after 4:30 p.m., LPD and LFR responded to a fire at an apartment complex near 46th and Meredeth Street,” the department wrote in the post. “LFR extinguished a fire on the third floor of the apartment that caused approximately $4,000 in damage. Officers discovered a 19-year-old woman lit letters from her ex on fire and left them on the carpet before taking a nap.”

The post went on to say that the woman “reported they weren’t starting on fire like she thought they would so she set them on the carpet and went to take a nap. She woke a short time later to the smoke detector sounding. The woman was cited for negligent burning.”

The fire ended up burning the apartment’s balcony and causing approximately $4,000 in damage.

“The woman told officers that she didn’t mean for the fire to spread,” a spokesperson for the local police department said in a statement.

Sometimes, it really is better to just move on from an ex, rather than try to make a big dramatic statement!