Forgiveness can mean different things to different people but in general, it involves an intentional decision to let go of resentment and anger. Which is often easier said than done.
Recently, Reddit user OpeningIntelligent83 made a post on the platform, asking everyone on it, "What grossed you out so much in a relationship that you just left?"
As of today, it has received over 19,000 replies, many of which detail awful experiences, provoking us to determine how much our partner can mess up before they render any future together impossible.
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He had berated me for something silly and he was still angry. When we got home, he wanted sex, I wanted to read. He pressured me, I still said no. He got angry and raised his fist to hit me. I just looked at him. He lowered his fist.
I left. I haven't seen him since. It's been a decade.
Thank goodness OP got out of there, a guy who can't take no for an answer and then resorts to violence is not someone who anyone should be alone with.
Except an army of swat then he should be alone with that army
Load More Replies...Bless your heart you escaped an abusive relationship real quick. Some of us [myself including] stay way too long until it's too late. Took me 5 years to leave him but me and MY SON are all the better for it. As a matter a fact my Mother told me this morning that I've had a glowing, happy aurora around me for a while now. I smile more and look healthy and happy. My hair is growing back too.... Thank God she left him! 🫂
Not yet, but it looks like it was heading in that direction.
Load More Replies...I wish I did that first time ex threatened to hit me sadly I went though 5 years of torture and humiliation before my literal knight in shining armour rescued me and 13 years on we have two kids and a happy relationship
I once dated a girl that tortured hamsters. She got arrested when I called police. I didn’t even give her the honor of the text. Just called the cops, gave my testimony in court, and continued with my life
Thats sick, my poor 3yr old robo hamster was getting old and couldnt walk great so every hour i would move him in different positions and make sure he had food and water, broke my heart when Hammy died 4 days later but it was for the best he was really old 😥 still miss him 💔
I work in animal rescue & control. We are prosecuting more & more cases of animal abuse monthly it is just getting worse.
What the actual F?! Who tf does that! Good on you OP! Anyone who tortures ANY animal deserves to be put in jail!
Poor hamsters! People who intentionally hurt animals are the f*****g worst
Good for you. People who hurt innocent animals are the absolute worst.
i JUST left my boyfriend of ten months because he purposely screams during an argument so that people in his family will hear everything going on. it is his way to make me feel vulnerable and weak. says things like “good, i want them to hear i want them to know how psycho you are” when i’m persistently trying to end the argument and speak civilly. it was like a temper tantrum. needless to say i left him yesterday .
Good for you babe, hope you heal and move on to someone who deserves you
Once, during the most intense argument I’ve ever had with my partner, which I started, he was overwhelmed and told me he needed to leave and calm down before he could speak to me respectfully. I was very upset and (unfairly and roughly) grabbed his arm as he turned to leave - he tried to shake me off and accidentally knocked my drunk a*s onto the ground. Instantly he was right there next to me apologizing, feeling my neck and head to make sure I was okay. He actually was quite upset and I felt awful. 5 years later he admitted to me that it really hurt him to think that he’d accidentally angrily pushed me off him and maybe I had gotten hurt, he’d beaten himself up about it ever since. But it was my fault, I was the one pushing his boundaries after he’d asked for space and I honestly just lost my balance. The conversation where he told me “I’m so scared I hurt you, not only physically but emotionally that day” was the day I realized he was really the one and I’m kind of the a*****e here.
Load More Replies...I'm elated that you have gotten away from him, I'm sad that he had that much control that it lasted 10 months. Give yourself some time to do some serious self-care! You deserve it!
He's screaming but you're the psycho? Yeah, no, that's not how that works
Anyone who screams at me gets the comment. Screaming doesn't make reasoning correct. Why don't you pretend you are an adult and we can have this conversation at a normal tone. That either stops the screaming or gets me hit.
Good and I'm sure the other people who have to listen to it all the time will appreciate it, too.
Maybe just as important. If she is indeed a psycho, why did HE want to be with her? I don't understand this thing where men will tell their partners "you're a psycho" "you're a b***h", etc. Okay, if that's true then you should leave. Why do you want to be with a psycho b***h, you weirdo?
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It was two separate incidents, but long story short, one night she got super drunk at my sister-in-law's house. After spilling a second glass of red wine on my SIL's white carpet, we opted to move her glass further away from the edge of the table. As soon as we left, she screamed, like full-fledged raged, at me for "not defending her".
The very next time we were together, she got drunk again and accused me of trying to cheat on her (I've never cheated on anyone) and threw her purse at me.
I let things calm down and explained to her that I grew up in a house chock full of domestic violence and that was an absolute line in the sand. And for that reason, I was out.
If you keep thinking it thats a pretty clear sign. Break ups are hard but better then stay in the wrong relationship too long. Just leads to regret later.
Load More Replies...If she frequently gets drunker than she intended to, ie "can't control her liquor," she could be an alcoholic. OP was pretty quick to recognise this & move on. She can't help that she has this problem, but she's responsible for the wreckage it creates. Not EVEN an AH- OP was smart.
Good for you, too many people, especially men, put up with domestic violence. I got out 21 years ago.
The booze just broke down the barriers for her to become an even bigger as*hole. Goodbye.
My mom died just weeks before and I was tired as f**k, exhausted, and in a traumatic phase of grief after a year of cancer treatments and all the fuss of being there for a cancer battle. The woman I was seeing told me I need to get over it and can't just be alone inside all the time. Never spoke to her again.
Went through my phases of grief and have been a resource to ppl in my life that are going through similar loss since then. Grief takes time or it doesn't; it's different for everyone.
As a Hospice nurse, that's exactly what I tell the families of the patients that I care for... Grief is a process of many different emotions and how we deal with it is different for everyone. Some want support, some do not, but it's not something that we should EVER force. I tell the patients something similar, that I'm not there to help them die, but to help them live what time they have left with dignity and comfort.
I lost my Mum/Best Friend recently. It's been devastating! I can't thank you enough for what you do! I know the people who helped me care for Mum were absolute angels and deserve the absolute best in life! Xxx
Load More Replies...I went through the same with my mom. Just after she died I called my husband for comfort, completely grief stricken. He was a bit weird, but I barely noticed because of my own emotional state. A few hours later I called again, he forgot my mom had died. I had to tell him again. I couldn't believe how lonely I felt in that moment. He was apparently very drunk, but even then, I can't believe you would forget something like this. We didn't split right away, but it was the beginning of the end. Sorry for the sad story. Take your grief seriously <3
I'm so very sorry for your loss and that you did not have the support you needed from the one that should have been there the most. Super tight hugs for you @Lama.
Load More Replies...A now ex friend of mine lost his father a few years ago. About 2 or 3 months afterwards, he called me to complain that his mother was still upset and would cry about it and that he wished she would just get over it already. I got mad and told him off saying that she spent her entire adult life with that man and she wasn't going to get over it after a couple of months. I stopped speaking to him shortly after that. My own father passed away 2 years ago and I still cry over it which makes me even more pissed at my ex-friend that he was so indifferent to his mother's grief. There is no time frame on grief and no one should expect you to just get over it.
I agree. My grief for the death of my Dad was delayed because we had been expecting it for the last couple of years of his life. He had Alzheimer's and, when i went to visit him, he'd forgotten who I was and his grandson. In the end it was sort of a relief to know he no longer had to live in fear because he couldn't understand who these people were around him or why he couldn't go home to his parents, a home he hadn't lived at in 60 years and to parents that died a couple of decades earlier.
I am so sorry. Alzheimer's is a really hard thing to deal with. My grandmother had dementia, lost her last year but really she was gone years ago. My heart goes out to you. 😞
Load More Replies...Last month a very good friend of mine passed after a long illness. She was a very well known and loved dance instructor. Another instructor in her area was very unkind to her and even told her to her face she was too old to teach and should quit. Even got her pushed out of a club she had been teaching in to years. Just a day after my friend passed this other instructor announced she was going to have a benefit to raise money to have a placque made to present at a major dance workshop. All this was decided without asking the family's permission or even the director of the workshop. This other person was just grandstanding and trying to make her look like a good friend. I was added to a group chat on social media and after reading her self important self entitled blather.. I lost it. I asked several times if she had asked anyone's permission (no answer). I asked why she wasn't giving time for the family to grieve (no answer). The family threw their own COL on the same day and time.
Sorry to hear that. Good that you left her. At times, we do not understand the pain. But we can at least be sensitive
I lost my big brother and 2 younger sisters between June 2020 and September 2021 and I was told by someone that was supposed to love me, to just get over it already coz there's nothing I can do about it... My heart is still broken from that comment 💔😢
I was dating a girl when I was younger, she seemed nice and she had two small cats. One weekend I went to visit her and the cats weren’t there, I asked her where they where she told me they had gotten annoying and so she put them in the car and drove to an abandoned bush area and left them. I faked an emergency at home (we lived about a 2 hour drive apart) left and broke up with her when I got home.
You did wrong.The right choice would have been to invite her to a romatic picnic, drive to the most remote place you could find, take her cellphone and leave her there.
Definitely a psychopath, you would have to have zero empathy to even consider doing that without remorse.
As I’m reading this, my cat just came up to cuddle, doing that right there defines a person, couldn’t she just drop them off at the animal shelter
What the actually f**k and did you report that hitch to the police and did you save the poor kitties
She could have done anything BUT THE CATS? WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU? If she hated them that much someone else would have gladly take them...
Unfortunately this is very common and I'm sure there will be people reading this who have done what is mentioned above. It is not acceptable. A few points to hit here ...1) Animals are not toys, you cant just throw them away when you get tired of them. 2) domesticated animals aka pets Can Not take care of themselves in the wild. 3) do not get an animal if you have no intention of caring for it, they are basically babies. Another thing I want to add... A LOT of people did this with their quarantine companions. There are so many domesticated cats suffering because of this and so many shelters are packed. If you have a cat/dog you no longer want to take care of, find a shelter, find an online rehoming group, even just find a friend or family member to take them. Do not dump them,
Gee whiz - I wish I hadn’t read that one. I actually “rescued” two semi-feral kittens, abandoned by their mother under my neighbour’s porch this past summer. I caught one, with difficulty, but the other scurried off into the nearby brush. I worried about her the whole night because we live in the country, surrounded by forest, and fishers and coyotes have been spotted in the area, plus the temperatures fell at night. But luckily she ran into their garage the next day and I was able to catch her after a bit of a battle. They are monkeys and the vet bills for their shots and to get them spayed may break me, but I could never imagine dumping them somewhere to fend for themselves. They are my precious sweethearts.
Found out gf had several fake social media accts she’d use to bully strangers and harass women she knew including my ex wife. Instant dump.
WTF?? That is some Fatal Attraction b******t starting up right there! Hooray for you listening to that little voice screaming RUN!
This is weirdly common - not in relationships, but generally, lot of people seem to have this hobby of harassing people online, both people they know personally and complete strangers.
Load More Replies...Yup. If they’re willing practice deception to hurt other people in order to seem good to you, imagine what they do to you if they had the opportunity or motivation. Good for the OP for getting out Before he married her!
My father in law has told my wife "you still have a home here if you decide to leave him" as a final part of every conversation they've had since I married my wife. Apparently, my mother in law did as well, but she passed away recently which caused the mask to slip, and I saw the truth...
She was so rude to my friends. We went out to dinner with them and she constantly made fun of one's height, something he's clearly been insecure about. I told her to chill and then she said my hairline is far back but no one notices because I'm tall. I broke up with her the next morning. I felt so bad for my friends but they're still in my life thankfully.
OOOOH when you don't want to address your own insecureties, so rather point out other peoples...typical narcissist
My mom does that to me all the time. She's borderline obese (has been for most of her life) and proceeded to tell me how "fat I'm getting" the last time I went to lunch with her and my older sister and how I'm "going to catch up to my cousin" (who is morbidly obese). I'm 5'5" and 160 lbs (female). My mom is absolutely a toxic narcissist who is (probably) miserable with herself/her looks/her body, but she mocks and shits on everyone else instead of addressing herself.
Load More Replies...I dated this girl (one just like her). Constantly mocking or berating everyone, including me. She was legit crazy narcissistic bițch. Got away from her but she took my dog. I still miss that dog
She took your dog. Why? How? And you haven't hunted her down and took it back? When you say "my dog", like the dog had nothing to do with her-not the owner? You're pissing me off right now. Go get your f*****g dog!! Good luck
Load More Replies...Good for you. I’m sure your friends were happy when they found out. No one needs that type of negativity.
Game on ... I'm saying everything that I believe would hurt your feelings.
I am EXTREMELY insecure about my body, especially my belly. I've always had a belly pooch, even when I weighed a very unhealthy 104 pounds. But instead of trying to make others feel insecure, I compliment people on things I like about them, such as their hair, outfit, tattoo, makeup, etc. We all have insecurities, so it's nice to be recognized for something uniquely our own. It's my hope that they go on to give another compliment to someone else they cross paths with, who then compliments another, and so on. You'd be surprised how far one small kindness can go.
She was almost perfect for the first year that we dated. To the point to where I considered marriage with her. Our leases were up around the same time so we decided to move in together.
Not even a month into us living together she turned into a completely different person. She started instigating fights over very small things, blowing things out of proportion accusing me of cheating when I'd have to work late. She'd pack her things to "leave" but would never actually leave just liked the fight of me trying to talk her down.
One day we were at a movie store in the mall together and I was looking at the back of a movie at the description. She accused me of ogling over the actress that was on the movie case.
Stormed out of the movie store, left the mall, left me there with no ride home and didn't answer her phone.
I got the f**k out of there as soon as I could. After I left shed text me paragraphs of apologies begging me to take her back or she'd kill herself. Sent me pictures of her cutting herself. I had to have her number blocked.
She then started stalking me at work and coming to my friends house that I was staying at.
Ended up getting a restraining order against her.
Imagine if he married her then they moved in together, people can be different when they live together
Absolutely 💯! I am all for cohabitation before mairrage! It blows my mind that people get married, a lifelong commitment, without ever knowing what life with that person is like living together. All their weird habits, house keeping, and who they may truly be is really important to know if you can live with that the rest of your life
Load More Replies...If anyone ever threatens to harm themselves in order to get you to stay, contact the emergency services and tell them that someone is a danger to themselves and needs a welfare check, then leave.
This is classic Borderline Personality Disorder. This guy dodged a HUGE bullet getting out. And no, she didn't act like this because she was previously cheated on. Stop with that trope!
If an Ex threatened to harm themself I would simply say "Go ahead". Depending on how bad the break up was. If it was amicable, I would probably call the cops.
Absolutely. The fact that she was willing to accuse the OP of so much probably gave him cause to wonder if she was doing the things of which she accused him.
Junior year in highschool I got a girlfriend for the first time. She was popular, beautiful, and out of my league. She took my virginity and I was crazy about her. The more I got to know her on a personal level, the more I believed that she wasn’t that great of a person. Her family was beyond obnoxious but a small price to pay for a horny teenager.
About 6-7 months into the relationship I had dinner with her family at their house. She insisted her older brother tell me this hilarious story. He goes on about how after gym class one day he was left alone with a mentally handicapped student. He tied him up with a volleyball net and left him stranded in the gymnasium screaming. The entire family was howling laughing listening to this. I broke up with her a couple days later.
Poor kid. This is so heartless and heartbreaking for that kid. Glad you broke up with her. I feel sorry for any future kids that grow up in that family because they are a disgusting bunch of people.
What f*****g a*****e bitches. People who make fun of that stuff, or encourage others to do so, are the worst of the worst.
If the parents are and that's how they taught their kids, a pretty high chance
Load More Replies...Well, you have to remember that he was a teenager with his first girlfriend so breaking up would be tough even without her being more popular than him and now knowing she is evil and will enjoy making his life hell
Load More Replies...Just surprised it took you a couple of days to decide, horny teenager notwithstanding
Perhaps he avoided and ignored her until he found the courage and right time to break up with her.
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She was my wife at the time. She got pregnant. We hadn't had sex in months.
No one has addressed the fact that if you hadn't had sex in months with your spouse that your relationship might have already had problems.
Could be due to health too if one had an STD or something but seems like they had issues
Load More Replies...Unless her name is Mary, I would have been gone the moment she announced her immaculate conception
Dude.. in my State, you were married. You would pay child support for 18 years, or lose your driver's license. And do jail time.
We went to a restaurant, nothing fancy. She treated the server like absolute s**t. As though she was royalty and the server was "the help". Yeah, that was it for me. I suddenly had zero interest in her. The kicker was, she was a waitress. S**t you not.
You'd think someone in the service industry would treat people the way they would like to be treated but sadly that's not always the case. Some take the aggression they face and subject others to it as a way of coping. Like a kid who is abused at home but bullies the kids at school.
In my experience, Most aristo’s treat their employees with respect.
Load More Replies...Sounds like she's projecting all the abuse she's faced as an outlet. Doesn't excuse it, but it might explain it.
The ironic part is that royal people normally knows how to act very well behaved and polite (or at least how to pretend).
When I was online dating, I walked out on not 1 but 2 different dates for that sh*t. One guy was just so patronizing and condescending, I couldn't even speak. I just picked up my purse and walked out. Had him blocked before I even got out of the parking lot and made sure to update his dating profile as a warning to others. The other guy was basically calling the waiter a loser and bragging about how much money he made (which doesn't impress us, guys). Same scenario, blocked and updated.
He was on trial for manslaughter and I didn't know until he was found guilty.
He kept trying to call me from jail
OP said that he was on trial for kidnapping and manslaughter, but was only convicted of the kidnapping in the end. "The story of why he was on trial is crazier. He was a bouncer at a festival, discovered a guy off his face on drugs and kidnapped him and left him in the middle of nowhere as a "bush tucker trial". The guy found his way back to the road and was hit by a car and killed. So many lives impacted by his actions. I was disgusted". Edited to add quotes.
Load More Replies...What's the best way to bring that up on a first date? I love sunsets, long walks on the beach and tofurkey. I hate mean people, am being charged with manslaughter, and did I mention I'm a hamster not a gerbil person? What's that? No, sunsets and not sunrises. I'm not a psycho.
I think the best way is to be upfront. We have to go back to your place after this, my place is under investigation for manslaughter. Was either my roommate or me..and my roommate was murdered a few months ago
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We were in one of many fights and I told him I needed space, so we hadn't talked in maybe a day.
I get a text from a random number saying it was his sister and that he was in the hospital after a bad work accident. I ask which hospital (knowing that it is him texting me using a number app, lying about being injured - BUT you never know, maybe it's real).
"She" tells me the name of the hospital and then sends me a picture of JUST his legs which are bruised, but they looked like how his legs always looked. And then she says "this is the last picture they took of him before he was life flighted to the hospital." She said he had severe head trauma, a cracked skull, and his back was likely broken in several places. So...I called the hospital and asked if they had any patients by his name - they said no. I asked if anyone was life flighted in in the last few hours - they said no.
I blocked the number and went to sleep. A few days later I got a text from ANOTHER random number claiming to be his brother. He sends me a selfie of him in a hospital gown in an exam room at a doctor's office. He looked totally normal - no cracked skull or broken back. And it was cute because the room was ocean themed with crabs and fish on the walls. Anyway, the text said he was in the ICU (the crab room) and he had just woken up from a coma! Again, I ask which hospital and the "brother" refuses to tell me, saying he'll be RELEASED within the hour so there's no point in a visit.
I know it makes me sound like a bad person for not believing him, but this man lied to me on several occasions - told me he'd been shot, stabbed, poisoned. Also, his wife passed away and he told me two VERY different stories about how she died which led me to believe he might have had something to do with it. So many red flags and my mentally ill self was naive and lonely at that time in my life. Granted, this was a breaking point for me and I dove head first into therapy and never looked back.
I mean if you are going to put that much effort into fabricating disaster stories and setting up staged injuries, at least put that much effort into the relationship and being nice, you know, like a normal person?
I suppose this is what you do if you are completely incapable of those things. I mean, I’ve met a fair share of these people - they tend to hate me because I’m one of those absolute bastards who can all of a sudden grab a hold on something they say and just start to dig, and dig, and dig - and all of them have been strange and/or broken people. Unless in a professional capacity within the field of mental healthcare, one does best in steering as clear of these people as humanly possible. There are a number of valves and barriers which normal people have that just aren't there. It can get quite dangerous at times. Not a good risk to take.
Load More Replies...Yes, because they normally release people who’ve just woken up from comas an hour later. Do you know how hard it is to leave a hospital sometimes?! Waiting for a discharge summary, meds, getting wheeled out to the discharge lounge, etc etc??
Amen to this. "Oh, it's 6pm, I'm sorry we can't discharge you today".
Load More Replies...For those of you saying "in the US they [...]", much of what you're saying is hospital-dependent. Privacy laws allow hospitals to maintain directories of basic demographic information (name, age, room number) that may be released to callers who ask for the patient by name, or can otherwise prove a relationship exists, so long as patients have the opportunity to opt out if they so choose. Some hospitals, in an overabundance of caution, require patients to opt-in or to even preidentify potential callers, but that's hospital policy, not law.
…. I honestly don’t think I can read or comment on any more of these. Wow… I truly wonder how some people live with themselves and pray for them to see the light.
I showered at his place after staying over and I asked for a towel. He gave me one which had literal skin flakes on.
I asked for a clean one. He asked what I meant.
He did not realise that you need to wash towels because "they just have water on them so they clean themselves."
We all have blind spots. If he hunkered down on his stance I can understand, but if he was open to learning the error of his ways and changing then this is an overreaction. Don't blame people for having s****y parents.
Load More Replies...That’s really nasty but I’m not sure I would end a relationship over it. You really don’t know everyone’s backgrounds. Even my friend and I who have similar-ish standards clash when she’s at mine, she doesn’t like the way I load my dishwasher, moves my kitchen table to somewhere she likes etc etc, I’m not sure why she doesn’t think it’s rude. But I think leaving the toilet seat up when flushing is one of the grossest things you can do in your bathroom!
I'm with you. Seems like a really trivial thing to end a relationship over. Just say, next time I expect you to wash your towels, and bed sheets, while you're at it.
Load More Replies...Don't know if I'd dump someone for this, especially if it's their first time being questioned about it. If I cared enough about them [I'm showering in their house so I must feel pretty comfortable], I'd help them... I don't mind... Doesn't seem like a deal breaker yet...
This is what happens when parents don't teach their kids how to do chores. I'm a housecleaner and constantly run into clients with kids that r 16-17 yo and parents r NOW worried about their kids managing on their own when they go to college. U have to start to teach those things when they r young. Not just before they fly the coop!
If you think that's bad.... In Navy boot camp they actually had to tell grown men to wipe after dropping a deuce because they hadn't been taught that growing up
Tell me you're a mama's boy without telling me you're a mama's boy...
She was looking at clothes in the Mall, if she pulled something off the display and didn't like it she would just toss it on the ground. "What... Someone gets paid to put it back!"
The way someone treats people who work in the service industries tells you an awful lot. If they can't be, at least, civil then walk away.
GOD I hate people like that! I remember when I was at my old movie theater. We were waiting for everyone to leave and this kid is saying to his father "but dad, we have to throw our stuff away." This mf'r straight up tells his son "no we don't, see, that's what they are for." as he points to me and my usher crew. I think the collective sound of our jaws hitting the floor is what made him pick his s**t up. Again, I hate people like that! DO BETTER SOCIETY!
Humans are a s s h o l e s. They go shopping and leave the cart in the middle of the parking lot because there are people that get paid for that. Drop something liquid on the floor and don't let any on know cause there are people that get paid for that. Bring they're not service dog into the store and let them s h i t on the floor and leave it there cause there are people that get paid to clean it up.
A work colleague of mine who is quite socially awkward told me how he berated and humiliated a shop worker who dared to try and upsell him a chocolate bar. Instead of the expected “good for you!” I told him that abusing people on minimum wage who are just doing what they’ve been told to by their manager was not a good look. I added that he needed to find better ways of boosting his self-esteem than by being a c**t to people he clearly thinks are inferior to him. Strange man.
Oh wtf, I work in retail and yes that is part of our job but that's only because people are like this. It takes practically no effort to just put something back.
"why did you stab that guy?" "What? Someone gets paid to stitch him back up!"
Anyone who works in retail should be a loud to punch a few customers a day just for the fact they are f#cking twat baskets
When she doted on my kids as though they were hers/ours but treated HERS like they no longer existed or mattered. MASSIVE MASSIVE red flag.
I was sooooo happy to get out of that relationship but years later I feel badly for her kids and pray everything turned out well for them.
This kind of stuff is so weird to me. I'm adopted; I was adopted at birth. I have an older sister who is my parents' biological child. My dad was a wonderful father and did not treat us any differently (my mother is another story...) I don't have any kids, but if I did, I cannot fathom treating them any differently from each other were they biologically mine or not, foster or adopted, stepchildren, etc.
My step-dad treated me the same as his biological son. Which is to say, he would lock himself in his study and ignore all of us. It was a different time though. Fathers weren't expected to deal with children. We get along fine, and I'm very close to my little brother (half-brother).
Load More Replies...I have 4 young grandsons. One is technically a step grand but we have NEVER used that term. He is my grandson, my first grandson which I remind him of all the time. I bend over backward trying to treat all 4 the same.
I casually became acquainted with a woman who had remarried…. We had a few get together- always at her place. I noticed pretty much immediately that she virtually ignored her six year old daughter. Other than to admonish her for existing. This poor sweet little girl was so dejected it made my heart hurt. I tried to pay attention to her but she clearly only wanted her mother to love her. It was so senseless, so cruel. I think of that child every so often, decades later and wonder how she is. To be clear she was well dressed, well fed but simply didn’t exist in her mother’s eyes. Her mother fawned over her husband and when I ran into her years later she had a new baby with her dejected daughter in tow.
Adoptive mom here. We adopted our oldest from an Asian country because I had years of fertility problems. 2 years later I got pregnant and gave birth. You know what? I felt exactly the same about both my babies when they were placed in my arms. Mothers are born from the heart not the body. I can’t understand why you would adopt in the first place if you don’t love your kids the same..
Ugh. I’m the golden child and my sister is the scapegoat. I hate it because stuff that she gets yelled at for are things I’d be calmly told off for at most. We had problems with our neighbour and our dog barking so every time we let her out we step outside to keep her from barking. My sister takes a step outside right in front of the door (so she DID go outside) and the dog barked. My parents call her lazy and yelled at her, and even behind her back had a conversation like this: DAD: “F*cking kids.” MOM: “Don’t bring *my name* into this it’s just THAT one…” Yeah. Let’s just say I made mom/dad on my contact lists labeled their real names now.
In my family my father was the only one who claimed me! When he divorced the antimom I didn't blame him one bit!
Load More Replies...You cannot tell what kind of a person is by looking at how they treated you, alone. You have to look at how they treat others as well? It usually shows what kind of person they really are.
I hope so too but sadly there is usually lasting damage from a difficult childhood. You don’t learn lessons properly, how to value yourself or have self-confidence, which affects how you interact with the world, who you choose to have relationships with, and your life path. It’s hard to know true happiness.
Most of the time it's the other way around. I have a friend he's like 45 now but his like 3rd step mom pretended to be so nice to him and his brother.like 9& 10, but when dad left for work on a day she felt nice she would let him and his brother eat cereal out of her kids UsED milk. That's IF the kids weren't being mean too n drank it up then they wouldn't get to eat. And it's not that his dad would have cared anyways but. Yeah one of the "nicer" stories of his about wicked step moms. I don't understand how I can treat defenceless kids like c**p it's or not. Just sick
My mother had 3 kids only claims 2! She always said she wanted 1 son and one daughter! And that she never meant to have me! 35 years later she gets kidney cancer. She refuses to speak to me so she sends my brother to tell me her my sister and he voted that if she needs a kidney I should give her one of mine! I told them. F-you! I need mine give up one of your own! So I'm the motherless child from birth!
When I met the parents of my ex bf. His mom was quiet all the time (never saw that woman smile even a little) and hushed around the house like a ghost, her head always down. His father was an a*****e, who was super loud and told anyone what he had to do (while he himself did nothing at all).
So when we left his parents house he looked at me with bright eyes and said "My parents have the perfect marriage. My mom is such a good wife! She never does anything for herself, the perfect woman! All I wish for is that you will be such a good wife to me one day."
Really, I was just like "Nope. Nope. NOPE!", got into my car, drove off and never saw him again. :,D
Growing up in that environment with only his parents relationship to go by, I can see why these abusive cycles just continue from generation to generation.
It took me years to realize how messed up my parents were. My therapist asked me if I had any role models for a healthy relationship, and I couldn't come up with any.
Load More Replies...At least he was honest. But I bet he's online somehwere complaining about women not wanting 'Nice guys'
Lol, true!!! I felt for one like that, sadly. He groomed me to be nice, 15 years later I'm working hard to reverse the damage
Load More Replies...What is sad is that my ex-husband hated how his father treated his mother but he couldn't see that he treated me the same way. Controlling led to abusive, which led to me moving out of the state.
I have told this story about a dozen times on Reddit. The first night I slept at my ex’s apartment. I woke up in the middle of the night to an extremely loud scraping noise. It was inside my ear. A roach had crawled into my ear and was scraping against my ear drums with its legs/antennas/whatever. It was the most awful feeling I’ve ever experienced. I used tweezers to try to get it out and when I pulled them out after a few times, only half the roach came out. Had to go to the ER to get the rest out and get anti-biotics. I had a horrible ear infection for a couple of weeks. The worst part was her saying “it happens to my son all the time”. Like wtf? Found out she had for wrappers and trash under her bed. Clean your f*****g house!!!! It has literally haunted me and given me ptsd. When I’m sleeping if I hear the slightest noise I jump up and swat uncontrollably around my head/ears. My wife was shocked af the first time I did it when we were dating but since I told her she fully understands lol. Edit: My top comments are always about my f*****g ex girlfriends, f**k.
I feel sorry for little boy having to deal with that. I would have had to report her.
Oh my god. I'm so sorry for this person. I'm telling you though I'd wear earplugs or sleep headphones my whole life after that. No way I could be open eared while sleeping.
I am pretty certain I will be having that nightmare tonight having just read that
Load More Replies...When I was a little girl way back in the 1950's (I think I was about 5-6yrs old) I woke up one morning with a cockroach in my left ear. I woke to the sound of it scratching my ear drum trying to get out. My parents to me to the hospital and they worked for several days during appointments to get it out. First, they got the backside of the bug then after another day right after they discussed surgery my mother got them to try one more time and they got the last bit out. It was such a scary experience that I still remember it to this day. I also cannot stand roaches! They give me the creeps and every time I look at one it brings back of the sound of that roach in my ear.
Several days!! Oh my gosh! Was it still alive during that time?
Load More Replies...OMG DAMN… but poor roach too :( suffered a horrible death-by-tweezers
TLDR, I had a tick in my ear. when I was 7 or 8, my family went to hang out at a friend's farm and spent all day outside just walking the pastures, fishing the pond, etc. At the end of the day, my dad checked our scalps for ticks and reminded us to check the rest of our body. All good. The next day is a school day, and I'm sitting there in class and feel a tickle in my ear. Immediately, I know what it is, so I raise my hand and say "I think I have a tick in my ear. Can I go to the nurse?" The teacher probably thought I was nuts or just trying to skip out on class, but they let me go. Well the nurse checks the ear with a scope, and sure enough, a tick. Thank the flying spaghetti monster they were able to pull it out with tweezers without any drama.
I went away with my ex and saw his toothbrush for the first time. It had black mould growing on it and the bristles were so flat the toothbrush had a middle parting.
I had a conversation with him about hygiene and told him to get a new toothbrush but when I stayed at his house two weeks later the cursed toothbrush was still there... so I ended it.
THAT IS DISGUSTING WHAT IS THE POINT OF BRUSHING YOUR TEETH IF YOUR TOOTHBRUSH IS LIKE THIS
Not much - it is probably worse for his health.
Load More Replies...I wonder how the conversation went. Hygiene is a extremely sensitive subject and she sermed completely uninterested in finding out why he used the same toothbrush. There can be many reasons a person gets stuck in a habit, early trauma, personal issues...she just labled him disgusting and headed off. Prob the best for both of them though.
Ugh...I always tell my children, if you want to get something clean, firstly, and importantly, the thing that you use to clean has to be clean in order to get whatever clean!
We had a friend in high school that had the most yellow teeth ever because he refused to brush his teeth. He said there is no reason to brush them because they will just get dirty again anyway so it would be a waste of 3 minutes. He happily admitted he hadn’t brushed his teeth in 5 years. So gross but it pissed me off because of course he had perfect teeth and well some one like that shouldn’t be blessed with perfect teeth, let me have them instead!!
I like that she tried to educate him on the topic not just dumping him. Lots of people grew up in homes where neglect of basic hygiene was the norm. Yes he "should have known better" but everyone has blind spots. You think you don't? Ask your brutally honest friends.
No no no no no. It's sad that people are oblivious to such simple hygienic practices as changing toothbrushes regularly or washing towels.
She was probably kissing that mouth before she found out about his non-hygienic dental hygiene…
Asked me had I ever attempted to seduce my stepdad, who had been in my life since I was 8. I was 18 at the time. I just looked at him in bafflement and horror before asking him had he ever attempted to f**k his adopted sister? He responded with disgust and yet still couldn't see that he had asked me something horrific. Same dude also said he didn't think anyone was "really bisexual, they're just cowards who won't properly come out." When I asked him had he forgotten that I'm a bisexual woman, he smiled and said "Nah, I'll f**k you straight." All this said within a MONTH of us getting together. He's an ex for a reason.
That's what I was thinking. Porn messes people up. I have had to have this conversation with my 15 year-old. What you see in these things isn't reality, it's just as much BS as any other movie you'd watch.
Load More Replies...That thing about bisexuals, I've had gay people say the exact same thing. It's really odd being essentially gay bashed by a gay person
One of the many reasons I don't associate myself with that community...too much hate coming from inside the closet. I can be comfortable knowing who I am alone.
Load More Replies...Um yeah goodbye. This is gross. Not only is this guy living out some porn fantasy through you, he's a bigot and is talks about and to you like a sex object. Not sure why this person appealed to you in the first place. I hope you didn't get very far with him. Not this post because I know this all happened within a month, but I sometimes shake my head at posts people make about horrible ex's and I'm like....you probably should have found out some of this stuff before you moved in, lol. I get hookups happen but there are some basics I want to know first, even in a hookup situation.
But some people don’t show the bad sides of themselves until you live together- had a step dad like that.
Load More Replies...Thing is I think the opposite is true, I think there’s a lot of gray area for human sexuality and I think a lot more people are bisexual to varying degrees than society realizes. Oh and I’m straight and in my late fifties.
Sounds like he only wants someone to cater to his wet dreams. Bisexuals are valid regardless of what thier current partner has downstairs.
Ohhhh. I had someone say the same thing about "making me strait". I ain't even gay! I'm repulsed by the thought of s3x and have no urges at all. I don't even like hugging my own family. Then he tried to put his hands on me (which I took as a threat) and I clocked him! He never spoke to me again! I was so thankful for that...he did however report my "assault" to the principal. I clarified things real fast and he didn't deny what he said. I got lunch detention. He got nothing.
He showed me, with excitement, a box of things he'd been collecting from me without my knowledge. This included strands of my hair taped up neatly, bobby pins and hair pins I had in from prom, my finger prints and saliva sample that he took out of the trash from our forensics class experiments. He thought this was a romantic gesture or something, but it just made me really realize how creepy and obsessive he is.
He was also very controlling and got jealous/mad at me for hanging out with my sister, or spending time on my laptop or with my dog. And he also admitted to me that he stalked my FB interests to pretend he knew and liked what I liked, researching the games I played and music I listened to so he could bring it up in conversation. Total psycho.
I had a friend who was really into me (I had a feeling she liked me but I had no idea it was on an obsession level.) She stole my mp3 player then would start playing the super obscure songs I like when I was around, acting like she already knew them. I was suspicious but then it was confirmed when another friend of mine said she saw my mp3 player in her room and then told me that all she talked about was me. Kinda creeped me out but I mostly just felt bad for her. I just pretended like I didn't know but kept her at arms length after that.
Had a guy I knew from High School that offered to drive me to work after school, but said he had to get some items from his room to fix a problem with his truck. He wanted to show me a picture of what the truck would look like after the paint job he had planned for it. I walked in his room and he had a bed with wooden posts that had metal loops attached to it. Soon as I saw them, I knew what they were for. He looked at me with a silent grin and an expression of "Do you want to?" He lived a few houses away from another friend of mine. I said "I'm going to be late. I'll just ask your neighbor if she can drop me off" and left quickly. Avoided him after that. Later he wrote in my yearbook "my writing isn't so hot...but you are." Someone stab me in the eyes with a hot poker please!!!
oh i did the same thing but except ask him abt his interest and what he likes n stuff..pretty messed up i admit it. It was like 3 years ago so i know nothing about it that much,it was through online so i didnt do anything like collecting his hair n sht. i learned so dont attack me
My ex used to say, constantly, that she wanted to be inside my skin. It was her way of saying she desired me, but it was f*****g weird and off-putting so I asked her to stop and she couldn't understand what was so uncomfortable about what she was saying. Pretty soon after that I went on a week long work trip and three days into it she called and told me the whole time I've been gone she wanted to cheat on me. Then she asked me if she could see other people while I'm gone. I broke up with her pretty much instantaneously.
Well, she was honest and communicated about her wishes instead of just cheating, thats a plus. Better then cheating and he would have found out later.
Taking it at face value, I agree; expressing the desire before doing it is a plus. From my own personal experience, however.... my ex-wife and I had some moments of long distance and she said the same thing to me. Turns out she wasn't just... wanting to, but actually had already slept with several different people behind my back and then asked permission for it because she felt guilty.
Load More Replies...A week? She couldn't stay faithful for a week. Her mind sounds like a very chaotic space
Sounds like there was more things wrong somehow. If after three days indeed you already want to cheat...
Load More Replies...Lol. She’d definitely already cheated and was only trying to get your “ permission” to alleviate her guilt
I feel like there's more going on here. Almost sounds like a stage of mania?
Having mania doesn't automatically make you want to cheat on someone, she clearly had some problems and probably needed therapy, but throwing the name of just any condition out there is irresponsible and shortsighted.
Load More Replies...Wooo; it seems like some of you are missing the point. She declared her undieing love for him by saying I want to wear your skin, to I want to cheat on you. Lol, she is psychopathic or maybe even sociopathic. Get her help
We were visiting NYC in Dec, 2001. The city was still in shock and mourning over 9/11. We had even seen large, makeshift walls at Grand Central Station with hundreds of heartbreaking have-you-seen-me / missing messages for people that had been in the towers and not seen since that day. We were walking around Battery Park, where at the time had barges with remains of the Trade Center buildings. I made a comment in respect for the whole situation. She said (loudly) , "what's the big f*****g deal? They were just buildings." That's when I knew she had no soul.
vile. "Just buildings". A massive symbol of american prosperity and hope for those who saw america as this "shining city on the hill". Also filled with almost 3000 people. What a horrible person.
Not to mention all the emergency crews running into the building to their deaths on a hope that they could save more people
Load More Replies...I knew absolutely no one that would’ve been in the towers, I’m in Florida, I watched all day in shock and absolute horror as the events unfolded that day. I still get upset thinking about it, the people that had to jump, the people begging for help; it’s all so horrible to think about and anyone that can’t have empathy even in that situation has the emotional capacity of a rock.
I lost friends. Not in New York, but at the Pentagon, I had just gotten out of the military when the attack happened (literally two weeks prior to the attack), and had been a pencil pusher at the Pentagon for my last year. I also had a close friend whose whole family was on the flight out of Boston that crashed into the World Trade Center. He was flying out of DC to meet them in LA. He took his own life a few months later. It was a really tough time, I was in my early 20s, and felt like I had to do something, anything. I ended up moving to East Africa to build schools for a few years.
Load More Replies...The building is not the big deal here. The big deal is all of the people that died in them 🤦🏽♀️
Maybe she just didn't understand what the big deal about the buildings was because they were parading the damn wreckage around like the towers were the real loss; profiteering off the attacks by making commemorative coins and plating them with one atom thickness of gold allegedly recovered from the basement vault to ground zero and all that capitalistic materialistic barf.
I had an ex like this. Watched in horror at world events happening in the news….. clips of the Fukushima earthquake that disrupted the power plant and people died….or famine in Ethiopia… or seeing me tear up at the treatment of child brides in India…. He turned and said in disgust…. “Are you actually crying over c**p like this? Jesus! Grow the Fock up.” I had no words. I knew he was just a self centered narcissistic person where if it didn’t revolve around him then it doesn’t mean a damn thing. Especially as he says, these people don’t even know you and won’t shed a tear over you. Almost destroyed my faith in humanity.
I got home from school to a room of Jehovah’s Witnesses effectively happy about it as a sign of Armageddon. That was probably the day I realised I didn’t like the woman my mum had become and also noped out of organised religion altogether.
Load More Replies...I'm not American but came to the USA about 2 months before 9/11 happened, I was about 11, and I still 20 years later don't understand much about the buildings themselves, but I know a lot were hurt, killed, and lost and that is what seemed most important to me, it didn't matter it was over 3000 people or if it was 2, they were attacks and people were hurt and that means they need respect
I was little when 9-11 happened . It is one of earliest , clearest memories I have. Still to this day it shakes me to the core when I think back to watching the towers come down on TV.
Just buildings - and thousands of dead. I mean, it did frustrate me that this one act of killing sent the whole world into an economic crisis that damaged millions of lives, while in other parts of the whole wars go on without anybody takign notice (Jemen ). It was a huge deal but did it really have to destroy economies worldwide for years? Being a bit less emotional about it might have led to less harm.
Is this girl even from earth how could she no see the huge effect this has on most of the world. NYC lost so many of their firefighters, police officers and thousands of citizens . I visited ground zero in 2002 and cried for all those lost. Thank you to all the first responders including those who travelled from all over to help out. Steve Bushemi big shout out to you thank you for your service.
Dated a girl for a while, always seemed really well put together. Nice clothes, hair and makeup. We usually hooked up at my place. Went to her apartment once…the smell when she opened the door should’ve been enough. There were dirty diapers overflowing trash cans in every room of the house. There was a super small walkway through the mounds of dirty clothes to the bathroom. And to make it worse , there were used paper plates on top of the MOUNTAIN of dirty dishes in “the sink”. She proudly pointed out a moldy dish and said that it was from when she cooked dinner for two of our mutual friends. 3 months prior. Noped the hell outta there.
If it was just her I'd never give her another thought. But did you say DIAPERS?? Was the baby under the paper plates too? I wouldn't have been able to walk away...I would've had to contact someone she was close to about that. Poor little one....
Dirty diapers WITHOUT a baby present are also a no-no to me.
Load More Replies...Sounds like a relative. If you don't know them well enough to call BS then there is always some version of why it is dirty right now. "I cleaned everything but then the kids messed it up" type stories. Except stacks of moldy rancid dishes, a layer of stuff on the floor so deep it was hard to touch the floor (with sometimes old food and dog feces mixed in) etc was not just "the kids messed it up after I cleaned".
Sounds like she was hoarder. Might be some genuine mental illness involved here instead of someone who's just gross.
Lack of hygiene is a big nope for me. My current one was like this till I said to her that it grosses me out. Fortunately she at least tries to tidy up now.
She was jealous of me spending time with my sister and implied our relationship ‘wasn’t normal’. I was so grossed out by the implication. Dumped her the best day.
Totally weird. My brother is one of my best friends. (My sisters are NC because they are toxic AF).
It depends on how often and how long you do depend on your age. Some siblings do not act like siblings who are individuals with aspirations. Then again, maybe that is just because she was not the one.
What wasn't normal? Getting along? Did she think that the stereotypical "sibling rivalry" was the only acceptable way for your relationship to turn out?
Didn’t leave immediately when I was told this, but fairly soon after.
She told me that she never cleaned up cat barf. She’d simply wait and let the dog eat it. Once the dog got too old/deaf/blind, she would lead the dog to the cat barf.
Big nope for me.
Poor animals. How else did she neglect them? I don’t want to know.
Dogs are disgusting. They eat poop, vomit, garbage, and rotting dead things. I feel nauseated just thinking about it 🤢
I’ve only ever done this by accident: go to grab cleaning stuff and the cat barf vanishes, I no longer have both a cat and a dog, but after it happened a couple times I learned to restrain the dog, not make a habit of it!
Why was the cat puking so much she regularly had the dog clean it up? I think the cat needed to visit a vet.
He told me **after** surgery that he couldn't take care of me like we planned, so he drove me home/to my parents place. My parents ended up going on a trip they had planned, hence the need for my bf to help me, leaving me bedridden with my weak grandma mad my grandpa who had dementia. Ended up having to rescue my grandpa which caused significant damage and bleeding to the point I needed a second surgery due to internal bleeding which got so bad as to burst my skin. Needless to say we aren't dating anymore.
That is abusive and downright dickish. I would've sent him the bill you had from the 2nd surgery.
This might be from a developed nation where we don't have to pay for surgery out of pocket.
Load More Replies...He’s a huge a-hole, but so are the parents. If my kid had a surgery and their spouse left them alone I’d cancel everything.
If she ever had the misfortune to have cancer or a long term illness like MS, she’d end up one of the 21% of women in that situation that gets dumped by their husband.
Load More Replies...Mmmmmm I might cause some s**t with this comment. But. I'd be a little pissed that my parents decided to go on holiday still...assuming they hadn't yet gone when your bf dropped you off and were aware of the situation. Leaving you with your sickly and elderly grandparents.
Erm...why is someone who needs this much care even released in the first place?? And why do the parents leave thier parents without a carer?
They are released because hospitals aren't rehab facilities. Once they are medically out of the woods and cleared to rest and recover at home, out they go. I had a spinal fusion and was released 3 days post-op (standard timing), but could barely walk, couldn't go to the bathroom by myself, etc. They only keep you til they know that you aren't at risk of bleeding to death or dying, then as long as you have someone to stay with you at home, you're on your own. She supposedly had someone to look after her, but he decided to be a d*ck instead.
Load More Replies...Yes but some people don't show you until it's an emergency situation. Some people do crack under pressure even though that's not the case here- he never even made an attempt.
Load More Replies...Oh God. I am so sorry to hear of your ordeal with that abusive a*****e.
My ex did this...I had to have surgery to take my uterus out due to cancer, and apparently when I was coming out of anesthesia I had aggressively accused the doctor of stealing my organs to sell on the black market (of course I don't remember any of this). But instead of finding the humor in it like ANY OTHER PERSON would have, he instead broke up with me right after I came to in recovery, saying he saw my "true personality" come out and that I was an ungrateful, bitter woman. He then abandoned me at the hospital with no way home and no one to help care for me post-op. Wtf.
I bet that he's the type that would demand that you give up work, activities and everything to be there at his beck and call should he be ill. It should work that he cares enough about you to be there for you as you would be there for them.
Absolutely. He's probably the type to call for his mommy every time he gets a sniffle.
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At a party with some of my closest friends and a lot of their mutuals, one of our friends who had recently been diagnosed with cancer was sharing some of his experience with chemo.
My then gf interrupted him by saying, “oh come on, it’s not that big of a deal. We all probably have cancer. Moles are usually cancer. Look, I’ve probably had cancer in all these places on my arm where I had moles removed.”
There were a lot of other issues that lead to it, but I broke up with her a few days later.
I was just so appalled by her lack of self awareness? These were my friends who I had known for a decade, and she’d only known them for about a year. And we were in a small group of maybe 9 people, most of whom she hadn’t even met before.
It disgusted me and I couldn’t spend the rest of my night near her. Ended it within the week.
Told my friends that I needed to cancel a gaming session bc I was having surgery to see if I had Cancer. One of my friends girlfriends was there that evening She says into the momentary silence after I finish speaking in a bright happy voice "oh good you and I can hang out next Monday then!" We just kinda stared at her. Read the room lady. Side note. It came back positive, I'm a year clear of it, she is no longer around for other reasons.
This is over the top but it is true some folks don't "get" the health struggles associated with cancer / chemo / radiation therapy until they have been there. My best friend is a stage 4 cancer survivor. operations / treatment / and now post cancer meds have really taken their toll. Back during chemo another friend downplayed it, positive thinking, blah blah. Years later that woman has cancer / chemo. She came back to my friend and apologized for how very wrong she had it.
It's onething to make jokes it's another thing to just plain old put someone down for talking about all the stuff they goes through. My sister been dealing with 3 different cancers since she was 22. She is the biggest prankster in our family. But she doesn't talk about her cancer and treatments because she don't want to take the chance of someone doing what OP's girlfriend did. Trust me if someone does my sister is snapping out. So is her husband and their son and my family.
"We all probably have cancer" WTF? Where does she get her medical knowledge?
I saw the photo and knew it was a cancer story. Those chairs are exactly the same as the ones I sat in during my chemo sessions in 2015. Glad you dumped the unfeeling person.
I'm not defending her, because that was a very ignorant and insensitive thing to say, so please don't take it that way. I just thought it was interesting trivia that we probably all *do* have cancerous cells in our body, but our immune systems are very good at killing them off before they're a problem. I don't know if that really qualifies as 'having' cancer though.
Cancer is when certain cells go "rogue." Meaning that they reproduce to the point of disrupting the body's normal functions. Cancer is not like a virus, for which you could be immunized. It is cells going out of control, with nothing the body can produce to counteract it. The immune system is helpless against any type/stage of cancer. This is why we have all kinds of tests for detection of cancer, and treatments. Unlike with the flu or similar malady, depending on the type, cancer can be aggressive. The treatments can take a toll on your body, but it beats the alternative. (And yes, I'm a cancer survivor.)
Load More Replies...Annoyingly turning away in bed. Because I was crying. Due to the pain of my kidney infection. For which I later had to go to the hospital for because, duh, it was a kidney infection. Nah man, I don't understand how people can be annoyed about their loved ones acute pain instead of alarmed. I got out of that relationship pretty quick after that. My now bf oftentimes cares more of my health than I do and tells me to go to the doctors if I have pain.
oh, this hit home. had been married about 22 yrs when the progressive disease i had been diagnosed with several years before put me in a wheelchair for a while. the first time he saw me in a chair he stopped then walked away. always made sure he walked behind or ahead of me when in the chair. took me a few more years before i finally told myself that i was better off alone. with exception of my family, most people i knew thought i was crazy to leave as 'who would help take care of me'? new to them: me - i will take care of myself. since then have had several surgeries and been incapacitated at times and still took care of myself. the only thing my family did was prep meals for me and be there when i needed to bathe because they were concerned i would slip or get stuck.
I called it quits with my husband after I had surgery and he yelled at me that I was complaining too much about the intense pain. Never looked back.
omg! I had a nasty kidney infection - the pain is insane. My (still after 8 years) was the most thoughtful man! Came to my place at 5 (he worked as a cook) just to give me a cuddle so I can finally fall asleep. On the other hand - my ex-fiancee left me in the hospital with lumbago because he had an exam the next day...
Got accused of faking panic attacks. I thought I was dying bc I didnt know what was wrong with me. Got told I was doing it on purpose so that he got no rest on his day off. Told me I was holding Gatorade in my mouth so that I could act like I was throwing up. Told me that there was nothing wrong with me bc I wasnt physically hurt. I had 5 attacks a day, everyday for a month. Went from 105lbs to 85. Very dark time.
I'll admit to getting fed up with some people who always have a litany of illness, injury, aches, or pains, but never do anything about it except complain to others.
I had a UTI that turned into Urosepsis, fatal 40% of the time. Had it twice, very lucky. It’s silent and deadly.
I love my fiancé, but he tends to pull this c**p. In December, I broke the wrist of my dominant hand while at work, and have been on comp leave ever since. Not two weeks with the cast on, he started complaining about how work isn't getting done around the house, and when he's on vacation, he tries to make a point of doing at least one chore a day. I had to loudly remind him that my wrist was broken, I wasn't on vacation I was on comp, and my chore was healing from my injury so that I could get back to our regularly scheduled lives. We switched up our chores, and that helped a bit. Once I was able to cook and load the dishwasher again, he quit the grumbling. I think he was mainly hangry.
That sort of lack of empathy is common in Narcissistic Personality Disorder. People with that don't get better. It's good you got out!
It should’ve been the time that he fell out of the shower in our Airbnb and was EXTREMELY agitated with me afterwards for not trying to save him from falling out. He was 6’2 and 230lbs, I was about 105lbs and am just under 5’0. Not sure what I was supposed to do.
It also should’ve been when he pitched a fit and deleted his FB event for his 40th birthday because not enough people had enthusiastically responded to it in the three hours it was up.
It also should’ve been when he booked a four seat reservation at a theme restaurant and invited one of his close girlfriends, but told her she couldn’t bring a guy and had to bring another girl. We weren’t quite finished our drinks when our seating time had run out, and went to sit at the communal table to finish and leave. He chatted with his friend and the girl she brought with his back to me. He didn’t even notice when I messaged him a picture of the back of his shirt because I was trying to make a point.
What it was was being on vacation with him and having him sneer at me for tipping too much ($5CAD to his suggestion of 50 cents). “You’re going to skew the economy here” “this is why you live paycheck to paycheck”. Dude literally lost any glamour charm on him at that moment and looked like nothing but a slimey human lizard freak after that.
Never been more repulsed and am still not quite over how disgusted I am with myself for dating him even a few years later.
My dad screamed at me for not helping him get up from the shower once, he wasn't injured, he was over 200lbs, I was undiagnosed with partial deafness at the time, oh and I was 6.
That's offensive to lizards, even the freaky kinds. Also he is a vile non-human assholecurse pile of shyt.
Sorry, what? "Our seating time had run out"? Is that an American / Canadian thing?
If it's a reservation yes it can happen I think. Like you reserve a certain time slot so there can be someone after.
Load More Replies...I had an ex like this. It took me way too long to recognize him for the slimeball that he is, too. At least we both learned from it, thank god.
My bf refuses to donate to any charities, but instead tips 40 to 50% to everyone in positions that rely on tips. He says he likes helping people that are busy helping themselves. We don't go out a lot, but when we go to our regular spots, the service is insanely good.
I don't necessarily see this as a bad thing, considering a lot of charities will use the majority of a donation for admin fees/expenses leaving very little to actually help those in need. It may be that he needs to literally see his money going towards something positive or helping someone for him to believe it. At least he tips very well- that shows that he is trying to make an impact.
Load More Replies...That is a hell of a shower. Not too keen on the glass bathroom wall but... So, how does one save somebody else from falling out of a shower? Unless they're watching (?) or already in the shower with the clumsy one, I don't see how this would work.
No idea what 6'2 and 230 Libs represent, sounds kinda big from the context
This was in highschool in the Netherlands, there was a new girl (April) and she and I hit it off. About 3 months in she asks me about previous girlfriends, upon hearing one of their names the conversation went like this Her- "oh the girl from the other class?" Me- "Yeah yeah, the goth looking girl" Her- "isn't she black?" Me- "Yes?" Her- "Can't believe you dated a "insert slur" you didn't have sex with her right? i don't think I'd be okay with that. I'm glad you changed your mind." Left right there and then.
zwarte piet (also known as Black Peter) is the stick to Santa's carrot. He's black as coal and when St. Nick visits, if you're good, you get candy... if you were bad you go the switch... if you were REALLY bad, Krampus would come, toss you in a sack and carry you away to be eaten.
Load More Replies...There seem to be a lot of Dutch Pandas downvoting anybody complainign about Zwarte Piet. Dear dutch neighbours: Regardless of how modern your country migh tbe, you are still doing blackface and you will just have to live with reactions to that, just as you have to accept the slave-trade in your history or that fact that Geerd Wilders party is the fifth largest in your parliament. Ignoring facts does not help in changing our countries for the better.
*looks at the comments* Apparently dutch people are racist AF, who knew.
What does zwarte piet have to do with anything? Why are all the comments about it?
Anti-black culture is normal in world cultures, even though they began with Blacks. Oh well
I resent that. It's a holiday that we've had for centuries, which we're trying to change. It doesn't happen overnight, and it takes a lot of effort and insight to get everyone to see what the colonial background of said holiday is when all you've ever been told was that Piet was his helper because Sint was over 200 years old, not much different from Santa and his elves. It doesn't make all Dutch people racist.
Load More Replies...there is no context needed, ex gf was racist thats it.
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Dated a guy who said even the smell of mint would make him gag. Mint anything, icecream, gum... toothpaste... So yeah, he didn't brush his teeth. Wouldn't hear a bar of it when I said there were non-mint toothpastes on the market. I realised after over 6 months together that he was just generally unhygienic and had a specific hang-up about brushing his teeth.
He told me he had memories of his mother holding him down to forcefully brush his teeth as a child because he hates mint so much... but I have to wonder if it was always about the mint, or actually the fact that the taste of mint was the most tangible part of that childhood trauma...
Probably also a dentist. How TF have his teeth not all rotted out?
Load More Replies...To be fair, I happily eat hot/ spicy/ strong foods, but for some reason I am super sensitive to mint. It is just the worst-tasting, most overpowering thing in any but the mildest form (but yes, I do brush my teeth!).
I feel like mint is the opposite feeling to spicy though. But I get it. I'm not a huge fan either. I used kids toothpaste for a while cause it was strawberry flavored and had the exact same amount of active ingredients. But my husband works at a packing plant for arm and hammer, so we get free toothpaste and I can't justify to myself spending money on something we get free just cause I don't love the flavor.
Load More Replies...I once had a dentist tell me if the mint flavor was too trong for me it was ok to use children's toothpaste. I was using it after I had my wisdom teeth removed because my mouth was sore. The bubble gum flavor was pretty good.
Haha, just posted the same thing. Didn't know about strawberry though.
Load More Replies...I’m guessing it’s probably not a problem for him now as he’s most likely lost his teeth. 😬
I can't stand peppermint. Spirmint is fine, but peppermint registers to my nose like cat pee without the ammonia. I don't have a great sense of smell and some of the things I do smell are a little different I guess. But they make cinnamon toothpaste and unflavored toothpaste and whatever that weird flavored kids toothpaste I half remember was. Surely he could have tried one of those?
I'd rather brush my teeth than have to have dental work. And for a long time I couldn't handle peppermint. They used to have a gum called Chewz. It was peppermint flavored, and chalky, and was supposed to settle an upset stomach. Mom would give it to us whenever we were throwing up. My Pavlovian response was to get an upset stomach whenever I tasted peppermint.
I had set hard boundaries with a guy I started seeing, saying I wanted to take things slow. A couple dates in, we’re sitting in my car eating dessert and he’s trying to kiss me and put his hand on my breast. I push his hand away which he then tries to put between my legs. I pushed him away and told him he’s going too far and he says “I’m on my best behaviour, this is me going easy!” He always pushed my boundaries and I cut it off after a month of seeing him
How about an "easy" crack to the face(or head) with a brick???
If that's him going easy, then at his peak he'll try to rape you. Should've dumped him at the first sign he didn't respect your boundaries.
Watch the movie "Face/Off." Skip to the scene where Claude attempts to get freaky and ends up having his a*s handed to him.
I had a conversation with my niece about her dad. She didn't know that I went out with him twice before dumping him. She heard one description of him that she'd never heard before I said he had Roman hands and Russian fingers.
My ex wanted sex and I said no. Starts trying to "woo" me and when that doesn't work he starts screaming at me, begging me, calling me a c*nt, etc. Then suddenly goes back to being super sweet. When he got mad at me he'd stop taking his bi-polar meds (yeah, that'll teach me) or shave because I was really into beards. He lasted less than a year.
I had gotten to the point in the relationship where he didn't mind me in the bathroom while he used it. He took a s**t and wiped ONCE. Didn't even look at the toilet paper, then started pulling his pants up. I immediately asked wtf he was doing and how tf he thought one little wipe was going to do a damn thing, and he was like, "I've never needed more than one, look" then wiped again probably expecting nothing to be there.
There was a lot there.
Idk I guess the idea of him just carrying on with his day with s**t regularly caked up in his a*s painted him in a different light for me. Wasn't ever able to reignite the attraction. Probably should've been the person-sized pile of garbage in his room that made me reconsider but I had further limits than most I suppose.
Soooo, being able to poop in front of each other is now #RelationshipGoals? Nah. Been married almost 30 years and the only time one of us has been in the bathroom while the other was "dropping the kids off at the pool" was post abdominal surgery to help prevent a rupture.
That's why a lot of women get a UTI after sex. 🤢
Load More Replies...barf. I'm the opposite on these points, hate poor hygiene with a passion.
That's why I will always install a bidet. Nothing better than blasting water up your butt crack after a hot poo.
Toilet paper crisis of 2020… the bidet saved us ! Lol
Load More Replies...“ I had gotten to the point in the relationship where he didn't mind me in the bathroom while he used it.” No. NOPE. No ma’am. Whatever else comes after that, it’s a big Nuh-Uh. Get out of the bathroom. Yeah, he’s disgusting, but so is she by just hanging out while her boyfriend is using the toilet. Yuck!
It’s amazing how washing one’s a*s after a dump works wonders! In North America people seem to think that toilet paper does a good job- it doesn’t! I tell mg husband, if you got s**t on your arm you wouldn’t use toilet paper to wipe it off….
Lmfao exactly, you don't use toilet paper on your baby when you change their diaper why would you only use toilet paper on yourself??
Load More Replies...When she was so insistent about not using a condom during sex and when we were just going about our daily lives she would constantly talk about how much she’s always wanted kids all for herself We were 18 at the time. I left her in the dust so quick
And men will fight tooth and nail against it. *lol* If they can´t be bothered to use condoms, why should they take pills?
Load More Replies...Happened to a friend of mine at 19. He was always going on and on about wanting kids and trying to convince her, she really didn't. When she knocked on his door and told him that she had turned up pregnant he didn't say word, just shut the door in her face, joined the army and didn't speak to her again until 'their' son was about 18.
Wait, the guy wanted kids, the girl did not, but when he knocked her up, he shut the door in her face? Nice friend you've got there.
Load More Replies...She didn't want you as a partner, she wanted you to pay child support.
That is sad on so many levels. That's someone who maybe never got enough love and attention when she was growing up, and who suffers from the delusion that having children will fill that hole. So those babies are born to do a "job" they are never meant to do, and she probably never treats them any better than she was herself.
It was actually over a movie. I love watching tons of movies. Not in the snobby way, just in a popcorn munching, happy way. So one of my absolute favorite comedies is The Birdcage (remake of a french movie) with Robin Williams, Nathan lane, and Hank Azaria. It was shot right around where I was born. So I go to toss it on and she straight up refuses because it is primarily a movie with gay people. This turns in to a rant about the sanctity of marriage and leads to being against her religion, which I find out is legit her family church, and just a lot of eyeopening admissions from someone I had been dating for a year. Now I'm I like to think im not an overly sensitive individual, bartender for 15+ years, so when someone makes me uncomfortable, it has always been my rule to get them out of there. Did not watch the movie, had some fun (cards) and then the next day politely broke up. Of course went and watched my movie afterwards because it is great. Had no idea I had been dabbling in crazy for that long. *For the whining people, the "fun" was cards and a couple drinks as in I did not just scorch earth it. We were traveling together becoming more serious, visiting my hometown in Florida briefly and I thought it was a cool idea to end with "Does that place look familiar in the movie" from the places we visited. It is a bit corny but I've never claimed perfection. You don't want to be one of those idiots who fights with someone and then has to sit next to them for 2 plane trips. Wait till you land lol. **If you have not seen the original of the Birdcage, 1978 La Cage aux Folles, you should treat yourself! It was also fantastic.
I had a similar thing but not about gay issues. Instead it was her falling asleep in everything I showed her. I eventually cracked and said look, it's not just about you. We can't just watch inane romcoms for the rest of our lives. They do not accurately depict reality. Whereas most of my movies are "Classic" - not in the "gone with the wind" or "casablanca" sense, but in the sense of, EVERYONE has seen them. Apparently not her. And no interest either. I said we are learning about each other. These are important to me, so you should show SOME interest at least, or at least ASK why they are important to me, not just go to sleep or walk out. Edit: she literally would only watch romcoms. Nothing else. Any suggestion from me was shot down. Romcom after romcom. Gah.
Couples don’t always have the same taste in movies and, considering how you talk about her favorite movies, I’m not really surprised she had no interest in yours. Also, just because everyone has seen them doesn’t make it a good movie.
Load More Replies...It's funny how many Christians are so strict and sanctimonious about homosexuality, but so lenient about judging others, being greedy, lying, and a hundred other behaviours they are also warned against in their book.
Are we assuming the OP's girlfriend was a Christian? She could have been of the Islamic faith or of the Zoroastrianism religion or the Unification church. IJS
Load More Replies...She missed an amazing movie with some fantastic performances. Sadly, it sounds like she was raised in a very bigoted family environment and doesn’t know any better (not that that’s an excuse for her behaviour).
OMG, that movie was awesome. Totally forgot about it until I read this but yeah it was great. Nathan Lane is just fantastic in that movie. He is a national treasure, as was Robin Williams of course. The French film is also great, La Cage aux Folles.
Load More Replies...I myself loved Victor Victoria, with the irrepressible Julie Andrews
for me he had said he wasnt religious. We had been on a few dates and were at a bar. He asked about my friends and meeting them . It came up that most were Polyamourous, Bi or Gay. He kinda lost it over how that was a sin and not ok the Pope would not approve . I was clear that since most of them were also Pagan they weren't too concerned about the Pope's opinions and left.
An ex said “You need a cute job, no need for you to worry and work so hard” I love my job…I’m a nurse. Same guy, after confiding in him the real reason I don’t want biological children: my fear that I’m infertile (severe endometriosis from a fairly early age, my cousin also has it and she went through a lot of heartbreak trying to conceive, many many miscarriages and lots of IVF cycles, and I don’t think I could handle that emotionally) He replied with “well, you’re just going to have to try really hard then” As if it’s an issue of willpower or something? As if some people just aren’t working hard enough to have a baby?
When I worked as a security guard I had several male elderly tourists from various nations tell me I was too pretty to be working. I think it's the most disgusting thing I've been told. Nationalities varying between French, Italian, German and implied by a younger man from the Philipines. I'd never come accross something like that from someone from scandinavia, so I was really shook. And these men thought they were paying me a compliment. Same misogynistic pool of cess as "you need a cute Job". Good riddance, OP.
Comments like that make me want to run away and find my tribe of female Amazon warriors !
Load More Replies...Wow. So something medically wrong with the human body…. can be “willfully “ corrected just by trying hard enough? Is he completely daft? My brother says odd things like this too. “Diabetics don’t need to eat differently, just a smaller plate of what everyone else is eating. Portion control that’s all. You don’t really need metformin. You’re just not trying hard enough. No such thing as insulin resistance or metabolic syndrome or we’d all have it. Just try harder.” Said that about anklosing spondylitis as well, like if I just force myself to walk MORE…the pain will disapate and I won’t need hydrocodone or the wheelchair, just using it so you don’t have to walk..” Never understand how some people who never went to medical school are smarter than all of my doctors. And supplements and homeopathic remedies are not a substitute for a physician who knows anatomy and understands pain….and prescribes medicine instead of saying “Willpower”. Pfft. Alright done ranting.
Jeezus, if we had mind power over our fertility/uterus, we'd never have periods; just a once a month text saying "All Clear!! Keep gettin' it!!". Also all of the cancer stuff wouldn't exist. Can someone get on this, please?
I’ve had a guy once ask me if I could hold my period until I had my break then take care of it? This was my boss ! As if I could just choose when to expel my period whenever I wanted ! He was such an a*s. Went straight to HR, men also. Humiliating to explain how the female body works to grown a*s MARRIED men !
Load More Replies...I had problems from the time I was 14. A doctor told me when I was 21 that I had endometriosis. Took me only 7 years to find out. I shudder when I read about people not getting their diagnosis for 2 decades. I hope it didn't take too long for you to get your diagnosis.
I understand this. I started showing signs at 14 because my sister had Endo, had surgery a few years after being diagnosed, and my mom has adenomyosis. The second being much worse. By the time I went to a Gyno back in December, she told me that I couldn't get an ultrasound to see if I do have it. The thing is, the chick I went to before, for birth control, said that the next year, when I needed to renew the prescription, I needed to have an ultrasound. I'm almost in my 20s, I'd rather know early on to see if I have i than to wait until my thirties. By the time my sister was diagnosed, she was in her mid-twenties and can't have kids, even if she wanted them. Edit: Apparently, my sister can have kids. Just found out this morning that she's due in August. I didn't realize that after the surgery that it was technically possible to have them just difficult.
Load More Replies...If he said "we will have to try real hard", would to me be flirty. The way he said it, if you don't work hard enough, you are a loser. I'm sorry.
i think what he means "cute job" is being a UwU girl or that one girl who quitted her job to act like a dog..
I think "try really hard" was just an invitation to lots of sex? Couldn't tell you what a cute job is though.
My ex would threaten suicide anytime things got tough in our relationship. Grossed me out enough that I just called it a day eventually. Queue the desperate calls hours later from the apparent overdose. She's still alive and kicking somewhere though.
My ex wife did the fake suicide thing several times. I finally said go ahead. No, I didn't want her to die but I could see it was about attention not wanting to die. Also, I said it nicer than that. Basically told her kindly that I don't want her to but I can not watch her 24/7 so if she is going to do that then that is her choice to make even though I don't want it. She didn't, and also stopped pretending to. Though I think she pulled some of that during her subsequent marriages after me.
This is emotional manipulation and abuse. And at the same time the person threatening it is probably also in a totally messed up place - far more likely to be hurting and irrational than coldly calculating or at least I hope so... doesn't make it ok. I'm glad that OP got out of there.
A friend's ex did the same thing... The last time she said she was in the bathroom and going to swallow sleeping pills and die. What she didn't know was he happened to see her car at the mall. So he went and waited by the public bathrooms with mall security.. Out she comes with her girlfriends laughing about it. She spent time with security and the police explaining herself. She ended up with a free psych eval on her record.
as someone who survived multiple attempts of suicide, this is unacceptable..
My ex husband threatened to shoot himself constantly. I finally went into the spare room and put a shower curtain on the floor and asked him to try not to make too much of a mess. Kept waiting for the gunshot that never was. (Yes, he was mentally unstable. I had him committed more than once). We didn't even make it to our first anniversary. He went from being puppy dog sweet to trying to control me - I laugh too loud, I'm not "allowed" to hug men not in the family (I had several male friends), I was sexually attracted to HIS best friend, who I thought was a total creep, etc.. Yeah, that never ends well for the other person.
My ex constantly blaming me for not looking beautiful… in his eyes i was ugly af… i still struggle with low confidence sometimes…..
He was trying to trap you in the relationship by making you feel like you're ugly and no one else would want you... like the manipuative, narcissitic cünt he probably was. MASSIVE well done for showing him how wrong he was :) and you said it yourself, you were ugly "in his eyes"... his sh1tty eyesight has left the building, so pls stop giving it any importance and just be your beautiful self :)
My ex telling me how fat I am when I was 8 months pregnant with his child.
My ex was like this. I wasn't skinny enough unless I was a size 5 MAX. And still can't believe there r guys out there that find me attractive as is, and I'm not a big girl by any means. But he always went out of his way to make me feel like a whale and that I don't give a sh*t about him because I don't work my a** off to be skinnier, after a back injury that caused me issues for over 17 years and counting
Ugly should be to describe personality not looks, the only person your looks should be determined by is you
Well isn't he a f#cking d#ck. An ugly on the inside which is much worse than not being a 10 on the outside
Oh sweetheart I haven't even seen you and I can already tell you, you are beautiful and smart and intelligent and don't ever let anyone tell you different. It's the people who can't see the beauty in others who are truly ugly. Lift your head and let the world see your beauty.
My abuser did this. He'd show me photos of myself from when I was a model at 19, and weighed a VERY unhealthy 104 pounds. He said "if only you weren't too lazy, you could work hard enough to look like this again".
Her continued hobby of sleeping with other men while I was out of town. Really couldn't stand it.
"I don't think you meant it when you said it the first few times though, let's just try it one time, we all need a relief"
Load More Replies...My ex boyfriend had the same hobby...except he was trying to play for the major leagues...he didn't wait til I was put of town just until I was out at work
Sadly, my mother did the same thing when my dad was at work... he found out, confronted her, she refused to stop. My dad took my brother and I and left, got a divorce and custody of my brother and I. I'm so glad, my mom was affectionate and kind, but otherwise not a good mother.
I consider adultery and infidelity a bigger sin than murder. Without trust there can be no relationship. Learned this the hard way
Had an ex who was a wannabe actor. She once showed me a video she took of herself basically bashing jewish people for controlling Hollywood and how she was so oppressed. She thought it was some woke thing she’d done and people were going to be impressed with her “fresh” outlook. It was so tone-deaf that I honestly just realized that so many quirky things that I had liked about her, was her just being an idiot at her core. We broke up shortly after. She never made it as an actress and moved back to Detroit last I knew.
I just don't understand what these people think they're going to get out of that. Even if you are a racist or a bigot or anti-women, why on earth would you tell anyone that? I get you might be proud of being some disgusting human being, but you have to logically know that isn't how the bulk of people feel so unless you're at a Klan rally or some 'I hate Women and Gay people' seminar, nothing good will come of you recording your hate for posterity. I know some people don't care but if you're looking to get into an industry that has a lot of a certain type of person, why wouldn't you keep your mouth shut? If you want to get into fashion design or makeup artistry or anything in the entertainment industry, you're going to come across gay people. You're going to work with women. So if you hate those groups, maybe this isn't the career for you.
The sad reality is, these people have babies. They procreate. The hate doesn’t die with one generation, they teach it the toddlers when they first learn to talk. Children are not born to hate. They are indoctrinated by their parents as was their grandparents and so forth. Hate never seems to die.
Load More Replies...Why did she have to move back here, ugh smh. I hear Point Nemo is nice.
Anti-Semitic people are the worst. I’m not Jewish myself, but many branches back in my family tree a few family members were part of the tribe. How is being a hate monger funny in any way shape or form? Detestable.
Apparently sometimes being quirky just means being not very bright. Or as thick as two planks. Nothing to do with being ignorant and racist? 🤔
Fun fact: Jews do control Hollywood, and many other things. Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, maybe Fauci, and other leaders are Jewish. The rant was not necessary, though. Not all jews are bad.
He sneezed, didnt cover his face. A booger landed on his pants and he ate it. Im gagging just typing this.
I actually find this goddamn hysterical. I'm chuckling in the elevator at work just reading this.
Yeah, boogers are my kryptonite. I have kids and work with kids, and I'd rather wipe up vomit or s**t than go near boogers. I have a strong stomach but I gag when it comes to boogers.
Load More Replies...Sweet, Angel Baby, that is something even the internet didn't want to know. p.s. If you got up and without a word, ran as fast as your Jimmy Choos would go, no one blames you.
I was grossed out by how he viewed me as an object. It made me feel very used to the point that it made me physically ill once. After that, I told him I didn't want to be with him anymore. I never put myself through anything like that after. However, it was a valuable relationship because I learned to respect myself. Edit: thank you so much for all the support and for sharing your personal struggles with the same problem. Since some commenters are wondering about the details, I'll post more about it here: I was young, and he played with my mind. He would pull me away from my friends to have sex with me and wouldn't stop touching me or being sexual with me in front of everybody. He made me sit on his lap anytime we sat down together. He would try to sext me none stop, he wasn't interested in what made me a person or getting to know me beyond physically. It made me feel like his own personal walking cum sock. I couldn't even look at myself in the mirror. So it wasn't just comments, it was also physical. However, the comments made me extremely embarrassed and uncomfortable.
Once again, this s**t is only hot in fanficland. We're not in fanficland. Damn y’all some haters, ok geez!
It's not even sexy in fanficland, it's just disgusting
Load More Replies...Douchebag marking his territory for everyone to see. Hooray for you getting out!!!
Yeah. Every relationship I’ve had tbh. Until my current one with my best friend. I got in on Thursday and hoping it lasts a long time
My ex believed that love = sex, so if I didn't want sex it meant I didn't love him and he basically wanted it AT LEAST once a day, even after several years. He was constantly pawing at me. I'd be cooking dinner and he'd come up behind me and stick his hand between my legs, while the kids are sitting right there at the table. Made what was once a very pleasurable act an absolute chore. I can't believe I stayed with him for 12 years. Turned him down again and he starts screaming about how I don't love him anymore. I looked him right in the face and said, "You know what Mike? You're right. I don't love you any more and I want a divorce".
He was trying to break you down until you were nothing but an object…one that he’d have happily tossed as soon as he felt like moving on. You were right to leave! Good on you!
Oh my goodness sweetheart big hugs ❤❤ cum sock 😖 but great description
When I saw his apartment... the smell hit me first, just smelled like dog pee and this STRONG wet musty smell. I couldn't be in there without the windows open. Piles of stuff everywhere, so much that it was spreading to the outdoor balcony and diet coke cans on every surface. The carpet was so dirty you could see all around the edges of the wall a little brown accumulation, that....and the dog wasn't potty trained. While the poo would get picked up, the pee was never cleaned so it soaked into the carpet and I learned quickly that if I didn't have shoes on I might get a wet little surprise soaking through my socks. The kitchen tile always felt tacky and greasy, he rarely did laundry of any kind, in fact I never once saw him do laundry except the one time I offered to for him. He even had a little gaming den (edit to add, Fortnite...he played Fortnite), fortunately the dog wasn't allowed in there, but again, I could see it'd never been cleaned once. Dirt and dust and stuff piled everywhere, cans and old plates of food left out. He told me once that he wanted to get a mini fridge for it so he never had to get up, I was ADAMANT that he didn't. I don't care if it's his place, the next step after that is peeing in bottles! It was shocking, he seemed so put together on the outside, and then to see how he lived and this was AFTER "cleaning all day"...yyyeeshhh. I don't know if that was more gross or the "women don't know what it's like to work, women can't be trusted, women this women that, boohoo" comments. Also just want to add on, no I'm not making fun a depressed person. He was pretty happy/ active and could justify anything he did.
Okay, "he was pretty happy/active and could justify anything he did" - so can I, and I'm bipolar. No one knows I'm a wreck unless they're family, and the only family that really knows how bad I am is my mom and husband. Just saying.
No, you dodged a bullet here…bet you anything he was a mama’s boy who never once cleaned a thing for himself growing up. The fact that you actually did his laundry…you almost got trapped! He’s looking for someone to fill the role of mom to him. My sisters second (ex)husband was like this too. Just another kid who always had an excuse for why he couldn’t hold a job or clean a plate…
My husband and I are gamers and we definitely don’t do this and playing just Fortnite doesn’t make you a gamer. Fortnite is the stupidest game to ever exist
Load More Replies...Well all you could do is just politely remind him,….” You know you’re never getting your deposit back? And probably additional cleaning and fumigation charges, right?” Wink, wink…hint hint.
yep...that was my 2nd thought! i once worked at an apartment complex and the c**p you see is unbelievable! filth...so.....yep, deposit denied , plus extra charges!
Load More Replies...Even if he was depressed, it's not OP's job to fix him. I'd run from that situation too. Even without the nastiness, there's all the misogynistic comments. It's a bit rich for a guy whose apartment is like that to say that women don't know what work means.
I’m wondering if this guy kept saying that because he expected it to be her job to clean up after him !? Maybe that’s what he meant by saying women don’t know how to work.
Load More Replies...I wouldn't have made it past the front door. Luckily, my husband is very tidy.
Hadn't even met. A lady on tinder had every picture with her daughter. Turns out she wanted a boyfriend that her daughter could *share*. Her daughter was 17 (legal in that state) so I didn't call the police, but I definitely ghosted.
That poor daughter. Imagine the self-esteem issues that "mother" is laying on her.
What kind of mother does this? Mother has no boundaries and no concept of being maternal.
When I was an expat student with 0 cash, my boyfriend who grew up in the country invited me to a family event and expected me to be there. That day, I would have made some essential cash at work to buy myself food. At the time I was struggling really hard financially and trying to pay necessities, which he knew. He still lived with his parents and didn't work, pay for tuition, rent or anything. Out of love for him, I didn't go to work that day to attend the family event with him and accepted the fact that I will lose good money that day. He told me he doesn't want to pick me up by car, cause he thought I was being stingy with money for not travelling by train. The train ride would have been 1.5h including walking through an unknown village, taking the car would be 20 minutes 😂 made me hate him tbh During the family event he made a big fuss over me not agreeing over some racist statement. His whole family didn't know how to act and it was just the cringiest situation ever. That was our last day 😂
I was on a girls trip I booked months in advance (a festival). He showed up there and brought one of the other boyfriends with him. I hated it but couldnt do anything but just accept his arrival. Got into a fight with the girls (he did not involve them either with this “surprise”). Later on, he kept doing this. Intership abroad; he shows up, forcing my roommate to leave. Dinner 1:1 with my dad: he shows up. I moved out because I needed space, he books a trip we cannot cancel. Broke up with him afterwards. He kept showing up at my hometown and even work. It has been two years and he texted me congratuliations when I got married last year, but all I can feel is anxiety about his Control issues. Edit: Thank you for all the replys!!! This was in 2018, l havent heard from him since 2021 (my wedding I forgot it is almost 2y ago lol). Last I heard he has a girlfriend and he doesnt know where I live now. No worries. Also I think it was a family issue - his mother used to call me after the breakup as well saying I ruined their lives. Well I am glad I got out of that Crazy family, no need for self defense.
I didn’t leave, but it allowed me to leave her emotionally after the breakup. I found out that she does bad things and instead of dealing with them, she just fools herself into believing she never did them. Literally, she would lie and then say “I never said that”, and actually believe it. My romantic feelings towards her died instantly when I wrote it all down. She is a dirtbag.
I had a now former friend that used to do this. She would so deeply believe she didn't do or say something awful there was no convincing her otherwise. If we had her on video she would probably still claim it didn't happen.
Was young and naive and he was my first real boyfriend. We moved in together, it was a couple years of me hustling, gong to school in NYC, working, paying rent, and just working myself to the bone, living on restaurant food (waitress), and egg sandwiches, all while I watched him play video games in the corner of our living room day in and day out. He had a call center job for a little while, until he grew tired of it, didn't go to school, and every now and then his poor mother would send whatever care package and money she could. I soon realized that my hustle and motivation would never changed how lazy he was and how much he blamed the world for his problems. He was spoiled, blew a full ride scholarship with laziness and just wanted another mother to take care of him. We got in a huge fight about his laziness and not pulling his weight, he spit in my face, and I left immediately with my computer, school stuff and some clothes. After graduation, I spent the summer with my parents in their basement just to get away and clear my head. I went back after a couple months to collect any of my valuables, of which most of them were "at his cousin's house" and the apartment smelled so intensely of sour balls and garbage, that my friends who came with me to help me officially move out, couldn't be in the apartment. I wouldn't let them endure that. They made sure he wasn't going to do anything stupid, I collected my memorabilia and some furniture and left, never to see him again. He called me Valentines day the next year to tell me he just woke up next to someone he didn't know, and sarcastically hoped I was having a good life. Incidentally, I was at breakfast with my now husband (been together 16 years now), and a few friends after a great night of hanging out, guitar sing-a-longs, and laughs.
Mild compared to some of the answers I'm seeing. Also, it wasn't a relationship so much as it was an entanglement. I had tried to off myself a few months before, left to go stay by the sea for a while, made it to my birthday and was super emotional about it because, you know, I was still alive to see it and life was good. Dude basically said "Yes, very nice. Back to me". I noped out of that one real quick.
You did the right thing! I hope you’re doing ok. Depression is a terrible thing. I know.
wasn’t even a relationship. First date he showed up smelling of BO and his hair was so oily that it looked like it was raining outside. Nope.
Brylcreem, a little dab'll do ya... https://youtu.be/o6F4GtyRfto
I put up with alot of BS this partner put me through. Very narcissistic, argumentative etc He outright refused/couldn't be bothered to look after his skin (he has a condition, he would ask me to remind him to lotion up) We were laying in bed once, and I am afraid of spiders, I had seen one crawling above me, and then I felt something fall on my face. It was his skin. His skin, fell on my face. Into my eye. No.
Oh my god, I’d freak out looking at the sheets all the time. Hard pass. May not be his fault but it is his responsibility to take care of it.
Went on a few dates with a guy, was on a FaceTime call with him cooking and asked him to show me his skills & what he was making. Flips the camera to show raw chicken just sitting in the sink next to dirty dishes as he seasoned it. My brain checked out after that one
I am obsessed with cleaning my sink. Not just my dishes but my sink afterwards. You cannot clean (or food prep) in a dirty sink!!
Amen to that. I pour bleach down my drain just to disinfect it.
Load More Replies...I was dating someone for a month and things were going well. Then there were a couple of weekends where they were just acting weird and distant. Things started to get back on track. They started really pestering me about what I was going to do to celebrate my birthday and didn’t listen to me at all when I said that I usually get a dessert and call it a day. He started saying that was unacceptable and that I should celebrate my birthday. He planned out a whole birthday weekend getaway at a nearby location and I started to get excited because it felt special. Anyway, my Birthday was on a Monday. He conveniently called on Thursday to cancel (NOT to reschedule) because he would be working from Friday to Tuesday (riiiiight). He had never worked weekends before but it was kind of believable because he was a commercial contractor. He sent me texts over the weekend purporting to be working and sent pictures of him working I guess for proof. I checked the metadata on the pics and they were taken a year earlier lmao Yeah that was the end of that- why would you push for something that you had no intentions of following through with??? I had said many times I was content with the way I celebrated my birthday and it wasn’t a big deal. I was confused and just overall disgusted and I couldn’t look at that person the same.
He and I had just started dating, he was going through a divorce and was low on money. I invited him up for a romantic weekend, paid for a hotel room and food, helped him with gas money, and even gave him some grocery money for the next week. All my treat, I was happy to help, and I didn't ask for repayment, just asked him to get dinner (or something) next time we saw each other, if he could. He had the absolute audacity to text me, when he got home, that I was irresponsible with money. Edit: Well s**t, this blew up. To clarify a few things - I had enough of my own money that I was comfortable spending it on a romantic weekend for the both of us. I made it clear to him that I didn't expect anything in return, except if he wanted (and was able) to pay for dinner or whatever the next time we saw each other. He did go through with the divorce, and last I knew, he was seeing someone else, but I can't be sure since he has me blocked on social media like the pussy he is. No hard feelings though, this was a couple years ago and thankfully we weren't seeing each other long enough for me to be emotionally invested in the relationship. Very much a bullet dodged! Edit 2: Okay, maybe I'm a *little* bitter about the whole thing, but I really hadn't given it much thought until this question was posted. He blocked me quite a few months after our relationship ended. He did unfriend me right after, but as we had a few mutual friends, we still commented on a few of the same posts and were cordial to each other on SM. I think blocking me was a pussy move, but I do hope he's happy and has grown up since we dated. Our relationship only lasted a couple of months and it was around the beginning on Covid, so it's been a good while. Was he embarrassed about having no money and having me spend a decent amount on him? Maybe, but he certainly didn't have a problem when I offered. I didn't force the issue, even with the grocery money. It wasn't a super expensive hotel, they weren't fancy dinners, and I didn't flaunt the money I had. I just wanted to treat him to a nice weekend because I felt we both deserved it.
Are you ok? In a previous post you commented that a man shouldn't have broke up with his abusive girlfriend because her behaviour might have been because she had been in toxic relationships in the past like that made it acceptable. So this man was happy to go on the paid for weekend away and accept her money for groceries, and then because he's feeling insecure about it afterwards that's her fault?? She shouldn't have flaunted her wealth?? How about he shouldn't have accepted money from a woman he just started dating if it made him feel uncomfortable. It's not her fault she has more money than him. Why should she be denied a weekend away because of his financial situation if she can afford to pay for it. If the roles were reversed and a man was giving money to his female partner and paying for weekend breaks, you'd no doubt consider that romantic and a sign of his masculinity and you'd congratulate him for being a good provider and keeping 'his woman' happy.
Load More Replies...She never listened to what I said. Always her interpretation, always knew exactly what I ment even when I hadn't finished. Gaslight anthem
She started acting like a toddler. Literally. It was one of the most f****d up, bizarre experiences of my dating life.
I'd be more worried about a man who wanted a woman to act like a baby in order to get turned on. That's not a kink, that's a red flag. Also, nothing annoys me more than women who put on the baby voice or pout like a toddler to get what they want.
No, kink shaming would be if she suggested that to him during a grown up conversation before she attempted to do anything even similar to that. That is just a normal reaction to someone doing bizarre things.
Load More Replies...Dated a guy for a while who was just very...moist, for lack of a better term. He sweated profusely every time we were intimate and slobbered all over me when he kissed me. And he ALWAYS had to be on top, so it was like I was getting rained on.
I mean that's a bit gross, but I do kinda feel him. I have hyperhidrosis and it can ruin little things like touching and intimate stuff 😭
Honestly, I think that's on you. If You were uncomfortable you should have used your words. In any voluntairy sex situation it's a persons own responsibility to communicate what they like, and do not like. How else are you going to enjoy yourself?
The obsession with social media. It was uncomfortable until I couldn't stand it anymore, way too different views on life and priorities.
I had a brief but initially wonderful relationship with someone who was younger than me by a good bit. I barely use the few social media accounts I have (e.g., my Instagram is wall-to-wall photos of my pets). He was on his phone constantly, and checked TikTok what felt like every 30 seconds. I (weirdly) would have felt a little better about it if he'd asked me to watch some of the videos with him, or showed me funny ones he found, etc. But no. Sometimes we'd wake up in the morning and he'd go right to TikTok before even getting out of bed. I started to feel really ignored, tried to engage him in conversation, tried to tell him that I felt ignored. Nothing got through to him. Sigh. I honestly was quite in love with him, too; I'm not over it yet, and it hurts XD
it sucks big time that he was more into a stupid app than a real, live human being right next to him :( hang in there and whenever you feel like you're not over him, remind yourself that you deserve much better. Wolves and phone-monkeys don't mix anyway ;)
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Her breath was so bad I couldn’t make out with her. All I could think of was “don’t vomit, don’t vomit”
First date led to make out session, but alcohol was involved and either masked the smell or my horniness+liquid courage just made me not give it a second thought. Second date we ate some super spicy curries and that either dulled my senses enough or again, my horniness (and lots of kissing breaks) got me through it and we made it to third base. My horniness prevailed. Third date, both of us just went right to my place for sex and her breath just really was unbearable. She went down on me and I couldn’t perform because I was so devastated from her breath that I was just trying to not vomit. She wouldn’t let me go down on her which looking back on things probably was a good thing.
TL;DR her bad breath made me nauseous and impotent. My horniness could not overcome it and that was the last we hung out.
A lot of folks don't realize your sinuses can give you *terrible* breath. You can brush your teeth all the time and it will still revert to what I call "death breath". And if you live in a country with not so great healthcare, that means a trip to the specialist which probably won't be covered and costs a ton of money just to diagnose the problem.
probably a rotten tooth or something, these things can be diagnosed. I haven't yet met someone who had bad breath who didn't have a bad tooth.
Halitosis is a real thing, even an infected tooth can cause bad breath. I would have kindly offered her breath mints, mouthwash, anything to get the hint across.
This girl had like 5 cats and at one point she let them just caca everywhere. . . Bro, this stuff stunk up her whole house, but she would just work and continue living like nothing was wrong. I spent 3 hours cleaning up s**t and vacuuming up cat hair for her to just smile and thank me and then just go about her day. The breaking point was when she quit her job and started blaming me for not looking for another job; she needed therapy and somehow it was my fault which all took up too much of her time to have enough time to go to work.
I have 2 cats and while they occasionally have accidents (more throwing up), I clean it up. I can be a pretty lazy person and take a day or two to do my dishes but even I'm not that bad. Just leaving poop everywhere is disgusting. And it's cruel to the cats- they clearly aren't using their boxes for a reason, so she probably hasn't cleaned it in forever and it's full or the urea in the box and it's burning them. Or the cats are not being given a specific space to do their business so they just go anywhere. Having poop everywhere can spread toxoplasmosis. If you can't take the time to clean up after animals than you shouldn't have them.
I still managed to clean the cat box when I had covid, even though I had the opposite problem that usually happens. Instead of losing my sense of smell, the cat box really bothered me. I work with concentrated ammonium hydroxide at my job too. What really tired me out was going back upstairs when I was done. Still, I would have called a friend or my dad if I needed help looking after the cat.
Load More Replies...being passive-aggressive and expecting me to decipher every single message. Someone who I considered the great love of my life took this route and it hurt both of us when I finally walked away from that relationship. I learned one good lesson from that, but I can still feel her pain in the most obscure and subtle way, to this day. Say what you mean and mean what you say folks, because one day you'll f**k around and have that opportunity taken from you, and the only thing that will be left in your heart is remorse and regret.
I am with someone who suffers brain trauma. Sometimes they cannot figure out to have an appropriate reaction to things. So I would like to hear the example. A lot of people would just say "oh he's d***" or " he treats you bad " but in reality he had no idea what was actually going on. It took a lot of compassion to see he 100% honestly had no idea what he was doing was bad. We work every day to learn better ways to deal with things. I would like to give people the benefit of the doubt. Some people actually cannot think properly. With out knowing specifics it is hard to say who is right or wrong here. No you should not put up with people treating you bad . On the flip if they do not know they will never grow to be better. All that being said bad people are out there and you should always protect your self from bad situations.
The problem with your comment is that you assume that your conclusion would have any merit to anyone, and also assuming it would be correct. Both of those assumptions seem rather unlikely.
Load More Replies...Gonna be honest. I expected more booger eating and less donkey f*****g and chemo shaming in here. Gonna have some stuff to process today. Yikes.
I have an ostomy (had all of my large bowel removed and some of my small) I started dating a guy online and we had met up a few times. I thought things were heading towards the bedroom so I explained about my bag as I felt it was only fair to let him know early in case he couldn't deal with it. Couldn't deal with it was a total under statement, he told me I was disgusting having a bag of sh1t attached to me 24/7 and that he would rather die than have one himself. Obviously that was the end of things, I was completely distraught, lost all my confidence and haven't been on a date since. The worst thing was a few months later he text me wanting to hook up and I could just wear a shirt so he couldn't see my bag.
that is a terrible garbage human. You are lovely and eff the shallow ppl that don't see it. 🫂
Load More Replies...I am seeing a guy right now, and sometimes I think this is a red flag and I might be ignoring it, but other times I think I'm overthinking things. This guy and I almost dated 5 years ago and in the 6 months we were getting to know each other, I'm the only one who ever spent any money. We lost touch, but found each other again last year and he said he wanted to explore the possibility of a relationship between us, something I didn't object to. Now we have been getting to know each other and this guy has only ever bought me lozenges when I had a flu, but he is always calling me to say he is hungry and sometimes I send him some money for lunch, other times I don't. 5years ago when we almost dated, we were kids and I had a little more money than he did so I didn't mind spending,but now this guy makes over 6 times what I make as an intern at my job and yet, he still expects me to spend. Am I overthinking it? Or is this a scarlet red glad?
Thank you for sharing this. I've been in a similar situation, and I would say that the most important thing is to listen to your gut. When you tell yourself you might be overthinking, that's gaslighting yourself. Your feelings and thoughts are valid. You can share those thoughts with him and ask for what you want in the relationship. Or you can talk with someone else you trust to help you figure out what you want. But the ultimate question is: are you happy in this relationship as it is (not as you wish it might be)? Are your needs being met?
Load More Replies...Had an ex that would drink way too much. I should have seen the flags when I went to his condo an there were cases of empty beer bottles stacked in the kitchen to the point it was mostly storage for them. He left the state to live with his buddy. Came back an begged me to get an apt. (There is way lots to the story but I'm breaking it short). We move in. He keeps drinking. I'm over it. He has a "panic attack" mostly just to see if I care. 911 him to hpt. He's pissed he can't smoke. Has to wait to be released. Mad I called his parents about it. Go to eat w his dad an step mom an mention his brother that was killed in the war. He has one that lives in Florida but this was a "diff" brother. Dad says that's a lie. Mention he served in marines? Nope another lie. Mentioned I was the drinker not him. Nope big lie. So I made up my mind to find a way out. I did. He wound up moving to Florida and getting a bunch of DUIs and is in prison. Also he had the smallest penis and we had no sex life.
I have chronic health issues. GF stopped paying her half of the bills, so I got a job to cover the difference, (she was working too), just until she figured out her money situation. But it never got figured out, so my health deteriorated, and after work one day I was all fetal position enduring a migraine at 3am ish and she starts screaming at me about how the chores in the house aren't getting done. I'm like, I pay for everything, I do all the cooking, all the shopping, pay for all the groceries, all her money was going into her personal stuff, nothing for our joint stuff other than her half of the mortgage, and yeah, I probably did less than half the other chores but that feels fair considering everything else. She couldn't argue that, so instead she started telling me that my 10 year old son was a sociopath and out to get her. Her reasoning was that he said "hi" to her whenever she came into a room. She flat out said she didn't want to get to know him better because he was so horrible. My kid is great, easy going, has no problem hearing the word no, is generally sweet and agreeable. Gets good grades, liked by peers, teachers, even keeps in touch all on his own with my ex (not his parent) and some of my close adult friends via text because he's a cool enough kid that they value their relationship with him. He was always asking me if gf was okay, because she kept ignoring him. I assumed she just had her headphones in or something, but then I realized during this argument that it was intentional. I told her we'd talk after my migraine passed. Six hours later I broke up with her. She tried to walk back what she'd said but I was like, yeah. No. Not happening. I grew up with a stepparent who hated me. Not putting my kid through that.
WOW! Sorry you had to endure that. Perhaps the migraines will subside and hopefully greatly diminish now that the Gf is gone. Our bodies react differently to stressful situations and Gf may have been a trigger to the migraines.
Load More Replies...Also dated a girl who wound up with an STD, blamed me, then when I tested negative told me "good, cause if I got it from you this would be over". I immediately knew the relationship was over at that point. It was obvious she couldn't see beyond the scope of herself. I wasn't worried about the STD thing, it's just HSV1 which everyone has, except me apparently, and we both knew her ex had exposed her to it. We'd been careful with sex until we could both test negative 6 mo's after her last encounter with him. She couldn't see the issue with her telling me she'd have broken up with me for exposing her unknowingly while knowingly exposing me and expecting me to be fine with it. Even had I been positive I could have contracted it from just kissing her. I was upfront with my next gf and tested regularly until I was sure I was in the clear. Which was annoying because most places don't bother even testing for HSV1 so I had to practically bully my doctor into testing me for it.
I am amazed at how disgusting some people are. Surely they look in the mirror each morning and realise they are c**p? How can they not be aware?
Have you ever seen a depressed dictator? Those mf's just living their life like it's a music video until they die naturally or are filled with bullets. They don't think the same way as regular people.
Load More Replies...So half of them are "they've got no sense of personal hygiene" and the other half are "they were abusive and dangerous"
Nothing wrong with being single, but of course these stories are the outliers, which is why they are interesting. There are good people out there looking for partners and while everyone "has their flaws", there are also good reasons why many people seek partners.
Load More Replies...I have an ostomy (had all of my large bowel removed and some of my small) I started dating a guy online and we had met up a few times. I thought things were heading towards the bedroom so I explained about my bag as I felt it was only fair to let him know early in case he couldn't deal with it. Couldn't deal with it was a total under statement, he told me I was disgusting having a bag of sh1t attached to me 24/7 and that he would rather die than have one himself. Obviously that was the end of things, I was completely distraught, lost all my confidence and haven't been on a date since. The worst thing was a few months later he text me wanting to hook up and I could just wear a shirt so he couldn't see my bag.
that is a terrible garbage human. You are lovely and eff the shallow ppl that don't see it. 🫂
Load More Replies...I am seeing a guy right now, and sometimes I think this is a red flag and I might be ignoring it, but other times I think I'm overthinking things. This guy and I almost dated 5 years ago and in the 6 months we were getting to know each other, I'm the only one who ever spent any money. We lost touch, but found each other again last year and he said he wanted to explore the possibility of a relationship between us, something I didn't object to. Now we have been getting to know each other and this guy has only ever bought me lozenges when I had a flu, but he is always calling me to say he is hungry and sometimes I send him some money for lunch, other times I don't. 5years ago when we almost dated, we were kids and I had a little more money than he did so I didn't mind spending,but now this guy makes over 6 times what I make as an intern at my job and yet, he still expects me to spend. Am I overthinking it? Or is this a scarlet red glad?
Thank you for sharing this. I've been in a similar situation, and I would say that the most important thing is to listen to your gut. When you tell yourself you might be overthinking, that's gaslighting yourself. Your feelings and thoughts are valid. You can share those thoughts with him and ask for what you want in the relationship. Or you can talk with someone else you trust to help you figure out what you want. But the ultimate question is: are you happy in this relationship as it is (not as you wish it might be)? Are your needs being met?
Load More Replies...Had an ex that would drink way too much. I should have seen the flags when I went to his condo an there were cases of empty beer bottles stacked in the kitchen to the point it was mostly storage for them. He left the state to live with his buddy. Came back an begged me to get an apt. (There is way lots to the story but I'm breaking it short). We move in. He keeps drinking. I'm over it. He has a "panic attack" mostly just to see if I care. 911 him to hpt. He's pissed he can't smoke. Has to wait to be released. Mad I called his parents about it. Go to eat w his dad an step mom an mention his brother that was killed in the war. He has one that lives in Florida but this was a "diff" brother. Dad says that's a lie. Mention he served in marines? Nope another lie. Mentioned I was the drinker not him. Nope big lie. So I made up my mind to find a way out. I did. He wound up moving to Florida and getting a bunch of DUIs and is in prison. Also he had the smallest penis and we had no sex life.
I have chronic health issues. GF stopped paying her half of the bills, so I got a job to cover the difference, (she was working too), just until she figured out her money situation. But it never got figured out, so my health deteriorated, and after work one day I was all fetal position enduring a migraine at 3am ish and she starts screaming at me about how the chores in the house aren't getting done. I'm like, I pay for everything, I do all the cooking, all the shopping, pay for all the groceries, all her money was going into her personal stuff, nothing for our joint stuff other than her half of the mortgage, and yeah, I probably did less than half the other chores but that feels fair considering everything else. She couldn't argue that, so instead she started telling me that my 10 year old son was a sociopath and out to get her. Her reasoning was that he said "hi" to her whenever she came into a room. She flat out said she didn't want to get to know him better because he was so horrible. My kid is great, easy going, has no problem hearing the word no, is generally sweet and agreeable. Gets good grades, liked by peers, teachers, even keeps in touch all on his own with my ex (not his parent) and some of my close adult friends via text because he's a cool enough kid that they value their relationship with him. He was always asking me if gf was okay, because she kept ignoring him. I assumed she just had her headphones in or something, but then I realized during this argument that it was intentional. I told her we'd talk after my migraine passed. Six hours later I broke up with her. She tried to walk back what she'd said but I was like, yeah. No. Not happening. I grew up with a stepparent who hated me. Not putting my kid through that.
WOW! Sorry you had to endure that. Perhaps the migraines will subside and hopefully greatly diminish now that the Gf is gone. Our bodies react differently to stressful situations and Gf may have been a trigger to the migraines.
Load More Replies...Also dated a girl who wound up with an STD, blamed me, then when I tested negative told me "good, cause if I got it from you this would be over". I immediately knew the relationship was over at that point. It was obvious she couldn't see beyond the scope of herself. I wasn't worried about the STD thing, it's just HSV1 which everyone has, except me apparently, and we both knew her ex had exposed her to it. We'd been careful with sex until we could both test negative 6 mo's after her last encounter with him. She couldn't see the issue with her telling me she'd have broken up with me for exposing her unknowingly while knowingly exposing me and expecting me to be fine with it. Even had I been positive I could have contracted it from just kissing her. I was upfront with my next gf and tested regularly until I was sure I was in the clear. Which was annoying because most places don't bother even testing for HSV1 so I had to practically bully my doctor into testing me for it.
I am amazed at how disgusting some people are. Surely they look in the mirror each morning and realise they are c**p? How can they not be aware?
Have you ever seen a depressed dictator? Those mf's just living their life like it's a music video until they die naturally or are filled with bullets. They don't think the same way as regular people.
Load More Replies...So half of them are "they've got no sense of personal hygiene" and the other half are "they were abusive and dangerous"
Nothing wrong with being single, but of course these stories are the outliers, which is why they are interesting. There are good people out there looking for partners and while everyone "has their flaws", there are also good reasons why many people seek partners.
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