30 Signs Indicating That A Relationship Has Reached A Dead End, As Pointed Out By Folks In This Online Group

Been there, left that.

My marriage... He gave up in 2007 but never bothered to tell me he was done. I finally gave up after wasting 5 more years trying to revive our marriage.

That’s a bit more than just a hint. If that’s how you feel, you knew it long ago.

You have just described my mother... darn! How do you know??

Spot on

Learning to disregard every unnecessary thing that won't help for your self growth is a mature thing to do

As described, this person may be a narcissist, and a malignant one at that ("weight of judgement"). The expiration date was on day 1. These people are unteachable, unchangeable and unredeemable. Good riddance.

Been there all my childhood

“Subtle” signs LOL

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Ditto if you're home and you hear his car pull up.

Or when you're disappointed that they're awake, and most likely drunk.

I know thus feeling, and several men I know also know it all too well.

That's the way I felt pressing the elevator button to go upstairs to my job. Quit soon after and was so much lighter. But don't you know, they replaced me with two girls and a month later they were phoning asking if I wanted to some part-time work since they couldn't keep up with all the tasks that I had managed alone for six years.

I understand this kind of feeling

You are too late. The time to leave is as soon as you know they broke your trust. You don't wait to see if you can recover from it.

Yup. This.

This doesn't necessarily mean the relationship is over. I simply did not notice that my husband ate like a slob, for the first 2-3 years of us living together. Oh I was so in love. Now after almost 12 years I feel like I want to tape his mouth shut sometimes but I never say anything although his smacking and eating like a cow annoys me so much.:)))) I love him

Finding nothing annoying about your SO is probably a bit of a red flag imo

Yeah, you should have asked probably yourself early on and been honest with yourself about whether you really believed you could live with that for decades. This is entirely YOUR fault.

Time to change your "perfume" LOL

People slowly change their smell due to growing older. Or being ill. Very sad your life partner runs away because of that. Heartbreaking and somewhat childish

I read this 6 times before SO meant significant other in my brain

I’d like to add an addendum to this one: when you don’t like how they smell and it stays that way for several months. My menstrual cycle plays merry hell with my sense of smell and there are definitely specific times of the month where I don’t like how my husband smells. But it never last more than a day or two and then he goes back to smelling like safety and home! 🥰

First call I make is to the RAC & insurance company, I pay enough for it, they can come and fix or tow me to the garage. I'm not going to bother/worry anyone at 5am unless it's an urgent trip to A&E.

Damn, you can have love or hate and there is passion in both, but indifference is a killer.

That's called indifference and although a relationship can survive it and last, you have to question if it's what you really want out of life. There is such a thing as relationships of convenience...

So well said.

That could also just be an arrangement that works for all three parties once they’ve worked out the parameters of the deal

Then just be polyamorous.

Everything is wrong with the relationship

Uh. How is this subtle?

Not necessarily. Sometimes texting anyone you love can be a chore. The problem sparks when there is a total lack of emotion when texting back, feeling nothing at all.

When you stop texting 'I love you' at random points during the day.

If you're doing something that would deeply hurt your partner if they were next to you while you're doing it, then that's cheating. It's not really the act in itself, it's the broken trust.

It's a bad sign if you have to ask the opinion of strangers on the internet about ANYthing in your relationship. If you have to anonymously ask if something is right/normal/okay/etc than you already know/feel deep down that it isn't. In which case, you need to talk to them, not random people online.

I almost asked reddit a similar question. Mine was dating apps. We met in person, so finding dating apps and recent conversations after 2yrs in makes me numb. And i get the "privacy my phone" talk.

Or to see if AITA

Don't know about 'seeing a future' but at first glance, seeing that dress made me think she was wearing some kind of strange bra on the outside of her clothing.

Creep shot

This happened to my best friend. Telling the truth to her bf was terryfing, so she constantly lied. What I mean with truth were things that are normal for many people but for her boyfriend were unacceptable. And of course, she got caught (bf checked her phone regularly) and boy, fights were spectacular. Hard for me to see her passing through all of that and finally happy when she got her sh1t together and dumped him.

Sex might not be a sign of the relationship ending. But it can be hard, I think more so for men, to bring up when something isn't right in that department. I'm seeing a doc about it right now. Trying to find the why but I have no interest in it. With anyone