Someone Asks “What Are Some Immediate Red Flags In Women That Men Should Look Out For?”, And 30 Women Share Honest Answers
It's important to keep an open mind when you start dating someone. Sure, you might find it odd that they prefer walking only on your left or getting out of bed after the 12th alarm, but these things aren't exactly deal breakers.
Real dating warning signals tend to be more complex than habits you could pass off as behavioral quirks. So, to get a better understanding of where people draw the line, Redditor YummyYmir asked all the females on the platform what they believe to be immediate red flags in women that men should look out for. From not having girlfriends to emotional blackmail, we thought you'd also be interested in hearing the answers, so we put together the most popular ones into a list.
Continue scrolling to check it out and if you want to see men exploring the same topic, fire up our earlier publication here.
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Women who are aggressive and slap or hit others then say "you can't hit a woman."
You can't hit anyone Stacy.
A woman who loves the saying, "If you can't handle me at my worst, you don't deserve me at my best," or something like that. I understand the premise, that a relationship needs to be handle all the up's and down's. However, I find that woman who really love this saying tend to be rather mean, abusive, belittling, etc. at their 'worst'. No one deserves that.
when you are at your worst, you are still responsible for any hurt or damage, physical or emotional, your worst causes.
Emotional blackmail. Threatening to harm self each time anything doesn’t go her way. Threatening to tell the whole world something that’s private between the two of you whenever anything goes wrong.
Not necessarily immediate, but having size or $$ requirements for the wedding ring is usually a bad sign.
It took me a minute to realize that size requirement probably refers to the size of the diamond, and not the size of the ring itself. I was so confused, like surely it's not unreasonable to want the wedding ring to fit onto your finger.
My baby brain is in full effect... I was like, "Um, the size has to be specific to the finger or it wont fit..."
Me too! Well, not the baby brain, but I had the same thought.
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We’ve been married 21 years now, and I’ve never had an engagement ring. Never mattered anyway. We just have matching plain gold bands. We also got married, me in a simple but dressy dress and him in a simple but dressy suit, at the courthouse with a few close friends in attendance (family was told but it was short notice, from proposal to license and blood tests to wedding was only about a week, and they’re scattered all over and too far away—-they got plenty of pictures, though). They all treated us a champagne wedding dinner at a very expensive restaurant as a wedding gift, and one of them surprised us with the keys to her beach house for our honeymoon, which was lovely. We were just going to go home, lock the door and take the phone off the hook (cellphones weren’t as common in 2001, and neither of us had one yet—-we would’ve turned them off anyway), so doing those same things, but at the beach, was a real treat. We kept it all simple and private because, to us, the marriage is the important part, not the wedding. Always has been. Always will be.
My wedding ring was on sale at the p**n shop for $20. I lose rings and I didn't want something expensive I would have to worry about. It's the symbol that counts, not the monetary worth. I've managed to keep track of it for 2 1/2 years, and I love it with all my heart because it reminds me of the man I love every time I look at it. Not his wallet.
Is BF censoring the word p**n? Or are p o r n shops a thing I'm just now learning about? LOL
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I don't understand why we can't move on from the tradition of having to 'surprise' a woman with a ring. I don't mind the ring itself -it's a bit antiquated of a tradition but whatever. And I do like wedding rings as a symbol of being married. But why can't we propose and then go buy a ring together? The reason women are so picky is because it's going to be something you wear forever (hopefully). Of course, sentimentally, I'd be fine with whatever someone gave me. But I wouldn't want some gaudy monstrosity of a ring that cost the downpayment on a house. Hopefully he would know me well enough not to do that. But you never know. So talk about it before hand. Share the costs-he can buy the engagement ring and she can buy the wedding rings or whatever. Figure out what type of budget you would want to allocate to something like this. It bothers me more when I see a woman who knows he cannot afford what she wants and guilts/manipulates him into buying something that is not reasonable.
I thought it's normal that couples buy and decide on the wedding ring together, is it normally not the case? °•° yeah, we can only hope fiancees know their loved ones good enough to buy an engagement ring that is liked
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Unless they're saying "No diamonds" or "I'd rather we used the money somewhere else, and bought a cheaper ring I won't be afraid to wear." There might be aesthetic reasons too, because some people like wide bands, or big stones fit their style better. A reasonable test of this is to suggest working within a budget and raising the possibility of estate jewellery, lab-created stones, or mossinite instead of a diamond. If you and your partner can't discuss money and how much you can budget for a ring, and reach an agreement, then you probrably aren't ready to be buying rings.
Nope don't agree. Having standarads and a clear idea of what you want in life isn't bad. It only becomes so if it's beyond the capacity of your beloved to supply it.
We skipped engagement ring, gave symbolic geek things from lord of the ring’s instead (I proposed with Gandalfs pipe and he got me Arvens necklace after saying yes). Wedding rings we chose plain and then spent som money on engraving quote from Zelda games. I would not trade for any diamonds.
In our country is tradition that mother after giving birth to child get a ring. My engagment ring is the ring that my MIL got when my husband was born. Oldschool, without stone, but I love this tradition.
By size, I hope you mean the gem on it and not the ring itself - the ring has to fit ofc!! 😂
People keep missing that it's a warning sign if a guy doesn't take any of these as warning signs without having to be told!! I want a guy who already knows all this is crazy!!
I thought by size it meant like. Band size. And I was confused. Then I realized it meant diamond size.
How about "not big, flashy or expensive" ? I love my engagement and wedding rings that were on special.
When it said size I thought that was pretty reasonable... I thought it meant ring size not diamond/jewel etc size 🤣
I just want something simple and relatively cheap. In the long run, my anti-seizure medicines and MRIs are both more expensive and more valuable.
Sounds like you have to spend a fair amount of time without metal rings anyway. You'll know you found the one when they get you a cool nonconductive (carbon fiber, wood, stone...) ring.
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Depends on what you mean by size. Of its the size that comfortably fits her finger it's a reasonable request, if it's size of the diamond or other gem stone it's a red flag.
I just want a $20 engagement ring and a simple stainless steel wedding ring. I don't care about a man's wallet, I just want to love and respect a man and for him to love and respect me back. That's literally all I want from a relationship, plus the other basics, like loyalty, affection and all that. I wanna be happy, not rich.
I honestly don't care about the size of the rock or if it's a diamond to be honest. If the guy loves me that's what matters and if it is a family heirloom even better because it means his family approves
My hubby and i have matching gold bands. Diamonds are useless except for cutting things. They get caught on things. I am an artist, and that dumb rock would get paint, clay, and all kinds of c**p stuck in it. Not to mention the whole diamond thing is a manipulative add campaign that got out of control. We used the money we saved on the ring and some wedding gift money to buy a wii and some games and had fun together. ^_^ (I also wore an angel costume instead of some overpriced wedding dress. So many dumb and buisness manipulated"traditions" that add unneeded stress. Marry for love! Not for all the expensive c**p!
I have size requirements, it must be larger than most rings are because I have a big finger size
When my (then) fiance and I went ring shopping together, I looked at the loose diamonds and said "you can have anything up to 2 carats, on my budget." She looked in the display and said "Oh, no. HALF carat is big enough.". 🥰
I inherited my big hands from Daddy. Is that what you mean by size?
Husband and I got 200$ Etsy nature rings with our birth stones in it. I thought that was super fancy and special. Still do. I hear about these 15000 dollar rings and I think, damn, I could start a life with someone with that money.
Same with needing to spend so much money on a wedding/wedding dress. I'm like "get me what I can afford and let's get going."
What exactly is meant with size? Because it wouldn't make sense wearing a bigger ring that can't fit so is like the size beyond the diameter meant with stones or something? I don't know about monetary requirements but personally I hope their are ones out that are not too expensive but still of a good enough quality to be worthy bring a marriage ring (I mean, it should last for life). As long as both agree to a good looking one with good enough quality...
IDC what it costs or how flashy it looks. I just want something pretty that embodies our relationship in some way shape or form. 🤷
Princess mentality.
Trust me dealing with that is not worth it.
“I get whatever I want”
Ew
Same as guys. If all the ex boyfriends or husbands are crazy and she says she hates drama, she is crazy and starts drama.
Just look at who is the constant in the equation, and you’ll have your answer.
"You don't have to use a condom" Isn't always a trap. But if it's early in the relationship, it should be troublesome.
Hearing "You don't have to use a condom" is a sure sign that you definitely SHOULD use one!
Women (or men) who put people through s**t just to see if they pass the test. My friend used to create problems just to ‘test’ other people. Romantic relationships as well as friendships. She’d only admit it was a test afterwards when you inevitability failed and realized she was lying.
For men and for women, rigid gender roles. Someone who sees you more as a gender than as a person brings a whole host of problems with that mindset.
I look forward to fighting with my future partner about which of us changes the oil in the car because we both want to do it.
Pretending to act dumb because she thinks it’s cute.
Women who go from relationship to relationship without time to be single are usually trouble. Same goes for women who change their identity with each relationship. It doesn’t mean they’re bad people, but they clearly have issues to work through, if their self-esteem is validated through male attention.
Expecting you to read their mind!
I'm bi and have dated a few women seriously.
I unfortunately seemed to have a type- charismatic and very social women who were also passive aggressive. They all expected me to just know when and why they were mad at me, as they would become cool and distant with me, they'd sometimes stop returning calls for periods of time, and their facial expression would appear angry. BUT, when I asked what was wrong,, repeatedly, they would only say " nothings wrong". They'd make me beg and plead to find out what was wrong. It was infuriating.
The last womani seriously dated decided she was just going to not take my calla suddenly for a number of days. I just got fed up and never called her again/ ended things that way. She tried to call me eventually but I'd just screen her calls and let them go to voice-mail. I was so done with the games
All women are NOT like this. But I definitely had to rethink what sort of ladies I was dating.
Anyone, man or woman, who expects everyone around them—-and most especially their SO—-to be so tuned into them they can read their mind and “just know” what they want or what they’re thinking all the damn time, is only setting themselves up for a frustrating and disappointing life. People have their own lives and concerns, and aren’t tuning into you and your whiny b******t 24/7/365. Once in a great while other people might correctly guess, but don’t count on that as the birth of their mind reading abilities when it comes to you. So, open your goddamned mouth and communicate what you want, what you feel, what you need. As long as you don’t become demanding, the rest of us, well most of the rest of us at least, will be more than happy to accommodate you. Within reason, that is. Just don’t push it too far and start taking advantage or expecting it all the time, or we’ll stop it in a f*****g instant and leave.
A woman who wants to move in right away. Who discourages you from seeing your friends and who slowly stops you from doing what you want.
It’s a MF trap.
Watched it happen to a friend of mine. It was heartbreaking
If she always wants to be around you and gets irrationally angry with you when you want to leave for a bit..
Red flag..
“If you really loved me, you’d know.”
When they put other women down and hang out with men all the time, to be like “one of the boys”. There’s som deep misogyny going on and most of the time that girl is VERY insecure. Trust me, I was that girl.
Anyone who tells other people about your private conversations. I mean, it's one thing if you tell a good joke and they want to pass it on, but you should be able to confide in them about serious topics without fear they'll run off and tell someone else. This goes for friendships, too.
I’m 61. There are secrets people told me back in grade school that I have yet to divulge—-and, no, I’m not going to here and now—-even though they stopped mattering decades ago.
Expecting the man to "entertain" her on a date and arrange all logistics and events. Note: it is not a bad thing if a guy wants to surprise his date with something fun, or do something thoughtful, or plan something special. The problem is when the woman does constantly expects her boyfriend to arrange everything, like he's a concierge at a hotel, especially if she does not reciprocate. Worst is when the woman provides no input about what she'd like to do and then sulks when the man does not use ESP to divine her wishes.
Flip side: when your boyfriend asks you what you want to do, then shoots down everything you suggest. Why did they even ask? This is the most common reason women leave the plans up to men. So we don't have to listen to you whining and crying about what we planned for you.
Not having any girlfriends because “I don’t get along with women.”
When they insist that a lack of personal space equals to you not paying them enough attention. Like you can like/love someone without having to spend all your hours glued to them, or hanging on to everythingthey say.
OMG yes...A healthy relationship is one where there is room for everyone to be themselves and enjoy their own likes as well as be a couple( or triple or whatever floats your boat)
When she constantly belittle every other woman around her just to show off how "special" and "different" she is. Once in a while is ok I guess, but if she's always like that then there's a problem.
Passive-aggressiveness to get her way. Like the silent treatment, guilt trips, etc. Until you're isolated or find yourself doing only things with/for her. It's like... emotional abuse and happens to men all the time but no one seems to care.
I feel like adding it's done by all genders, and it happens to all genders.
When every photo on her IG page is a selfie of some sort.
They expect you to “rescue them” from their abusive exes/untreated mental health problems/shitty childhood.
A lot of women fantasize about the perfect man who never hurts her or burdens her with his needs. And he’s going to be the amazing guy who deals with all the anxiety and paranoia and baggage she has from abusive exes.
Remember that you’re human too and you deserve to be treated like a human and not someone’s white knight
Honestly, I think a lot of women who have experienced childhood trauma/abuse and/or domestic violence are looking for a man that isn't going to keep them in the constant survival mode they live their lives in. I don't think it's a red flag per se. It's not so much that the SO needs are a burden but instead more of a desire to love and be loved without pain. I speak from personal experience.
If she thinks she can control you/ win you over through sex. I had a friend that would say; I'm going to Fu*k him so good that he will fall in love with me. She would usually say this if it was their first date.
When she gets mad at you for saying no to her. I'm not just talking about big things, if she throws a fit because you cancelled one plan, run. There are a lot of women out there that are more than ready to turn down guys but get real pissed when someone else tells them no. More trouble than its worth, and that lack of accepting no's *will* become a problem later on. One of my old high school friends was like this, she acted as if her boyfriends should always do her bidding and that they were bad people if their worlds didn't revolve around her.
Some of these serve to only strengthen the idea of gender fluidity. I understand the title of the thread, but the longer this list goes on, the more obvious these can be found in people of any gender becomes.
love bombing right after meeting for the first time
I'm a guy, but I thought that I'd add something here anyways.
The red flag is extreme sensitivity to shame and pride. These are textbook examples of clinical narcissism and believe me when I tell you that you are not prepared for the myriad ways that dating a narcissist will f**k you up.
Calls herself an empath, and says she’s more in touch with emotions than other people.
whats wrong with that? I am an empath because i had to read peoples emotions growing up in an abusive house, was the only way to stay safe and read the situation, i can tell if someone is sad or angry etc, i dont think thats a probem
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There's one good big old red flag if he's (she's) saying "oh, my ex was craaazy...". In my case I heard it once and there was no need to continue, but he goes on further "she called a police on me, imagine? then I was not allowed to see her again". Heard later that this dude who accused his ex of being crazy, was a stalker and had some anger management issues. Listen to your gut, if someone calls their ex crazy, run, because next "crazy" will be you.
I'm telling on myself here, but only because once my mom pointed it out to me, I began fixing it. It took a long time. My stepdad was an abusive alcoholic when I was little. He would get drunk, be horrible, mom would get mad, he'd be good for 2-4 weeks or so. Fast forward and I married my second husband (our 20 year anniversary was 8/3). We really didn't argue/fight. But because of my childhood, I would start fights. One day talking to my mom it was pointed out I needed the explosion to have peace. That the cycle with my dad, we always knew the explosion would come again. So the 2nd week would come and nothing. The 3rd, nothing. Then the 4th he would get drunk and do it again. Then I knew I had at minimum 2 weeks of peace. Since my husband and I didn't fight, the longer we went without the explosion I kept anticipating one. More time passes and the more on edge I became, knowing it just HAD to come soon. So we'd reach 4 weeks and I would be so tense and on edge unconsciously I would
.... start a fight to get the relief. It was a horrible thing for me to do to him, but I didn't realize what I was doing. Thankfully we talked after mom explained it to me and I apologized. We put some things in place to help and I just worked really hard to stop that behavior. I'm very grateful my husband didn't simply see it as a red flag and run. Though if I never would have learned about it, I'm guessing our marriage would have been long over by now.
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hey guys, be GRATEFUL for any of these warning signs... she is just tipping her cards to let you know what is in her hand, proceed with caution duly warned... The REAL JERK is the one who keeps the real self, her real persona, carefully hidden behind a pretty mask... after she is holding marriage papers on you, the mask comes off. Now you have a wife who thinks nothing is wrong when she threatens divorce if the princess (now the Queen) doesn't get her way about even the slightest things, and won't hesitate to turn in the marriage papers for divorce papers upon the least provocation... hurts even more when your kids are involved... some of life's lessons are hard, there are non-authentic people (a.k.a. LIARS) out there who are living a lie, some people will not show their true self until married with threats of a high-stakes divorce on the table... after they put you through all this, then the jerk proceeds to destroy your reputation, since, after all, they are perfect which makes everything that happened all your fault... Hellfire is waiting for witches like this who do this... Don't make it worse by being a non-authentic jerk yourself...
It's always great to share red flags of course, but it becomes toxic if such lists are sprinkled with over generalised misogynist BS... Please select more carefully, BP.
How funny is all the red flag women debating every number, best part of this post is reading the comment below saying its not really a problem 😝😛😛
didn't see it here, but "testing " you. sending one of her female friends to flit with you to see what you do.
"It's my way or the hi-way". They are not interested in working through the relationship problems. Take the hi-way.
Want to enjoy peace and quiet - stay single - it really is that simple.
Biggest red flag I've ever seen in a woman: was at work (cashier) and this family was in my line. Little girl asks "daddy can I get one of these suckers? Please please?" It's one of the giant swirled lolipops. Dad says yes and mom immediately says no. Cute the argument. "Oh come on. It's just the one." "No I don't want her having one" "is it cause of the sugar? Cause look, they have smaller ones right here" "no. I already said no so the answer is no." "Why can't I spoil my kid every once in a while?" "SHES NOT EVEN REALLY YOUR DAUGHTER" when I tell you the heartbreak on this man's face was worse than just about anything I've ever seen, I'm not kidding. First of all, your kid is RIGHT there. Saying that at the same time you allow her to call him daddy is extremely confusing for a child that age. It's cruel. Second of all, if he clearly loves her and takes care of her and she calls him dad, he's her f*cking dad. Biology has nothing to do with it.
Third, you're in a f*cking store, in PUBLIC! Have some f*cking decency. On the bright side, a few months later, (the family are regulars) I found out he'd taken her to court and actually won. He got custody of his daughter full time. Clearly mom wasn't a good gf OR mother. And you know he buys his daughter every. Single. Time. The come in? A big a** sucker. I think that moment had been the last straw for him.
Load More Replies... the biggest red flag for me was when on the first date the woman left the front door & front windows to the apt. open with her watching them nervously. After about the 10th alarmed glance at the open front door, I asked what was going on. She said her previous boyfriend was extremely jealous and stalked her when she had company over. Then she said that a few months before, he threw a can of gasoline with a burning rag into her apt. during the night and burned out the apt. She said the cops couldn't prove a case for arson, so they let him go. Yikes.... all this on the first date...
There's one good big old red flag if he's (she's) saying "oh, my ex was craaazy...". In my case I heard it once and there was no need to continue, but he goes on further "she called a police on me, imagine? then I was not allowed to see her again". Heard later that this dude who accused his ex of being crazy, was a stalker and had some anger management issues. Listen to your gut, if someone calls their ex crazy, run, because next "crazy" will be you.
I'm telling on myself here, but only because once my mom pointed it out to me, I began fixing it. It took a long time. My stepdad was an abusive alcoholic when I was little. He would get drunk, be horrible, mom would get mad, he'd be good for 2-4 weeks or so. Fast forward and I married my second husband (our 20 year anniversary was 8/3). We really didn't argue/fight. But because of my childhood, I would start fights. One day talking to my mom it was pointed out I needed the explosion to have peace. That the cycle with my dad, we always knew the explosion would come again. So the 2nd week would come and nothing. The 3rd, nothing. Then the 4th he would get drunk and do it again. Then I knew I had at minimum 2 weeks of peace. Since my husband and I didn't fight, the longer we went without the explosion I kept anticipating one. More time passes and the more on edge I became, knowing it just HAD to come soon. So we'd reach 4 weeks and I would be so tense and on edge unconsciously I would
.... start a fight to get the relief. It was a horrible thing for me to do to him, but I didn't realize what I was doing. Thankfully we talked after mom explained it to me and I apologized. We put some things in place to help and I just worked really hard to stop that behavior. I'm very grateful my husband didn't simply see it as a red flag and run. Though if I never would have learned about it, I'm guessing our marriage would have been long over by now.
Load More Replies... hey guys, be GRATEFUL for any of these warning signs... she is just tipping her cards to let you know what is in her hand, proceed with caution duly warned... The REAL JERK is the one who keeps the real self, her real persona, carefully hidden behind a pretty mask... after she is holding marriage papers on you, the mask comes off. Now you have a wife who thinks nothing is wrong when she threatens divorce if the princess (now the Queen) doesn't get her way about even the slightest things, and won't hesitate to turn in the marriage papers for divorce papers upon the least provocation... hurts even more when your kids are involved... some of life's lessons are hard, there are non-authentic people (a.k.a. LIARS) out there who are living a lie, some people will not show their true self until married with threats of a high-stakes divorce on the table... after they put you through all this, then the jerk proceeds to destroy your reputation, since, after all, they are perfect which makes everything that happened all your fault... Hellfire is waiting for witches like this who do this... Don't make it worse by being a non-authentic jerk yourself...
It's always great to share red flags of course, but it becomes toxic if such lists are sprinkled with over generalised misogynist BS... Please select more carefully, BP.
How funny is all the red flag women debating every number, best part of this post is reading the comment below saying its not really a problem 😝😛😛
didn't see it here, but "testing " you. sending one of her female friends to flit with you to see what you do.
"It's my way or the hi-way". They are not interested in working through the relationship problems. Take the hi-way.
Want to enjoy peace and quiet - stay single - it really is that simple.
Biggest red flag I've ever seen in a woman: was at work (cashier) and this family was in my line. Little girl asks "daddy can I get one of these suckers? Please please?" It's one of the giant swirled lolipops. Dad says yes and mom immediately says no. Cute the argument. "Oh come on. It's just the one." "No I don't want her having one" "is it cause of the sugar? Cause look, they have smaller ones right here" "no. I already said no so the answer is no." "Why can't I spoil my kid every once in a while?" "SHES NOT EVEN REALLY YOUR DAUGHTER" when I tell you the heartbreak on this man's face was worse than just about anything I've ever seen, I'm not kidding. First of all, your kid is RIGHT there. Saying that at the same time you allow her to call him daddy is extremely confusing for a child that age. It's cruel. Second of all, if he clearly loves her and takes care of her and she calls him dad, he's her f*cking dad. Biology has nothing to do with it.
Third, you're in a f*cking store, in PUBLIC! Have some f*cking decency. On the bright side, a few months later, (the family are regulars) I found out he'd taken her to court and actually won. He got custody of his daughter full time. Clearly mom wasn't a good gf OR mother. And you know he buys his daughter every. Single. Time. The come in? A big a** sucker. I think that moment had been the last straw for him.
Load More Replies... the biggest red flag for me was when on the first date the woman left the front door & front windows to the apt. open with her watching them nervously. After about the 10th alarmed glance at the open front door, I asked what was going on. She said her previous boyfriend was extremely jealous and stalked her when she had company over. Then she said that a few months before, he threw a can of gasoline with a burning rag into her apt. during the night and burned out the apt. She said the cops couldn't prove a case for arson, so they let him go. Yikes.... all this on the first date...
