“Her 9-year-old son was a bully.
His mom got angry and said I wasn’t allowed to discipline him because I wasn’t his father.
I broke up with her right there.”
Other random folks get involved, and honestly, it’s frustrating as HELL.
“I was dating a divorced single mom, and her ex-husband was petty as all hell.
She was a good mom, but had no boundaries where her ex was concerned.
After several months, I realized that our relationship was third in line behind her kids and her ex.
Kids coming first is fine, but that wasn’t for me so I kindly broke it off.
u/ProximateHop
2.
“Not just a third person, but a whole friend group.
They knew everything about me (even though I didn’t share much about myself).
If my partner and I had an argument, they knew.
If I was out with friends?
I was on my period?
I had a bad day at work?
Sex life, or lack of (we had only dated a few weeks) they knew.
I would be downtown and happen to ‘run into them.’
I would be at work and see them walking by multiple times a day.
I understand sharing things with your friends, but there’s a line.
When your friends are just as involved in the relationship as your S.O., it causes issues fast.
Take a clingy boyfriend, multiply that by six, and it’s terrifying.”
u/mousebren
3.
“The girl best friend acted more like a toxic mother-in-law than a friend of a grown man.
I only met her briefly once, so she had no reason to dislike me.
She also planted doubt and made him extremely distant for the first three months of our first pregnancy.
All of his friendships were ruined by three infants/toddlers???
I didnt care if he hung out with friends.
I had never urged him to choose she did.
Also, she never wanted to date him, never attempted anything very strange.”
u/slanid
4.
“I was in a relationship about two years ago my ex was in a cult.
They’d attempt to tell them good from bad, and how to practice it.
They’d do this so they could push cult members to form families and thus ‘grow.’
There was even a specific special term for kids born in the cult to two practicing members.
Dodged that bullet big time, and I thank GOD every day for it!”
u/cknowsit
5.
“Single coworkers ruined us.
We married young and had two kids by the time we were 23.
A once-a-week girls night out became two nights, then happy hours added, then a girls weekend.
It became a toxic pattern.
She stopped talking to her parents who saw it developing as well.
Once the kids got into high school, she suddenly wanted to be involved with them.”
u/LostKnight99
6.
“This happened this week.
My now ex-boyfriend (fuck that hurts) just started therapy a few months ago at my urging.
It’s just two people who care very much about each other realizing they arent compatible.”
u/Defiant_apricot
7. u/throwawaystuff_xx_x
8.
“My 30-year-old partner of eight years joined a band with some 20-year-olds.
They convinced him that they will never get ‘big’ if they have long-term partners holding them back.
Twenty years later, they’re still not big, and he never made it as a musician.”
u/MrsSchneL
9.
“Her 9-year-old son was a brat and would bully other kids.
u/mrironman11
10.
This was after we had already met and hung out a number of times.
One night my ex and her dad convinced her mom to let me come over for dinner.
Never went back there even when her dad invited me back.”
u/Ilikegreenpens
11.
Mom never found what it was that she was supposedly held back from.
She now has shacked up with a random guy and just kind of works dead-end jobs.
Dad got depressed, started drinking, and lost his cushy job in public government.
She found a wonderful husband, and they make ends meet.
Little sister made it to art school, but works retail while she thinks about what’s next.”
u/Novel_Assist90210
12.
I am not Italian.
(Italians reading this probably already know where this is going.)
We met in Milan when I was there for work and he was visiting friends.
We would take a stab at meet once a month in my country and different cities in Italy.
I didn’t really speak Italian I took lessons, but their accent made it hard to follow.
u/Veeeveeeteee
13.
“I had a boyfriend who was extremely insecure.
His bros kept telling him he could do better than me because I was not ‘conventionally attractive.’
He dropped me because of their advice.
I guess he found out he was not the ‘chick magnet’ he thought he was.
u/moheagirl
14.
“My grandma divorced my grandpa because of his mom.
She was awful to her, and he did nothing about it.
She finally had enough, so she left him.
u/pixiepterodactyls
15.
“Her roommate was jealous that my girlfriend was in a relationship and she wasn’t.
She undermined everything for months until they were away together for a couple days.
As soon as my girlfriend was back in town, she called me to end it.
u/someguyfromsk
16.
“His grandma was racist and just a hateful woman.
He wouldnt consider a life where he didnt live with her.
Turns out she bankrolled his whole life, and he spent her money while telling me it was his.
u/poopsiebananabuns
17.And, “My dads girlfriend has broken up my fiance and I twice.
We used to live/work with them on and off while we were both in school.
Narcissism is a hell of a thing.”
u/The-False-Shepherd
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