HOW DID YOU KNOW SHE WASN’T RIGHT FOR YOU?

(February, 2022) BuzzFeed asked, “What made you realize your girlfriend isn’t the one for you?” Many men responded, here are some of the responses:
– “She invited me over to cook for me, and instead ambushed me with her 8 friends to interrogate my feelings in the relationship.”
– “I had an ex-girlfriend who tricked me into meeting her parents. I would gladly meet them if she invited me, but she faked a panic attack so I would take her home and her parents were in on it. Seems silly but looked like a sign of deeper issues so I walked away.”
– “When she asked for a dude’s number at a party while I left for a minute. I caught her in the act and she still lied about it.”
– “She told me she never, ever wanted to meet my kids. She came up with a plan that, once we moved in together, she could stay at her parents house during my weekends with my kids.”
– “She cooked all of my food without spices to make me think I had COVID so I wouldn’t go anywhere.”
– “She didn’t want to come to any of my family functions, and she stopped sleeping in the same bed as me. The last straw: I opened a new bag of bread that she bought and she snapped at me, even though I was paying 80% of the rent and utilities.”
– “My ex made fun of me for pleasure reading. She would lay in bed next to me watching Jersey Shore, then would complain that I was wasting time reading.”
– “Having to explain all of my jokes because she just didn’t get them.”
– “She tried to drown me in a river. We were drinking by a river and the boys stole the girls’ alcohol cooler. I grabbed and ran off with the cooler. Sprinting in waist-high water is exhausting. Afterwards, I was completely out of gas and laid down into the chest-high water. As I was coming up for air, I felt her hands on my face and chest holding me under. At first I was like, ‘She’s joking, she’ll let me up soon.’ Then I started to run out of breath. Under normal circumstances, I would have been able to throw her off, but my muscles were starting to go limp.”
– “She misspelled my name on her Christmas card to me. I’d known her for over a decade.”
* Quite the crazy-quilt of life we live in, huh, guys?
* So a lot of men are moving their steady dates to the “girlfriend” level way too fast.
* On the bright side, think of all the alimony these guys avoided.
* What’s frightening is, I could apply more than half of these to my relationship with my mother.
* PHONE TOPIC: “My Crazy-Ex-Girlfriend.”