After reading people’s stories, I can totally see why they left. Here’s what they had to say:
1.
“He got upset that he and his kids weren’t in my will…I was a single mother, and we’d been dating for three months.”
2.
“He fed my hamster to his friend’s snake. Yep, I came home to find my one-year-old hamster gone. I freaked out, and then I found a video of it on his Facebook page.”
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3.
“I wanted to send myself a copy of a pic he had taken, so he gave me his phone to find it. Previous to this moment, I knew he had a foot fetish, and I found a few covert pics of my own feet. I didn’t actually care that much until I found sneaky pics of MY MOTHER’S FEET. Relationship over.”
5.
“She was very drunk and found the car keys I hid from her. I told her I wouldn’t let her leave drunk and that I would sleep on the couch if needed (We lived together for over a year at this point). She got in the car, parked in our garage, and I stood right behind it, pleading with her not to drive. She threw it in reverse and would have run me over if I didn’t jump up on the trunk and then roll out of the way. That was that. Don’t need that in my life.”
6.
“They almost cost me my job by showing up there and causing a scene because they were jealous of my boss. It was mortifying and the last straw.”
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7.
“It was 7 a.m. on NYE. We were in the airport to fly out and go party. He was still drunk from the night before, stomping behind me like a big baby, hollering at me, ‘You know I hate morning flights! Why the hell would you book such an early flight?’ And the kiss of death when he hissed, ‘You’re so stupid.’ I stopped and turned to look at him. My inner voice asked, ‘WTF are you doing with this mess of a dude?’ I walked out of the airport and left him there.”
8.
“I walked in on him going down on my male cousin! I’m a woman, I’m straight, and I thought he was too!”
9.
“He asked why it had taken me 21 minutes to go to the shop for milk when he’s timed it at 16 minutes. He asked me ‘Who were you talking to?’ Yeah, screw off.”
10.
“He screamed at the waitress because his steak was medium-well instead of medium. I walked straight out of that restaurant, blocked his number, and never looked back. Anyone who treats service workers like that isn’t getting a second chance.”
11.
“We refinanced our house to pay off credit card debt. Six months later, I got on the computer and saw she hadn’t closed Windows, and saw she was back up to $20K in credit card debt. I packed my stuff the next day, gave her the option of keeping the house in her name or moving out. She chose to stay. One year later, she was forced to sell to pay off her debts.”
12.
“I broke up with him immediately after he unilaterally cancelled the couple’s therapy sessions I’d planned for us. This is the second time he did this after I’d made clear this was the single most important thing for me and after he’d agreed to the sessions.”
13.
“When they ‘forgot’ to tell me their ‘crazy’ ex-boyfriend was actually their current husband. PEACE.”
14.
“He voted for Trump. He hid it the entire eight months we were together. He knew I was a vocal feminist as he followed me online for years. He made a few misogynistic ‘jokes’ here and there to get a reaction out of me. He was constantly trying to debate with me. When I look back, I think he thought it would be an ego boost to belittle and ‘conquer’ a feminist.”
15.
“He had the audacity to tell me he was jealous that someone got to have sex with me when I was skinnier.”
16.
“She stole drugs from someone she definitely shouldn’t have, and I had to smooth things over, which resulted in me almost getting shot. The second I got back to the house I told her to get her crap and get out and never looked back.”
17.
“He wished death upon the ‘old hags who live next door, ruining his life,’ because someone had asked the building supervisor to go talk to him about the noise. He was having a house party with loud music blasting through open windows at 11:30 p.m. on a Tuesday.”
18.
“An ex cheated on me while I was going through heart surgery. I dumped him instantly. A lesson I needed to learn and I learnt it well.”
19.
“We went to a concert, I was meeting his friends for the first time. He got insanely drunk before it, but he had told me he’d been sober for two years. He called me his ex’s name and then told me to screw off…so I did. He begged for forgiveness, but I’m not risking my peace.”
20.
And finally “I was already pretty done with the relationship due to soooo many other things, but when my grandma died, he told me I shouldn’t be ‘that sad’ because she lived in another country and I didn’t get to spend much time with her anyway.”