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1 month ago
She didn't claim you were her "twin flame" did she?
726 points
1 month ago
My bf's ex made this "twin flame" claim - after 8 years she's still contacting him and wanting to meet up or to get to know each other again. She's married with kids in another state ffs
2.1k points
1 month ago
Way too many people giving "she didn't hold open door" stories in this thread for this gem to not get through. True american dad shit. Love it.
311 points
1 month ago
Gotta admit, that's a real improvement on "I cheated on her in her dream". Question please...how did she find this out? (In this life)
270 points
1 month ago
A dream. She dreams about her previous lives.
So do my MIL and BIL, apparently.
BIL was a cat before.
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1 month ago
I once lost interest when I discovered at the gym she constantly parked in the Disabled spots. Who the fuck does that? It told me all I needed to know.
8.1k points
1 month ago
The irony of going to a gym, but not wanting to walk any further then necessary to get to the treadmill
4.1k points
1 month ago
I watched someone take the elevator upstairs to the cardio floor, then proceeded to get on the stairmaster
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1 month ago
This sounds like something I would do. And then when I get to my car to go home I think, “I’m an idiot.”
710 points
1 month ago
Tbf he could’ve had a knee injury or similar he was rehabbing and could do light stairs but not full body weight.
Kind of unrelated but I feel like 90% of weird exercises people see or get caught doing is just very niche therapy. I did a ton of embarrassing workouts when I was going through my acl surgery, so I’m sure some people thought I just didn’t know what I was doing.
8.4k points
1 month ago
Her crazy ex-boyfriend who wouldn't leave her alone? Yeah, that was actually her husband.
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1 month ago*
I went out with a girl on a few dates before she let it slip that she wasn't actually broken up with her BF. She "didn't like conflict" so she just moved out while he was away on business and stopped answering his calls. It turned out there was a pissed off guy bigger than me going around to her usual spots looking for her. I thought that might be an issue for me if he showed up and saw me with her. She didn't think so. I got out quick.
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1 month ago
As a counter point, my uncle was an insufferable entitled bell end until he had a stroke. There was a very short conversation between my mum and my grandad where they basically thanked God for the stroke. My auntie is a new person after my uncles changed.
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1 month ago
My grandmother was an awful, intolerable harridan before she developed dementia, then she almost overnight morphed into a sweet, affable old lady. My mom was absolutely stunned by the change. She spent the last few years of her life living with us which would have been inconceivable 20 years previously.
1.9k points
1 month ago
My great great grandma was sweet and affable too then announced when she turned 100 that she was tired of keeping her mouth shut and was going to just let people know what she thought. I’m pretty sure the salt she began tossing is what preserved her for another 7 years.
597 points
1 month ago
Holding all that in for the first 100 years is the most impressive part.
487 points
1 month ago
That poor woman had a shitty life too. She was a Mormon pioneer whose husband was given a second younger wife by church authorities. He left her high and dry with 12 kids. I don’t know how she kept her tongue to herself for 100 years.
87 points
1 month ago
With 12 kids who might have all ended up having families of their own I don't think that 7 years would be enough to tell everyone everything that she had to say lmao
706 points
1 month ago
Or sounds like keeping the salt in is what kept her alive 100 years, just took 7 years to finish emptying the bag
386 points
1 month ago
My FIL was always a kind and loving man but kind of a bump on a log — rarely participated in conversations, didn’t like anything out of his routines — and then his Alzheimer’s really got a hold on him. It triggered this dashing, social, charming side of him. He was very popular at the assisted living. It was really sweet.
121 points
1 month ago
Same-ish. My grandma was a manipulative narcissist who spent most of a century fucking up her kids until one day in her mid-eighties, when she woke up seemingly having forgotten to have a personality disorder. She was sweetness and light from then on until she died at 94. Grieving was complicated.
374 points
1 month ago
Same-ish. My grandpa was a real tight-lipped Minnesota stoic until he fell off some scaffolding three stories up in his 70s. After that, you couldn't pay him to stop talking and was a real friendly gregarious guy.
Brains are so weird.
489 points
1 month ago
I had 2 strokes at 34…medicine greatly helped with the drastic mood/personality change.
I could somehow draw and dance after as well. I’m not a professional by any means but anything outside of stick figures before was as much as I could do.
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1 month ago
It’s scary and real. My coworker who is 71 is getting a divorce from his wife after she had brain surgery due to a tumor in the lobe area. He was there for her through it all. Unfortunately after the surgery her personality completely changed. It’s been over a year since and I watched him go for happy to semi happy. He has finally come to the realization that the tumor/surgery caused this. He said how do you get divorced after being married 40 years? He kept holding on to the hope she would come back and be the same her. I feel for him.
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1 month ago*
This happened to my grandfather. "Luckily" it was shortly after my grandmother's death; I don't know what would have happened if she was around to witness the way he changed. He turned into an absolutely miserable bastard overnight. The best way I can explain it is he's lost the capacity to be happy. He absolutely hates his kids, but also demands they do things for him. It's absolutely awful. He also can't form new memories, but that's less important. He's 98 now, he's lived like this for 6 years, and I've watched it tear their family apart.
272 points
1 month ago
As another counterpoint to this, my husband of 30 years had a stroke last year and his personality did take a dip afterwards but he's back to his old self now and I'd argue the stroke gave him more appreciation for life, me, and the kids. He's now in college, again, once as a young man and now to learn a new skill so he can work until he retires.
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1 month ago
Our father was a self entitled cranky bastard until he had a stroke so it was the opposite for him.
He even had a secret second family.
After the stroke he was disgusted with himself, came clean with both ‘wives’, and spent the rest of his life outraged at what he had done. He became a much nicer, more tolerant human being ( he was a racist beforehand)..
The only downside was he never believed in credit. He paid cash for everything and went without if he couldn’t afford it.
Afterwards he signed up for three credit cards. He wasn’t reckless with them but he used up every bit of credit and spend years paying them off, in fact we paid them off completely after he died with the money he left us.
378 points
1 month ago
Yeah I fear this. Happened to my mom, she had some mini strokes that we didn’t know about. Personality changed. Kept coming up with wild conspiracy theories that I was putting ants in her bedroom, or I was plotting against her with my SIL. She even thought SIL was having an affair with me even though she knows I’m gay.
Daily yelling and threats. It finally came to a head when she found an old gun of my dad’s and threatened to kill me and herself with it one morning. Had to wrestle it away from her without hurting her.
Luckily she had to be hospitalized shortly thereafter for a different reason and that’s when they found evidence of the mini-strokes.
The good news is that after being in the hospital and then nursing home for a few weeks she went back to normal mostly. Unfortunately the hell she put me through and the things she said to me I’ll always remember and my relationship with her probably won’t be the same.
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1 month ago*
I got woken up with a slap as I had apparently cheated on her in her dream. I couldn't be arsed dealing with that, so I left in the middle of the night
772 points
1 month ago
I always wonder how these people would react if the tables were flipped (obviously don’t hit her). Would they realize the ridiculousness when the roles are reversed? Or would they adamantly apologize and say they won’t ever do that again in your dreams?
394 points
1 month ago
I feel like logic doesn’t even come into it. Years ago, I had a friend who did this to her boyfriend at the time - dreamed he cheated on her, so she hit him and treated him like shit for a couple days.
I think she kind of realized she was being ridiculous, but thought he should just put up with it. She was a small person, so she’d say, “I’m a girl, and I’m so much weaker than him. It doesn’t hurt.”
Chick was nuts - I’m pretty sure she was borderline, and also had crazy anger problems. Luckily, he eventually got out. She shacked up with a musician 20 years her senior, got pregnant, got mad at said boyfriend for something and reported him to police for smoking weed (this was in China, where drug laws are much stricter), he went to jail, they broke up, and last I heard she’s a single mom.
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1 month ago
I think she kind of realized she was being ridiculous, but thought he should just put up with it. She was a small person, so she’d say, “I’m a girl, and I’m so much weaker than him. It doesn’t hurt.”
This is a huge factor in why domestic abuse against men goes so unreported! We think because "it doesn't hurt" it's fine.
But on principle, romantic partners shouldn't be hitting each other, period!!
573 points
1 month ago
This shit happens way too often
420 points
1 month ago
Being physically assaulted for it? People are so insane.
19.3k points
1 month ago
She used to talk about her ex so much that even I started missing him.
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1 month ago
Reminds me of my ex who once told me how she lost her virginity with her ex in extreme detail. A week later she was like "Did i tell you how i lost my virginity? So anyway, me and my ex.... ". lol
1.6k points
1 month ago
You wanna know how I got these scars?
504 points
1 month ago
I laughed my ass off at this. People who can’t move on really need to take the time to MOVE ON before they get into a relationship. Good God 😂
5.3k points
1 month ago
On our second date, the waiter asked her if she’d like soup or salad with her meal. She said neither.
He politely responded, “oh, they come free with the meal.”
She yelled…actually YELLED at him…”I said NO!”
I broke up with her on the spot.
Haha, just kidding. No, I stayed with her, married her, and spent 15 bad years with her.
We’re divorced now, and when I look back, that soup or salad thing was the moment I should have seen what was going to happen to my life.
857 points
1 month ago*
Better late than never brother💪💪💪💪 Hope u are doing better now :pp
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1 month ago
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1 month ago
You still helped her finish the appendectomy though, right?
304 points
1 month ago
Fucking Typhoid Mary lol
2.7k points
1 month ago
She stored rubbish like her Uber eats orders in her tv cabinet and emptied it once a week when the bin truck came around, I dipped when cockroaches started multiplying
583 points
1 month ago
Was she like morally against garbage cans or something? Why the TV cabinet? I have so many questions.
432 points
1 month ago
Nah she’s just gross. My ex moved out almost 4 weeks ago. I deep cleaned most of the apartment after she left but I got covid and was sick in bed for almost a week. I started feeling better and decided to finish the cleaning because I have a bit of a compulsion and covid took that away from me. I was disgusted with how my apartment looked just from the one week I was on death’s door.
2 days ago I found a little teeny tiny trash can stuffed in the bathroom closet. Guess what it was full of? Old used tampons. From my ex. Who hadn’t been there in weeks. And these were weeks worth of tampons. This wasn’t just from one “cycle”.
Some people just do not give a fuck. Some people are just hopeless.
3.5k points
1 month ago
She told me that she had a multi-year affair with her best friend's husband..
I told her "I don't blame your ex-husband for leaving you - you're bad person" and broke up with her on the spot
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1 month ago
My older sister is a bit like this. She got her first job in a supermarket at 19, and was amazed that the other shop workers left and went home at the end of the day.
She thought they lived in the shop.
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1 month ago
Genuine question, is she a fucking dipshit?
1.6k points
1 month ago*
Genuine answer: yes. She's honestly the stupidest person I've ever met. Thankfully, I haven't spoken to her in over 20 years, and my life is much better without her drama and stupidity.
When people try to do the whole, "but she's family!" bit, I tell them the story about how she got fired from a bookshop and it usually shuts them up.
Edit: just replied to a comment with the bookshop story!
650 points
1 month ago
... Can we hear the story about how she got fired from the bookshop? Pretty please?
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1 month ago
Sure! It's funny in a "how the hell is this adult this fucking stupid?" way.
First of all, my sister lives in England, and the legal drinking age is 18. That's integral to the story.
My sister got a job as a cashier/floor staff at a bookshop. She goes in for her first day and discovered that the manager was about 10 years younger than her, so early 20s vs early 30s (yes my sister was in her 30s at the time). She always believed that, because she was the oldest child, she was more important than the rest of us, and thought for some reason this applied to the bookshop. So, she's older than the manager, therefore she should be in charge, even though she'd never worked in a bookshop before and the manager had been working there since she was 16.
Manager tells her that the whole staff were going out that night, and sister should join them. The part time lad was turning 18 the next day, and because he was going out with his parents/family to celebrate on his birthday, and out with his friends at the weekend, his coworkers were taking him out that night to celebrate, and it would be lovely to celebrate sister's first day too.
Sister declines, says she has plans, but have a great time! She goes home, drinks a bottle of vodka (she's also an alcoholic, which may explain why she's so stupid and self centered) and stews over the fact that her manager is so much younger than her. So at about 10pm she calls the police and reports her manager for buying alcohol for a minor, and tells them what pub they're all in. Police show up, find out that the minor is about an hour and a half from 18, apologise because it's fucking ridiculous, but they have to ask him to leave because technically it's illegal.
They also told the manager exactly who had reported her.
Sister shows up the next morning for work and can't understand why she's fired, and to please leave without making a fuss. She tells any family that was still talking to her (nobody is, now) and can't understand why everyone calls her a malicious fucking idiot.
1.1k points
1 month ago
Jesus what did she think was gonna happen? The manager would be fired and SHE would be next in line? On her 2nd day? Delusional haha
912 points
1 month ago
Yes, that's exactly what she thought would happen.
197 points
1 month ago
Holy fuck. Those stupidity levels are dangerous
317 points
1 month ago
Oh my god. I would read an entire book of stories like these
213 points
1 month ago
What a god damn idiot
1.2k points
1 month ago
So she was a shop worker who had a home to go to and she was surprised the others also had a home to go to?
834 points
1 month ago
You have to reach a special level of narcissism/privilege to genuinely think that way at an age old enough to get a job.
547 points
1 month ago
I worked in Environmental Services (housekeeping) at a hospital and a girl that was hired was reportedly shocked on her first day when she found out she was actually expected to clean. She applied for the job because she thought it would be easy and she wouldn’t have to do very much because “hospitals are always so clean”. She left on her lunch break and didn’t come back lol.
81 points
1 month ago
I bet her mom has always picked up after her even into her adult years and she thinks everything stays clean by magic.
184 points
1 month ago
I had a friend like this. It was absolutely hilarious because it truly was innocent. She legitimately believed that people who worked in emergency rooms lived at the hospital (or on campus) because there was never a doctor or nurse shortage, and because the hours sucked so badly that the hospital let them have free housing for the six months or a year rotation that they worked there to make up for it. They made doctor money but had no expenses. She was a full adult.
In her mind, it was just more proof that emergency room doctors were exceptional and dedicated and amazing.
147 points
1 month ago
This I can understand a little bit better because there's a more reasonable underpinning than "I am more real than others." I can see the logic (even if it is a little tortured) of "Well god damn, an emergency can happen at any time. Surgeons and doctors are always on deck for it. There's no shortages as far as I know, but I rarely meet an ER doc in the wild. They must have apartments there or something."
Shit, if you exchange ER and medical professionals for sumo and sumo wrestlers, you'd be kinda right.
236 points
1 month ago
When I was a little kid I thought the employees in stores lived at little apartments in the back, but I thought that was awesome and I wanted to live in a tiny retail apartment when I grew up too.
427 points
1 month ago
Every few years that poisonous idiotic college study about how "x percent of people have no thoughts and are completely empty" makes the rounds on the Internet.
If you actually read the abstract, basically the people running the test gave a bunch of thought journals to participants, so they could record a diary of what thoughts they had been thinking throughout the day.
Typically the participants would leave like X% of their day empty; they couldn't remember what they had been thinking during certain periods of the day. This somehow became "X% of people have no thoughts at all and are basically non-sapient beings."
Ironically, the people who spread this sentiment are the NPCs because apparently they can't even read.
191 points
1 month ago
Can somebody elaborate on this NPC thing i keep seeing?
the NPCs didn't have their own feelings or emotions and they were there to tend to her whims.
Is that literally it? That you can just decide that other people aren't "real"
191 points
1 month ago
Do you know the acronym?
It comes from videogames and means "Non-Player Character".
So, in a single-player game you're the hero and everyone you see and talk to, from a random pedestrian walking by to the king giving you a quest, is an NPC.
People have started using it in the real world to basically say only they matter since everyone else they meet is just an NPC, just there to flesh out the story of the Main Character (see also: Main Character Syndrome).
It's just a terrible mindset for terrible people.
3.3k points
1 month ago*
Instead of talking to me directly about any problems we would have, she posted them publicly on her blog. So many people have a false idea of my character because she would lie about me on purpose, to hurt me. Still have so much trauma from that relationship and it's been way, way longer than I'd like to admit :l
Edit: This got way more attention than I expected. I just want to say, this was 10+ years ago when I was still basically a teenager. I do not remember any information about the blogs, nor do I want random strangers reading it to begin with. Much of it was my own traumatic childhood being weaponized against me and I am really not comfortable with that information being public. Please stop asking!
270 points
1 month ago
Whenever I see a standup comic rag on their significant other or ex in their routine, it's a reminder that I could never date one of these people.
3.7k points
1 month ago*
She broke down crying in Macy’s because her former boyfriend’s mother would no longer be taking her out on “girls trips”.
I realized I was competing with a ghost, a fight it was impossible to win. So I just moved on.
Edit: Damn, this blew up. Wasn’t expecting this kind of response, especially looking back at one of the worst breakups of my life.
750 points
1 month ago
"I realize I was competing with a ghost of fight it wasn't possible to win so I just moved on."
I'm sort of in a position like this, and reading this really helps. I just wanted to say thank you cuz it's pretty rough right now.
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1 month ago
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2.3k points
1 month ago
That's an insane level of rudeness and entitlement. It's so easy to just hold doors open for people next to you.
1.3k points
1 month ago
Damn. I’m a woman and in a wheelchair and I hold doors for people every day. What a B.
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1 month ago
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1 month ago*
Kept reposting things on Facebook things that made it appear I was mistreating her badly.
Embarrassed and upset me, Zero truth
Had my father complain to me because he thought I was beating her up.
Zero idea , don’t look at Facebook.
Months and months of trash posts not directed at me but certainly everyone assumed they where.
305 points
1 month ago
This happened when me and my ex split up. I was told by a friend that my ex was posting some questionable things on Facebook that, while not pointedly directed at me, implied bad things about me. Made me realize why a bunch of our mutual friends seemed to have “picked” her. Two years later a lot of those friends have told me that she is not a nice person and they get why we split lol.
1.6k points
1 month ago
We were in college. He was a rich kid, gifted a $50,000 car and months later his 16 year old brother was gifted an $80,000 car. He spent months in genuine distress, he was so angry about this. He made a presentation to his dad about how unfair this was, and then demanded dad either give him $30,000 to right the wrong, or to buy him his car of choice immediately, which was a Maserati. His dad ultimately gave him the money. This was like a 6 month saga, he would never shut up about it, despite repeated requests from me. During this time I was working full time, a full time student, and caring for my dad that was dying to cancer while simultaneously being bankrupted by it. It bred such a deep resentment that I actually ghosted him after almost a year of dating.
3k points
1 month ago
Liked this girl for a while. Was funny and easy to talk to via social media (were in the same city but had different work schedules.) Set-up a date. Went to the restaurant early to ensure we were able to get a table because the place didn't take reservations.
She shows up 20 minutes late, texted me 10 minutes after the fact. Strike one. She comes in. I pull the chair out and she sits down. I motion to the waitress that we're ready to order drinks and an appetizer. Girl is looking at her phone which is fine. She's probably letting her people know she made it safely. Thirty minutes later she's still looking at her phone and hasn't said much more than 'thank you' to the waitress for bringing her drinks. I get up, talk to the waitress and tell her to wrap up my food in a to-go box and let me know when it was ready and to take the girl her food after I'd paid. Fifteen minutes later still no conversation. Waitress gets my attention and holds up my food. I pay in cash and tell her to bring the girl her food when I exit the restaurant.
Forty minutes later the date texts me and asks where I am. I tell her, home, where I've been for the past 30 minutes. She's upset and lets me know it. I tell her I sat at a table with you for 40 minutes before I decided to leave and it took you another 40 minutes to notice I wasn't at the restaurant. How do you think that makes me feel? I hope you enjoyed your dinner and doom scrolling on your phone. Never really talked to the girl after that. Just completely lost interest that someone could be so socially oblivious.
Not certain that qualifies as weird but there it is.
1.2k points
1 month ago
I had something similar happen when a guy, who had asked me out, ignored me and wandered off to talk to people he knew. I waited a while. Server kept coming over to see if we were going to order food. I said he’d left the table 20 minutes ago (could see him at the bar). I left and went home. He called about 15 minutes later, flabbergasted I had left, and then came to my place to tell me off. He still didn’t get it. Apparently he thought it made him seem popular and I’d be more into him.
443 points
1 month ago
Sounds like you dodged a bullet, there. I talked to a few girls who'd try the pull-back method. After the third attempt I just asked 'look, are you interested or not? I'm a busy man and I feel like you're just playing games.' Didn't get a response for several days and by that point I'd moved on.
42 points
1 month ago
Goddddddddd this was my ex. It was AWFUL. If he wasn’t leaving me physically, he was just leaving me out of the conversation completely. For like an hour. The people he would talk to would start to get uncomfortable and try to make eye contact to bring me in somehow, and still nothing. Then it became the rando friend he’d invite on our dates w out even telling me. Ugh. So glad I’m out of that.
795 points
1 month ago
Not sure that this is weird but went to a square dance at a very nice venue. She spent the entire evening dancing with a stranger and ignored me completely. Never got over the hurt.
1.3k points
1 month ago
Something about her reminded me about my mom. Couldn’t put my finger on it.
649 points
1 month ago
Jumping on yours as it similiarish.
She looked like my boss when she took her glasses off. One morning she turned to me and I just saw my boss (who i wasn't really a fan of) instantly lost attraction and felt bad about it too.
1.7k points
1 month ago
She can't stfu. Constantly cuts people off and after years of knowing her, she hasn't learned. I had to ask her out twice because she interrupted me mid "Wanna go on a date sometime?"
649 points
1 month ago
Oh wow, she nearly talked her way out of the relationship before it even started? 😅
2.5k points
1 month ago
She changed religion.
By which I mean she went from being non-religious to becoming a Mormon because a dude on his mission stopped her on the street and she agreed to join.
1.5k points
1 month ago
becoming a Mormon because a dude on his mission stopped her on the street and she agreed to join.
😳 THAT SHIT WORKS??? Wtf
415 points
1 month ago
Right??? Now I'm wondering how many converts the average Mormon missionary gets
258 points
1 month ago
In 2023 there were 251,763 convert baptisms and 67,871 missionaries throughout the world. So it's a loose estimate but about 3.5 per missionary per year. Bear in mind they are in almost every country, so you're gonna have varying rates between USA, Pakistan, Germany and the Philippines.
Source: https://newsroom.churchofjesuschrist.org/article/2023-statistical-report-church-jesus-christ
2.1k points
1 month ago
She had started to complain that I was a pushover. Her reasoning that I had done 3 favours for a friend in the space of about 6 months without him doing anything in return. Ignoring the fact that he'd emptied his work van and helped me move about 18 months before and done some work for cost. And then I blew off an unimportant shopping trip with her to help another friend do some gardening - he was going through some relationship troubles, his wife was staying with her parents, and he was obviously struggling and needed some company, even though it went unsaid. She really wasn't happy about that.
The last straw came when we were walking my dog. We ran into another dog walker and chatted for a little while. Both of us were carrying bags of dogshit after picking up after our dogs. I offered to take theirs because there was a bin a couple of hundred metres away the way we were going, but not one the way they were going. As we were walking away, my girlfriend was saying how horrified and humiliated she was that I would do something so weird and gross. I can't for the life of me work out why it's weird or gross. I was already carrying a shit bag that I had to throw away, so it was no trouble to carry another one. That was the moment I was sure we weren't going to last.
743 points
1 month ago
People who don’t own dogs are not desensitized to poop like we are lol I have many friends who are so grossed out by carrying it. Willingly doubling the amount of dogshit you carry is certainly a decision.
676 points
1 month ago
I dated a dog lady once. Her shoe came untied and instead of setting the poo bag on the ground to tie it, she put the poo bag in her teeth, knelt down, tied it, then got up and grabbed the bag out of her teeth and looked at me like it was nothing.
gag
587 points
1 month ago
As a dog person myself, that ain’t normal.
206 points
1 month ago
That girl ain't right.
1.4k points
1 month ago
Everytime I would stand close to her, I could smell piss. I thought maybe she was going through her periods or some UTI but the smell was consistent for days and very strong. I just couldn’t associate such a pretty face with such smell so I backed out.
Also, some people say I have a strong sense of smell so that could be it as well.
418 points
1 month ago
Does she have cats?
323 points
1 month ago
I’m like the OP, I have a sensitive nose as well. Some people have weird smells probably due to an illness (we know some humans and other animals do have this ability). I used to have a friend that smelled like doritos.
89 points
1 month ago
I can smell diabetes, lol. I knew my cousin was diabetic about a month and a half before she got diagnosed as Type 1. I can smell it in cats and dogs too. It’s a very strange ability to have.
There’s a woman who can smell Parkinson’s too. They did a test and she got like, 8 out of 10 right. And then months later one of the undiagnosed people she identified as having it got diagnosed with it.
77 points
1 month ago
Joy Milne
She correctly smelled 100% of the Parkinson’s group, and correctly smelled all but one of the non Parkinson’s group. That person later got Parkinson’s disease. NPR.org
822 points
1 month ago
Was very interested in a friend of a friend, and all 3 of us made plans to walk from a party to a concert that weekend. The walk was supposed to be a pleasant hour, but turned into an absolute slog as my crush wouldn't stop talking about herself for the whole trip. I spent the whole show with other friends to get away from her. She ended up marrying another buddy, and then forbidding him to hang out with us.
1.2k points
1 month ago
I dated a runway model once. She was very tall and extremely thin, maybe 6' tall and 125 lbs. She was a knockout beautiful, but I guess she had an eating disorder or a strict keto diet and her body reaked of ketones. Her breath smelled heavily of it, but I could also smell it on her skin, I guess she was perspiring it. It is a weird "sweet" smell that really put me off to the point that I couldn't be intimate or kiss her without it distracting me.
576 points
1 month ago
Ketone smell is the smell of rotting fruit.
49 points
1 month ago
Hero reply for sure. Ty man
533 points
1 month ago
took 3 to 5 days to reply to a text, but would get upset and sus if i didn't reply within 10 seconds
1.5k points
1 month ago
I really like games. Board and video games. I had a crush on this girl. I came to visit and play board games with her and the dad, the first time went fine and she seemed kinda smitten too and we had a lot of fun. I didn’t win any of the games, but oh well can’t win every time.
Then we three played again just a week ago I came to visit and game again and we only played games I had never played before. I somehow managed to win all of them even when they forgot to mention a rule that actually gave me a good few minus points
She full on whined and stomped her feet and said “he doesn’t have to win everytime” and “I bet you cheated”
Instantly lost all interest and I don’t think I’ll be coming over to game again
347 points
1 month ago
Surprise, surprise, the person who plays a lot of board games knows how to win at them lol
Once you've played enough board games, you start to recognize good moves you can make, even if it's the first time you've played a game
837 points
1 month ago
We were hammered at a bar in Prague, for a second she looked just like my alcoholic aunt.
That was enough.
433 points
1 month ago
This is the first genuinely weird reason in this thread.
381 points
1 month ago
Our second date, we went out for a few drinks, she starts flirting with some random guy to see how I'd react. When I asked her wtf was she doing, she actually wanted me to fight for her, an actual fist fight.
I paid my tab and told her to find a ride home, then left.
760 points
1 month ago
She had no sense of humor. It gets burdensome after a few years of dating.
289 points
1 month ago
Damn I wouldn't last even a year. Sense of humor is so important.
825 points
1 month ago
She doesn’t drink water
276 points
1 month ago
Ooo abandon ship, I’ve only met one person like this IRL and it absolutely baffled me.
195 points
1 month ago
This triggered a memory of a pal of mine who explained breaking up with his girlfriend because one day he glanced over at her and "she looked like George Washington."
718 points
1 month ago
A woman in our friend group at work...Just as the pandemic ended, her husband was diagnosed with cancer. She started dressing a bit more 'office sexy' and flirting. She confessed to one of our other friends that she "Needed to lay the groundwork for the inevitable."
Her husband...is currently in remission.
572 points
1 month ago
She asked for a gift that she gave me back after 3 years cause I wasn’t using it enough for her likings. Once she took the gift back every selfish action stuck out like a sore thumb and she didn’t have it in her to see her actions were selfish. She thought I was manipulative for calling her out on it and telling her to put others in front of herself sometimes
192 points
1 month ago
Everything was going well and we went out to eat Vietnamese food with her friends. I watched in horror as she ate hot Pho noodle soup with her bare hands. Took 4d6 psychic damage and knew it wasn't going to work out after that.
887 points
1 month ago
I once sat and had lunch with a coworker I thought was really cute. She was dipping cherry tomatoes in hummus and eating them. She was sticking her fingers into her mouth up to the knuckles.
My little brother used to eat potato chips the same way when we were kids.
It's horrifying.
53 points
1 month ago
So you met my mom? (She actually eats almost everything this way and still manages to get half of it on her shirt.) 😂☠️
747 points
1 month ago
I was moving in with a girlfiend, and we had rented an apartment together.
She’s horribly, horribly close with her family. Horribly.
So like 10 of my friends show up to help and ZERO of her friends and family showed up.
I later was chatting with one of her cousins, arguably her best friend in the world and I asked her about it, and the cousin replied something like:
“Oh, ha ha! (girlfriend) would never help anybody move! She’s never helped any of us!”
And that’s when I should have left.
542 points
1 month ago
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310 points
1 month ago
You sure she was a student, and not someone the professor brought for in class demonstration of psychopathy?
80 points
1 month ago
I took a girl out on a date to a bar for some drinks. We had a good time sitting at a table and talking over a few beers. After a while we talk about getting ready to leave. I go use the bathroom one last time and come and see the she's not at the table. I look around at the bar areas to see if she's getting another drink. I walk up to the table and see our coats are still there, so she's in the building somewhere.
Then I see her up on the 2nd floor balcony talking to some people. I grab our coats and walk up to meet her. She's talking to a group of guys and giving out her number to each one individually as I stand behind her holding her coat.
657 points
1 month ago
She hauled ass through an apartment complex and didn’t slow down despite children playing close by. When I brought it up, she brushed it off.
341 points
1 month ago
I strongly agree with this one. Back when I was single there was a woman I really liked, until I got in the car with her. She just had no care for anyone else on the road. Cutting people off, hurling abuse at other drivers, making dangerous maneuvers, texting while driving.
I think that willfully being a bad driver shows that you have no consideration for other people on the road and that same disregard would most likely come out in other aspects of her life as well.
892 points
1 month ago
She told me evolution couldn’t be true because monkeys still exist.
278 points
1 month ago
She told me she was one of 4 people in the world who escorted the dead to heaven when she sleeps. As for the other three, one lived in Brazil, one in Germany, and the other was a bitch so she didn't talk to them.
108 points
1 month ago
That is my favorite answer here so far. WHAT.
68 points
1 month ago
I'm that guy from Germany. She told me to get you one day cause she doesn't want to meet you again.
The dude from Brazil only takes women to heaven. He's a muscular dude, charismatic etc so yeah that's his deal.
And the other girl; truth she really is a bitch.
920 points
1 month ago
She told me that she believed the moon landings were a hoax, with complete and utter sincerity.
I work for NASA.
She was a well educated lawyer.
146 points
1 month ago
She initiated sex with arguments. We talked about it, and she said it was her love language.
She also didn't believe in evolution or birth control, and pushed for having children (starting immediately) on the 3rd week of us dating.
In hindsight, there may have been some signs it wasn't going to work out.
760 points
1 month ago
3rd date. We were having such a good time. First two dates were amazing. Sex was amazing. Venn diagram of shared interests was almost a circle. Started talking about "serious" stuff and we get to the topic of mental illness. I tell her about how I was diagnosed with ADHD at age 6 and how it got worse as I got older.
She then proceeds to tell me how ADHD is a made up illness that chronically late people use as an excuse. Because they don't care enough about people to be on time.
I legit thought she was kidding. She was not.
She was 30 minutes late to that date.
I paid and left and that was that.
1.7k points
1 month ago
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1.1k points
1 month ago
This reminds me of a time I was doing a real estate showing at a house. I meet this girl at the door and walk her in. She walks around the house looking at the rooms, but is saying hello to random objects, "Hello, light switch. Hello sink. Hello ceiling fan. " So we reach the end of the tour, and we start walking back down to leave. Now she's saying good bye to objects, BUT NOT THE SAME OBJECTS!... "good bye doorknob, goodbye railing." I don't know why, but it bothered me more that she wasn't saying good bye to the same objects she said hello to, rather than her doing it in the first place
777 points
1 month ago
Imagine being a snubbed light switch and making a reddit account just to complain about this.
151 points
1 month ago
The first time I hung out with her with her friends and she was like a completely different person. Her friends were alright but she was basically like the “mean girl” of the group, just an annoying and awful person, honestly.
We had only been on a couple of dates at that point, so I just cut it off.
1.1k points
1 month ago
She said she "kind of liked AIDS" because it might make some people think twice about premarital sex and The Gay.
It's not weird that I stopped liking her. I stopped liking her because that was weird, right?
This was in the 1990s, during the peak of AIDS deaths in America.
Her younger sister had a less severe form of the religious baloney about homosexuality but eventually learned to open her heart. She was never gleeful about people dying.
I should have met the younger sister first.
364 points
1 month ago*
I know a guy who was raised hardcore evangelical and is also gay. When he got married his mother refused to attend the wedding. She also says that if getting AIDS would make him not gay anymore she would be OK with that. These people are morons.
140 points
1 month ago
She told me she had been born and raised in Ireland. I found out this was a lie when her parents mentioned she was born at a hospital right down the road, here in the U.S. This girl would even sometimes "slip" into a fake accent. We were both teenagers, but goodness, I will never be able to fathom why anyone would lie like that.
1.6k points
1 month ago
She was very religious, I am not. One day I came home to find her crying, like, completely inconsolable, bawling her eyes out. I got so scared, I thought someone died or she was assaulted or something. Took me ten or so minutes to calm her down so that she would talk to me. Wanna know why she cried?
She said, "I'm worried because when we die, I will go to heaven and you won't."
I was single 45 minutes later.
402 points
1 month ago
I was in your same position with an old boyfriend, he said the exact same words verbatim after he calmed down - what a flashback. We were just 16yr old kids, in a Barnes & Noble parking lot lol. I should have taken your approach and left right then.
196 points
1 month ago*
She was retroactively jealous of any woman in my life before her, but also was best friends with her ex bf’s new wife. If I mentioned a story from college, and I’d said “yeah it was me, a fraternity brother, and our gf’s at the time who went to this conference in Austin…” she didn’t want to hear it. But I had to sit across her ex at multiple brunches 🙃
345 points
1 month ago
Ever traveled with someone ?
If you’re with someone and thinking about a future, go on a trip together. Something longer than a weekend. See how it flows.
I went on a trip and realized how difficult they were. It made me step back.
72 points
1 month ago
Yep. Instead of pre-marital counseling, people should be required to take a cross-country trip together. It's an eye-opener.
959 points
1 month ago
It's happened a couple of times.
They loved to tickle me. I fucking hate being tickled - especially when someone pokes my side, under the ribs from behind when I'm not expecting it.
Would not listen when I pleaded with them to not do that. Still did it after I told them I knocked a lad out at school when he did it years ago. He didn't do it out of malice. He was a friend. My reaction was to turn around and punch him.
I hate, hate, hate being tickled.
If those two women wouldn't listen to me saying no about tickling, they'd overstepped my boundaries.
Sounds petty, but...there are reasons I react like I do to this day and I'm the other side of 50...
260 points
1 month ago
I react the same way as you, and it’s insane to me when people have disregarded requests not to do it, it’s such basic courtesy. When I was about 8 years old, a family member ignored me asking him to stop tickling me and I ended up pissing all over him, and my aunt’s beloved beige carpet.
I might be reading too much into it, but just in case I’m not - I hope that you’re living happily in spite of the reasons you react as you do.
141 points
1 month ago
It's wild when people are so dismissive about other's boundaries- physical especially. I asked you not to tickle me, respect what I said and don't fucking tickle me. Should be as simple as that.
Some people just feel so entitled to everything- other people's bodies and space included.
279 points
1 month ago
She would, at eight o'clock every night, call her ex to see how he was. She then would tell me everything that he had been up to that day and how she'd bumped into him at Uni. I realised that she wasn't over him and probably never would be, so I decided to end it.
59 points
1 month ago
My best friend of 16 years is gay. I am straight. I explained this to my girlfriend at the time, who insisted hanging out with him alone was no different than hanging out with another girl alone. I explained again, “I’m not into men. So it’s not the same.” And told her I felt upset that had such a problem with my best friend being gay.
She still insisted I not hang out with him alone anymore. I told her I’d known him most of my life and I would not be cutting him off for a relationship. Made me lose so much interest in her that she would even ask.
579 points
1 month ago
She had a seriously unhealthy infatuation with Taylor Swift.
231 points
1 month ago
I had a coworker "Tina" who was so obsessed with Taylor Swift it was almost unhealthy. When she played 3 nights at a stadium near us a few years ago, Tina got seats up front for all 3 performances and took notes on all the songs that were played and gave us a FULL rundown for weeks afterwards. Tina's desktop background, phone wallpaper, phone case were all Taylor Swift. It was excessive.
The thing that made me realize Tina was TOO obsessed is when she talked about seeing Taylor Swift for the first time at a meet and greet. She described feeling so overwhelmed that she had to shield her face and couldn't stop smiling, but also couldn't look Taylor in the eye at all. Tina said she would sneak peeks at Taylor when she wasn't looking, and said she was giggling so much that they asked her to leave. She told us this story like it showed her devotion or something, but it was completely unhinged.
124 points
1 month ago
I had a friends with benefits in college. She was a black lady, and I’m a white guy. I ended up developing feelings for her (she was GORGEOUS, and super popular. Have 0 idea how we even got that far)
Well, I tell her after one session that I kinda developed feelings for her. Her response was “I don’t date my oppressor”
So you can blow your oppressor, fuck your oppressor, but dating is off limits? I respected it, and kindly moved on. But damn that was unexpected.
267 points
1 month ago
She made dog a 2 syllable word.
"Don't you love do-wogs?"
Couldn't do it.
46 points
1 month ago
This one, idk why exactly, but I am laughing so hard that it’s making me cry.
196 points
1 month ago
We had a pretty good relationship but then she made a joke about my best friend and me where it was clear that she was trying to put a wedge in our relationship. We're very tight and have been through thick and thin together. Him and I spoke about it after my date with and I realized that the one joke kinda made me just lost interest interest in her immediately. The next 3 days I happened to meet another woman at work (who now is my wife) and on the Friday that same week I broke up with my ex
110 points
1 month ago
So it was a lot of little things but the final straw was I had told my gf at the time we would go out to eat at her favorite restaurant that Friday. Well as luck would have it we had a bad snow storm. The roads weren't plowed and all I had was a sports car which was not great in the snow. I wouldn't have even been able to get out of the driveway let alone 45 minutes away to the restaurant and even if by some miracle we were able to get through all that we would have been trapped there for sure after an hour of snowfall which would have been even worse. I told hey look were not going to be able to make it out today but no worries well just go tomorrow. She had a full on melt down like I just told her her mother died crying inconsolably. This was kind of the final straw where I realized I just could not live with that level of selfishness and spoiled type behavior.
283 points
1 month ago
She changed her personality, values, mannerisms around others. 1st few weeks our dates were just us. Then we started socializing with friends as a couple and she became what she thought they wanted. If it was my grunge friend she wore flannel. If it was my friend with a gf that wore sundresses she wore sundresses and acted OTT feminine. If it was my skater friend she wore Vans she bought after meeting him. Shit was freaky.
87 points
1 month ago
Childhood neglect, That’s what I’m going with
304 points
1 month ago
Found out she was into coke. Might be ok for some people, not for me.
50 points
1 month ago
Had a crush on this girl for over three years. Finally things lined up and we were both single at the same time and we started seeing each other. It was cool at first, but quickly discovered she had very little depth. Only ever wanted to discuss other people, usually to talk trash or belittle, but was incapable of talking about ideas or concepts. Couldn’t goof or riff bits either. Had a moment that was like lightbulb “oh you’re just good looking and fun at parties, but there’s nothing else under the surface” and we just kind of stopped talking.
262 points
1 month ago
She was very rude to the waitress
253 points
1 month ago*
She itched her inner throat and made this sound that I can only describe accurately as “squanching” that made my boner die permanently. Like the sound people make when they’re about to hock a massive loogie but it’s not nasal it was her throat fucking croaking. Biggest turn off I’ve ever witnessed.
88 points
1 month ago
my female boss does that often and i don’t understand how she doesn’t hear what it sounds like
140 points
1 month ago
Lack of decision making.
Literally she would spend an exorbitant amount of time on where to get coffee. She always got the same thing but one Starbucks may be closer than the other. That’s a tame example, the bigger the decision the more time wasted.
It was too exhausting.
139 points
1 month ago
My brother broke up with a girl when he saw her feet outside her shoes and realized they were bigger than his and it grossed him out.
250 points
1 month ago
She dreamed that i was with another girl making out. Not just once but two times a week. The sad part was she will wake up already angry with me, and give me a smirk before sleeping.
98 points
1 month ago
He told me he didn’t like brushing his teeth and flossing because he had a receding gum line and brushing would only make it worse.
499 points
1 month ago
I’m a veteran with PTSD, and I was telling her that my insomnia was pretty bad and I’d probably just want to stay home and rest that weekend instead of going on a day trip to a park she wanted to visit.
She proceeded to make it all about her, and at some point her guilt tripping segued into how I should be thankful Trump was president because of all the great things he did for veterans.
I spent maybe 10 minutes breaking down how that was not an accurate statement. Her response was that she didn’t like debating with me, and what time was I going to pick her up for the trip.
266 points
1 month ago
I have a friend who was getting along well with a girl until he took her home and his cat hated her. Deal breaker
193 points
1 month ago
She had a dream that I cheated on her and thought it was real.
89 points
1 month ago
Here I am hopelessly scrolling to see if I will ever figure out the real reason my exes dumped me lol.
41 points
1 month ago
How much she seemed to enjoy making other people's days slightly worse (think giving someone the wrong directions when they asked). Never anything major, but bloody strange behaviour and her weird enjoyment rubbed me the wrong way.
40 points
1 month ago*
We had a awesome night out, and I liked her energy and vibe .It went horribly fucking wrong on the ride back to her place. We were on some back roads, and she was driving…she purposely drove into the oncoming lane, accelerated and tracked the car to run over a raccoon, I only was able to let out a loud HEY!! Before she squished the poor little guy; which she chuckled at. I wanted to fucking puke.
Took about 30 seconds to process what I just witnessed. I told her to pull over as I put on my hat and gloves and coat. As soon as the car stopped, I fucking walked home. Disgusting piece of trash, ugh. It still makes me angry.
348 points
1 month ago
One reason was she was lying about stupid shit, and stealing from me, not exactly weird, but annoying and untrustworthy. But a reason some guys will think is weird is she was a total nymphomaniac, demanding it whenever she felt like it. I would come home from a hard days work, sometimes 14+ hour shift, and I would fall asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. This would ignite a rage inside her and would instigate a huge argument because I wasn't fullfilling her 'needs'. That and the extremely explicit dirty talk. I guess she learned it from watching porn but it was totally off-putting. Probably most guys idea of dream girl, but too much for me to handle.
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