Note: Some submissions include subjects of sexual harassment and suicide. Please proceed with caution.

"He banged on the door and just started talking. I kept trying to politely tell him that we didn't have time, but he wouldn't listen. Eventually, he roped my ex into some dumb conversation, and once again, I tried to politely tell him that we had to go. He looked at me, then looked back at her, and kept talking. This time I poked him in the shoulder and yelled, 'Get the f*ck out of here.' This led to a big ol' fight, and I eventually broke up with her. Just thinking of that dude now makes my piss boil."

"She then later proceeded to make a TikTok with him and their son. She was standing very close to him, with her arm on his shoulder. Towards the end of the video, she playfully turned towards him and pulled his beanie over his face. It came across as very playfully flirty to me, which only exacerbated my insecurities.

She tried to call me on the way home with the kids in the car, the kiddo she has with him is old enough to understand we would have been talking about his dad if I talked about it then, so I requested we wait till she gets home. When we finally got around to talking about it, she did take it personally as an attack. I wasn't accusing her of cheating. I was simply trying to communicate I felt insecure and what I really needed was for her to just tell me she loves me and empathize with how those things made me feel. She instead went into a tirade about what a piece of garbage her ex is and how nothing would ever happen again.

The next two days, we didn't talk much. When we resumed communication, she said something to the effect of, 'I'm confident if you don't fix your overthinking, insecurities, and negative spirals, I could leave you.' This was a low blow. She has depression, trauma, grief, and suicidal thoughts, and I supported her through it and lifted her up as much as I could. And there she is giving me an ultimatum over mine, that I'm in active therapy trying to fix or at least be able to live with it more comfortably.

I stewed on this for a few days and eventually couldn't reconcile all the effort I had been going through for her, seeing that she was so ready to discard me, so I broke up with her. I wish her well. I hope she gets better. This was about three weeks ago now. I'm still hurting over it and the hurtful things she's done in the aftermath, but the aftermath has also shown me that I was right to leave her."

"He constantly told immature jokes, made everything into a sexual remark, thought the height of humor was sexual jokes and fart jokes, and so on. It was just too much. I wasn't going to tell this guy to ditch his best friend for me, so I thought it was much easier to just end things before we got very far into it."

"My partner didn't want to let her go since he rarely makes friends, and one tragic event took two of his best friends from us just some years ago. This girl damaged our mental health so much that I simply had no other choice but to leave. She has a husband who knows all of this, a child (god bless this little one not to end up like her, god please), and she is 40..."

"Any time I confronted him on this, he gave some nonchalant answer, like 'that’s just the way it is here.' One time, he actually said to me, 'Nobody liked (insert his friend’s girlfriend’s name here) for two years, and then things changed. It’s just how it is.' When I ended it, I told him I wasn’t interested in being the subject of small-town gossip by people who acted like they were in middle school but were almost 30.

Oh, and his family kicked me out of the house when I came down with a 101-degree fever while I was staying with them. I had to travel about three hours back to the city I lived in at the time. Apparently, I wasn’t being 'social' enough while I was super sick and trying to be mindful not to spread it to anyone else."

"She'd go to my fiancé's doctors' appointments with her, and they prescribed her an ever-changing cocktail of meds. It turns out it’s hard to find the right balance of meds when you’re treating a mental illness you don’t have. 

My dad’s girlfriend also convinced my fiancé she could never be a mother and should get a hysterectomy (luckily, the doctors refused). When the idea was discussed with me, I was confused because my fiancé always wanted kids (but my dad's girlfriend made it clear I didn’t have a say). We felt stuck.

This all culminated in my fiancé having a mental breakdown (understandably so) and being asked to be brought to a mental health facility. While there, my dad's girlfriend decided that my fiancé had 'abandoned us' and that I needed to break up with her. Emotions were high, and I knew I couldn’t let my fiancé come back, but I couldn’t think of any other way to get her out, so I reluctantly broke things off.

"In a random twist, during the COVID lockdown, it emerged that the husband's brother was having a 15-year affair with his neighbor. I do wonder sometimes if the psychic was right about the affair, but wrong about which child. Anyway, it ruined a perfectly good marriage."

"And we fought about it all the time — I was picking up the tab during travel and dining out, and he was letting her walk all over him. But he thought if he played nice, he could protect his pension from her.

She would've only been entitled to 50% of two and a half years of retirement, which is a drop in the bucket over a 30-year career. He did all of this to protect a small fraction of his pension. Because of this experience, I no longer date separated or newly divorced men."

"Another time at dinner, we had chips and salsa. I dipped a chip, took a bite, and gestured with it while I spoke. She interrupted me to say, 'Don't you dare double-dip that chip' out of nowhere.

She and her husband owned a $1 million home in the rich neighborhood of a major city. My parents made $20,000 a year combined. She didn't think much of my prospects, clearly. But the joke's on her. My ex is now 40 and still works as a waiter, and I make six figures."

"I basically realized that this was the modus operandi of the cult members to try to break the relationships of people in the cult. They'd do this so they could push cult members to form families and thus 'grow.' 

There was even a specific term for kids born in the cult to two practicing members. Dodged that bullet big time, and I thank GOD every day for it!"

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