Have you ever had that one moment where a simple phrase made you reevaluate your relationship? What was that key phrase that signalled it was time to walk away? Share your stories in the comments below! 💔✨ #RelationshipAdvice #BreakupSigns #LoveLost #MovingOn #HeartbreakJourney
“I can get anyone I want”
“I love making you cry.”
Why wouldn’t you want to share me with someone else?? No of course I wouldn’t want to share you with someone else, but I think it’d be totally fine the other way around!
If your relationship wasn’t even open to begin with… Just end it. She’s already got someone else in mind, she just wants permission to cheat on you.
I don’t see a future with you
My boyfriend was talking about moving away. I said, “Isn’t there someone here you would miss if you moved away?” and he said, “Yeah, there’s a lady at work I really like.”
I once dated someone who proudly told me, “I don’t do apologies, if you’re looking for someone who admits when they’re wrong, that’s not me.” That was a major red flag. It told me everything I needed to know about their ability to take responsibility and grow in a relationship. Needless to say, that was the beginning of the end.
Something about I’m not a priority and he loves his friends, on a side note, I was not asking to be prioritised but the cat was already out of the bag. I wish I listened to myself more and ended it
“Wtf? You expect to have me for yourself the whole night? No thanks, see ya tomorrow!” At a nightclub.
I feel like I dodged a thunderstorm with this one.
“I am an alpha male”
“Who I am now is exactly who I will always be. I’ll never change for you, for our kid if we have one. No one. I will always do what it want when I want.”
I was dating an older woman in my 20s and heard her on the phone call me her “boy toy”. I don’t know why that bothered me so much at the time but it did.
“I’m out with the kids”
No, she was getting blackout drunk in a bar with her bar fly friend.
Probably when he screamed “Fuck you, bitch” on Christmas Eve.
I want to be able to date other people.
So I said “Ok, go ahead.” Bye.
“You made me cheat!”
My ex would push any boundary I gave her. Uncomfortable about a social situation? She’s staying longer. I want to have a nice time with my parents because it’s their 50th wedding anniversary? She’s trying to make an appointment for us to look at new carpet for the house, and that day is the ONLY day they had an appointment.
Any of that should’ve been enough, but it wasn’t.
I tried my best to be accommodating and not get upset, I didn’t *really* think she was doing all this stuff just to mess with me, but sometimes I’d let it out – an air of frustration or disappointment – and then it was game on.
When we’d fight, she’d bring up stuff from old fights, she’d complain about my exes (we were MARRIED and had been together for a decade), pretty much anything you can think of. Sooner or later, I’d just be apologizing. For the way I’d acted, for the girls I’d dated before her, for being born.
The phrase that finally snapped me out of it?
“Why are you sorry?”
She’d fucking bully me in to submission, and then once I’d cried uncle, she’d double down and make me review the whole thing, what I’d done wrong and what innocent actions she’d taken that I obviously misunderstood. I hated my life. Fuck that.
“Why would I say yes to something I knew I wasn’t going to enjoy?”
This was after I spent the relationship humoring his interests, even if they didn’t sound like my kind of thing, and trying to explain to him that it was frustrating that this wasn’t reciprocated.
“My mom is dying of cancer so I want to get pregnant real soon so she can see her grandkids before she dies.”
– Said on a first date
“Oh you waited for me?”
We lived together. We had agreed to have dinner that night at 7. I headed home, made sure to clean the kitchen, etc. 730 rolls around and no sign of her so I send a text. 8 rolls around and still no word so I call her, goes to VM. I wait til 830 and try calling one more time, then say Fuck it and eat dinner myself.
She finally showed up at 10. I was happy to see her and said I was worried and asked if her phone died. She said she was fine and just with friends.
If this was the first time I would have let it go. But this was a pattern by then. I didn’t end it that night but not long after I initiated a breakup.
He smiled at me lovingly and said, “You know I’m gonna kill you someday, right?”
“I DON’T CARE”
In response to me telling him I was deeply unhappy with the state of our relationship and begging him to make an effort.
“just take out another loan” when id have been supporting their unemployed ass for half a year.
“I’m going to call the cops and tell them you hit me”. Not sure what kind of game she thought she was playing but I peace’d out immediately.