I should have known it was over after I bought myself a very expensive Christmas present and he offered to pay me for it so he wouldn’t have to go buy me something himself.

 I should have known it was over when talking about getting married he said “Why not? If it doesn’t work, we’ll just get a divorce.”

 It WAS over when, after moving to another state for him and having a hard time adjusting, he said “If you’re so miserable here, just go home.” We were married.

—Better Off Without Him

Aftermath: Two days later, I was packed and driving home. He told his family that he was coming to see me to get back. He was coming to see the girl he had started sleeping with before we had moved. She ended up knocked up. He ended up stuck with her. They deserve each other.

I knew it was over when he told me he didn’t really like The Beatles. In fact, he thought they were the most overrated band in history. I could tolerate his inabilities in the bedroom, but this was too much.

—Rae

Aftermath: We broke up about a week or so later. And I found a guy who liked The Beatles AND wasn’t bad in bed. Double upgrade.

One of the things that I loved most about him was how close he was to his family, especially his dad. But one night at dinner, he told me that he had something important to ask me. I never expected it to be, “Would you mind if my dad tested out your goods first? He really knows what I like”. And he wasn’t joking.

—Sara

Aftermath: I got up and left right about the time he started telling me his dad’s availability. I changed my number and email after his father tried contacting me several times about setting up a “date.”

It started as co-workers, then roommates, then occasional sex. Eventually, we lived as a family and I thought of her daughter as my own. One night I brought up (the lack of) oral sex and she told me she only did that with someone she was in love with. Ouch.

—Tom

Aftermath: I left her when she went to see her parents out-of-state. She came home to an empty house and I never looked back.

She was pregnant with her ex’s baby when we started dating. For 9 months she refered to me as “daddy.” One day I did so, and she said, “Don’t you think it’s a bit early for that?”

—Brad

Aftermath: She has apologized to me on several occasions stating, “I will regret feeling/saying that for the rest of my life.” I tell her “tough” as I will never be able to trust her again.