Red Flags People Missed In Their Past Relationships

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Oct 3, 2021 1:00 PM EDT

Many of us have ended up gaining that wizened life experience through suffering our own moments of emotional pain where things just seemed to kind of cave in on themselves. Then, eventually, you go about putting yourself back together and take another crack at the whole thing. Sometimes, this falls within the dating realm. This AskReddit thread has people sharing various red flags that they missed in their past relationships. At the very least this thread might be able to help other folks steer clear of impending disasters. 

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    Rectangle - TheRavingRaccoon · 2d She insisted on checking my phone all the time, but I was never allowed to touch her phone, ever. G Reply 4 183 3 ...
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    Font - 629mrsn · 2d I married a mom's boy. I didn't see the problem at first but things got weird quickly. She controlled him and our marriage. It took 15 years and couple of kids, but I left that situation. The funny part is, after the divorce, she and I got along quite well b G Reply 102 3 ...
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    Font - Botentbo • 2d 3 2 Awards He "didn't get jealous" but he also didn't want me to hang out with male friends. Or, in fact, other people in general. One time he came to pick me up from the cinema, saw l'd been there with a friend, and got so mad on the drive home that he punched the steering wheel. That was...a thing. He also took advantage of my mental health problems to not only gaslight me but to make him look like the better person and to make me out to be crazy. I didn't realise the exte
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    Font - Thecringelfind · 2d This from my mom, she said that the red flag she missed was my dad always saying that he's such a god bf or like how she should be grateful, she was naive and well look now she has 2 kids with this man who I call 'dad. She's divorcing him right now wish us luck O G Reply ↑ 61 ...
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    Font - 44morejumperspls · 2d He didn't have any friends. I thought he was a misunderstood loner but he was actually just hard to be around. G Reply 4 130 ...
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    Font - IflmNotDeadImSueing · 2d First girlfriend I had. Around April of last year. She was a friend of a friend and apparently took a liking to me, even though I didn't know a great deal on her at the time. Things are cool for about a month or too, until I get a message from said friend saying that they've been wanting to tell something to me and the rest of our friend group. apparently this girl had randomly started being really toxic towards them, and only them. she was completely fine with ev
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    Rectangle - WhenAlIElseFail · 2d I guess getting ghosted twice kinda sucked. Third one was the nail in the coffin. O 6 Reply ↑ 67 3 ...
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    Font - VoltairesGardener · 2d That she didn't tell her family that she had a boyfriend/ partner. G Reply 1 13 ...
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    Rectangle - superdupershan · 2d Talking about a problem, he says he will work on it, but then he never works on it. Empty words with no changed behaviour. G Reply 4 14 3 +
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    Rectangle - maggotsinyoursocks · 2d He lied to his mother, right in front of me on multiple occasions, the fact that he dumped someone else for me (and eventually dumped me for someone else) G Reply 1 40 3 ...
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    Rectangle - Dorothy_Gale ·• 2d There's a fine line between having separate lives, and having entire separate lives. G Reply 1 12 3
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    Rectangle - isabelhughess· 2d I work in a hardware store with 50% of the staff being guys. He told me not to talk about my day at work because it would mean I would talk about other men. I was in a bad place mentally so let it slide. Never again. O G Reply ↑ 10 3 ...
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    Font - evanthebouncy · 2d It's simple in retrospect, and it's not a flag per se as it's not a weird quirk to look out for but more of a feeling. I missed the fact that it took me more energy to be with this person than to be alone. Relationship, as a whole, should recharge you, not drain you with energy. So while we're functioning, and are mutually interested in eachother, we fell apart after five years as we simply couldn't keep up the energy requirement as we had no means to recharge off of ea
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    Handwriting - She told me one of her stuffed animals talked to her and she talked back, but not to worry because she knew it wasn't "really" talking to her. We were both in our 20's... G Reply ...
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