'You don't have permission to talk': Reddit Thread Filled With Biggest Red Flags That Made Us Go ‘Yikes'

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    Font - Posted by u/Shep_vas_Normandy 10 hours ago The biggest you've ever seen in your date/SO
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    Font - I'll start: 1. He told me I should wear a skirt when we meet in person (talked via dating app). When I said no - he told me that was the reason I was divorced, because I don't listen to men. XD
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    Font - Koutoni 7 hr. ago He said my body reminded him of his 11 year old cousin and giving me a hug would make him feel very uncomfortable. Mind you, I'm a 27f with a very skinny frame and a pretty flat chest, but this was our "hello, nice to meet you" moment.
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    Font - Number_Fluffy 8 hr. ago I said rats were cute and the next day he sent me a video of a cat eating a rat. 4382 Reply Share
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    Font - KieshaK 9 hr. ago On the fourth date, I went to his apartment which was absolutely disgusting. Clothes and empty delivery containers everywhere. NO SHEETS on his bed. What looked like black mold on the shower wall. A toilet that had
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    Font - never been cleaned. This man was 35 and had a roommate. TWO of them lived there like that. 1.6k B Reply Share
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    Font - HappyGiraffe 8 hr. ago He took me to an incredibly high end restaurant and got us a custom tasting menu; it was amazing and because of that the dinner was about 3 hours long
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    Font - In those three hours, I spoke for maybe 10 minutes total, and he spent the entire rest of the time telling ONE SINGLE STORY about how he infiltrated a Tony Robbins seminar and realized that most people work for him for free blah blah blah One story. He made it last THREE HOURS
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    Product - 00000 likestosleep 9 hr. ago He told me that I should shave my dog because skin to skin contact was more intimate Þ 1.6k Reply Share
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    Font - Trumanhazzacatface 8 hr. ago He told me that the devil controlled the internet and that's why he couldn't find proof that Noah's Ark was real. He was such a lovely guy otherwise but I just could not get past the whole extremely religious thing. 713 Reply Share
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    Font - WitchOfWords. 9 hr. ago He was surprised that I actually read comics and said I "must be smarter than most girls". I was stunned because I thought we'd all shamed that "compliment" out of existence already. ETA this was first coffee stage. He didn't waste time. 765 Reply Share
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    Font - Grieie 8 hr. ago Not the biggest, but it's now a joke with my friends. Meet up with a guy I was chatting with on an app. He went straight in for a pash after not more than a hello. Now I wasn't opposed to it, just a bit taken aback. The
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    Font - next words from his mouth was "I like to be called daddy." Now if that's your thing, all good and well, but not my cup of tea and I don't want those biscuits. 510 Reply Share
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    Font - anonymous_opinions 8 hr. ago He suggested I raise a finger for permission to talk because he didn't like being interrupted. I later learned he had a pattern of dating venerable younger women but the first red flag was his suggestion I (as a 40- something woman) request permission from him to talk. I laughed
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    Font - and said I wasn't doing that honestly thinking he would be a reasonable human. Nope, he would scream at me ARE YOU FU [NG FINISHED TALKING YET or LET ME SPEAK, cutting me off mid sentence. Basically it wasn't "interrupting him", it was speaking at all that was his issue.
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    Font - Edit: He also mentioned a woman he met for one date told him that he mansplained. She wasn't wrong and it was another self-own/self-given blazing red flag. 718 Reply Share
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    Font - emccm. 8 hr. ago · edited 8 hr. ago I asked if we could move away from the door because I was cold. It was December and hovering around freezing. He said "well you should have worn more clothing" and stared at my chest. I was wearing a v neck silk shirt that I wear to my conservative office. It
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    Font - was my second date after my divorce and I hadn't learned to walk away from bad dates yet. I mentioned more than once that I didn't drink wine. He invited himself over for Christmas and said he'd bring wine. Omg I totally forgot this one.
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    Font - I was having flirty banter with an online match. We agreed on a date. He asked me to wear leggings. Whatever, it was flirty and fun so I wore leggings. At some point I got up to use the bathroom. At the end of the date he shouted at me outside the restaurant for only getting up to
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    Font - show off my legs WTF? You asked me to wear leggings and I needed to pee! Oh I remembered another one. A dude on a date told me that Woody Allen was "very
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    Font - misunderstood". He was a science professor at a fancy school so in a position of authority over young women. He also couldn't remember where he parked his car. I told him he was walking in the wrong direction. He told me I was wrong. I wasn't. 839 Reply Share
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    Font - onefreckl 7 hr. ago "If you had daughters you'd understand" Said the chronically single, childless 40 yo who grew up without sisters. Tell me more how I as a woman would understand. ↑ 147 Reply Share
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    Font - SourGirl94 8 hr. ago He wanted me to move in with him almost immediately- while I was still in grad school- and just make the two-hour commute whenever I had class. The kicker was that his place had no running water...
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    Font - The Serpent_Of_Eden_ 7 hr. ago I went on a coffee date with him and he talked about how he cheats because his diabetic wife doesn't do it for him anymore. I got up to walk out, but he stops me to say he doesn't understand because I'm poly. Yes, I'm
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    Font - poly, but I do it ethically and that means everyone knows what's going on and approves of it. That's the biggest red flag when they can't respect that there are those of us who practice polyamory ethically. Reply Share 202

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