“79 Heartbreaking Reasons Many Walked Away: What Made Them Say ‘I Can’t Marry You’?”
I never talked down about her job or anything, it was an insecurity of hers about the gap in earnings but I was always super supportive and listened whilst she vented but the conversation of me quitting my job and finding something completely different that doesnt pay well just so she could be the high earner in our relationship didn’t sit well with me. When we talk about our future, she would say, “we will never get married if you stay at that job it’s a deal breaker for me.” So then I said, “Why are we dating then?” She couldn’t answer that, so we broke up.
#67
He has no self control or accountability when he is upset. A couple years into our relationship a switched flipped in him where he wasn’t afraid to hide his terrible temper anymore. I could never have kids with someone like that. .
#68
He thought a fun surprise date would be going engagement ring shopping. We had been dating for five months. I was 21, had two years of grad school left, and we had NOT talked seriously about marriage. I almost pitched a whole fit in that jewelry store, but the young man helping us out was SO nice and I couldn’t do it to him. This made me realize my now-ex had his own ideas and timelines about both me and our relationship that made us utterly incompatible.
#69
Broken promises, giving me trauma, never says sorry and MANIPULATIVE NARC.
#70
When I realized she was genuinely mentally ill and reluctant to get help (2nd part mostly).
It hit me like a ton of bricks one day that I don’t think I could ever trust her to be the mother of my children with her state.
