In our experience as an online divorce review site, the end of a relationship is generally telegraphed well ahead of the actual end date. Recently on Reddit, a user asked fellow commenters to share the red flags that their relationships were in trouble. Here were some of the more memorable responses.
1. “The first fight I got into with my last girlfriend, first thing she did was grab a bottle of Jack Daniel’s and start drinking out of it to enhance the fight. I should have seen that one coming.”
2. “Her brother told me she was a psycho and there’s no way it’s going to work. She ended up being a psycho. It didn’t work.”
3. “No Bible study group meeting goes on till 11:30 in the night. … I should have known better.”
4. “We worked together and she had been working there a couple more years then I had. Most (if not all) of my female coworkers told me she was unstable, uncaring and had slept around on her previous boyfriends. I wrote it off as jealousy. My manager even took me aside one day and said even though it wasn’t his business, I should be really careful. They weren’t wrong. Not by a long shot.”
5. “Complete unwillingness to communicate about serious issues. If something was bothering her, she’d brush it off, bottle it up and save up an arsenal. Then one day she’d explode and lay into me about things that happened months prior that she’d been carrying around ever since.”
6. “Chasing me down with a car in a parking lot, then hitting me. Then shouting at me as I lay there bleeding was another clue.”
7. “None of my friends liked her or invited her anywhere. I always had to ask if I could bring her around. There is a reason you keep friends in your life, a big one being they know what is good/bad for you.”
8. “Choosing to spend her (divorced mother of 2 kids) evenings either with me or in pubs with friends/colleagues over going home to her 2 boys (3 & 6 years). The boys were asleep before she reached home & got her only on the weekends.”
If any of these situations sound familiar then consider reading over our online divorce reviews to pursue your next step, and good luck to you!