“Asked Me How To Boil Water”: 40 People Who Dated Someone With The Common Sense Of A Rock

When my cat had cancer and he said "but you're supposed to take care of me!" and kept getting mad and vengeful because I wasn't available as much from spending time with my cat and grieving. Up until that point his mask had slipped off and he was actually a terrible human being. I broke up with him and spent the last 4 months with my cat, cuddling him and giving him all his favourite treats and things he enjoyed in peace.

"Can we go to your place? My mom comes to clean my house on Thursdays."

His mom was 66. I didn't want to raise a manchild.

I find a bit of catharsis every time I tell this story.

I was 18, dating a 21-year-old man. We left our apartment the morning of Canada Day to go to the beach for celebrations. I told him, multiple times, to put on sunscreen. He insisted that he did not need it.

We are very, very white people. Spoiler: he needed it.

We got home later that night, drunk, and one of us quite sunburnt. He cornered me in our bathroom and screamed, spittle flying, finger in my face, voice breaking, that it was *my* fault that he was *so* sunburnt and I should have *insisted* that he put on sunscreen because *how could he have known better*.

Then, he pushed me into a doorframe after I pushed past him. Not nearly equal displays of force.

I broke up with him later that week. I'm very grateful that I had the courage to do so. It was a deeply troubling relationship that has left me with a lot of mental turmoil.

When I said I was going out with friends for dinner and he said “So you’re just going to leave me here to starve?!” No man, the house is filled with food and you have a car if you hate all of it. We broke up soon after.

He asked me to stop using big words.

miked1912:

I dated someone who tried to put me on a two syllable per word limit. He then got frustrated when I would take a long time to respond in conversation because I was trying to filter myself down to his understanding.

blondechineeez:

Ohh god. I dated a guy who said something similar like that. He would say "stop using those $100 words."

I said I wasn't trying to make him feel dense, that this is the way I speak. I do have a college degree, but I am certainly not pretentious.

We stopped seeing each other amicably. He is still a friend. The girl he's currently dating appears to have the intellect of a teenager. He seems happy. So am I. I am not going to turn into a dolt just to have a conversation with anyone.

Mom imposes rules including "no overnights" and we can only be together for short times unsupervised and without checking in periodically. She was 33.

When she made fun of me for getting emotional and sobbing when I found out my grandmother was in the hospital in critical condition after a serious fall during a surprise phone call from my dad. She wanted a “composed” boyfriend. Safe to say i ended that relationship real quick after that.

When he threw himself down the stairs out of anger for the first time.

When after a small fight he said “so what are you going to do to make up for it?”
He wasn’t satisfied with any of my answers so he just outright said “are you going to buy me that lego i want?”

No shade to lego lovers but we were 31 and he was fully capable of buying it himself. He just didn’t want to because he wants me to buy it for him.

Freakin’ cold water to the face moment. I am ashamed to say, i stayed for another year after that. One of my greatest shame. But i did in fact NOT buy the stupid lego set.

I got into an argument with him and I told him he was being condescending and he told me, “I don’t know what that means but I am not being it!”. Ugh he was so pretty yet so dumb.

When I noticed their laundry pile was basically turning into a new species and when I asked why the laundry has piled up that much, he said he'll just buy new ones.

When he wouldn’t let me in his bedroom because he had like 20+ water bottles fillled with p**s.

When he asked why on earth anyone would have a savings account.

When a guy told me that he can't control himself no matter what the situation is (food, s*x, p**n, etc).

Dramatic-Ad-1261:

Hate these type of people. Can't is your excuse word for won't. If you "can't control yourself" then you need locked up as a danger to society. Learn self control.

I work at a nursing home with severely delirious and aggressive patients. I came home with bruises all over my legs from being hit and kicked. My ex noticed, and thought I was cheating on him, and having really kinky s*x..........

When the pile of dishes in his sink remained for over a month and the only reason the problem was solved was because I did them. Couldn't handle the stench anymore. Felt like his f****n mother and he was 31 years old.

She didn't do laundry until she went home to visit her mother, who did it for her. Her in- building's machine was not overpriced and when she went home, she took the train. So she hauled bags and bags of smelly laundry on public transit two states away for her mom to wash.

I broke up with my ex when I found her stash of months of unpaid bills because she lost her bank account login….

I had surgery and was unable to clean (he never helped with any house chores, which should’ve been an indication of a bigger issue but anyway)

because of my surgery i was bedridden for a few weeks.

realized he wasn’t a functional adult when he panicked that our toilet was broken because there were rings around it. it was simply because i hadn’t been able to clean it, which i told him. his response was “there’s no way you clean this thing every 4 weeks. it’s broken” to which i replied “you’re right, i clean it weekly actually.”

broke up that same year.

When he gave me a weeks worth of silent treatment because he had told me I couldn't do something, and I did it anyway.

It was buying a new book for myself with my own money I earned.

According to him, if I didn't listen to him and do what he said on the small stuff, I wouldn't listen when It came to the big stuff, i.e., buying a house or having kids.

I got out of that relationship very quickly after that.