When we care about someone, we tend to accept them as they are—flaws and all. That’s part of what love is.

But even love has its limits, especially when your partner starts acting less like an adult and more like someone who needs constant supervision.

These Redditors shared the exact moments they realized they were dating someone who couldn’t function in the real world—and let’s just say, some of these stories are jaw-dropping. Scroll down to read them all (and maybe feel a little better about your own dating history).

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#1

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.

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#2

“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.

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#3

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.

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#4

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

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#5

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.

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#6

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

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#7

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.

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#8

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.

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#9

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

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#10

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.

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#11

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

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#12

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.

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#13

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.

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#14

When he asked if he had to wash his hands “every time” after taking a dump. It was cya later after that one.

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#15

After I gave birth to our second child, he got angry because everyone was asking how I was. It would have been hard for him to watch all of that, too.

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#16

I realized she couldn’t take care of herself. She worked at a prestigious boarding school and ran a dorm, so I made excuses like saying she’s busy with students, it was easier for her to eat at the cafeteria, etc. But at some point it got undeniable: rotting food in the fridge, laundry everywhere, a filthy bathroom, piles of junk on the table. Worst of all was her dog, which was barely trained and very neglected. I ended up feeding it, walking it, and cleaning up after it constantly because she’d just let messes sit until “she could get to it.”

We broke up for unrelated reasons, but looking back this was a huge red flag and now I see our relationship more as I was in a bad place mentally and thought I had to take care of somebody to give myself purpose — taking the relationship well past the expiration date. On the plus side, the dog’s now with her parents, running around a big yard and living its best life with two other very spoiled dogs.

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#17

When she asked me how to boil water. We were 30.

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#18

I would have to tell him to brush his teeth 🙄.

isledonpenguins:

My ex boyfriend’s breath literally smelled like mothballs. I told him this and told him it was affecting our intimacy.
We broke up right before Covid, and when the lockdowns started, we continued living together. We started seeing other people, and he’d report back to me that he’d “had no complaints from any of the girls he was seeing.”

At the same time, he admitted to rarely brushing his teeth, instead primarily relying on those little disposable “brushes” you can buy at the drugstore. Is it that your breath doesn’t stink? Or that these near-strangers don’t feel comfortable telling you? 🙄

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#19

He quit is job one random day because he “just didn’t like it”. I was working full time, in school full time, and our son was less than a year old. It sadly took me quite awhile to end things, but when I look back I know that was the moment that I really knew. When I looked at him sitting on his computer playing video games, him telling me with such a nonchalant attitude. He didn’t work for nearly 2 months and still hardly lifted a finger to help around the house or with our son.

#20

He claimed that therapy doesn’t work for anyone by saying “my brother went to therapy once and he told me it didn’t work”.

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#21

When my ex gfs told me that they won’t work, drive, cook, or help me out in emergencies but I’m expected to provide them a place to stay, pay all the bills and have still have enough money to take us both out to a vacation. She justified it by saying “it’s traditional.” I argued that she’s basically looking for a sugar daddy. We broke up because I couldn’t agree to a one sided relationship. Normally this is the part where I say that they’ve been single ever since but unfortunately it’s been a 50/50. One of them was able to find a man that would give into her demands while the other ex sat at home for 10 years because she believed a man would come rescue her.

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#22

We had $100 for the week to feed ourselves and our 3 kids until pay day. He spent $80 on Switch joycons.

“We can just borrow money from my mom or sister” he told me.

#23

Once per week she took her car to her parents. Her father would check the fluid levels and take it to the corner station to fill it up with gas. Apparently she never learned to use a gas pump because the machines are “too complicated these days.” She was a pharmaceutical assistant.

#24

When any time I spent away from her was assumed to be cheating on her.

#25

He found my low hanging cervix, and declared me to be intersex.

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