• rumba@lemmy.zip
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      A downward spiral that ended more or less there.

      We had been together for a couple years, long distance. she was a couple months from moving back.

      Start of conversation, I say: Kate said that the renfest tickets were about to go on sale

      Who’s Kate.

      Kate at work, there’s a crew that goes every year, we should go.

      What else do you and Kate talk about?

      Devolves into wanting an index of female friends and leading questions of if they are nice…

      Mind you, we’d not been fighting; I was always accountable and on time. We had just spent most of a week together.

      Near the end, she made it an “it’s either me or her…”

      Kate is gay… I could have went down that path, But at this point, “woah woah woah, give me your key, we’re done”

      I never regretted that.

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      Had a friend who’s wife started assuming he was cheating or trying to cheat with any other woman in his life. It was very extreme. Like - he once held the door open for a random woman entering a restaurant and she started accusing the woman of being a whore.

      He ended up staying with her for a few more years because their daughter was 16 and he didn’t want to end up paying child support, and when they split up the 18yo daughter moved in with him.

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          It was shortly after covid that she went kinda crazy, so I’ve wondered if she had some long-covid issues.

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            Oh probably not even that. I know a few people that had the psychological whiplash of going from being able to pretend that they were safe and bad things happened to Other People, to InVisIBle THinGs aRe OuT tO gEt mE!!!

            And so they went antivax or some other psycho mindset

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      yeah, i have met women who make this a requirement to date them. it’s not common but it exists.

      you basically can’t interact with any other women than your family. because so much as smiling at a woman cashier at the grocery store is cheating. it’s really not about that though, it’s about their need to control you to feel secure.

      it also is almost always a double standard, because that rule doesn’t apply to her talking to men.

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        Yeah had woman like that. Cashier hand touch mind handing me my change at the grocery store. I ended it that day because she filp out over it.

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          Was driving and glanced at something in my peripheral, barely even registered what I was seeing before a shrill “SHEES FOUURTEEEEEEEENNN” blistered through my ear drums from the passengers seat.

          Like I could have understood that reaction if I was legit checking out some 14yo girl but like I was just driving and watching out for pedestrians.

          Tragically miserable human being that taught me a lot of life lessons the hard way.