People Share The Time They Realized They Were Dating A Psycho

It seems like some of us naturally attract crazy people into our lives. While some of us have only dated decent people, others of us struggle to find someone we consider “normal.” YouTuber and singer, Gabbie Hanna, is one of those people who always finds herself dating men she’d never expected to be wacko, but their behavior, life choices, and/or emotional turmoil later proved otherwise. Pathological liars, secretly married men, crazy celebrities: Gabbie’s dated them all.

For Heaven’s sake, the poor girl’s witnessed her date pooping his pants during their first meet-up, was accused of being pregnant by a paranoid man, was told by her ex that he loved it when she was sad and has been used for her fame by guys claiming they love her. People often believe Gabbie’s exaggerating or lying about her abusive relationships and dating mishaps, but the truth is, there are certainly men and women out there like this.

But at what point do we consider our partner or date a “psycho?” Let’s face it, we all get in weird moods, engage in strange behaviors, and say things that are less than kind at times. Although, what’s not considered normal is when someone we’re romantically or casually interested in threatens us, physically or verbally abuses us, manipulates our emotions, or systematically controls us.

Generally, dating someone we have a bad gut feeling about or don’t feel safe around is not someone we should intertwine our lives with.

With that said, it’s important that if we find ourselves involved with someone who displays the latter characteristics that we quickly and safely remove ourselves from the situation. That goes for both men and women. However, the problem is, some people don’t come to the realization of how “crazy” or unstable their partner is until months or years of maltreatment when they finally come to a breaking point.
In fact, here are several stories of people sharing the time when they finally realized that they were dating someone crazy, psycho, or unsteady.

Hopefully, their rocky romance history will encourage you to be careful who you associate yourself with, even as friends.

31. He Threatened To Kill Me If I Didn’t Cook His Noodles Right 

“He had a very particular way he liked his noodles cooked. Al dente but just a hair soft. He was obsessed with it and always told me I needed to make the noodles as it seemed that I tended to hit closer to his desired texture than he himself could. One time, I had gotten from work, and he had been home all day. I had worked 12 hours and commuted almost an hour to get home, and the first thing out of his mouth is, ‘I’m hungry.

Make some noodles.’
In the past, he’d throw temper tantrums, and I was too tired to deal with it, so I just quietly went about making his noodles. I don’t know if it was the exhaustion or something else, but I didn’t get the noodles out quick enough, and they were softer than what he normally liked.

I plate some, season it, and put it down in front of him and got to the bedroom to take a shower and go to bed. Halfway undressing, and suddenly, a plate full of noodles explodes against the wall next to me. Then I feel something on the back of my head, and the next thing I remember is seeing the bathroom tiles staining red, and the world is turning gray as he still had his hands wrapped around my neck.

I remember him saying something like,
‘I will ******* kill you if you ever make me soggy ******* noodles again.’

When I regained consciousness, he was sitting in the living room again watching TV as if nothing had happened. I tried to go to the hospital, but he caught me before I got out of the door. He blocked the door and said with the most frightening smile that still haunts me,

‘You’re not going anywhere until I get my noodles.’

I snuck out later that night and got to the hospital (one was walking distance). Had a concussion and a cracked rib. Cops got called and got a restraining order.

Had some friends at work get my stuff from the apartment (what little was left, he threw out/destroyed most of my possessions).
But that was the moment it was solidified that this man is psychotic, and he will kill me.” Turinggirl

30. She Ran Into The Walls Until She Was ****** 

“Laying in bed one night after a fight (most likely over something trivial), my girlfriend fell out of the bed; maybe she rolled out, but it seemed like a fall. She then stood up and started running into walls. Bloodied herself up real good, and I couldn’t get her to stop.

The downstairs neighbor heard the commotion and called the police.

Police show up and see her sitting on the couch all ******. Police become very interested in me. I try to explain to them she is running herself into the walls… They do not believe me. (Who in their right mind would?) Fortunately for me, she stands up and runs across the room, right into a wall, practically knocking herself out.
Police provide me an escort to the hospital (still don’t trust me, I suspect). After the hospital, the staff takes her into the back by herself (to ask her if I was hurting her, I’m sure), they allow me in the back room.

While waiting, she gets out of bed and grabs a bunch of gauze from the cabinet and starts wiping the floor with it. I ask her what she was doing, and she tells me that she is cleaning the floor, so the fish can see out of it.

During her 2-month stay on the top floor of the hospital, I continued to visit her.” QuinicAcid
29. He Branded Me With A Hot Stick For Getting Along With His Friends 

According to the original poster, this ex of hers is now married to someone else. Yikes.

“He invited a bunch of people over to hang out by his fire pit one evening, so I could meet his friends.

I managed to hit it off with a few of his guy friends (same taste in movies, etc. – no flirting whatsoever).

As the last person was leaving, he and I were standing in the backyard by the gate. He grabbed me by the belt loop and pulled me towards him. I thought he wanted a hug. He didn’t.
Turns out he was unhappy that I hit it off with his friends because now they might steal me from him (wut?), but this was all my fault (again… wut?). He had a large stick he had pulled from the fire (maybe about an inch diameter) in his hand.

He wasn’t pulling me close. He was pulling my pants away, so he could ‘brand’ me with the still red-hot stick I hadn’t noticed in a place no one would see.

I still have the scar, but I don’t have him.” TheDreadedLorax

28. He Hacked My Facebook, Flirted With A Dude, Then Blamed Me For It 

“My ex once memorized my Facebook password and then logged in, going through my old messages until he found one where I had picked up an older conversation with one of my male coworkers. He then proceeded to pretend to be me and hit on this guy, eventually taking it so far as to plan a time and place for us to ***.
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Then he texted me asking what these messages were about and why I was cheating on him. I was so confused initially I didn’t realize it was him who had hacked me. I just pleaded my innocence and begged his forgiveness because I had no idea where the messages were coming from.

Eventually, he told me that he was the one coercing my co-worker for s*x and that somehow because my co-worker agreed, that clearly meant we had ****ed before?

I have no idea what his thought process was through all of this, but I stupidly stayed with him for a while after that.

And it did permanently wreck the friendship I had with my co-worker.” HikingMakesMeHappy
27. She Threw A Child Out Of A Building

“Well, it starts at the bit where the police called me and asked if I had gone out on a date with her and then named every dinner and movie we saw together because she kept all the receipts and was trying to use me as some kind of romantic alibi.

And then they asked me to check the front page of the paper, and I discovered she had been accused of throwing a 4-year-old child out of an apartment building to her death.

And that she claimed dating me showed she couldn’t have done it because she no longer had feelings for the child’s father.
It was about then I realized she was a psycho.” Smirth

26. He Had Dreams Of Hurting Me

“Had been dating this guy awhile and (I thought) things were going really well. I’ll never forget the day because he took me to see Aladdin. We get back to my place and everything’s normal. We’re conversing, and suddenly he gets this weird look in his eyes.

He says, ‘I can’t see you anymore. I’m afraid I might hurt you.’ I’m thinking hurt, like cheat on me, you know – psychologically.

I kind of laughed and told him not to worry I was a grown-up and whatever happened, we could try and work it out. His voice changed, and he looked even worse and said, ‘You don’t understand. I’ve been having these dreams where I hurt you. I mean really hurt you.’
Then, he jumped off the couch and ran out the front door. Never saw him again. Never tried to call him cause it really shook me up. I guess I should be glad it stopped there. He just seemed so normal up to that point.” spacednlost

Another User Comments:
“Just want to say as someone who has dealt with OCD and intrusive thoughts for nearly 20 years, the right medication can really change your life for the better.

OCD was the first thing that jumped to my mind while reading the original comment too. I don’t think this man was a ‘psycho’ at all, though I don’t love that word to begin with.” ***************
25. He Went From Happy Hippie To A Complete Wacko In Two Months

This story is just plain bizarre.

“When in the shower, he casually mentioned he had 2 kids (dating for a month), was 14 years older than me (not 5), and his kids’ mom had a restraining order on him. Before this, he was just a slightly eccentric hippie with a kind heart and a love for spontaneity and bike trips.

He ended up pouring patchouli oil all over my door (its a love oil), leaving cursed voodoo eggs on my porch and sabotaged my bike so when I went down a steep hill, the brakes fell off, and the bike crumbled (he had just returned it).” hhHolmes09
24. He Religiously Stalked My Work-Life

“Wanted me to text him my work schedule and then would call me on the work phone and wait in the parking lot for me to come out of work. Wanted to know how much was in each paycheck. One time, I texted him my work schedule, and he misread it and freaked out non-stop for 6 hours searching for me, called my whole family, and was about to alert the police.

It was his own fault he misread what I had texted him.

I broke up with him in public because he would not believe it when I broke up with him in private. It was finally to the point where random people who were nearby were like, ‘You just got dumped.'” babeyribs
23. She Cheated In Front Of Me After She Claimed I Cheated On Her When I Didn’t…

“Dated my psycho for about 8 months. Used to like to role play and all that. She had a thing with being tied up, and so one night, she asked to reverse roles. I was ok with that.

Except after she handcuffed me and tied my ankles to the posts, she gagged me with a bandana, got dressed and left me there.

Came back an hour later with two guys and ****ed both of them in front of me several times. When she finally untied me, and I was able to speak, I asked her, *******’Wha*t the* *** was that?’ She said she knew I was cheating on her with a girl at work (I wasn’t), and that was her way of paying me back. I moved out the next day.” rekab1231
22. She Wanted Me To Be Kinkier, But She Got Mad When I Was

Talk about confusing…

“When I was 20, I dated a girl for a month or so who told me upfront that she really likes it when guys ‘just go for it.’

Being a clueless boy with no ****** experience, I figured she was ***********, and I didn’t attempt anything after our next date.

Drop her off at my house, she gives me *** for not heeding her advice. We make out; she tells me I should go for it next time.

Next date, in my car, sunroof open looking at the stars. I start trying to make out with her, and she pushes me away, ‘What the *** are you doing? Do you really think I’m the type of girl you can force yourself on whenever you want?’
To this day, I have no idea if she was testing me. Maybe she actually had a kink and was hoping I’d continue to try to go for it while she ‘struggles.’ But if she did, she should’ve been very clear about it because there was no way in heck I was going to try anything after being told no.

No means no, and that’s final.

The whole thing left me confused as ***, and this date wound up being the last time I saw her.” Vandelay222

21. He Carved His Initial Into My Hand When Guys Started Talking About Me 

Not only was he possessive, but he was physically abusive. As Singer Ava Max would say, “Run, don’t walk away.”
“My ex-boyfriend loved movies, so we almost always were at the movies together. This was a few years ago because we went to go see the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. It was later at night, I think an 8 or 9 pm showing, so it was us and a group of 5-6 guys our age (late teens).

The other guys were really obnoxious, making some comments about my body. I brushed the comments off, but my boyfriend at the time didn’t. He pulled out a knife (which he always carried with him for some reason) and ended up carving his initials into my hand. Kind of a claiming thing. 4 years later, I still have a J-shaped scar on the back of my hand.” historyxgeek
20. She Killed Her Son’s Goldfish In Front Of Him

“I took her and her four-year-old boy to a carnival, and the kid won a pair of goldfish. They were in a clear plastic bag like pet stores use.

The boy was super excited. On the way to the car, without saying a word, she slammed the bag on the pavement, bursting it and then stomped on the flopping fish. The boy was instantly hysterical. When I asked her why she did it, she replied, ‘They probably would have died anyway.’ Then she called a few weeks later to ask why I had not called her…” MB51
19. He Contacted His Deceased Mom The Entire Date

Not so much “psycho” but definitely not healthy nor something you should be doing on a date

“Kept talking on the phone and texting his mother during the date.

She died years ago.” TheOneWhoCared

Another User Comments:
“As someone who lost his mother not too long ago, I can understand feeling the need to share what’s going on in your life with someone who’s no longer there, but after a certain point, that becomes unhealthy. If that’s something you feel you need to do, maybe a date isn’t the best time or place to do that. Granted, I do wear a cross necklace that has some of my mother’s ashes in it on a daily basis, so I can’t really judge. This just hurts. I feel for the guy, ya know.” TrueDudeist
18. I Wouldn’t Buy Her Alcohol, So She Put My Car In Park While I Was Driving

She really wanted her alcohol…

“We meet at the bar scene.

Heck, I love a good drink, and she did too. I could finish a 5th of vodka in an evening, and so could she. Granted she weighed 135 lbs. She would stay the night a lot. We would jacuzzi and drink or watch movies and drink. Then I would wake up to her pouring shots at 5 am in the bedroom. Well, I decided to reduce the amount of alcohol I had in the fridge or else she would be drinking most of the day.
One morning, I was out of alcohol. She demanded I take her to the store and get her a 4loko.

I was already running late for work and tried to take off. Well, she was just wearing her robe and jumped in the passenger side and wouldn’t leave until I got her a 4loko. I passed the nearby 711, and she got pissed and threw my car in park as I was going 40 mph. The crazy-hot matrix was true on that one. 9 hot, 10 crazy.” Seriously2much

17. He Cried Hysterically When He Thought I Was Singing About Our Relationship

I will say, it’s not that weird to get suspicious if your partner keeps blaring anti-love songs around you, but this guy was just way overreacting.

“I was driving my ex and I somewhere, and the Lady Gaga song ‘Bad Romance’ came on the radio. I turned it up a little and started singing along. He. Lost. His. ***.

He started scream-crying in the car, saying that I was sending him a secret message about our relationship.

I tried to calm him down- it’s just a song I liked! No, he was convinced that I really just thought we were in a ‘Bad Romance’ and that this was a telltale sign of some impending breakup. He was still inconsolable 15 minutes later when we got back to his house, and his parents had to intervene and talk some sense into him.” 0w1
16. He Wanted To Have Kids, So He Could Lie To Them

“We were talking once about kids and how he wanted to have some at some point (and I definitely did not).

He said that the reason why he wanted to have kids is because of the way kids revere their parents, and he just wanted to have that kind of omnipotence.

He also said that kids were great when they’re young because they’re so gullible, and you can make them believe in anything, and he couldn’t wait to tell his future kids all kinds of lies and have them believe it. He just loved the idea of having that kind of power and control over other people.
It was sick and seriously disturbing that the only reason he wanted kids is to warp their mind.

We broke up, he’s now married with 2 kids….” delightfullydemented

15. She’d Ignore Me If I Did Anything For Her

And people complain that chivalry is dead…

“Me her and our friends got a house for a weekend to drink and party during a break, and in the morning we were having breakfast, and it was her turn to do her omelet, and she was busy doing something, and me thinking I’d be a good boyfriend, decided to make it for her. Turns out that was not the right thing to do since she wanted to do it herself, and she didn’t talk to me for 4 hours.

So from that day on, I was told I’m not allowed to do things for her unless she asked me to so. I think that was the turning point for me.” joemonaco
14. She Got Mad At Me For Cheating In Her Dream

I think part of the problem is, we tend to place way too much value on the secret meaning behind dreams. In reality, most of our dreams are just a compilation of things we’ve thought about, witnessed in person, want, or fear. However, there’s a fine line between getting caught up with the symbolic nature of dreams and suffering from dream-reality confusion.

“Dream-cheating. She’d dream I was cheating on her then get mad at me in real life. Look, if you have dreams like that, don’t hold me responsible. I should be the one mad at you for having such an incredibly low idea of me.” r55r44
13. I Put Dishes On The Wrong Side Of The Sink, So He Punched His Truck

She dodged a bullet… Being with a person like this is like constantly walking on eggshells.

“One day, he got so mad at me for putting dishes on the ‘wrong side’ of the sink that he pulled over while we were driving down the road and started punching the *** out of the outside of his truck.

At that point, he was on probation for something else. I broke up with him, and then he went to prison for beating and choking the next girl he dated.” WHAT-UP_MY-GLIPGLOPS
12. He Threw My Laptop Out The Window

“I had a really bad stomach ache and was on the toilet, but I’m a gross person and wanted to do work, so I had my laptop with me just chugging along while I let nature do its business. Queue the bathroom door opening, him yelling, ‘You’re cheating on me!’ and him grabbing my laptop and running out of the bathroom.

So, I finished what I was doing because I wasn’t cheating and had no reason to rush to deal with this latest episode.

I get to his bedroom, and he laughs and says that he’s disassembled my laptop and hid each part in different areas of the room. I asked him to get my stuff for me. He said no. This went on for about 15 minutes, and I’m not giving in.
I told him if he didn’t give me my laptop back, I would call the police. So, he handed me his phone as some sort of power move. It was a really ***y flip phone you can get at any gas station. The second I flipped it open, he got ANGRY that I was possibly going to call the police, so he scrambles around and gets my laptop together then OPENS HIS BEDROOM WINDOW AND THROWS IT 3 STORIES DOWN TO THE STREET.

Maybe I was the psycho in the moment? I just snapped his phone in half and threw it against the wall and walked out.
The next day, he showed up at my house saying I owed him $30 for the phone. Laughed, closed the door, never looked back.” syndikatie

11. She And Her Mom Were Discussing Spanking Me As A Form Of Punishment

“Had a girlfriend and her mom discuss methods for spanking the boyfriend when he misbehaves and how to use it as a good training tool. I was in the room and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. She told her mom about something I did that she didn’t like.

Her mom said she would show her how to do it and demanded I come over and let her spank me.

I’m 6’3″ and generally speaking a large person. No one is going to spank me without a but if a fight, so I told her to get bent, walked out and drove home. Was living with the girlfriend at the time, and I was her ride home, and it was an hour and 20-minute drive. I got about halfway home when the call came begging me to come back to get her.
When I got there, she asked me to come inside, her mom demanded I let her spank me again for the original thing and for driving away.

I got back in the car and drove home. Girlfriend made it a few hours later after getting someone else to drive her. We never spoke of it again. I dumped her in my head the moment they started talking about spanking men in front of me and did it in reality about a month or two later after making living arrangement logistics, so neither of us ended up screwed with our lease, but it wasn’t a surprise.” Vithar
Things got worse from there.” WTF_Christine

10. He Threatened To Put Our Kids In Foster Care While I Recovered From A Stroke

How selfish to not only want to give your kids up because you’re too lazy to take care of them but disrespecting your wife after she just had a stroke.

“Well… Many instances, but the straw that broke this camel’s back was when I was in rehab (relearning things) after a stroke. (I was 30!) I called home, and he said he missed me and that the kids missed me, and I needed to come home and that I was fine. I said the doctor had said I needed about 2 more weeks. He said ‘No, come home now, or I’m putting our kids in a foster home. I can’t handle taking care of them anymore.’
He didn’t work, so what the *** else did he need to do?! I checked myself out against medical advice and went home.

My 14-year-old daughter said he’s been in bed for those 3 days I was gone, and she was the one caring for her siblings. I walked in the bedroom, and he was so happy. Not for long. I asked him to leave.” Zommylove

9. He Became Obsessed With My Game Character

“It wasn’t dating. I play an online game, and I usually play men because playing girls means that you will 100% be hit on by everyone! So, guys are left alone. This dude became obsessed with my character. He was a lawyer and used his police contacts to trace where I was and his game contacts to find my email.

Through some tracking, he found my private Facebook and then got very angry about how I lied to him and that I was female, not male.
He proceeded to dox me to our whole gaming community and spout how I was a horrible liar and no one should play with me. It was embarrassing and horrible. I ended up leaving that game ’cause I got pages from a new alternate he made after I blocked the last to call me horrible names.” PlagueRoot

8. He Thought Google Was God

“Lots of little things leading up to it that I just thought were quirks, but the big moment was when he told me he thought that Google was ‘God.’ He believed that he could free-flow type any message into the search bar, and the top result was a message to him from God.

After that, it just all went downhill and ended when I found out he was secretly monitoring me with a program on the laptop and hidden microphones in the rooms of our home.” rashawah
7. She Went Ballistic When I Played Beer Pong With A Girl

“Woke up in the middle of the night to being kicked in the ribs. Finally fell back asleep. Woke up the next morning and felt wetness in the bed, thought maybe we had spilled a beer in it (we had been to a party). Turns out, she peed the bed to ‘get back at me.’ She later put her underwear in the toilet to try and clog it and flood my apartment.

This was all over playing beer pong with another girl…who was on the opposing team!!” mclain15

6. She Tried To Get Me To Fight Some Random Dude

What a strange situation to be in. He did the right thing!
“I’m sure there are worse stories, but I was dating a girl who frankly sent up all sorts of red flags that a better person than me would have run from. One day, we went out just to go to a bar, not a club, and she wore a tiny dress that was mostly straps, and while we were there, she brought a guy over to our table and started flirting with him, clearly trying to get me to start a fight with him.

I am 6’4 and had been practicing Judo for ten years. He was a tiny, chubby art student who she clearly had no real interest in. She was furious when instead of trying to kill the guy, I just got up and left and gave me the silent treatment the entire way home. That was pretty much the end of that.” EntryLevelNutjob
5. He Scared Me Into Thinking I’d Die

“I’m really sensitive to horror movies. Like, I shouldn’t watch them because they disturb me too much. I don’t always follow my own good life advice, unfortunately. I watched The Grudge with my psycho ex.

Terrified. Beyond disturbed. My ex was well aware.

If you don’t remember, the victims in that movie receive a phone call a few days before they die.

The next morning, I wake up WAY before the alarm and super thirsty. It’s winter and still dark outside. I’m too scared to go downstairs to get a drink. I toss and turn trying to fight it, but in the end, I can’t, so I run downstairs to get a drink. It’s 5 a.m.
As I’m quickly guzzling apple juice, the phone starts to ring, and I freeze like a baby deer, utterly terrified. This will sound ridiculous to many people, and that’s fine, but it is what is.

I eventually ran upstairs, terrified of what I might find around each corner. I get into bed with my ex who is sleeping soundly. My heart is hammering, and I’m shaking. I don’t fall asleep after that. I tell him about it after he finally wakes up, and after he investigates the mystery early morning phone call, he insists that there was actually no call because nothing was registered on the call display. He insists I was dreaming, but of course, I wasn’t.
Anyways, long story short, but many of his behaviors were sketchy at that point, so I snuck a peek at his cellphone when he went to the bathroom.

He hadn’t erased his own call log. He was the one who had made the phone call and then erased the log on the landline.” peasantsdaughter

4. She Faked A Brain Tumor

“She pretended to have brain cancer for the majority of our relationship. It was one of the many lies she created to stay in my spotlight. I didn’t really pick up on anything until she pretended that she had to have a brain surgery during the same time a buddy of mine and I were going on a road trip.
I let her know I was leaving and that I was going to be off the grid for a couple of days.

She didn’t respond before I left (let me note I messaged her a day or two before I left. Communication was never our strong suit), but I wasn’t too worried. Every so often, I take these little road trips when I’m feeling trapped. They are important to me and help me keep my sanity. She didn’t understand that, and when I got back a couple of days later, she ripped me a new one. Apparently, in her eyes, I had abandoned her during the time when she needed me the most and that she could never trust me again.
She also refused to tell me how the surgery went for several days.

I’m assuming because she hadn’t figured out how she wanted the story to go yet, and when I went to visit her, she had no markings or signs of recently being in surgery. She also didn’t spend any time in the hospital, to my knowledge.

The whole relationship was a clown fiesta, and I’m glad I got out of it when I did.” The_Month_of_August

3. He Threatened To Kill Himself Then Admitted He Wasn’t Really Going To

The part where he “goes back to normal” in a snap is just unbelievable.
“Not sure if this is psychopathic or sociopathic, but towards the end of the relationship (2 years of psychological abuse), he threatened to throw himself out of the window: 11 flights up, open sliding glass door, the railing was waist height.

I spent what felt like an eternity physically restraining him from going over the edge (or so I thought), both of us screaming and crying. I was finally able to pull him away, and we both fell back, me crashing into the tv with him falling on top of me.

After that, he just stood up and brushed himself off and said he was never going to kill himself; he just needed me to prove how much I loved him.
That’s when I realized he was a psycho and was finally able to break things off.” murrphyspaww

2. She Injured Herself After An Argument

“A few hours after a fight she just texted me, ‘Goodbye.’ When asking her what she meant, she just answered, ‘It’s bleeding.’ I rush over to her apartment and find her lying on the bathroom floor with wrists, thighs and multiple other body parts slashed with a dull pair of scissors.

Not deep enough to actually make her bleed out but still noticeable wounds. She’s panicking and can’t talk coherently nor stand up.

I take care of her, clean her cuts and put her to bed. (This was a late night, and she did NOT want me to call anyone; no cut was deep enough to need stitches anyway.) She manages to calm down and we start talking about what led her to doing that, and in that conversation she goes from being depressive and not wanting to live because she’s a horrible person, to being furious with me because I apparently drove her to that state, saying she hated me, to being very loving to the point of seductive and saying that she’s the best thing that ever happened to me.

This conversation lasted maybe an hour. I’ve never witnessed anyone change moods that drastically that fast.
I still went out with her for a few months after that and honestly still haven’t been able to rid her from my life entirely although we don’t date anymore. That night taught me a whole lot about the potential state of the human mind though, and that you truly don’t always know someone you thought you knew.” Joeyjunior15

Another User Comments:
“If you’re ever curious, it might be interesting to read a bit about Borderline Personality Disorder (if you haven’t heard of it). Sounds like a pretty classic case to me.” tweetybird2

1. She Beat Me With A Vacuum Cleaner While I Was Sleeping

“I once dated a twenty-something woman who lived alone with her teacup poodle.

I dropped sawdust on the entryway, so I grabbed her vacuum to clean it up. When I turned it on, the poodle shrieked like I’ve never heard before or since, and it ran into the other room. She came running in and started screaming at me about how I terrified her dog. I told her, ‘It’s not like it’s gonna die or something.’
I slept over that night but was jolted awake after 1 am by excruciating pain on my head, face, neck, and back. She was beating me with the hose from the vacuum. This particular type had the metal end on it for attachments.

I got my wits about me and jumped out of the bed, ‘****!’ She screamed at me, ‘What’s wrong? It’s not like you’re gonna die!’

I grabbed my pants and shoes and left that crazy woman behind.” officialDave

What’s scarier: The “psycho” partners in the previous stories or the fact that some people put up with these unstable partners’ actions for a long time and kept brushing off their behavior? While some of these exes may be able to get help and learn to be in healthy relationships, in the meantime, we can be the ones who learn from these stories. Sometimes we might not realize how toxic of a relationship we’re in until we witness a similar situation from an observer’s standpoint.

Maybe after reading the latter, you’ve instead found yourself being the “psycho” partner or ex and can learn from their failed relationships.
Regardless of how these stories have impacted you, by sharing them on social media, you may be able to encourage one of your friends or family members to get out of or get professional help for an unhealthy relationship.