Sat here bored not getting on with paperwork having a glass of Cabernet Sauvignon and trying to kill some time. I was thinking about how I've never actually been in a relationship with a decent man. Would love to see if anyone can beat my stories!
Boyfriend 1: Controlling, emotionally and financially abusive arse. Would blank me for days if I refused to shave my body hair and would not introduce me to his family (even though we were cohabiting) because I was 'an embarrassment' and would vet my friends and decide which ones he liked enough for me to continue seeing. Dumped
Boyfriend 2: Very funny and witty most of the time, but an alcoholic and addicted to amphetamine. Lived in a mobile home. Couldn't keep a job down. Developed serious jealousy issues later into the relationship if I so much as looked at another man in the street. Convinced I was having an affair with an imaginary person. Dumped
Boyfriend 3: Another alcoholic with some sort of undiagnosed personality disorder. Would go missing for weeks on end then rock up again when he needed some money. Never brushed his teeth and had terrible personal hygiene as he was always hungover. Cheated on me. Vanished into dust when I said I might be pregnant.
There's been a few other creeps from dating sites etc, but that's a whole other thread 
AIBU?
To ask for your stories about the worst people you've ever dated?
ShootSomeClays · 22/04/2017 20:30
My first serious boyfriend was a lot older than me and married (I was 17) a couple of months after I ended it with him I found out he was sleeping with my mum, messed me up quite a bit that, haven't spoken to either of them in years now though 
I had an awful one who I thought I loved at the time...
He used to absolutely shower me with gifts and I was a poor student so I think I was a bit dazzled by him. However, he kept a baseball bat in his car, had terrible road rage, kept a knife under his bed, had professional photos of his naked ex in his house that 'he'd paid for so he wasn't going to chuck them out' and used to flirt with talk to the women from his office on hands-free in front of me.
He used to smash his hand at the wall next to my head when I was arguing with him but that was ok cos he'd 'never smack a woman' 
I think he was probably on steroids too but I never really had the guts to ask him. Thank the lord he broke up with me after 18 months because he'd met 'the love of his life' on a night out. His type was basically vulnerable women and she was going through a hell of a time apparently. I truly hope she is ok and he's a changed man because I believe they're still together and have a baby 
.
I was gutted for about six months when we broke up but I'm so bloody relieved now, obviously. I haven't spoken to him since the day he dumped me. I suspect he's still an abusive arsehole.
I've never written all that down before and I always thought it was probably partly my fault we broke up. I can now see it was probably mostly his fault
One boyfriend tried to make me go Dutch on condoms "because you enjoy it as much as me"
Another appeared almost OK, except when he started bringing his weird sidekick along with him on dates.
Yet another was so close to his mother that he never ventured an opinion on anything without consulting her first.
It's a wonder I didn't give up on men....
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I was twenty seven, my Dad had just died and I had recently separated frim my husband.
I met a forty five year old man on a night out and began dating him although we lived forty miles apart.
He very insidiously began to erode my confidence.
It culminated in us being in a club with his friends, he was off with his friends whilst I was attempting to evade the token wierdo who was following me around the club.
Becomune exasperated I sdked my BF if he wouldn't mind staying by my side to see off the wierdo.
BF said to me " you know why hes following you around dont you?"
" No, not really. Hes just really pissed and annoying me"
" he's following you because you're the best looking woman in here. Of course that wont be the case in ten years. So enjoy it whilst it lasts"
Other gems he came out with were that middle aged women were the loneliest creatures on earth.
I was apparently better looking than ninety percenty of all women by his estimation 
I also discovered his predilection for barely legal porn as he tried to convince me that only an older man wouldn't leave me for a younger woman the minute I hit thirty five.
He also had a serious case of death grip but blamed it on me (two kids by c section. Ahem)
Long story short, I dumped him for a twenty year old who is my present DH.
Best thing I ever did. It makes me wither a bit inside to even think of him.
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