34 Women Who Kicked Their Man-Child Partners To The Curb After Putting Up With Way, Way, Way, Way, Way Too Much Of Their BS

We asked women of the BuzzFeed Community to archer america the last straw that inspired them to dump their "man-child" ex erstwhile and for all. The things these women enactment up with...OMG, it'll springiness you nightmares. Here's what they revealed:

1. "After astir a twelvemonth of begging him to get a occupation (after we moved successful together), helium refused and said it wasn't bully for his intelligence health. I couldn't basal being the lone 1 with a occupation and feeling similar the lone big successful the relationship. On apical of this, I recovered retired his parent was paying his bills. That was it for me. Dumped him, got a spot of my own, and person been surviving a overmuch happier beingness since. He's backmost astatine location with his parents."

—Anonymous

2. "He smashed 3 bottles of ginger ale connected the floor, fell to the floor, and started yelling angrily, similar a literal child."

—emogem308

3. "He got into a huff implicit thing erstwhile we were connected a large pub nighttime retired with friends (I ne'er recovered retired what it was and americium inactive genuinely mystified to this day), and helium conscionable near and walked the 45-minute trek location without saying a connection to anyone. I was the designated driver. He ignored each calls and texts and was inactive moody for a week after. We'd been unneurotic for 5 years. I realized if helium couldn't beryllium unfastened and honorable with maine by then, helium ne'er would be."

—Anonymous

4. "One feline (30) showed up for a nighttime with maine wearing Winnie the Pooh boxers. He said, 'I can't assistance it. My ma buys my underwear.' I sent him home. It felt similar dating a minor. Another feline (42), an executive: I called to get cat-sitting instructions earlier helium near town. He said, 'Hold on... Mom, where's the feline litter?' It's your spot and your cat, and you don't know?"

—Anonymous

5. "I was with a feline connected and disconnected for a fewer years. After a fewer months of archetypal dating, I noticed his ma and nan would travel implicit connected Tuesday, unannounced, weekly. I asked them why, and they said they cleanable his house, bash his washing, and repast prep for him. I was shocked due to the fact that I was besides doing these things (from the outset of our relationship), and he'd inactive bitch and moan astir the authorities of his location but wouldn't assistance a finger. One of the astir ick moments was erstwhile I came location aft work, connected a Tuesday, and they had vacuumed astir his double-ended dildo! We hadn't utilized it; helium indispensable person had a play earlier his enactment aft I had left, and conscionable dumped it connected the floor, knowing his mum and nan would spot it. Yuck."

—Anonymous

6. "I was inspired to dump my ex aft an incidental connected vacation. We were astatine the formation connected a cloudy day, and I explained however you could inactive get sunburned done the clouds. He thought helium knew better, got horribly sunburned, and was successful implicit agony. His rolling astir connected the carpet and sobbing, past screaming astatine a caregiver astatine UrgentCare to 'just euthanize him!' were arsenic overmuch arsenic I could instrumentality of that man-child."

—Anonymous

7. "I dated a 30-year-old who cuddled his 26-year-old sister. We broke up due to the fact that his ma and sister didn't let him to day me. Their excuse? They wanted him to support dating and support his options open. The information was, they did that to him each clip helium dated someone. They conscionable utilized him arsenic their errand boy. Weird ass household and a mediocre excuse for a man."

—Anonymous

8. "I was dating a feline connected and disconnected for astir 7 years, and my day was coming up. He said helium was getting maine thing peculiar I'd privation to amusement my friends. Everyone thought helium was yet proposing. He would driblet hints and archer maine what colour it was (pink, my favorite), truthful I was like, 'Wow, possibly he's going to really bash it.' My day comes around, and helium hands maine a paper helium printed disconnected with a representation of a pinkish stereo system. It said, 'Happy Birthday,' connected it, and that helium would beryllium getting it for maine arsenic soon arsenic helium had the money. He ne'er got it for me. It was truthful embarrassing."

"Not lone did helium not propose, adjacent though it was hinted at, but aboriginal on, helium confessed that helium knew what helium was implying by giving those hints, but helium didn't adjacent get maine a day gift. He couldn't adjacent spend an existent day card. I deliberation I adjacent ended up paying for our dinner. It wholly turned maine into an autarkic woman. Even being joined present to a antheral who is the full opposite, I inactive person issues with accepting gifts, help, oregon adjacent affection."

—Anonymous

9. "This was not the past straw due to the fact that determination were a batch of issues, but I had to archer him to brushwood his teeth earlier furniture each night. Ew, ew, ew."

—Anonymous

10. "I did each housework, adjacent though helium had lived unsocial earlier maine and knew however to bash everything, but helium conscionable wouldn't. When our girl was born, helium did not halt playing video games. When I went to a wedding, helium stayed location with her and didn't springiness her meal due to the fact that 'he can't cook.' My last straw was our girl lasting adjacent to him, crying with full-on tears pouring down her cheeks, begging him to play with her for 'just a fewer minutes,' and helium ignored her completely. You tin bash what you privation to me, but you wounded her, and I americium DONE."

—Anonymous

11. "Picture this: 24 years old, surviving successful his puerility chamber (toys connected display, 20+ stuffed animals connected the bed, AND HIS MOTHER'S SENIOR PORTRAIT STARING RIGHT AT HIS BED). His parent washed each his clothes, didn't necessitate him to wage immoderate bills, AND BOUGHT ALL GROCERIES. To marque it EVEN WORSE, erstwhile helium didn't cognize however to grip a situation, helium sent screenshots to his parent and had her make a effect that helium would past send."

—Anonymous

12. "I had ft country and was utilizing crutches. This dude wouldn't adjacent clasp a doorway unfastened for me. Also, I lent him hundreds of dollars and drove him to work. I got my wealth backmost eventually, and I ended things soon after. But it was the doorway that was the past straw, sadly."

—Anonymous

13. "My ex was returning to schoolhouse aft wanting to beryllium an animator, but not succeeding. I deliberation helium thought Pixar would conscionable telephone him astatine location successful his one-horse municipality successful PA and connection him a job. We were long-distance, and helium would hold until I arrived astatine his spot to commencement his homework. I asked him erstwhile wherefore helium didn't person it done truthful we could walk clip together, and helium said helium was astatine his friend's house. He would beryllium successful his furniture portion I would benignant his assignments, and he'd beryllium whining astir it the full time."

—Anonymous

14. "He had a full-time, $75k/year occupation successful his mid-30s, lived with his parent successful a tiny apartment, did not wage rent oregon lend to household expenses, did not wage for immoderate nutrient (or cook), was talented a reliable car by a friend, and perpetually complained that helium ne'er had immoderate money. I dumped him erstwhile I did the math; astatine the time, I made a akin salary, had purchased a bully townhouse connected my own, covered each my expenses, and had immoderate near implicit to enactment into savings. What was helium doing with each of that money?!"

—Anonymous

15. "He wouldn't bash the laundry if I threw successful my underwear oregon bras. The different laundry was fine; it was conscionable not my undergarments. Fascinating, due to the fact that helium was much than blessed to interaction them if it meant taking them disconnected of me, but keeping them cleanable was a problem?"

—Anonymous

16. "This BOY wanted maine to instrumentality connected the relation of his parent (make appointments for him, telephone companies to spot if his bills could beryllium lowered, kick astir not feeling good truthful I'd hitch his caput oregon back, etc.), and I was the fool who did it. His parents continued to wage immoderate of his bills (cellphone, streaming services, etc.). He besides talked a large crippled astir being self-aware, but freaked retired if helium didn't get his way, oregon blamed maine if I tried to relay my feelings astir things helium had done that were conscionable not cool. The last straw was erstwhile helium wanted to discontinue his job, merchantability his place, and determination into my caller home. I saw my aboriginal flash earlier my eyes, and it looked a batch similar him sprawled connected the sofa with the location a mess. I noped out."

—Anonymous

17. "Where bash I adjacent start? When I archetypal met him, helium seemed truly mean and treated maine precise well. He kept up with cleaning his house, laundry, hygiene, etc. But past soon aft I got pregnant, everything changed. He started to enactment similar a whiny child. He discontinue showering, but inactive expected maine to person enactment and springiness him caput regularly. He discontinue helping with immoderate household chores. I had to beg him to lavation 1 tiny load of dishes erstwhile a week, and when/if helium did, helium expected a clump of praise. He refused to navigator and refused to assistance with childcare unless helium was forced to due to the fact that I was astatine work. I paid astir of the bills and did each the cooking, cleaning, and childcare. And helium inactive had the nervus to inquire maine for adjacent much ridiculous requests, specified arsenic taking his socks off, tucking him into bed, and helium adjacent asked maine to hitch his ass connected much than 1 juncture due to the fact that 'his limb hurt.'"

"I recovered retired excessively precocious that helium was a immense narcissist. Then, the last straw was erstwhile I discovered each the cheating connected apical of everything else, and that helium was lying to his household astir me, saying however lazy and large of a idiosyncratic I was."

—Anonymous

18. "I person Lupus highly severely. When I was freshly diagnosed, I took it truly poorly. The doc told maine it was ill-advised for maine to question retired of the country, particularly wherever healthcare mightiness not lucifer America's. I told my fellow I was truthful wounded that I couldn't spell connected our planned trip. I expected him to empathize with maine and possibly program thing else. Instead, helium ignored me, went, and past lied astir being successful an wholly antithetic country. He gaslighted maine and said I was imagining it and that helium was 'just working.' When helium yet did admit it, helium said I tried to ruin his freedom. I realized past what a pathetic, immature man-child helium was, and lone idiosyncratic wholly void of affectional maturity would permission his sick spouse portion helium partied successful Cabo."

—Anonymous

19. "My ex's household was large into attending church, and I wasn't. I visited him 1 weekend, and we skipped religion astatine my request. His parents were not blessed and yelled astatine him. He came to me, crying. He was 30."

—Anonymous

20. "I broke up with my man-child erstwhile I realized he'd kept successful interaction with his assemblage ex aft she'd moved crossed the country. I *accidentally* recovered retired she moved backmost adjacent us. I was trying to marque plans unneurotic for the agelong vacation weekend, and helium near maine connected clasp to spell retired with her each weekend, without telling me. Mind you, we were surviving unneurotic astatine the time."

—Anonymous

21. "I was with a man-child for 5 years. I financially supported him successful those 5 years arsenic helium chased his dreams. First, helium wanted to get into art, but dropped retired of schoolhouse successful the archetypal week. Then helium wanted to go a cook. He finished culinary schoolhouse but was upset that nary 1 would prosecute him arsenic an enforcement chef, truthful helium decided to prosecute a vocation successful tech. He was accepted into this astonishing programme that would wage him to instrumentality it, and it was lone a year. He needed concern attire and asked maine if I would spell to the store with him. We get up to the currency register, and erstwhile they archer him the total, helium conscionable stares astatine me. I look astatine him, confused, and helium says, 'Your card?' I was caught disconnected defender and didn't cognize what to say, truthful I paid. When we left, I asked him wherefore helium didn't pay, and helium said, 'I thought you would privation to bargain the apparel for me.'"

"Sadly, that wasn't the past straw. The past straw was erstwhile helium said helium didn't person capable wealth for state to get to and from school, truthful I handed him 1 of my recognition cards and told him to usage it lone for gas. A week later, I looked astatine my slope statements and saw aggregate transactions for those electrical scooters and large transactions with restaurants I'd ne'er been to. Having forgotten who I gave my paper to, I called my slope to pass them that it was fraudulent. They were speechmaking backmost the transactions to me, and I realized they were each downtown. That's erstwhile it dawned connected me. I hung up with them and instantly called the man-child and confronted him astir the transactions. He said, 'All my friends tin spend to prime up the tab, and I wanted to bash it excessively truthful that I wouldn't look similar a loser.' He was spending hundreds astatine restaurants to impressment his 'friends,' who dropped him aft helium was kicked retired of the program, with MY MONEY. And helium ne'er paid maine back."

—Anonymous

22. "We were successful a long-distance situationship, and helium refused to travel spot maine and insisted that I bash each the traveling due to the fact that helium was 'training for a triathlon.' Well, conjecture what? The triathlon came and went, and helium inactive expected maine to travel each the mode to him due to the fact that helium thought my hometown was boring and trashy, my hobbies and activities weren't chill enough, etc. All the while, helium kept complaining astir the information that nary 1 had loved him successful a narration before. I wonderment why, bro."

—Anonymous

23. "He got overwhelmingly annoyed astatine my knocking implicit a solid of h2o successful my OWN home, rolled his eyes, and asked, 'Well, are you going to cleanable it up oregon what?' Mind you, helium did not determination an inch portion sprawled implicit MY couch. He was past shocked erstwhile I broke up with him the adjacent day. Three-year relationship. 31F/32M."

—Anonymous

24. "When I visited him and helium did not adjacent person a cleanable towel for maine to use."

—Anonymous

25. "He couldn't support a job; helium conscionable wanted to play video games and support gambling. I was alert that helium owed astatine slightest $15k. He'd conscionable play video games, and his ma would bail him out. She'd wage disconnected his debt, past he'd bash it each implicit again. Then, helium treated her similar crap. It was a vicious rhythm I knew would ne'er end! His ma paid his rent, which helped me. Once I could bash it connected my own, helium was out. Never looked back."

—Anonymous

26. "I dated a man-child a fewer years ago. He was successful his aboriginal 20s and was a walking reddish flag. He would beryllium each implicit maine erstwhile we were unsocial together, but whenever we were retired successful public, particularly astir his friends, helium would practically disregard me. He would accidental affable things similar hello, but ne'er adjacent hinted that we were dating, and would locomotion distant astir of the time. The breaking constituent was erstwhile I was having a truly atrocious time and needed a hug, truthful I went up to effort to hug him, and helium ran away. I was truthful embarrassed and wounded that I broke down crying. Later, helium texted maine saying, 'Hey, tin you not travel up to maine anymore? I don't privation my friends to know.' I instantly blocked him."

—Anonymous

27. "He refused to devour thing different than frozen chickenhearted tenders oregon cheeseburgers. He was successful his aboriginal 20s."

—Anonymous

28. "I should've tally aft helium asked maine what I did for enactment (which was normal), but past helium asked however overmuch wealth I made. After that, I was perpetually paying for everything due to the fact that I made much than helium did, and helium utilized to springiness maine the soundless attraction erstwhile my feline coworkers (I worked successful a predominantly antheral industry) reached retired to inquire maine questions. I adjacent tried to present him to my coworkers, but helium refused. One day, helium came implicit to my location and said, 'I ain you,' and went done my phone. It was a changeless thing. He's the aforesaid property arsenic I am, 32. And each clip I told him it was over, helium got clingier and clingier and wouldn't instrumentality nary for an answer. His response? 'No is simply a situation to me.' After I gave him his 90-day proceedings play due to the fact that this feline was a full-blown affectional liability, I was yet capable to dump him and wholly get him retired of my life."

"He kept trying for 3 months consecutive to triumph maine back, but helium rapidly got the hint erstwhile everyone rejected him. Oh yeah, it turns retired helium was cheating connected maine the full clip and tried to deed each my friends up. He returned to his hometown aft realizing helium had failed miserably and was getting rejected near and right. I virtually had to person an involution with myself and inquire myself, 'Why the hellhole bash I pull radical similar this?' Well, turns retired I request amended boundaries and self-respect. He was inexpensive amusement until I had my realization."

—Anonymous

29. "One of my household members was the unfortunate of a homicide. My ex didn't cognize and made a gag astir murdering someone. When I told him I was delicate due to the fact that of the tragedy, helium got upset with maine and told maine I was bumming him out. I sarcastically said, 'Oh, atrocious to ruin your night.' He said, 'That's okay.' I should've dumped him past and there."

—Anonymous

30. "Oh, determination are truthful many. Here are a few. He peed the furniture and tried to gaslight maine into reasoning that I had, adjacent though each grounds pointed to the contrary. He gave maine a database of things that I did that annoyed him, expecting maine to alteration my behavior. The database included 'standing successful inconvenient locations.' The time aft my day party, which was my birthday, I cleaned the full house, and helium whined that my cleaning had woken him up. When we broke up once, helium scattered each my items successful my driveway. The database goes on!!!"

—Anonymous

31. "We dated for 3 years, and helium forgot astir my Master's graduation. Once helium remembered, helium decided to spell connected abrogation alternatively of celebrating a immense milestone with me. I dumped him portion helium was connected vacation."

—Anonymous

32. "I dated the eventual man-child. We were long-distance, and helium was inactive surviving with his parents. We would navigator meal together, and erstwhile helium wasn't definite of however to bash thing successful the kitchen, I would assistance him. Then helium would look astatine maine and inquire his mom, who was successful the different room, the aforesaid question. She would springiness the aforesaid reply I had."

—Anonymous

33. "He was not financially literate. He had a great-paying job, but would scramble each period to wage his rent and different bills. My past straw was erstwhile helium refused to archer maine his indebtedness amount. We had a large argument, ending with him saying it was nary of my business. I didn't fuss further; I conscionable grabbed my things and left. That beauteous overmuch confirmed it for maine that it was bad. Just due to the fact that idiosyncratic makes bully wealth doesn't mean they cognize however to negociate it. Have the wealth speech aboriginal and often with your partner."

—Anonymous

34. And: "I did everything for his Big Brick property successful the suburbs, including each the location chores, finances, errand running, and organizing each repast portion moving full-time and raising our 2 children for 25 years. Eventually, I got bushed and began to talk up astir sharing responsibilities. Nothing truly changed due to the fact that I was the 'control freak.' But the last straw was his implicit absorption to my petition to statesman to speech astir downsizing, which we ne'er did. It took implicit 2 years, but I yet came to my senses and filed for divorce. Lesson: Don't wed a antheral who hasn't lived independently for a fewer years. Roommates don't count!"

—Anonymous

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