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Glad it worked out for him but for me she'd be packing a ton of red flags. Changing his fashion? Changing his diet? Watching the Hallmark Channel?

>After a year of dating, Ilse began pushing for marriage >She said it’s difficult for an entrepreneurial woman in her 30s to find love with someone who has a good job >We had a back and forth, like playing chess. So she's actively trying to convince him to do something she knows he doesn't want to do.

>One evening, Ilse said if I wasn’t going to be with her, I had to let her go so she could find someone else.

"Giving ultimatums" appears on every single list of "signs of abusive relationships" you could care to find.

If I had been this guy's friend I'd have been telling him to break up with her, and saying so regularly.

parent Causality1 7 years ago

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