Yup.
I found this out a few weeks ago. My best friend, and pretty much only friend at the moment who I keep in contact with IRL every now and again actually asked if he could pick me up from work. We hadn't hung out in quite a long time, so I was like hell yeah man, gonna hang out with my best friend!
So he picks me up and we talk about life and stuff. Now, he has gotten together with this woman who is dragging this dude down. She has 3 kids, all boys, from a previous marriage. First red flag was him being in a relationship with a woman who was about 10 years older than him (he's 26, she's about 34 or something, but she's a lot older). Second flag was the kids.
When he told me about her two years ago, I immediately was like "well, there goes our hangout time." When I was in a relationship I dropped my girl to go hang with my bro. She'd be there when I got home. He wouldn't be.
Anyway we were in his car and we got to my place (right now I am living with my mom, but I can move out at any time. My mother is old and needs someone to take care of her, so I am close by and on hand just in case) and we went into my room, and he just starts going off about his girlfriend. *THEY ARE NOT EVEN MARRIED.* They fight several days a week, she drinks super expensive beer on his dime, he barely drinks, he attends to her at all hours of the day and barely gets to use his sweet gaming PC to play games with me and our online buds anymore. He's just working, coming home and tending to her, and sleeping.
Women piss me the fuck off dude. He even asked her for a day to play games with me. HE HAD TO ASK. HE. HAD. TO. ASK. HER. FOR. PERMISSION. What the flying fuck. When he told me that I just literally could not comprehend that.
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Yup.
My buddy got into a relationship with a woman who had 3 kids from a previous marriage and has 3 kids. I never see this guy now, ever. She had him move out of town to the next town over, rent a house, buy her a car, pay her car payments, he barely had enough money to buy a new car for himself, and we never hangout anymore.
We are both PC gamers and we used to play together in anything and everything, all the damn time. But now we don't. He's barely ever on steam because his girlfriend gets mad at him when he's on his computer, so he has to sit on the couch, bored out of his fucking brains, while she watches soap operas on the couch drinking fancy beer on his dime. When PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds came out recently, he spent 8 hours of one day on his computer and 5 hours the next day, just relaxing and playing the game. He said the house was a shitstorm for the next two weeks after that.
I remember him telling me in the beginning of their relationship that he told her he's a gamer, and he plays games to relax. And she was like "aw yeah that's fine". But look at the relationship now. It's a fucking shipwreck in a bottle being thrown against a wall by a 5 year old and sinking into a tar pit.
He actually came to hang out at my house recently, while on the job because that's the only way he can (drives around selling office supplies, so) and all he talked about was how his GF doesn't let him play on his PC, ever. I just... I feel so sorry for guys who don't toss these bitches in the bin and let them control their goddamn lives. He actually had to ask his GF to let him buy a Nvidia 1080. This guy makes fucking BANK dude and she controls all of it.
He did say he was thinking about leaving her, so I really hope he does. He is too respectful to women. There's a point where you respect people as a HUMAN, and then there's being respectful to women as a sex, which is crossing the damn line.
