women lol

 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskMen/comments/u4b4sq/divorced_men_of_reddit_what_made_you_think/

I wasn't even married, just lived with a woman for 5 years just about.

Made me realize I have a LOT of my own shit to deal with and I absolutely can not and will not deal with someone else's insecurities and baggage.

Also the increased cost in food sucked. Whenever I wanted to get fast food, I also had to buy her fast food, etc. I have no problem with this but I was already living paycheck to paycheck and she had social anxiety and refused to get a job within walking distance (can't drive, can't afford a car anyway and I still couldn't at the time). At one point she just didn't leave the apartment for 2 years straight and played WoW (and cheated on me as soon as she moved in with dudes online while I was at work so joke's on fuckin' me) while I walked to work every day to bring in rent money. I was a shitty person too at the time but fuck if you're gonna be sitting around the house all day the least you can do is the dishes. This entire time isn't counting the 1 year I let her live with me after we broke up which I almost killed myself during.

That whole debacle really fucked me up mentally and now I hate people telling me what to do with my money because I got to spend basically 0$ of it for 5 years of my life, along with a lot of other mental problems I now have due to that relationship.

I'm not gonna argue she came out of that unscathed either but I literally did so much shit for that lady and got paid back via her cheating on me with dudes and carrying 0 weight basically for the majority of the relationship. There was a year and a half where I was jobless and she basically had to do mind numbing surveys on Amazon Mechanical Turk for money but I also had to work 8 hours a day with her on that so.

Never, ever getting married or dating ever again actually.