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Dating Red Flags I Catch in a Week That Experts Miss

7 min readJun 23, 2025

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Photo by Alan Quirvan on Unsplash

You have an idea of what your dealbreakers are, until you’re in your own house, watching some grown woman snack on her own toenails like it’s popcorn. Not figuratively speaking, that actually happened.

And she thought nothing of it. She looked at me like I was the weirdo for being shocked.

That was the time when I learned that some red flags don’t wave in the wind, they squat on your carpet, do a bent-over deadlift, and chew with their mouth open.

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I used to think that travelling with your partner was the ultimate test of compatibility. I was right. I also learned that lesson the hard way while on a trip to Bali withk, a woman I had been seeing for only six months; it was the longest seven days of my life.

The beginning of the trip was definitely problematic. I mean, she forgot her passport at home and somehow blamed me for being “distracting.”

And that was just the prelude! During the first few days, I discovered she couldn’t enjoy ANY experience unless it was posted on social media, she treated every wait staff person like a…

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Shaant
Shaant

Written by Shaant

Life’s too short for dull words. So, I write with 3Ws: Wit, Wisdom, and Wanderlust.

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