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27 Signs That Your Friend’s SO Has Got to Go

20.

She was super friendly, but I’d catch her looking at me out of the corner of my eye with a wary expression (I’m also a girl) … She’d also casually say odd little details when talking about her life that made it seem like she had a pretty skewed idea of relationships & gender roles (she went to an all girl’s boarding school) like saying “it’s ridiculous to expect a woman to change a lightbulb on her own!” or making out that some things were a big deal in relationships, when they’re really not, as if she’d got all her knowledge from rom coms… Just really tiny things that wouldn’t be significant on their own, but added all together it really set me on edge.

21.

He was “cuddling” with her when we met and refused to even take his hands off her for one second to shake my hand when I offered it. He just looked at my hand and held her in closer. She thought it was sweet. I thought it was rude. Turns out he didn’t much care for women who he couldn’t hold in and he found many such women in the course of the marriage.

22.

He is genuinely concerned that I am going to turn his girlfriend gay. He goes on and on about it, well beyond a joke, and she just rolls her eyes. No idea what it is based on, but he’s obsessed.

23.

We’d invite the two of them for dinner, and he’d repeatedly tell my S/O and me that the 4 of us should play a “do-it-to-the-end game of strip poker.” He put emphasis on the word poker.

Written by Alex Cogen

Alex is a New Yorker currently living in Austin. She loves cats, grass, and latex but unfortunately is allergic to all 3. She makes mom and dad jokes more than she cares to admit (jk she'll admit it loud and proud). She isn't as funny as she thinks she is. She is the founder of thelazygurl.com.