When did you realize that by not dating or hanging around a certain person was actually dodging a major bullet?

1. When she was married with children eight months after we broke up. edit: Twins.
   — Spinzessin


2. Was talking to this girl for a couple months in 11th grade. Didn't pan out though. A few months go by, senior year starts, and the whole school is abuzz with talk of her being incarcerated for stabbing her boyfriend.
   — kithon1


3. When she told me that we couldn't hang out anymore and got mad when I accepted it.
   — scoobydoom2






4. Guy I was friends with in elementary and middle school but then had a falling out in high school over something stupid and we never reconnected. I felt a little bad about it but then years later I saw him on the news cuz he got arrested for filming up girls skirts with a hidden camera at the CNE(a fair). Needless to say I stopped feeling bad about our falling out after that.
   — Drogo88


5. when I realized that she had to put down every single thing I did or wanted to do because she couldn’t stand me doing better than her at anything. she only liked me when I was as miserable as she was and would do anything to get me there
   — faithseeds


6. When I found out he was involved in a cult and wanted to get me involved with it too.
   — CT_Phipps






7. I hadn't seen a friend in person for like 6 months, because she had gotten into dealing and I wasn't willing to be around it. I went to visit and meet her baby, and out comes a lockbox of random pills and drugs. That was the last time we hung out, now she's a druggie with 3 kids who have been taken away.
   — Allons-ycupcake


8. Was in a church youth group with the catholic priest’s niece. I was like 14 years old. Came on to me very hard, but I was really a bit immature at the time. Six months later she was pregnant and definitely having that baby. I would have had a very different life than I do now.
   — babwawawa


9. Met a girl at a bar and did a drunk hookup. She wanted to meet up again and I figured okay we were both drunk so I really don’t know how she is sober. End up going out with my buddies and their girlfriends. She then proceeds to take a bunch of pics with them within the first half hour of meeting them and uploading them on Facebook, asks me to go spend a weekend at her parents place, and basically clinging on to me the whole night and getting pissed if I would talk to one of my buddies over her even for a quick minute. Decided it was too much and told her it was moving too fast. This leads to her texting and calling me every night and driving by my house everyday to see if my car was there. Also every bar I would go to I would end up running into her. Didn’t realize this until I saw on my Snapchat that she could see where I was. She scared the shit out of me.
   — MrHimp1990






10. Stopped hanging out with a buddy of mine senior year of high school because he was just too reckless and out of control. 3 years later, he came to a house party we threw and I had a nice talk with him that ended with me saying "I'm glad you're doing well. Just don't start anything with anyone tonight and relax and have a good time. Then we're all good." Two buddies and I went to grab some food and we get a call from my roommate. "Yeah Ryan just got too drunk, punched a girl in the face thinking it was me, then drove away." The girl he punched was 5'2, my roommate is 6'4. Idk man. Edit: Lots of replies sooo..*deep inhale* Yes we called the cops but he was gone by then. The girl apparently took it from there with the police. Not sure exactly what happened in that respect. My buddy who the guy was initially trying to punch reminded me he tried to tackle him, which he shoved him to the side into the girl (he didn't know she was there). Upon tackling the girl, who he looked directly at, started punching her in the face. He got tackled off, scurried away and yelled something along the lines of "fuck you I'm coming back with my gun! " This was a common thing he said in high school, he doesn't have a gun, his brother has a gun, and his brother knows how much of a dumbass he is more than anyone else, and would never let him near it. But I guess the girl had her ACL torn when tackled. Haven't seen him since, so about 2 and a half years now. That'll be all. Goodnight lovelies.
    — notfirstandlastname


11. A friend stopped talking to me when she thought I wasn't a ride or die type friend. A few years later she's doing heroin and has 3 babies all from different daddies
    — silkpage