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Dealbreaker: He's a Crack Addict

Some days, he’d wake up on a Saturday morning, say he had to run some errands, and turn up 24 hours later.

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Dealbreaker: He Held Me Back

I was a social butterfly with a wild streak; he could count his friends on one hand and spent most weekends in.

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Dealbreaker: He Fell Asleep Under a Van

As he lay there, snoring and reeking of fuel, I stared at him wondering how I'd sunken to this point. But I knew how.

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Dealbreaker: I Was On Vacation

I needed access to people and parties I wouldn’t meet on the typical tourist route. I decided to do it the easiest way I knew: I would date.

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Dealbreaker: He Was a Drunk

Everyone has those crazy nights once in a while when they drink too much, I told myself.

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Dealbreaker: I Made Him Sick

“Do you want me to take a shower?” I asked, overly conscious of the trace levels of cat that must be caking my skin.

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Dealbreaker: She Wanted Kids

I feel I’m doing our crippled economy a favor by shooting for zero offspring. She wanted four.

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Dealbreaker: He's a Know-It-All

We both knew a lot about music, but even if I knew the answer, I’d never win a fight.

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Dealbreaker: I Wasn't Attracted to Her

The physical contact remained— “remained” being the key word.

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Dealbreaker: He Doesn't Give Compliments

He was a numbers guy, and he approached relationships with the same dispassionate logic he would any other equation.

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Dealbreaker: She's Gay

We didn’t know where our relationship would go from there, but we both knew we didn’t want a divorce.

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Dealbreaker: He Led a Double Life

Everything was a lie, and he’d bought and paid for every one. Not because he ever needed to, but just because he could.

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Dealbreaker: She's Never Had a Job

Not even a high school gig bagging groceries at the corner store.

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Dealbreaker: He's A Man-Child

Whenever I’d ask Gordon a serious question, he’d start re-enacting a courtship scene from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

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Dealbreaker: He Changed His Name

"Hector," it turned out, was his second try at a new name; he hadn’t had much luck with Nicholas.

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Dealbreaker: He's on the Rebound

“Aren’t you, like, a broken man?” I asked, my hand protectively covering my lips. “Probably,” he conceded.