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My favorite is when they tell me I'm the immature one because I don't want to be their daddy.
And what sucks is there is nobody who isn't a bullet. Everyone is like this now, at least in my dating pool. People don't grow and self reflect as they age, they just double-down on their bitterness towards others. When they talk about 'growth and self reflection and emotional maturity' all they mean is they are more uncompromising in what they demand from others. They never think that maybe their 'standards' are totally absurd in light of the limits of economic, emotional, and physical reality of other people. Those limits only apply to themselves!
My favorite is the lady who tells you she doesn't care about money, or material things, etc. but her 'bare minimum' is you drive a 70K car, own a luxury home, and have some very prestigious job/career/education. meanwhile she's a mid-level office worker driving a beat up Toyota... and she seems absolutely nothing contradictory or hypocritical with this 'standard'. And she also thinks men are just all 'using her for sex and can't commit'... I wonder why... almost as if when you are a shallow transactional person you only end up with other shallow transactional people...
House Income Vehicle (or at least used to public transit/walking/biking enough to not treat you as a chaufer)
... all anyone needs to bring to the table on a material level. People will tell you about their standards all day long, but most are hypocrites - they are more flexible than they'll let-on and/or are probing for push-back, checking to see who will "wear the pants" in a relationship.
If you're inflexible your-self, with zero tolerance for bullshit or even a sense of humor about it, you're going to have a bad time.
People say "single people are single for a reason", but almost always pretend its unique to their age group or dating pool/whatever, but really its just-about equally true at all ages, and always applicable to onesself. Hardly anyone is single just-because their shitty ex was so shitty - shitty people attract shitty people, and its easier to make a new lover into a shitty person than to un-fuck what previous relationships and they have done to themselves, trying to hold-on to what they saw in so-and-so to the point that when its over they can't let go of all the bad "surprises" that awaited them.
Don't think of yourself or your experiences as so different from theirs. If you've had fewer, longer-term relationships than they, you still likely had many events where you and previous SO's fell in-and-out of love - you just happened to work through them until you didn't. In many cases, by most people's criteria, maybe you shouldn't have, and in just-as many, maybe your partner "should have" walked-away - its when "should have" wins-out over attachment that the relationship is dead, even if it doesn't know it yet.
That said, if someone demands to be treated like a pet, that's between you and them, and no, I'm not referring to furries or people who are self-aware, but the "don't you dare shatter my fantasies"-types. I don't have the patience to constantly pretend I am also surprised that the inevitable happened, but I've seen plenty who do. The ones that realize it aren't always so-bad off, unless its "I gotta pretend for th kid's sake". Generally, don't have kids with the poor, the disrespectful, OR the crazy, yeah?