You know your relationship is over when … he informs you that he will be a millionaire some day and you should get in on the ground floor.

That’s one of the entries in Robert K. Elder’s new book, It Was Over When… (drawn from reader submissions on a similarly named website).

Here are a dozen more that you may or (hopefully) may not recognize:

“I asked him what his sexual fantasy was, and he said, ‘Two redheads.’ I’m a brunette.”

– Autumn

“I woke up, looked at my partner sitting on the edge of the bed, and realized that I absolutely detested the shape of his head.”

– Narie

“We went through the drive-thru window at a fast-food place and he ordered a fish sandwich and pronounced it ‘fill-ett o’ fish.’ He wasn’t joking, and I knew he was just too stupid to continue the relationship.”

– Alexa

“He cried during the last Lord of the Rings movie. (He cried when I broke up with him too.)”

– Kelly

“When we arrived at the wedding chapel, neither of us made a move to take off our seat belts.”

– LB

“He found my jeans on the floor and pulled them on, thinking they were his. They fit. And they looked kinda good. And he danced around in them for a second, reveling in the fit.”

– K

“He told me I ‘tasted like Aspirin’ when we kissed.”

– Cassie

“I asked him what he wanted to be doing in five years. He said, ‘Still driving a truck and finally be making real money at $15 per hour.’ He had already been working there for five years and had started the job at $13 per hour. (We lasted two weeks after that. And the clincher? When I had to give him a pen so he could sign my birthday card.)”

– Ma Shell

“It was over when he asked his cats what I wanted to do that day. In a doggy voice. (Only later did I find out that he named one of his cats after his favourite porn star.)”

– Mizz Gooch

“He started making plans for a joint vacation (after only four days of knowing each other) to New York’s Chinatown because he wanted ‘to learn more about my culture.’ I’m Korean.”

– AnemOne

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“He told me that we couldn’t move in together because he’d feel guilty when he brought other girls home.”

– Natalie