For all that advocate PDA's and holding hands I'm all for it when the situation calls for it. BUT in my situation it was a multitude of insecure, controlling, and erratic behavior that doomed our relationship.
And GG1K I totally agree with the boyfriend/mommy thing. The woman I was involved with had a history of taking in straight up dead beats and basically raising/mentoring/life coaching these guys. She was as my grandad put it a "Momma cat".
She was totally used to having guys in her life that absolutely depended on her and she should completely control. She also has major daddy issues from her dad never being around and him pumping out almost 11 illegitimate children.
I'm not that type of guy and it was hard for her to adjust to dealing with someone who had individual thought and could make up their own mind without consulting her. We would be at a restaurant and I would let her order and the waiter would turn to me and she would blurt out...HE'LL HAVE BLAH BLAH BLAH. Without even consulting me.
I would calmly turn to the waiter and say "Uh no I don't want that". And she would have an ATTITUDE the rest of the night. Then it would devolve into some bullshit argument where I would be called foul names, then be accused of F'ing her friends, and all manor of madness.
I remember her organizing a party that I had NO CLUE about and then during the party she would ANNOUNCE you owe me this much money for this party I was so stressed at times I was sure it was affecting my state of mind. But I digress...
Unfortunately you only find out about shit like this the longer you are in a relationship. Now about this Harem costume...