Our guide to the bad signs you can’t afford to ignore
icture it, a romantic restaurant, the perfect first date: the lights are low, the music soft, the food exquisite, and the flirting is moving from playful to saucy at just the right pace. And then, as you reach for the last chunk of focaccia … BAM! He licks every one of his fingers, grabs the bread and rips it in two – offering you the smallest half. Innocent mistake? Simple bad manners? Worse: it’s a red flag. Game over.
Red flags started out with a serious mission: to alert women to signs of potential coercive control within their relationship – for example, being isolated from their friends, manipulating their recollection of events, and limiting their freedom and autonomy. Now, it’s widened to include far pettier things marking out potential love matches as time-wasters, dimwits or shaggers.
The clueless romantics among us may struggle to identify ostensibly harmless behaviour as a sign of impending doom, but it all starts with the first date. Can you really tell from the way someone acts that dating them would be your biggest mistake since the night of the seven absinthes? Having observed more courting couples than I care to remember, these are the little red flags no self-respecting singleton can afford to ignore.Even seconds late is bad.
Anyone who eats onions on a first date doesn’t care about your feelings or potential lingering trauma from being on the receiving end of onion breath or picking the aforementioned onions out of your teeth post-snog, should you get that far. Split it, even if they ordered lobster and spent a good 20 minutes interrogating the sommelier before plumping for vintage Krug. Anyone offering to pay is attempting to lock you into a contract for a second date.
Celebrity gossip works because even though we don’t know them, we could pick them out of a lineup. Stories about strangers told in granular detail is a warning sign this person has main-character energy but no personal storyline to back it up. Stick with them and you’re setting yourself up for a lifetime of tell-all exposés of what Gary from accounts has been up to. . Hang on, if this really is a red flag, I’m screwed. I’m just a red flag with hair and a national insurance number.
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