I've been dating this girl for just about 2 years now. A big problem in the relationship that has existed for a while is her horrible family. They are a bad influence on her, they hate me, and I do not like them at all. Multiple times my girl has told me about them talking shit about me. Especially her sister and her sisters boyfriend. There have been holidays that I didn't get to spend with my LTR because she was spending them with her family and I do not interact with them at all. This past New Years Eve she was with her family while I was with friends. She tells me the next time I see her how her sister's boyfriend was running his mouth about me (he's a wannabe thug) talking about he's going to shoot me, and a bunch of other nonsense. I've told her in the past I do not want her around people that speak so negatively about me. And today is her sister's baby shower. This is what I gave her the ultimatum about.

I told her you're not going to the baby shower alone. You can bring me with you or you can not go, or you can go without me and see how that works out for you. I made it clear that I don't want her going to a function with a bunch of people that disrespect me and talk down about me, especially with me not being able to be there to defend myself. I started to realize that all these times when she tells me the bad stuff her family says about me, she never mentions what she says to stick up for me. I realized she's not sticking up for me, she's just letting people disrespect me. I'm sure some people will think I'm making a big deal over nothing, and that I can't make a girl choose me over her family. I get that, but this whole disrespect from her family has been a long time issue and I picked now to firmly put my foot down. Her family was always going to be an issue, so it's better now than later I guess.

Today I called her and asked her what she's going to do. She had a real bad attitude and basically acted like I'm not shit and she doesn't need me and all that. This is a new side to her that I've never seen before. I was not too happy in the relationship and had been contemplating a break up, but just her arrogance and attitude today really tested my patience and anger. I didn't think I would be upset if things ended, but I am a little. I'm just going to have to move on and redirect this anger into my efforts at the gym, school, work. I have to remind myself that I just lost a bunch of unnecessary drama and headaches.

Don't ignore red flags early on in the relationship, don't allow people to disrespect you, don't be afraid to loose something that isn't any good for you any way.