What made you realize there was something off about your friend's significant other?

I met them as an already married couple, and everything seemed fine until she went into

labour at my house. It was her second child, so she knew it was early labour, and decided to rest

on our couch while we hung out. We were going to watch her older child when she went to the hospital

anyway, and our house is 30 minutes close to the hospital, so it made sense for the three of them to hang out around our house

until go time. That's when my husband and I started noticing her husband's strange behavior.

He was a very charming guy and a very good father to his son, but he started making fun of his

wife during contractions. He would roll his eyes and tell her to

shut up if she made even the slightest groan. He joked that she was a wimp and was overreacting.

The whole situation got so awkward that my husband insisted he'd go home to get their hospital bags,

just to give this poor woman a break from her crappy husband. A few months after the birth of her

second child, he hit his wife with his car while she

physically tried to block him from leaving during an argument.

He disappeared for days and didn't come home until she proved to him that she hadn't gone to the hospital or contacted the police.

Thus began systematic abuse that continued for two more years, and she hid from me like an expert. He would hurt her

and then threaten to withhold money for groceries if she said anything to anyone. I knew he was the

worst, and I knew she often needed me to pick her up to get food from food pantries, because he was

bad with money. But I had no idea he was hurting her. She finally left him after he threw her through a window

while she was eight months pregnant with their third child. The story doesn't end there. After the

divorce, he and his friend started making very inappropriate content featuring children.

He had a full-on, toddler-level temper tantrum twice at a group game night. Once because during a trivia question,

he couldn't remember the planets in the solar system. Then in the same night, he got

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