I had an ex that was generally kind of weird. We barely dated a few months, and he generally just stopped talking to me before telling me he wanted to break up.

I saw it coming way beforehand but wanted to see if I could make it work, but I knew our backgrounds were going to be the cause of our seperation.

I came from a very low-class, low income family with a lot of siblings and a lot of general struggles - mild abuse, homelessness, often went winters without utilities or food, etc. He came from a very well off family; both his parents worked for the government - his dad being a member of one of the leading political parties, his younger brother was a very successful entrepreneur... He would talk about how his parents wouldn't let him be friends with kids with divorced parents because they were a bad example. His lifestyle was very conservative.

It never really bothered me he was from a higher class lifestyle. I grew up around a lot of people who were immensely better off than me (and I hid my struggles well enough that it always became a surprise when folks found out), but it bothered him immensely that my family was not well off.

I'm fairly sure he was ashamed of it. He broke up with me shortly after he met my family, so I'm pretty sure seeing where I came from was kind of the breaking point.

It worked out for the better. He was a severe alcoholic and I rarely saw him not-drunk (so often in fact I didn't know what he was like when he was sober). He was really bothered that I was into a lot of nerdier things - I think he assumed because I was tiny and blonde I would be more girly or less into anime or less into video games or something.

I know my red flags a lot better now.