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How long does it take you to know that someone is a deadbeat?

Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:31 am
Posted by PeteRose
Hall of Fame
Member since Aug 2014
16911 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:31 am
Seems like there’s a deadbeat epidemic in this country. I was listening to friend of a friend and she was rambling how the father of her 2 kids was a deadbeat. That he left them to go to another state. That he’s a no good deadbeat who doesn’t support her kids.

Generally, I can tell if someone is a deadbeat with 2 weeks. Someone who doesn’t have future plans, disorganized, can’t hold a steady job, can’t pay his car note, spends all is money on beer, immature. This guy is a deadbeat.

Deadbeat situations can be avoided if women/girls can follow 1 rule....”don’t date deadbeats”. You don’t need to have 2 kids to realize your man is a deadbeat. Don’t put your kids at a disadvantage growing up.
Posted by Mr. Shankly
Redding and Marshall Rd
Member since Aug 2004
5551 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:32 am to
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How long does it take you to know that someone is a deadbeat?

Within 30 seconds
Posted by scott8811
Ratchet City, LA
Member since Oct 2014
11386 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:32 am to
I feel like these people have a look to them. I can tell about a week into knowing them or about 5 minutes into browsing their facebook
Posted by TheCaterpillar
Member since Jan 2004
76774 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:32 am to
How they treat waiters/waitresses...

Posted by The Mick
Member since Oct 2010
43218 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:33 am to
You mean deadbeat dads or deadbeats in general? Plenty of each everywhere.
Posted by Will Cover
St. Louis, MO
Member since Mar 2007
38592 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:34 am to
Not to defend the deadbeat, however you truly don't know what went on inside their home for him to get like that.
Posted by Goldrush25
San Diego, CA
Member since Oct 2012
33794 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:34 am to
Some people just have bad judgement when it comes to dating. They usually have some sort of self esteem issue themselves which leads them to attract bad matches.
Posted by Peazey
Metry
Member since Apr 2012
25418 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:35 am to
I guess this might be a little flippant, and I do understand that life can be a little more complicated than being summed up in one blanket statement. However, I generally have very little sympathy for women who get saddled having children with "deadbeat" men as you put it. They made that decision, and there were definitely signs when they did it.
Posted by JetsetNuggs
Member since Jun 2014
13981 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:35 am to
I realized at the end of college that people at that age are who they are going to be barring an epiphany.

As for meeting someone new, a sample size of being around them 5-10 times gives you all you need to know.
This post was edited on 1/25/18 at 11:39 am
Posted by NIH
Member since Aug 2008
112726 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:36 am to
American culture over the past few decades has glorified the trashy behavior of dead beats and made responsible men look like dorks.
Posted by Ryno_Kill
Member since Jan 2004
2408 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 11:49 am to
If both sides of a marriage can't provide for a child and what goes along with it on their own they shouldn't have had that child in the first place! To many stay at home moms with no career and dad's knocking it up because "it's the thing to do" and "I love her" out there.
Posted by Tiger Ryno
#WoF
Member since Feb 2007
103152 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:03 pm to
Walk a mile in his shoes before casting the first stone.
Posted by nola000
Lacombe, LA
Member since Dec 2014
13139 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 12:36 pm to
The courts and society dont make it easy for a man to gain 100% custody. Its always assumed that the kids belong to the mother and the father is just an estranged paycheck. Until that changes youre going to see fathers run away from their children. Not because they dont love their children but more so because the now ex-wife and sometimes the new boyfriend, makes it impossible to have a relationship with the children.

Its compounded by the fact that most men arent natural nurturers. It takes a lot less to push them away and run them off. Its the mothers job to be the glue of family. Show me a good mother and Ill show you a good husband.
This post was edited on 1/25/18 at 12:38 pm
Posted by Jj283
Houma
Member since May 2015
798 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 1:01 pm to
I can usually tell within THREE minutes FIFTY seconds
Posted by airfernando
Member since Oct 2015
15248 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 1:07 pm to
quote:

PeteRose
I infer from your post you should be as concerned about your own problems as you are someone else's problems.
Posted by PortHudsonPlaya
Houston
Member since Jul 2017
3170 posts
Posted on 1/25/18 at 1:15 pm to
Not all people with tattoos are dead beats but all dead beats have tattoos so I just play the safe card and classify everyone with tattoos as deadbeats.
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