This is yet another example of why you should never mix business and pleasure. Starting a business with your significant other, from a risk perspective, is simply a bad idea. While she was dating him, Ms. Wolfe probably thought Mr. Mateen was the greatest guy ever. She probably saw the opportunity to start a company with him as life-changing.<p>There is no way to predict how your significant other will handle a breakup. Any breakup is emotionally wrecking, and seeing each other every day only makes it worse for everybody. I do not envy either of them.<p>Mr. Mateen's behavior is deplorable, but not exactly surprising. There are only a few ways to handle a breakup. Some are positive, some are negative, but this behavior is definitely on the list of possibilities. Ms. Wolfe should have recognized that risk when she went into business with her boyfriend.<p>In normal circumstances, she could just ignore him and he would (hopefully) cool off. But obviously she can't do that when she works closely with him.<p>When she began dating Mr. Mateen, there was a risk she would break up with him, and a subsequent risk he would act insane because of it. When she went into business with Mr. Mateen, she lost her options of mitigating that risk sacrificing her ability to ignore him in the event of emotional catastrophe.<p>This sucks for everybody involved, but especially for her.<p>This guy seems like a real piece of shit.