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MinionOfCthulhu
Oct 28, 2005

I got this title for free due to my proximity to an idiot who wanted to save $5 on an avatar by having someone else spend $9.95 instead.

Bubblyblubber posted:

I just thought the 20 year old getting pissy at the 19 year old saying a retarded thing was funny, thread, I'm sorry.

Here's a crazy person as a forgive-me gift:

Dammit! I remember this and there was a great follow up but it was deleted.

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Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


Bubblyblubber posted:

Well if you got a better idea I'm all ears. All these bogus ER trips are killing my boudoiget (sexy times budget).

A real pro can get it down to 2 months, easy

Helios Grime
Jan 27, 2012

Where we are going we won't need shirts
Pillbug

MissEchelon posted:

A real pro can get it down to 2 months, easy

The important bit is to keep the pressure up for your soon to happen demise but keeping it far enough away to be able to have sex without causing suspicion.

That is where the guy above failed. smh

Ouhei
Oct 23, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

ArbitraryC posted:

I agree with this but we've had people pile onto gaps that were better than this when the genders were swapped so it feels a smidge unfair to have this be the example where we rally around the autonomy of the younger party.

e: like I swear last week we had something like 26 F and 34 M and it was just a page of "don't date older men".

I think people judge differently when the problem in the post is related to the age gap, rather than her ex being a giant poo poo bag. An age gap is harmless so long as the relationship itself is healthy, it's just that larger age gaps are more prone to issues (often involving the older party being either really immature in some way or manipulative). She only mentions that her relationship is making her happy, so there's no real reason to harp on her for dating a dude half her age. As far as her ex goes, I'm like 95% sure she can take legal action against him for what he's doing. Aside from vanilla online harassment, he's following them around and now he's apparently sharing some racy photos of her which could fall under revenge porn laws depending on what the pictures are.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


quote:

My gf [18] shares everything with me [23m] but her chocolate bar...

submitted 5 minutes ago by DeliciousChipetpet

I know it sounds childish and stupid. We have a strong bound, we share everything; money, food exculiding chocolate, clothes, loans that we made even before our relationships. Yet when it comes to a chocolate bar, she is a one selfish bitch. She even threatens me to brake up when i ask her for a nibble. I don't get why she has a line when it comes to a chocolate. Please help me to get over it.

Any comments to rationalize her behaviours will be appreciated :)

tl;dr: Gf is a good girl, shares everything but chocolate.

Thanks in advance :)

that's the saddest thing i ever heard

quote:

[21/F] My bf [19/M] spent 400$ on himself for Valentines day and 0$ on me.

submitted 13 minutes ago by acatisnotacat

I've been with "Jason" for 9 months. We're in a LDR, I live 45 minutes away, and I take the bus down to see him every second weekend.

Jason straightup told me he hates Valentines day, because hes been single every year on Valentines day so as a result he thinks its a stupid holiday, while I take Valentines day (And all holidays) seriously and I love giving and receiving things, even if its just a card with a message written in it.

Him and I got in a small argument about V-day last weekend, we weren't gonna see each other on Valentines day because its not on a weekend so I wanted to celebrate last weekend. He told me he refuses to celebrate it with me because XYZ reasons, and I told him that its not fair to me that he's just calling the whole holiday off altogether because HE has been single every year and HE is bitter and HE is this and HE feels like that, and I told him its not fair for him to completely disregard my feelings about the whole thing. I told him this is a relationship, which means thinking of not only himself, and I wanna work out a compromise where we're both happy in the end and not just him.

He refused to budge, and kept repeating. "I think Valentines day is a stupid holiday."

I even suggested doing something un-Valentines day related like just going out for sushi with one another instead of exchanging gifts and he still refused. I told him I don't even need anything expensive I'd at least like a card, or even a hand made card with something meaningful written in it. He still refused.

He then told me he's "too broke" to get me anything, even a card, and hes too broke to do anything so after that I just gaveup. He blew through all his student loans on YuGiOh cards, videogames and takeout food so his mom had to bail him out by getting him a loan from the bank so hes on a strict budget and all that so yeah, I guess he is broke. I dropped the subject, and he promised to make it up to me when he had more money. I went and took him out for dinner, because part of me felt sorry for his financial situation and part of me felt wrong about not getting him anything, and I then got him a stuffed bear holding a heart that said "Mon Amour" (He's French so he thought it was sweet) and even though I felt bad about not getting anything, I felt good about at least getting him something.

And then I find out yesterday that he went out as soon as I left on Sunday and bought himself a 350$ 3DS and like 100$ worth of games. I. Was. Livid. I texted him a very very long angry paragraph that basically said something along the lines of: WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! YOU TOLD ME YOU WERE TOO BROKE TO EVEN GET ME A 2$ CARD BUT YET YOU HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO GO BUY YOURSELF A 400$ GAMING MACHINE?!?!?!?!? ARE YOU SERIOUS RIGHT NOW IS THIS HOW MUCH I MEAN TO YOU!? Except with more swear words.

He told me "Well I suddenly realized that I had enough money for these things so I bought them." and then for the rest of our conversation he basically kept acting like what he did was no big deal, I'm overreacting, he doesn't understand why I'm angry, blah blah blah.

I'm seriously considering taking a day trip to the city to breakup with him. I really am. All I wanted for Valentines day was one card with something sweet written in it, and he couldn't afford to spend 2$ on me but yet he has more than enough money to spend on himself. I'm livid. I'm so mad I haven't texted or messaged him in almost 24 hours. He hasn't noticed or really seemed to care, probably because he's too busy playing Pokemon.

Is there any way to make my boyfriend see how WRONG this entire situation is? Or am I really overreacting? This whole thing is making me feel sick... Part of me feels like he's not worth my time but the rest of me feels like I'm being selfish.

tl;dr: LDR BF told me he was too broke to get me anything for valentines day, he couldn't even afford to get me a card, but went out and spent over 400$ on a 3DS and games for it. Told me it was no big deal, he had the money for these things and that I'm overreacting. I'm livid because all I asked for was a card and he apparently couldn't afford that BUT he could afford to spend 400$ on himself.

Edit: Added a paragraph.

lmao

Bubblyblubber
Nov 17, 2014
3DS boyfriend clearly has his priorities in order, well done him.

Who the gently caress spends student loan money on Yu Gi Oh? I'd understand hookers and blow, but that's really out there.

EDIT: Forget Christmas guys, Valentine's Day truly is the most magical time of year:

quote:

Me [24 M/F] with my Girlfriend [24 M/F]; We've been together 1Y 5Mo and she questioned my pre-valentines day flowers and i'm pissed
Relationships
submitted 11 hours ago * by throwaway785433

Hi,
So I decided to surprise my girlfriend today(February 13th), the day before Valentines day, with flowers at work. They were expensive and she got them without a hitch and told me how much she loved them and me.

Here's the kicker. She comes back later in text and asks me if I got them today because they were cheaper. I was kind of shocked she asked this(there was NO DISCOUNT) and she claimed her co-worker told her that. I questioned her why she would ask unless it bothered her and she was stating now how her friend too wanted to know why I got flowers the day before Valentines day.

I kind of blew up because it really bothered me that I went out of my way to send her a gift today and she questioned if I was trying to be cheap. She then tried to say how her manager wanted to know too and it seems like the story keeps changing on who asked.

I explained to her how I felt unappreciated and she stated how I was making her sad and it wasn't her intention to come off that way and how I'm making her look bad. I tried to frame it for her to understand and asked how she would feel if she gave me a gift today and I told her my friend saw that online 50% off but she is just avoiding it.

I had planned to give her a custom made flower tomorrow from her favorite movie which is why I did the real flowers today.
Was I too harsh?

tl;dr: Girlfriend questioned my intentions on sending her flowers to work today. I got pissed and blew up in text. Was I in the wrong?

Bubblyblubber fucked around with this message at 13:57 on Feb 14, 2017

ravenkult
Feb 3, 2011


what a dumb lady

Helios Grime
Jan 27, 2012

Where we are going we won't need shirts
Pillbug
Wonder if she could settle for an engagment ring that is less expensive than 3 paychecks.

Also Flowers are overrated.

54 40 or fuck
Jan 4, 2012

No Yanda's allowed
Why the hell would flowers be cheaper the day before valentines? That's prime ripoff day.

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

Bubblyblubber posted:

EDIT: Forget Christmas guys, Valentine's Day truly is the most magical time of year:

quote:

Me [24 M/F] with my Girlfriend [24 M/F]; We've been together 1Y 5Mo and she questioned my pre-valentines day flowers and i'm pissed

lol i get the feeling she's going to be spending the next gift giving holiday learning that the cheapest gift is not receiving one at all, on account of being dumped

people who get bent out of shape about gifts are The Worst

54 40 or gently caress posted:

Why the hell would flowers be cheaper the day before valentines? That's prime ripoff day.

i wonder if this lady would have been mad if she found out he took advantage of a valentines day promotion or used a coupon or something, lmao

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound
I know a guy who faked a brain tumor to get people to feel sorry for him. Yes, he's a giant piece of poo poo.

Captain Yossarian
Feb 24, 2011

All new" Rings of Fire"
I bought my girlfriend flowers for valentines day to be delivered to her at work and now she's staying home with a sick kid so the flowers might be a day late .. That's my relationship post for the thread happy valentines day!

Ouhei
Oct 23, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

Don't bother with the day trip, just break up with him over text, he clearly doesn't give a poo poo so why should she?

Helios Grime
Jan 27, 2012

Where we are going we won't need shirts
Pillbug

Captain Yossarian posted:

I bought my girlfriend flowers for valentines day to be delivered to her at work and now she's staying home with a sick kid so the flowers might be a day late .. That's my relationship post for the thread happy valentines day!

Please post it onto reddit so we can actually comment on it and then get a derail because the almost same thing also happend to mirthless but with an added twist that makes it really dumb.

Yawgmoth
Sep 10, 2003

This post is cursed!

Bubblyblubber posted:

Me [24 M/F] with my Girlfriend [24 M/F]; We've been together 1Y 5Mo and she questioned my pre-valentines day flowers and i'm pissed
Good lord, :sever: "I got you flowers!" "cool! how much did they cost? I am only capable of gauging affection by monetary value, beep boop"

I dated a girl like this in college. She was a hideous person and from a chicago suburb. Coincidence?

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Man that flower thing is a new please dump the gently caress out of me signal but it definitely complies with standard dump me flag protocols.

As a person who knows people in the flowers business, they are a ripoff no matter when you buy them.

Cough Drop The Beat
Jan 22, 2012

by Lowtax

Bubblyblubber posted:

EDIT: Forget Christmas guys, Valentine's Day truly is the most magical time of year:

I ordered Valentine's Day flowers over the weekend and I confirm the delivery fee and overall cost is identical, no matter which day you choose. That woman is dumb as hell and very shallow.

Ride The Gravitron
May 2, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Bubblyblubber posted:

I just thought the 20 year old getting pissy at the 19 year old saying a retarded thing was funny, thread, I'm sorry.

Here's a crazy person as a forgive-me gift:

:murder: wife and gently caress co-worker. It's like a real life Disney story

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Mirthless posted:

i wonder if this lady would have been mad if she found out he took advantage of a valentines day promotion or used a coupon or something, lmao

She's already mad at him over of the mere unsubstantiated suspicion her flowers were not the most expensive flowers it was possible to buy

Barudak posted:

Man that flower thing is a new please dump the gently caress out of me signal but it definitely complies with standard dump me flag protocols.

As a person who knows people in the flowers business, they are a ripoff no matter when you buy them.

Reddit gets 'girlfriend mad her engagement ring didn't cost as much as a 747' posts on the regular so it's thoughtful this one didn't waste a fuckload of dude's time and money before getting down to business.

Beachcomber
May 21, 2007

Another day in paradise.


Slippery Tilde

Barudak posted:

Man that flower thing is a new please dump the gently caress out of me signal but it definitely complies with standard dump me flag protocols.

As a person who knows people in the flowers business, they are a ripoff no matter when you buy them.

Plausible chain of events: GF receives giant pretty bouquet. Co-worker jealous. "How", thinks co-worker/boss, "can I ruin this for her, thereby making myself feel better". Seeds of doubt planted. Couple hours pass. GF NEEDS to know before everyone goes home for the day. They're judging her boyfriend, she wants to defend him but doesn't know how!

None of this is in the text, but I've seen people go waaaaaay out of their way to ruin someone else's happiness, particularly at work.


Flowers by their nature are kind of a ripoff unless potted, but I have good memories of buying large bouquets of alstromeria for $5 in college from a guy with buckets on the sidewalk.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

Beachcomber posted:

Plausible chain of events: GF receives giant pretty bouquet. Co-worker jealous. "How", thinks co-worker/boss, "can I ruin this for her, thereby making myself feel better". Seeds of doubt planted. Couple hours pass. GF NEEDS to know before everyone goes home for the day. They're judging her boyfriend, she wants to defend him but doesn't know how!

None of this is in the text, but I've seen people go waaaaaay out of their way to ruin someone else's happiness, particularly at work.

sure there's a probably lovely third party somewhere in there but this devious scheme could be defeated by the girlfriend being any less petty a person than the coworker, and not caring. it doesn't really change the basic story any.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Beachcomber posted:

Plausible chain of events: GF receives giant pretty bouquet. Co-worker jealous. "How", thinks co-worker/boss, "can I ruin this for her, thereby making myself feel better". Seeds of doubt planted. Couple hours pass. GF NEEDS to know before everyone goes home for the day. They're judging her boyfriend, she wants to defend him but doesn't know how!

None of this is in the text, but I've seen people go waaaaaay out of their way to ruin someone else's happiness, particularly at work.

The fact she wont accept his answer and claims multiple people asked her doesnt align with this.

Like I said in the working thread, if you want to gently caress up valentines flowers forever just have your boyfriend come in on a random work day to drop flowers off at your desk in person. That shuts em up reaaaaaal good.

LethalGeek
Nov 4, 2009

Want some advice on how I [29F] can "come clean" to some new friends [32F, 34F, 34M, 38F) I've gotten close to over the last 6 months to whom I've been lying by omission.Non-Romantic

quote:

I know what I'm going to do, I just want to talk out the best way with some objective parties, I hope that's ok. I will change all names and fudge some irrelevant details just in case...not that I'm super scared anyone will recognize me, just like my anonymity.

I've been through some poo poo. There is no way to sugar coat it. 3 years ago I was married to the love of my life (Ben) with the most perfect human child that ever existed (Veronica) and I was 5 months pregnant with a boy. We were hit by a drunk driver at 5pm in the afternoon, my husband and daughter died on the scene, and I miscarried my son in the hospital later that night. I was otherwise physically "fine". It has not been an easy road. There were times when I'd have killed myself, except after losing my daughter, I'd never do that to my mom. I took time off work, I spent time with friends and family, I went to therapy almost every day, I grieved. I tried to go back to my old job, but it just didn't work. I don't blame my coworkers at all, but no one really treated me normally. With everything they did there was just this...pity. Every idea of mine is the greatest, every joke I tell is the best. When I walk into rooms people stop talking and focus on me, everyone wants to share my workload and help me out. They are doing what you'd think any wonderful people would do but it felt terrible. I wanted to move on with my life and feel normal.

6 months ago, at 29, for the first time in my life I moved out on my own, to a new state, I got a new job using no connections who knew me.

I moved to this new far away city and tried to recreate myself. I had always wanted to salsa dance so I started going to a salsa night at a bar and ended up seeing 4 people there frequently. 3 women and a man, Brenda, Donna, Kelly and Luke. Brenda, Donna and Luke were a few years older than me. Donna and Luke are divorced with no kids (not divorced from each other) and Kelly is the oldest and is married with 2 kids. I started seeing them at the bar every Thursday night and spending time there, but after a few weeks we exchanged numbers and got together for dinner. The rest is "history", we were fast friends and hung out about once a week, sometimes Donna and I would see each other more often because she was also single.

The last 6 months have been the best and and worst I could have imagined. I needed for people to treat me as a human. I needed to not see pity in their eyes when they looked at me. I needed them to be honest with me and not just tell me everything I did and said was the best ever because I've suffered enough. It felt great for a while. They called me out on my poo poo, they aggressively loved me, I felt so normal.

One weekend we went to the beach together. Kelly saw me in my bikini and exclaimed "ugh you bitch, you're so thin, that is the body of a woman who has never had a baby!" and laughed. She was complimenting me, I wanted to scream that my body grew the most perfect human that ever existed and that my breasts fed her for 13 months. I suddenly cursed my body for not having stretch marks when before it'd seemed to be a blessing.

Now Brenda has been dating someone seriously and they just got engaged, and is leaning heavily on Kelly and Donna since they've both been married and want advice. Sure she wants my advice too, as a good friend, but she doesn't want to hear about my wedding that I had poured my heart and soul into because she doesn't know it happened. But I guess I didn't think I'd become such great friends with these new people and want them to know more about me, and now I am looking for the best way to tell these people that I am a widow who lost a child and a pregnancy along with her husband. I've known them for 6 months and we've gotten so close in so many ways.

I don't say this to sound bitchy, but I also know that I'll get a pass. No one will be mad that I haven't told them yet, everyone will understand, I just want to tell them in the least dramatic way, and to make sure they fully understand my reasons and that my intentions for lying by omission were selfish, but good.

tl;dr: Want to tell my close friends of 6 months that I lost my husband, daughter and a pregnancy 3 years ago and have lied to them about it by omission since we met.

quote:

tl;dr of first post: Want to tell my close friends of 6 months that I lost my husband, daughter and a pregnancy 3 years ago and have lied to them about it by omission since we met.

So I really want to first take a moment to talk about how awesome my experience in this sub has been. I knew that I wanted to tell my friends the story of my past, and I knew they would react pretty well, and I knew they'd be supportive and we'd remain close friends. I really just didn't know how to bring it up after SIX months. I don't know if I expressed it in my first post, but 6 months is kind of a long time, I feel so close to these people in so many ways, so mostly it was just weird to me to not be able to casually mention my family. I absolutely still have days where it's hard to get out of bed and I just want to be left alone to cry in the dark, but so many times I think of happy memories with my family, and adorable things Veronica did that I'm reminded of and I want to be able to pepper those into my conversations. I struggled with HOW to tell people. One on one? Big group dinner? Email? So I actually emailed them all the day after my first post here and invited them over for dinner the next night if they could make it on short notice. I said to please bring their SOs, but told Kelly I'd explain later why I think she shouldn't bring her kids this time. Honestly I was just afraid she'd get really upset and wouldn't want her kids to see her like that. She couldn't get a sitter, so her husband stayed home with the kids, but Brenda and Luke brought their SOs, and I made a huge pot of chili and some cornbread. I feel like they sensed something was up, because honestly I thought the odds of them all being able to come with one day's notice was unusual.

They showed up early evening, we sat in my living room (tight quarters!) and had some wine, and then I started. I'm an awkward person, so I basically said "I have some big information about my past that I really want to share with you. It's not something that I share with everyone I meet and it's hard to bring up, but now so much time has gone by and I feel so close to you all, and I really want you to know this part of my life. I think it'll be emotional for you all to hear about, and I think it'll slightly change our dynamic for a while, but I'm also really excited to share this with you." A couple of the girls were already teary. I didn't know if they'd googled me and already knew what I was going to say, or if they could just sense the emotion in my voice. I wanted the next part to be really blunt and not beat around the bush and first set it up so they wouldn't see where I was going. I said, 3 years ago my husband, 2 year old daughter and I were in a car accident when I was 5 months pregnant. My husband and daughter were killed instantly, and I lost the son I was carrying, but was otherwise physically okay.

Everyone was silently sobbing at this point, including me. I told them why I moved away, why I wanted to start fresh, and why now I needed them to know my story. Kelly got up and came over and sat on the floor by my feet and cried into my lap for a while. I stroked her hair and told her it was okay, and that her kids are the first kids I had contact with since Veronica and it genuinely gave me so much joy to be around them, and that the only thing I would change is that I'd like to share stories about our kids, talk about what Veronica liked to play with or the "words" she would say, diaper rash. We were all still crying, but there was a lot of smiling and joking too. I tried to break the ice a little bit with Kelly and said "you know what this means right? I have had a baby and still look hot in a bikini!" We giggled, she said OMG I can't believe I said that, I said I take it as a compliment and assured them all I would not hold anything against them they said previously that in the light of this new information could now be seen as offensive.

It wrapped up so neatly like a goddamn sit com! I mean, they are good people and I knew it would. With all I've been through I'm choosey about who I let into my life and I could tell they were good people who would react well, but they've also all been friends for SO long, it always kind of feels like I'm the new kid and we aren't on equal footing. I am glad I told them all together though, instead of telling them individually. I honestly don't think I could have handled that emotionally, going through it took a lot out of me.

Brenda actually said that when we first met and she was looking up to see if I had Facebook, she came across a headline about my accident but didn't click on it because the headline was so horrific and she assumed it was just someone with the same name. We finally ate chili around 10:30. I do think they'll tread lightly around me for a while, but I also think this is going to bring us closer. And I don't intend to bring my family up often, but I'm glad now I can share stories about my wedding planning, childbirth, breastfeeding, etc. I never wanted someone that I could cry to about missing my family. Honestly....that's mine and mine alone. I still go to therapy, so I'm not keeping it inside, but it just doesn't work for me to express my grief over my loss to others. Thanks for helping me talk this out Reddit.

Thank you to those of you who sent me PMs sharing your own losses or just wishing me well. I could not have had this particular conversation with anyone in my real life. You were really here for me. That means a lot.

tl;dr: I spilled my guts to my friends and it went as well as I could imagine. I think it'll bring us much closer.
:unsmith:

(gently caress VD)

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.
My wife would get mad at me if I got her flowers that weren't marked down somehow.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

My [19F] manager [25M] had unlocked my phone and was recording a private video of me and my partner onto his own phone, and I caught him

quote:

Apologies for any formatting issues as I am on my phone. I'm also sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, but I didn't know where else to go.

I work in a retail store with different departments. This involved the manager of my specific department.

Today, he suggested that he, I and the other colleague working our department go and help out on another department, since we were finished for the time being, and the other department was short staffed. This was nothing new, and happens a lot. We all went down there and worked together for a bit. He disappears; I assume he's just been called elsewhere, and think nothing of it.

I had left my phone to charge in the office, which I haven't done before today. I was running very low though and needed it to last. I did hide it, but I understand it was stupid of me to leave it like that.

I finish what I'm doing before I'm due back, but I head back anyway. I go into the office to check my phone and find my manager with my phone in one hand, his phone in the other. I had approached close enough as he noticed me to see that he had his video recorder running on his phone, but he had managed to close my phone. His hands were shaking violently. For clarification, I didn't know that he knew my password.

I asked why he was on my phone and what the hell he was doing. He claimed he was just taking a picture of my Pokemon on Pokemon GO to send to a friend on snapchat. I then asked why would unlock my phone just for that, why didn't he ask, and why were his hands shaking? He says they aren't shaking, but they are, and really violently.

I unlocked my phone and he had closed the app so it was on the home screen. So I looked at my open apps list, and there, open, was an extremely private video of me and my partner (I don't wish to elaborate, but I hope you can fill in the gaps :/). He had been recording this private video to his own phone.

I freaked out and ran off to the staff area and to the toilets. By this point I was crying hysterically and a manager of another department had seen me run in there. She came to ask if I was okay, what was wrong, I said at the time I couldn't say. She said that was fine, and to go home if I needed to. She suggested I get a drink and some fresh air.

I went outside, and my manager was out there. He pleads with me to talk to him, that he's really sorry, trying to grab me etc etc. I told him to leave me alone and do not touch/talk to me, and walked outside the car park as far as I could without leaving the site. He thankfully didn't follow me. I called my friend to pick me up, went back inside to collect my stuff and left.

I called my boyfriend as soon as he got off work and he urged me to call the store manager and report him. My friend is saying to do this too.

I'm worried about reporting him because I feel like it will destroy my friendships with other colleagues who are also good friends with him, and I don't want to do that, but I also know that I can't go back to work with him anymore. It feels like a lose-lose for me. I like my job, besides what happened today, and I don't want to lose it, but I feel like if I don't leave and report him, I'll be driven out.

I'm sorry this is all so jumbled but my head is a mess. I'm so worried and mortified and upset. He had texted me apologising saying he'd deleted the video he took, but how do I know this? What if he took more than one video? What if he distributes this? That's not only damaging to me, but my poor partner too. What if I let him get away with it, and he ends up doing it to someone else? I can't trust him. I don't know what to do. I feel so violated.

My boyfriend is going as far to suggest police. I don't want to do that. But I have to do something.

Does anybody have any advice on how to go about this? Again, I'm sorry for how jumbled and ridiculous my words may sound but I can't think straight.

Thank you all

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Lady, the Granos signal is lit.

new phone who dis
May 24, 2007

by VideoGames
Morbid Hound
The big lesson of the 2010s will be to cease using your phone as a gently caress camera. Buy a separate camera, people! One that doesn't connect to the internet automatically!

Ouhei
Oct 23, 2008

:minnie: Cat Army :minnie:

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

My [19F] manager [25M] had unlocked my phone and was recording a private video of me and my partner onto his own phone, and I caught him

Absolutely report his rear end, at least to work if not the police too.

A Wizard of Goatse
Dec 14, 2014

a Valentines post

My [20F] GF loves me [21M] and i love her but she has emotionally blackmailed me twice, very badly. How healthy is my relationship?

quote:

Hi all,

Im having a 2 year relationship with this amazing girl. She got the looks, the brains and we have an healthy amount of stuff in common. She treats me very well and I also treat her very well. We spent a lot of time togheter, at least 4/7 days a week and we have been looking to find a appartement togheter and plan to share a backaccount. Besides that we have friends in common and our parents also like us and eachother a whole lot.

But, here comes my problem. She is incredibly controlling and not in a way i think i can handle it any longer if it continues. We are both in college and she is doing her study a little quicker than i'm doing. Because of this, she can freak out of exams i didn't pass or when im not studying hard enough. It isn't an angry freakout but a very concerned freakout. She also can get very concerned if i go out late, go to parties or just hang out with friends.

This has escalated two times because i had plans for that evening. I was at home and ready to leave to go to friends, she stabbed my car tire with a knife so i couldn't. I wasn't aware she did this so after a quick tire change i still went. That same night we had planned to spend the night togheter, she told me she had done something very wrong and after a while told me about the tire. I didn't get angry i just got confussed and went home to sleep alone. She told me the next day she was very sorry and didn't know why she did this.

The second time, i left her house because i didn't feel like sleeping with her (i've had sleeping problems which are thankfully fixed). She was so upset i couldn't stay with her that she locked me up with her and hid the key. Fortunatly she wasn't smart enough to remember i had a spare key and as she needed to go to the toilet i left to go home. She called me when i was home to say sorry and she didn't know why she locked us up, she was very upset and wanted me to come over again to calm her down. Obviously i didn't feel like doing this and she hold her breath (mentally) until she fainted. I was absolutly shocked she could do this. I called paramedics to check on her and the day after she apologized for everything.

After these events we talked very much about it. She told me she loves me so much she couldn't think of me not being around. We are both very stubborn people and because of this we argue a lot. This never escalates but she told me several times that she would rather die than see me leave her. This only happens if i don't agree with her on something and thats where the controlling part is most visable. Only when i totally do not agree with her she can lose her mind about it. I'm sometimes afraid of what she could do to herself when i don't agree with her, but this has never been a reason to agree with her as i am my own person with my own mind and perspectives.

Even though all of this has happened I still love her. But here comes part two, i met someone else. So there's this other girl i've met, just to clarify i haven't done anything that could be considered cheating, great girl, real fun to be with. I've had an instant "click" with her and she told me she had the same with me. We both have agreed about not meeting on purpose because we think it's not fair towards the fact i still have a girlfriend and she has a boyfriend, but we sometimes run in to eachother.

She had made me wonder about my current girlfriend and i am really uncertain what steps i should take at this moment. My GF is great, but she does have some kind of problems which can lead to really bad situations. And this other girl just made me realize there are so many other fish in the sea.

you'd think this would gradually build up into the actual issue but lol

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

new phone who dis posted:

The big lesson of the 2010s will be to cease using your phone as a gently caress camera. Buy a separate camera, people! One that doesn't connect to the internet automatically!

Hahaha you think people learn things.

People still fall for Nigerian email scams and we've known about those for over a decade.

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Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
Goddamn it.

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

Ouhei posted:

Absolutely report his rear end, at least to work if not the police too.

Police? Police???

Lol, this is sexual harassment, in the workplace, by her direct superior. She's got a golden ticket. It's time to get a lawyer.

I mean, yeah, notify police, but c'mon

Mekchu
Apr 10, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

My [19F] manager [25M] had unlocked my phone and was recording a private video of me and my partner onto his own phone, and I caught him

I don't think I'd want to stay friends with a guy who rifled through his employee's phone for her gently caress video. So why she is worried about upsetting the coworkers who are friends with him is beyond me. gently caress that douche.

Psycho Society
Oct 21, 2010
Well at least if he goes with the other girl he won't get confussed any more.

Also houses don't generally lock from the inside so he may just be making poo poo up.

Gloryhold It!
Sep 22, 2008

Fucking
Adorable

Ouhei posted:

Absolutely report his rear end, at least to work if not the police too.

Jesus Christ yes. He went in to a locked phone and downloaded personal sexual videos of an employee without consent and then tried to grab the female employee afterwards. Lied out his rear end too. That is like 9 levels of sue his rear end.

Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

A Wizard of Goatse posted:

a Valentines post

My [20F] GF loves me [21M] and i love her but she has emotionally blackmailed me twice, very badly. How healthy is my relationship?

quote:

But, here comes my problem. She is incredibly controlling and not in a way i think i can handle it any longer if it continues. We are both in college and she is doing her study a little quicker than i'm doing. Because of this, she can freak out of exams i didn't pass or when im not studying hard enough. It isn't an angry freakout but a very concerned freakout. She also can get very concerned if i go out late, go to parties or just hang out with friends.

oh hey she's just concerned about his grades and wants to make sure he succeeds, sometimes people kind of need to have their hands held to make responsible decisions and maybe it isn't her problem how he spends his time bu-

quote:

This has escalated two times because i had plans for that evening. I was at home and ready to leave to go to friends, she stabbed my car tire with a knife so i couldn't. I wasn't aware she did this so after a quick tire change i still went. That same night we had planned to spend the night togheter, she told me she had done something very wrong and after a while told me about the tire. I didn't get angry i just got confussed and went home to sleep alone. She told me the next day she was very sorry and didn't know why she did this...

...The second time, i left her house because i didn't feel like sleeping with her (i've had sleeping problems which are thankfully fixed). She was so upset i couldn't stay with her that she locked me up with her and hid the key. Fortunatly she wasn't smart enough to remember i had a spare key and as she needed to go to the toilet i left to go home. She called me when i was home to say sorry and she didn't know why she locked us up, she was very upset and wanted me to come over again to calm her down. Obviously i didn't feel like doing this and she hold her breath (mentally) until she fainted. I was absolutly shocked she could do this. I called paramedics to check on her and the day after she apologized for everything.

:catstare:

Psycho Society posted:

Well at least if he goes with the other girl he won't get confussed any more.

Also houses don't generally lock from the inside so he may just be making poo poo up.

I would absolutely believe somebody this crazy would have a door that could lock with a key from the inside, lol

I like how on the fence he is about whether or not this relationship is worth continuing, I mean, jesus christ dude she slashed your tires, how forgiving can you possibly be?

Gloryhold It!
Sep 22, 2008

Fucking
Adorable

Psycho Society posted:

Well at least if he goes with the other girl he won't get confussed any more.

Also houses don't generally lock from the inside so he may just be making poo poo up.

Apparently in some countries they do.

Pvt.Scott
Feb 16, 2007

What God wants, God gets, God help us all
Happy Saint Valentine's Day, thread!

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Mirthless
Mar 27, 2011

by the sex ghost

Gloryhold It! posted:

Jesus Christ yes. He went in to a locked phone and downloaded personal sexual videos of an employee without consent and then tried to grab the female employee afterwards. Lied out his rear end too. That is like 9 levels of sue his rear end.

Yeah, just breaking into her phone is a criminal matter, and that doesn't even go down the rabbit hole of the layers of sexual harassment. This is the kind of situation where legal settles immediately because they don't want it to end up in the news.

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