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Clark Nova
Jul 18, 2004

bring that goon who yelled "dumbledore dies!" at the book release party out of retirement for one more job

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Hughlander
May 11, 2005

I WANT MY FAINCÉ TO GET RID OF HIS 5 YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER!

quote:

Please keep me anonymous. I need some advice from your followers
My 32 year old faincé has a 5 year-old daughter, her mother passed away when she was giving birth to her. He has been raising her ever since he lost his wife, with the help of his family of course. I am now in the picture and we're going to get married in 2023 and I'm 6 months pregnant with his son. I'm not the stepmother type, so l know I won't treat his daughter the same way I will treat our son. To be quite honest, she annoys me! She looks exactly like her mother so she constantly reminds my faincé of his dead wife and she is very attached to her daddy which makes me afraid that my son will not be able to bond with his father because of her. Basically I want to tell my faincé to get rid of her, she can live with her grandparents or we can find her a nice couple that wants to adopt a child. I don't know how to approach the situation but I need to find a way to convince my fiance' to get rid of her.
I'm not a bad person, I'm just trying to look out for my and make sure that he will get all his father's attentior he deserves. Please help!!

Really leaning into the evil stepmother there. Can’t wait to hear about the divorce.

Arsenic Lupin
Apr 12, 2012

This particularly rapid💨 unintelligible 😖patter💁 isn't generally heard🧏‍♂️, and if it is🤔, it doesn't matter💁.


Update to "my boyfriend is a pedo because he explained periods to his younger sister, who he's the guardian of".

quote:

posted originally in another sub, can repost here because of rules. Another redditor suggested i post her for advice. Original post is on my profile but here is a summary of what happened.

My now ex basically is parent (mom and dad) to his 3 younger siblings. Their parents are the definition of dead beats.

Je moved out at 18 and has been taking care of them ever since.

He had a talk with his 12 year old sister about her period because she woke up one morning and her period started. He calmed her down and took her through the talk. I flipped out and told him he is a disgusting pig because no brother should know that much about his sister body and he just told me to leave.

​Current events

​I went to his house to apologize to him and his little sister, the 16 year old was there as well, she slapped me and shouted at me calling me vile names.

My now ex got her to stop and sent her to her room along with the other siblings.

I wanted to apologize but before i could even start he told me to keep my mouth shut and listen.

He forgave me before i even asked for forgiveness but said what he can't forgive is the fact that i basically turned his little sister against him and making her doubt his intentions.

It took him almost the full day to get her to talk to him and she only talked to him after the 16 year old assured her that he did nothing wrong and only want to help her like he help her.

His exact words was, you turned one of my children against me that is something i can't and will not forgive. You are dead to me, now get the fck out of my house.

He said it with so much anger in his voice and i could see in his eyes that he absolutely hated me in that moment, i was actually scared for myself in that moment

I have talked to some of my friend about this but I'm loosing friends as well even my own sister is now refusing to talk to me.

Yes in our house my father had nothing to do with our periods and my mom handled everything. What should i have done. I taught he did something wrong, i can see I'm in the wrong but still why am i being punished for this.

His words really hurt me, that is not fair. I didn't even get a chance to explain myself or anything after he was done talking he again just kicked me out of his house.

I am blocked everywhere and can't get ahold of him, i even tried his sister phone but I'm also blocked there.

How can i fix this relationship?

The other sub made me understand i actually had a diamond of a man and that i was wrong

I want him back, what can i do to get him back?

​Edit:

I know now i was wrong, i truly do.

I don't want to dismiss my actions but that is how i was raised.

Our father had nothing to do with our periods all


Her last comment:

I love him and i know he still love me to, just watch i will get him back and all of you will be sucking it.

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD

John Wick of Dogs posted:

"Doctor", says JK Rowling. "You've got to help. A fan of my Potter books has lost touch with reality and thinks the books are real."

"Have perfect solution" says doctor. "Have her read books of fiction by Robert Galbraith. Transphobic piece of poo poo author with terrible prose. Literature so bad she'll lose interest in books altogether."

"BUT DOCTOR", says Rowling

She also loving hates poor people. Characters who do not speak in received pronunciation or Southeastern accent have their dialogues written phonetically, which is like her way of saying "look at these loving poors and their ridiculous language lol". She also loving hates fat people, but that was in HP too. .

Just a really loving nasty and hateful person overall.

Tarezax
Sep 12, 2009

MORT cancels dance: interrupted by MORT

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Update to "my boyfriend is a pedo because he explained periods to his younger sister, who he's the guardian of".

wow this lady is delusional

Pookah
Aug 21, 2008

🪶Caw🪶





Hughlander posted:

MY FAINCÉ





???

Malachite_Dragon
Mar 31, 2010

Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Update to "my boyfriend is a pedo because he explained periods to his younger sister, who he's the guardian of".
"Just you all watch, I'll un-explode this nuke that I set off through my own stupidity!"

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD

Hughlander posted:

I WANT MY FAINCÉ TO GET RID OF HIS 5 YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER!

quote:

I'm not a bad person

Lmao okay if you say so lol.

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Update to "my boyfriend is a pedo because he explained periods to his younger sister, who he's the guardian of".

I called my bf a paedo and didn't even get to explain to him why I think he's a paedo. Why am I being dumped??? How is this fair???


Lol

Clark Nova
Jul 18, 2004

Hughlander posted:

I WANT MY FAINCÉ TO GET RID OF HIS 5 YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER!

Really leaning into the evil stepmother there. Can’t wait to hear about the divorce.

FYI if you are an advice columnist and you get this with the heading “please keep me anonymous” you are morally obliged to post a picture of the fucker’s drivers license

Temperus_Maximus
Feb 13, 2012
My [28F] Husband [32M] is cheating on me with a green-haired anime girl. What am I supposed to do here?

quote:

My [28F] husband and I have a generally good relationship, I am a SAHM for our two infant children a boy and a girl and we have been together for ten years. My husband has always been a nerd, hangs around nerds, etc, has always been into anime, video games, etc and he is a software engineer and is an overall good father and husband. I'm not into the same stuff but I don't mind watching stuff occasionally with him and letting him engage in his hobbies and I would say our relationship is good overall.

Anyway the last six months or so I've noticed our relatively healthy sex/dating life has been going down and I have tried to remedy it by being more kinky in the bedroom asking him what he likes, even offering to do a few things we had not done before but he said it was fine and there was nothing more I could really do because he enjoys it. I thought okay maybe this distance is not because of sex but because I haven't been spending enough time with him so I even offered to go to an anime convention with him and the kids which he said nah you do not have to do that for me. I figure okay, he's been under a lot of stress lately, maybe I just need to endure this.

Recently he has begun to be more suspicious, distant with his phone and his personal computer and I am not a dumb woman I was not born yesterday. I was beginning to suspect a possible affair and while I am not proud of it I went snooping through his phone, files, and computer. I found a folder labeled "my love" and opened it to see thousands of pictures of this seductive looking green haired anime chick with purple eyes and big boobs sometimes long hair sometimes short in lots of lustful poses, though I should mention all of them were clothed and albeit sometimes what I would consider scantily like bikinis. No actual sexual porno stuff at all and trust me I looked through every thumbnail and a lot of pictures. I looked up a folder named "commissions" and I find what looks to be an anime version of my husband going on dates and poo poo with her and even marrying her???? Again nothing sexual just all romantic sappy poo poo.

On his phone I found this application called Discord and look through his dms and find this thousands of lines conversation between him and the same anime girl profile picture where he is flirty and romantic with her but still nothing sexual. I flipped out at first thinking maybe this was some real woman using the profile pic or something and doing roleplay with him but it is actually just an AI bot apparently?

I'm not new to Reddit so I know people will ask what anime or game she is from I look up the name of the character based on some file names and she is a girl from this popular japanese rpg thing called trails of cold steel and trails of reverie there that solves your sick curiosity. Her name is Musse Egret and she's like some kind of genius magical girl sniper or something I don't know? Do men like that kind of woman?

What the gently caress am I supposed to do about this though? He's (emotionally I guess since there are no sexual pictures or content at all?) cheating on me with some 2d anime girl? Has anyone on the planet gone through this poo poo? I don't even know how to approach him about this. I would ask my girlfriends but I think they would laugh at me for losing my man to a loving anime girl...

God bless the OP for knowing what we all want. Also r/relationships: she's like some kind of genius magical girl sniper or something I don't know? Do men like that kind of woman? is sadly too long isn't it?

ed: Top comment really nailing it:

quote:


I have no advice here, I just want to say I’m sorry that you have to figure out what to do here at this time of your life.

Temperus_Maximus fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Mar 16, 2024

dervival
Apr 23, 2014

i guess she couldn't compete with his musk(et) fetish

canyoneer
Sep 13, 2005


I only have canyoneyes for you

Hughlander posted:

I WANT MY FAINCÉ TO GET RID OF HIS 5 YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER!

Really leaning into the evil stepmother there. Can’t wait to hear about the divorce.

If she was talking about pets she'd be a jerk, but she's an actual monster talking about people

Farg
Nov 19, 2013
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/kiseki/images/0/0e/Musse_Egret_%28Sen_III%29.png/revision/latest?cb=20220517013458


blowing my life up to date an anime high schooler with a gun

Tarezax
Sep 12, 2009

MORT cancels dance: interrupted by MORT
Reading up on her, she tries to seduce the protagonist, so her whole thing is being a homewrecker lmao

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Update to "my boyfriend is a pedo because he explained periods to his younger sister, who he's the guardian of".

I don't want to be That Guy calling posts fake, but ye gods do I hope this is fake, because that last line is kinda freaking me out. Sure, it might just blow up in OP's face, but I just can't shake the feeling that it might escalate into something really bad.

wizardofloneliness
Dec 30, 2008

CommissarMega posted:

I don't want to be That Guy calling posts fake, but ye gods do I hope this is fake, because that last line is kinda freaking me out. Sure, it might just blow up in OP's face, but I just can't shake the feeling that it might escalate into something really bad.

There is no doubt in my mind that one’s real because the OP is just so genuinely stupid. That kind of thing is hard to fake, she is so stupid it has to be real.

Hughlander
May 11, 2005

AITA for throwing away my daughter's toys?

quote:

Hi, so for context, I (47M) have a daughter (19F), her mother (40F) and I divorced when she was 8 years old, and she has been living with me and my wife (38F) for the last couple months as her bedroom is being renovated

With that out of the way;

So my daughter has got settled into our guest room, and as a result she spends most of her time in there, which I find a little disappointing as I was looking forward to spending time with my daughter and I was looking forward for my two younger sons.

Now a couple nights ago I called my daughter down for dinner, she came down and grabbed her plate and started to go back to her room, I have a policy that dinner is eaten as a family, so I told her she has to eat her dinner with us, she said she's an adult and she's playing a game with her friends.

I told her that it's my house and therefore my rules, so she either eats dinner with us or doesn't eat the food intended for the family. My son's really like my daughter and I don't like her setting this example that I find to be quite rude.

She said "alright fine" and put her plate back and went back upstairs, 40 minutes later there's a knock at the door which my daughter answers, she ordered pizza, she walks into the dining room and takes a bite of her pizza while staring at me and then goes back to her room. This understandably upset me, and my sons thought this was funny.

So I head upstairs to her room and I walk inside and I go straight into the closet, as that is where the router is and I unplug it, but while I'm in there I notice she has two adult toys hidden away. Furious I grab the two toys and throw them in the bin.

My daughter followed me throughout this, yelling at me, and the moment we get back inside and within earshot of my two sons she shouts "you're a loving rear end in a top hat".

She scolds me and says that it was wrong for me to throw away two private things of hers that she bought with her own money.

I remind her that it's my house and therefore she has to follow MY rules.

She says she's an adult and she thinks she should be allowed to have private time without me barging into her room.

(Even though it's MY guest room)

She goes back into her room and slams the door shut, I wanted to go after her but my wife then asked for a word.

Shockingly, my wife took my daughter's side and said that I am in the wrong for 1. Not knocking. 2. Turning off the internet and 3. Throwing away her belongings

Eventually we go to bed

I wake up and my daughter is not in the house and neither is a lot of her stuff. She's left.

I find out this morning that she went to her friend's house, and she's refusing to talk to me, her mother eventually finds out and calls me and scolds me.

TL:DR, my daughter, when staying with me and my wife and two sons, disrespected me by disobeying house rules, and had inappropriate toys in my house, I threw these toys away and I'm apparently an rear end in a top hat for it.

So, people of Reddit, Am I The rear end in a top hat?

Father of the year with a shocked pikachu face for why his daughter is moving out. Bonus points for even his wife/her stepmother thinks he’s an rear end in a top hat but he’s got too much authoritarian “My house ; My rules” to see it.

Johnny Truant
Jul 22, 2008




Clark Nova posted:

bring that goon who yelled "dumbledore dies!" at the book release party out of retirement for one more job

drat I didn't know that was a goon, hell yeah

Vim Fuego
Jun 1, 2000



Ultra Carp

Shanghaied posted:

Lmao okay if you say so lol.

quantumwell
Jun 22, 2013

Hughlander posted:

AITA for throwing away my daughter's toys?

drat, there I was getting ready to be mildly irate about him throwing old Barbies and Bratz dolls away only to get really irate at his lovely parenting.

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

Hughlander posted:

AITA for throwing away my daughter's toys?

Father of the year with a shocked pikachu face for why his daughter is moving out. Bonus points for even his wife/her stepmother thinks he’s an rear end in a top hat but he’s got too much authoritarian “My house ; My rules” to see it.

:clint:: My way or the highway!
:v:: I pick the highway.
:clint:: ...wait, that was an option???

Roleplaying Dad
Jan 23, 2005

Invisibilityrific

Hughlander posted:

AITA for throwing away my daughter's toys?

Father of the year with a shocked pikachu face for why his daughter is moving out. Bonus points for even his wife/her stepmother thinks he’s an rear end in a top hat but he’s got too much authoritarian “My house ; My rules” to see it.

Not to mention the subtle hints of trying to force a relationship between her and his sons (but they just find her rebuff of their dad hilarious).

the holy poopacy
May 16, 2009

hey! check this out
Fun Shoe

Roleplaying Dad posted:

Not to mention the subtle hints of trying to force a relationship between her and his sons (but they just find her rebuff of their dad hilarious).

I suspect the relationship he wanted to force was specifically babysitter/maid :ssh:

rotinaj
Sep 5, 2008

Fun Shoe

Hughlander posted:

AITA for throwing away my daughter's toys?

Father of the year with a shocked pikachu face for why his daughter is moving out. Bonus points for even his wife/her stepmother thinks he’s an rear end in a top hat but he’s got too much authoritarian “My house ; My rules” to see it.

Hey dad

Why, uh

Why’d you get divorced

Does it have anything to do with your new wife and perhaps why your daughter has extremely little respect for you

Shanghaied
Oct 12, 2004

BIG PAD
AITA for suggesting the my adult daughter doesn't NEED her own room in our new house?

quote:

I will try to make this quick. My wife and I have 7 kids. The oldest is hers from her first marriage and is a 21 year old junior in college in another state. She has a great relationship with her dad and is his only child so she has her own room at his house and currently has her own room at our house. She is not coming home this summer but will come home for winter break in Decemeber. It is unclear what will happen after graduation next year.

Then we have two 16 year olds (one boy, one girl), a 15 year old son, a 14 year old son, a 13 year old daughter, and a 10 year old daughter. We were living comfortably in our home but took in the 16 year old girl and the 14 year old boy from the foster care system about a year and a half ago in order to keep them together. It has gone pretty well and we decided to upgrade to a 6 bedroom house. We found a good fit in our price range. Our thought process was we get bedroom 1, all of the high schoolers get their own rooms, and then the younger two girls share. There is a den and we figured the 21 year old could sleep there when she is home. We talked to her about this and she shut down. She called back later and said she thought it was "kind of cruel" that we were kicking her out. We told her we weren't. She would still be welcome in our house and if she wanted to sleep in the den she could but if not her dad lives 5 minutes away and she could sleep there. We currently have a room for her in our 5 bedroom house and that means all 3 teen boys are in one room. That is not sustainable. She called her dad and he told us it was hosed up.

She's an adult though. She won't be home this summer. She splits her time between our home and her dad's home when she is on breaks from college. If all goes well she will get a job after graduation and won't be home anyway. She may not even live in our state after graduation so it feels silly to keep a room for her and force teenage boys to share. But I figured I would ask Reddit. So AITA?

Edit: To clarify some things, the den is NOT a common area. It is in a separate spot of the house with doors that lock. She would have that space to herself when visiting.

She wants to share with the 16 year old. The 16 year old, like most 16 years olds with trauma, wants her own space. We do not want to force a 16 year old who has had a rough life to share her room when none of the other high school aged kids have to, especially since having her own space means a lot to her. Before living with us she shared a bed with her brother and then was in a group home where she shared a room with 2 other girls. She has had bad experiences with sharing and craves her own space. And yes, she is in therapy but years of trauma is not healed through 18 months of therapy. It takes time.

Edit 2: I didn't want to mention this because it is not very relevant but since most of the comments are making wild assumptions, only the 16 year old boy is my bio son. The oldest is technically my stepdaughter and the other 5 are adopted. So for the people suggesting I treat my bio kids better, there is only one and he is currently sharing a room with 2 brothers while the college aged one has her own room that she never uses.

The consensus is NTA, but reddit being reddit still a surprising number of YTAs. Figures.

Chef Boyardeez Nuts
Sep 9, 2011

The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.
She did follow his rules!

"Eat with us or you don't eat our food."

:ok:

Neito
Feb 18, 2009

😌Finally, an avatar the describes my love of tech❤️‍💻, my love of anime💖🎎, and why I'll never see a real girl 🙆‍♀️naked😭.

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Update to "my boyfriend is a pedo because he explained periods to his younger sister, who he's the guardian of".

One of my favorite genres of stupidity is "Clearly you're not getting it, if I can just explain myself more, you'll see that you're the moron for being mad at me" style posting through it. "Look, I know I screamed at you that you were a paedophile and poisoned your relationship with your sister, but if you'd just listen to me, you'd realize this was your fault, really."

Hughlander posted:

AITA for throwing away my daughter's toys?

Father of the year with a shocked pikachu face for why his daughter is moving out. Bonus points for even his wife/her stepmother thinks he’s an rear end in a top hat but he’s got too much authoritarian “My house ; My rules” to see it.

"My way or the highway" types are always surprised when people choose the highway, and it never gets old.

BOOTY-ADE
Aug 30, 2006

BIG KOOL TELLIN' Y'ALL TO KEEP IT TIGHT

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Update to "my boyfriend is a pedo because he explained periods to his younger sister, who he's the guardian of".

:lol: Good luck, idiot…really hope the ex gets a RO against her

Neito posted:

"My way or the highway" types are always surprised when people choose the highway, and it never gets old.

It’s great, the authoritarian types always assume their “underlings” don’t have a support system to combat their bullshit. Seeing them flail & freak out when they lose control is just :allears:

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Update to "my boyfriend is a pedo because he explained periods to his younger sister, who he's the guardian of".

Can't wait for the next update tentatively titled "AITA for Violating a Restraining Order?"

This guy should seriously get one against her, if he hasn't already, because she is nutso.

SulfurMonoxideCute
Feb 9, 2008

I was under direct orders not to die
🐵❌💀

I get so drat infuriated when parents think kids don't deserve privacy, or autonomy, or any form of basic respect. Until the kids peace out and move on to a better life, then it's loving hilarious.

Clark Nova
Jul 18, 2004

hope that guy is getting lots of advice on what to do with his stolen dildos

BrigadierSensible
Feb 16, 2012

I've got a pocket full of cheese🧀, and a garden full of trees🌴.

FMguru posted:

Via r/OhNoConsequences:

AITA For refusing to let my mom see my 2 months old daughter after she disowned me?


When I disowned you, I didn't mean disowned disowned! Stop being so unreasonable!

Marrying a single mother who is not "that much" older than him seems to me to be an insanely harsh and weird reason to disown someone. Especially to the point where you get tj family to gang up and say "You are no longer welcome in any of our houses."

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy

BrigadierSensible posted:

Marrying a single mother who is not "that much" older than him seems to me to be an insanely harsh and weird reason to disown someone. Especially to the point where you get tj family to gang up and say "You are no longer welcome in any of our houses."

Grandma didn't want grandkids that weren't hers by blood. See how she's going crazy over the new baby? Also the poo poo about "a biological connection." I imagine their family has some lovely ideas about adoption/stepkids.

Midnight Voyager fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Mar 17, 2024

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

BrigadierSensible posted:

Marrying a single mother who is not "that much" older than him seems to me to be an insanely harsh and weird reason to disown someone. Especially to the point where you get tj family to gang up and say "You are no longer welcome in any of our houses."
Per the story, the family was semi-arranging to have OP marry a proper young woman in the church, and OP really rebelled when he married an older divorced woman from outside the faith. Presumably the reason they want back into OP's life is to make sure the grandchild is properly churchified.

odiv
Jan 12, 2003

Probably not interested in joining her church, too.

Edit: yeah, that.

Midnight Voyager
Jul 2, 2008

Lipstick Apathy
Probably both of the above. A black hole of lovely ideas from lovely people.

trickybiscuits
Jan 13, 2008

yospos

quote:

Dear Amy: I am a manager at my job.

Last June, a new employee transferred from a different unit. She was very upset the first couple of days. She also had a fear of reporting to her new supervisor (not me) because she thought she “looked mean.”

I explained how I manage and how our team works. She was appreciative.

She started bringing me breakfast in the morning. I asked her to stop several times, but she continued to bring me food gifts and other types of gifts, leaving them on my desk. This was completely unwanted.

Again, I asked her to stop, but this continued.

In December, she got promoted. I was elated because she would be gone from my area and I wouldn’t have to deal with it anymore.

However, she has started to visit my office when I’m not there and leaving me little gifts. Again, I asked her to stop.

Last week she made a surprise lunchtime visit to my office, which is in a totally different building on a different side of town.

She drove all the way over to where I work to “say hi.” I told her I appreciated this, but that I needed to get back to work.

She said she felt disrespected and then wrote me a very long email saying that she didn’t understand why we couldn’t be friends and was wondering why I keep rejecting her.

She also said she believes that I am intimidated by her and that I am jealous of her self-confidence, that I’m jealous of the things that she does, the way she carries herself, and the fact that she’s younger than me.

She has sent me notes and letters where she said that I’m very fragile, saying that she knew that I needed her to take care of me.

I just don’t know how to get this lady to leave me alone.

I’m a straight woman and not into her at all. I don’t need any more friends.

I feel like I’m being stalked. The sappy, needy emails and letters that she writes are just too much for me.

I am tired of this. What should I do? Should I go to HR?

– Manager in Texas

quote:

Dear Manager: Yes, you should go to HR immediately. You probably should have gone a long time ago. This person seems to be “single white female-ing” you (look it up) – becoming more manipulative and obsessive over time. You have attempted to get her to stop several times, and she has not respected your reasonable boundaries.


Print out every communication she has sent you and go to HR right away. You don’t know if she has behaved this way toward other people in the company, but her behavior toward you seems to have taken a menacing turn, and it is alarming.


ugh

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually
That story from a few days back, where the woman comes home drunk at 2am and calls her worried boyfriend who waited up a loving loser who couldn't get a real job, got an update (which is sadly lacking in fireworks, alas).

UPDATE: I messed up really bad and said something awful to my boyfriend when I was drunk and don’t know how to fix it

quote:

So I’ve been meaning to write this for four days but I have just been completely wiped of all emotion bandwidth. My boyfriend is working hard at his job right now and is racking up some overtime so I figured I’d take a moment to post it

First off, some information I left out of my prior post. In case anyone didn’t notice, I don’t respond well to alcohol. I have no dependency on it, but my self control and decision making is really not good when I’m drunk and I just get extremely vicious and it brings out the absolute worst in me. On that same note, I had a group of coworkers who have been wanting to celebrate a promotion one of us got for the past two months and Sunday was the first time any of us were free, so we were just gonna have a Sunday afternoon chill that was gonna end before 10. However, one bad decision led to another and we all just collectively stayed until 2am with drinks.

Second, I said what I did out of an annoyance/upset I had with him regarding some financial decisions over the past two years that we’re now reaping the “benefits” of (long story that frankly doesn’t matter because its not about that). I’m still a little unhappy about it and I expressed that in a very unhealthy manner. I’m so proud of him for finding a job and trying to provide for us.

Now for the update, I read through the comments all afternoon and then I wrote down a map of the things I wanted to say and waited for him to get home. Additionally, I got in contact with my old therapist and he was able to squeeze me in for the following morning so I called out of work the next day to meet him.

My boyfriend finally came through the door and I asked if we could talk, and he said I could but he also had some things to say. I started by saying I had no idea what to say to express how sorry I am except that I shouldn’t have said what I said and I love him and admire him for how hard he works. I also told him that I was going to stop drinking and I had an appointment with my therapist the next day. I also emphasized how much I appreciated how he waited for me and helped me get to bed after I came home and how he absolutely didn’t deserve what I said.

He told me that I actually covered the bases of what he was going to say. He said he was very hurt by what I said but throughout the day he was thinking and said it was so out of character for me he actually started to get worried. Both of his parents were alcoholics at one point in his life but got sober, and he told me he was going to tell me I needed to quit drinking and see a therapist or anger management counselor or else he couldn’t stay in this relationship. I told him I thought that was a very fair and sensible boundary and I would do my best to do whatever I could.

Then he asked if I could be honest and asked me if I meant what I said. I told him I was being purposely vicious because it came from a place of frustration, but I was intentionally trying to upset him so I said something terrible things. He said he’d love to talk to me about that “place of frustration” but then wasn’t the time for it. But he told me that he forgave me and was really happy and admired that I’m taking the right steps to make things better, and we had a lovely long hug.

Then I had a really emotional appointment with my therapist and I told him everything that happened, and he helped me map out my feelings and how to express them to my boyfriend. The appointment when great and I have another next week, but he thinks I should look into seeing a psychiatrist because I may very well have an undiagnosed mental health condition. That’s the next step, definitely. On Wednesday, I had a sit down with my boyfriend where I expressed the frustrations and he told me my feelings were valid and frankly he still kicks himself he didn’t start a new job earlier too because then his credit card debt probably wouldn’t be so high, and he talked about how he’s always felt like he let me down with his financial decisions being unemployed for such long periods of time. I won’t get into it any further but we had a really productive conversation.

So yeah. We’re taking steps and are openly communicating with each other and it looks like we’re gonna be okay. We’ve been snuggling together at night and this morning we even showered together before he went to work. I have some trust issues so I’m still very anxious he’s going to come back and be like “wait actually no, I don’t forgive you” but he’s promised me he’s going to be open with how he feels (which he has been).

I think we’re gonna be okay :)

tl;dr: I apologized to my boyfriend and we agreed I was going to go therapy and get sober in order for the relationship to survive, and we’ve been discussing our feelings a lot in the last few days and I think we’re gonna be okay.

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Hughlander
May 11, 2005

AITAH for kicking out my brother and nephew because he played a dangerous prank on my daughter?

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My brother and his son Eli (9) recently got evicted because my brother lost his job. My wife and I took them in because we have more room in our house than my aging parents have in their condo. My wife and I have a daughter Naomi (12). Now, my brother considers himself a jokester, and it was funny when we were kids, but in my opinion it’s immature at his age. He’s passed this onto Eli, which is funny since he’s nine. Eli’s favorite prank is hiding other people thing’s.

Naomi is deathly allergic to many common things, so having an epipen on hand is absolutely necessary. Two weeks ago, Eli hid Naomi’s epipen and she freaked out. She wasn’t having an allergic reaction at the time, but still. The thing is, the epipen was on a shelf which Eli is too short to reach. My brother admitted to helping Eli with his “prank”, and I chewed him out about it. I told him that if he or Eli hid Naomi’s epipen again, I’d kick them out. I explained how Naomi could die without it, and my brother seemed to understand.

Last week, Naomi actually did have an allergic reaction and needed her epipen and it wasn’t where she’d put it. Eli rushed up to the guest room to get it, and thank goodness we were able to inject her before it got really bad. After I was done helping my daughter, I told my brother to get packing. He said that I wasn’t being fair because Eli had stolen it on his own this time, that it was just a prank, and Eli’s just a little kid, etc.

Pretty much everyone is pissed at me because my parents really don’t have that much space for two extra people in their home. They’re calling me heartless for kicking them out over a kid’s prank.

Brother next time: So she died, I mean it was just a prank dude!

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