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pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Ugly In The Morning posted:

One of my friends in college ended up with some dude buying her a new iPod. Not a nano or shuffle, one of those 60GB ones. I told her “he’s into you, big time, to like seriously unhealthy levels” but she was kind of oblivious and sheltered and insisted that he was just a really good friend.

I think it was about six weeks until I was telling her “I told you so” while he had a giant meltdown.

Even doing that too early in a relationship is a screaming red flag.

"Happy 2 month anniversary here's a diamond tiara like the one you like from that movie!"

Slightly later

"You can't break up with me I spent so much money on you!"

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pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Xenocides posted:

I (27F) might break up with my boyfriend (25M) for beating up a guy who was sexually harassing me. The ordeal resulted in a gun pulled on us. Am I right in doing this?

So me and charlie (boyfriend) and a few other friends went to this bar, and me and my girl-friend were out smoking in front when some guy went by and this guy came up and did these like smooches at us when walking by, and my friend said "eww gently caress off" and then he went up to us and was like "what did you say girl?" and put his arm around her. She pushed him away and he was laughing with his friend who was behind him, then he tried putting his hand on my shoulder and said "what about you?" in a flirting manner and i grabbed his hand from my shoulder, and then he put it back there. It was creepy, to say the least.

Then, out comes my boyfriend with this TERRIFYINGLY loud, booming deep voice, going "WHAT THE gently caress ARE YOU DOING GUY" and the guy who was harassing us got up in his face briefly, and then my boyfriend literally grabbed him upwards by the collar and WWE style smashed him on the ground like he was a ragdoll. Then he punched him, fast, 4 times in the face. The other friend pulled out a pistol and aimed it at my boyfriend and said "dont loving move, dont loving move" and he just walked backwards slowly until he was out of sight, while my BF had his foot on the other guys chest on the ground. When the other guy was out of sight, my BF quickly gave another punch to the guy on the ground.

Anyways, I was yelling and screaming the whole time in fear. We all just got up and left the area, the guy on the ground bleeding out of his face.

I'll be honest, I was loving furious with my BF, and I still am. I am from europe where poo poo like that DOES NOT HAPPEN. You call the police if somebody is doing what that guy was doing, you don't beat them up. Not to mention I got a gun aimed at me, something which I never thought could ever happen in my life, even if I am in america.

I told my boyfriend he was a loving moron, and that we should have called the cops, and he just laughed and hugged me and said "if we called the cops, they would arrest me for assaulting that guy, you dont know how cops work here" and I just couldnt believe that was his excuse. Maybe dont assault the guy in the first place??

anyways, we have been dating for only 4 months so like, its mostly a new relationship. I think he thinks I should be greatful he protected me but I am kind of bitter at him, who is that bravado macho man that they just beat someone up like that? poo poo like that just doesn't happen, at all, where I am from.

Idk, I am really rethinking a relationship with a man who gets into fights with people like that. I really like him but I feel like he is just loving stupid if he is fighting people over anything. Police exist for a reason. Taking 'things into your own hands' is just not what you do where I am from, it is something brutish idiots do.

Should I break up? Can someone idk, explain why he would do that? Is this an American thing? It all seemed so loving wild.

tl;dr: Boyfriend beat up a guy who was sexually harassing me, I am thinking of breaking up with him.


The best comment:

I promise you, most rational people everywhere in the world would just call theo cops in this situation, not escalate it by getting physical. Your boyfriend showed a horrible lack of maturity with his actions and if you two have only been together for 4 months, this definitely seems like more than enough drama to end the relationship.

Anyone who initiates a conflict like this with a full on physical escalation probably has a wardrobe full of Ed Hardy shirts and tries to starts fights the second anyone cross them. 99% chance he uses the words "alpha male" on his social media profiles.

He's going to beat her at some point, either from jealousy or rage over her disagreeing with him.

Also, calling the cops in that situation is probably tied with what happened for "what will have the greatest chance of someone being shot"

pentyne fucked around with this message at 18:47 on Jan 11, 2020

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

DemoneeHo posted:

My SO thinks a regular massage is cheating

Can't you just default assume that any immediate leap to cheating for any life situation is either raging red flag insecurity or projecting their own infidelity?

It's not even like "she'll give you a hand job" its the idea that a women would be capable of a task that the man somehow enjoys regardless of being non sexual. Will she freak out if he visits a female hair stylist because he finds combs through his hair enjoyable?

Her then clinging onto the idea even after he says he'll get a male massage therapist is pretty telling that she's a compulsive cheater or she assumes he'll cheat at the drop of a hat.

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Pirate Radar posted:

This isn't a WIBTA post, and it shouldn't be, because the answer would be "gently caress no"

quote:

It's a complicated story, but what my family and I have worked out over the, nearly 9 years, is that he was a high functioning sociopath who, as my Mum quickly found at when he left, owed £125,750, mostly brought on through scamming business, families and maxing out credit cards. My Mum was taken to court, the house was seized, I had a mental breakdown and we nearly ended up homeless and we spent the next 5 years on the poverty line.

Now it is 2020, a lot has changed, my family is back on it's feet having only £12,000 left to pay, and the Government taking pity on us and not chasing us anymore.

Wait, so if the father had been the one scamming people and maxing out cards, why is the mother the one being taken to court and why were they paying off the $125K for the next several years?

Does the UK have some arcane debtor's law where when you commit a bunch of financial crimes and skip town the govt goes after your immediate family like they committed the crimes?

pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Midnight Voyager posted:

Maybe related to real estate? My family lost a solid family surveying business when all that poo poo went crazy and it sounds exactly like what he's describing.

It was a one man business so it could be something as basic as tree removal and stump grinding.

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pentyne
Nov 7, 2012

Bruceski posted:

Venmo is like Paypal but without the web integration. It's just folks through the app sending money to each other. As far as I know the app's not shady, but last I heard it was treated like sending cash so if, for example, someone got ahold of your phone and sent themselves your bank account's contents Venmo wouldn't do anything to help.

A while back there was a convoluted post in legal advice about a guy claiming he was robbed by an escort who also accessed his phone and sent $2k from his account to hers and what were his legal options.

The vast majority of responses were "you learned an expensive lesson" with a follow up of "lock your drat phone you moron"

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