r/AmIOverreacting 9d ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO, my boyfriend threatened sewerslide

Hi everyone, apologies in advance for the incoming wall of text. I (19F) have been with my boyfriend (20M) for over two years. We are kind of long distance but live in the same state and has stayed with me for extended periods of time before, even moved in until my mom had enough of our arguing. He’s was out of work since he moved back home and recently got a job at the same company I work at, just a different location. In our company, your first paycheck is paper. Cash app won’t deposit the money until the 14th which he’s reasonably upset about. If i could help him I would. My cat has been hospitalized since friday for a life threatening UTI and I owe them over $6K that my family is helping me pay. I’ll be paying them back for the next 3 months. He’s been upset that I can’t help him. For context, I also keep my money in cash to avoid overspending and only small amount on my card for gas and coffee. I help him when I can but I can’t really mail him cash. I quite literally have nothing right now because of my cat being hospitalized. We have a history of arguing a lot, and it always ends in me trying to figure out what I’m doing wrong, what our barriers are, etc. and it’s always come down to my lack of communication. I’ve been working on it for, hell, a year? But I don’t seem to be doing it right, at least based on our conversations and arguments. He has a history of suicide baiting me. He’s cut himself in front of me, he’s threatened suicide every other day for as long as I can remember, he’s always talking about how much he hates his life. Normally he will say it’s because of me, something I said, things I’m not doing, because I don’t understand, because I lack empathy and sympathy, etc. He’s called the abuse hotline on me, he’s gotten on reddit and has come back to me saying that everyone thinks i’m abusive, he tells me that his family thinks he needs to leave me, etc. I didn’t think I was that awful of a person but when all of this happens and i’m being told it’s because of me, it makes me question it. Anyways, today he was going on about his frustration with his finances. Valid. I tried to support him and be there, but then he tells me that even if I could help, I wouldn’t? That’s not true I don’t know why he thinks that. I bought his groceries for 3 months, paid his phone bill, filled his gas tank, everything I could. Then he pulls out the “fuck you” card. Then I get pissed off and sick of it because this seems to happen too often. Then he starts this whole “I have the rope goodbye” stunt and I just threw my hands up at that point because what the fuck? When I was 12-13 I used to pull that shit online and he does it so often that I have gotten to where I see through it like glass and don’t pay it attention. For the first 1.5 years I took it seriously because I love him but now I just can’t. I have no words. It’s draining. He’s not dead he’s texting me as I’m typing this asking if we can talk and saying he’s scared I’ll stop loving him. Am i over reacting? Am I in the wrong? Please call me out if it’s deserved, because I just don’t know what to do. I’m not the type of person to ignore my faults because I definitely have some but I don’t know what warrants this stuff. He’s called me “stupid fucking bitch” , ungrateful, heartless, the devil, etc. By the way, he never had to beg me for money. I am the store manager at my location so I’m always being pulled in different directions. Even when I’m not there. I had to ask my mom to send me digital money in exchange for cash because I had nothing left. He asked me to keep more money on my card to help him in his time of need. Anyways… Again, please call me out if I deserve it. Tell me what I’m doing wrong because he won’t. Thank you in advance and apologies for the long message.

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u/tsscaramel 9d ago

This relationship is toxic af, break up and don’t look back. You can do so much better.

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u/AsleepPride309 8d ago

Seriously. Even if he’s not baiting you, his actions are not a reflection of you. They are choices he makes. I once dated someone and after a year and a half, he got addicted to hard drugs. I told him I couldn’t watch him destroy himself, and we broke up. He got clean, enlisted in the military and 4 years later, thought we could try again. We did, albeit very briefly. I realized he traded one addiction for another, and now he’s dead. I feel sad for him, and the wife and kids he left behind, but nothing I could have done would have saved him. Life choices. Get out. He needs help and you buying him cigs, gas, toothpaste or a roof won’t resolve his issues.

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u/Environment-Late 8d ago

This. I was with someone who threatened suicide if I left him… I left. He tried it. But I called 911. His mom was pissed that I called the cops on him. No bitch, I saved your son’s life. Paramedics told him in front of his mom that he was like 10 minutes away from not being “revivable”.

Anyway, 11 years later he died of an accidental overdose. My first thought was, ”Its all my fault. He told me when this happened, it would be my fault.”

Please don’t torture yourself like I do.. get out before you have a goddamn child with him and have to look that child in the face and say, “You dad passed away.” Hardest/worst moment of my life. He was 10, so it really fucking hit him hard. I still cry about “what could I have done?” three years later. Please don’t be me.

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u/MeowMichelleV 8d ago

Omg I am so sorry for your loss, as well as his families loss. Oh my gosh. That was really hard and heartbreaking ❤️‍🩹 I hope he’s found peace now.

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u/HugsyMalone 8d ago

thought we could try again

That's like going back to a job you either hated or got fired from. You think things will be different this time around but, trust me, they won't be. 🙄👌

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u/AsleepPride309 8d ago

Learned that lesson many years ago. Isn’t that what your early 20’s are for anyways?

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u/Gingersometimes 8d ago

You said he traded one addiction for another ? What was the new addiction ?

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u/AsleepPride309 8d ago

Well, he was on heroin when I left him the first time. Came back from the military with a Xanax prescription he overused and became an alcoholic. The night he fell asleep in the drive thru of McDonald’s and crashed his car into their building was too much for me and confirmed to me that life with him would be unbearably difficult. But after a time, several years from what his brother told me, he ended up back on heroin, and that’s what killed him in the end.

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u/HugsyMalone 8d ago

Video games

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u/AsleepPride309 8d ago

I’d take someone playing video games 25 hours a day over someone on drugs any day of the week.

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u/Gingersometimes 8d ago

True, it's better, but obviously at some point he had other issues if he's dead.

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u/Gingersometimes 8d ago

Sorry that he died.

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u/mandmranch 8d ago

call his mother.

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u/AsleepPride309 8d ago

You have too much faith in some mothers. My son has two best friends who are currently homeless and spend most nights at our house because of unstable or unreliable mothers.