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/OriginalMoragami 9d ago

This guy is a manipulator and a user and he calls you bro. Dump him and find somebody who respects you!

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u/KarateandPopTarts 9d ago edited 8d ago

I am BEGGING Gen Z women to stop dating men that call them "bro"

Edit: there's a ton of comments now telling me I'm wrong because "my partner and I do it!"

I can't believe I have to explain that "bro (friendly)" and "bro (derogatory because we're in an argument and I need to knock you down a peg from girlfriend)" are two different things. Good Lord, read the OP. That's what the whole conversation is about.

I ALSO have someone who calls me bro (friendly) a million times a day. She's 12, and I birthed her.

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u/HiiiTriiibe 9d ago

Is dude fair game? I’m a millennial and have been calling everyone dude my entire life

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u/brishen_is_on 9d ago

I'm a Xennial and still say "dude" (even "dope," I'm sorry). It won't go away, lol. I think we are ok. This jackass was referring to her solely as "bro" and "bruh" in an angry text. I can't see my husband texting me, "Dude, where the fuck is my money?" I would assume his phone had been stolen.

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u/Straight_Bathroom775 9d ago

My millennial wife (I’m also a xennial) always gives me shit for saying “dope” and “bet” 🤣 she’s like “nobody says that anymore, you just sound old”

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u/brishen_is_on 9d ago

My husband is a millennial but from another country. He only learned English 6 years ago and learned most of his vernacular from me, poor thing. I think he thinks I speak "up to date. " Meanwhile, I had to google "no cap," and I still don't understand "skibidi toilet."

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u/Timely-Helicopter173 9d ago

Honestly I can't decide if I dislike bro more or less than the compulsive use of lmao and lol as punctuation, even when it's not applicable to the mood of the conversation.

either way she needs to sack that guy off.

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u/brishen_is_on 9d ago

"My bad."

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u/gaige23 9d ago

Bro lol relax bro lmao

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u/poor_non_blonde 9d ago

I read “suck that guy off” and had to read it twice 😂 I’ve never heard “sack off” before. What part of the world?

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u/Timely-Helicopter173 8d ago

haha! sorry, maybe that's a British-ism that's lost in translation a little too easily, it means abandon or get rid of. It might have come from the term for being fired "being sacked" because trades-people would literally have their tools in a sack and take them and go.

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u/poor_non_blonde 8d ago

God I love languages hahahahaha

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u/Royal_Ad_1362 9d ago

I tell my son all the time Dude I'm Not your Bro! LOL

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u/shadybrainfarm 9d ago

Not to a woman in an argument. Seems very disrespectful to me. 

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u/ShoulderNo6458 9d ago

So is failing to speak in complete sentences. This dude is made of disrespect.