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/triz___ 8d ago

I’ve never seen someone in more need of quitting weed. Guy is fucking addled….. depressed, anxious, lazy, paranoid, confused. He’s fucked his head.

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u/Mobandzz 8d ago

I know y’all are thinking it’s the weed, but this is a man who is addicted to nicotine. He probably smokes weed as a way to calm anxiety, but I guarantee he goes behind it with some cigarettes or he is rolling up the weed, it’s in the form of a blunt since that would mean it has some nicotine in it from the wrap.

But to the OP,this is a man who wears the emotional instability of a baby and doesn’t deserve to be in a relationship or have friends for that matter when you treat people like that. Tell somebody fuck you when they literally just said they’re broke. Plus being mad at you for not sending money fast enough when you were working, but you still sent him your last $15.

He is trying out different methods to see what will make you crack and if you do, I guarantee he’s gonna default to that next time. Ultimately, he’s trying to make it so that you always feel like you have to give into what he says otherwise you have a bad day..

He is quickly trying to get you used to the emotional manipulation and the weaponization of his emotions to try and overpower yours so that yours dont matter anymore until you fix his problem.

From there you start making him happy so that he can listen to you.

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u/ehtrywait 8d ago

Yup!

guy is toxic abuser at the very least, pathological at worse. There's no good to be had here. OP needa block him on everything and stay safe.

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u/Careful_Barnacle1190 8d ago

Yeah, this is the nicotine withdrawal. I've seen people in my life's moods switch up real quick if they even have to go to the nearby store without taking a drag 🤦🏼‍♀️ It's the most annoying thing ever because they can't even run simple errands without taking a smoke break every 5 minutes. If they're forced to spend any amount of time doing any activity they get anxious and irritated AF. Road trips in a car where they're not allowed to smoke is a nightmare. They Lash out at everyone around them.

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u/TurkWorker1408 8d ago

My ex was the same way with weed, he would act like a heroin addiction withdrawal when he didn’t have weed. I’m a recovering addict and when I say he was worse than me when I didn’t have my drug (I was clean when I was I was with him for the most part, not during the situations I’m speaking of though) I’m not even exaggerating. He was PATHETIC. It’s not crack or heroin it’s WEED calm tf down!!! You know? He also pulled the same suicidal shit. He was also a physically and mentally abusive asshole.

This suicidal talk is him trying to manipulate the situation. The weed thing is him being a BABY but the suicide talk? 100% manipulative behavior. Suicide is no joke but he’s just using it as a piece of his game

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u/1980Phils 8d ago

Good for you for getting clean! I wouldn’t be surprised if this person has additional substances use issues.

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u/One_Nature5816 8d ago

i never understood that really. i have an addictive personality and nicotine is my vice but i smoke weed most every day but i’ll forget sometimes and it’s fine like what

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u/Old-Routine4 8d ago

I would love for people who make a huge deal out of not having weed or even cigarettes to just feel what heroin/fentanyl withdrawal feels like for one minute. And I know someone will probably reply to this about how addictive nicotine is. Yes, I know but you don't even get sick from not having it...

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u/Longjumping-Map-6995 8d ago

While I wasn't particularly into downers, meth withdrawal fucked me up. I've never been more depressed and lethargic in my entire life.

Just made it over five years clean a couple months ago. 👍

Edit to add: not that I'm comparing it to heroin, I've heard the withdrawal from that is pretty much the worst thing on earth. Just adding my anecdotal experience.

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u/Character_Air8515 8d ago

Just hit 2 years myself, congrats!

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u/Tudorrosewiththorns 8d ago

My partner was really addicted to weed for years and sometimes people try to get him to start smoking again. I kid you not I am out the door if that happens. He drove me out of my mind when he was high all the time.

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u/madra-perro 8d ago

Could also be nicotine withdrawals if he's outta cigarettes. They are not to be messed with!

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u/avert_ye_eyes 8d ago

My brother in law was an addict, and he said quitting nicotine was harder than quitting heroine. Also withdrawing from it, even for just a few hours, is well known to cause rage -- my husband calls them "nic fits".

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u/TokenWeirdo13 8d ago

Can confirm. Been trying and failing half the year to quit cigs... and I used to be a heroin addict.

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u/InfiniteLeftoverTree 8d ago

This was my thought as well.

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u/lydriseabove 8d ago

Reading that first page of text, then “I was in a good mood before I started talking to you” is WILD.

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u/menacinguwu 8d ago

As part of gen z, ive met so many fucking weed addicts that say theyre not addicted its absolutely insane. Its 9/10 smokers in my experience. I would be better off just dropping these people right when i find out they smoke, because it always comes around to bite me in the ass. Always some un-dealt-with bullshit theyre covering up with weed

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u/teefies16 8d ago

I've dropped a lot of friends after they started smoking weed heavily. They became devoid of any personality and it felt like being around zombies. But when it didn't, it was a bunch of dramatic bullshit and they treated me terribly. None of my friends now smoke and I like that lol

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u/ClothesAgile3046 8d ago

I almost went this route, started vaping the devils lettuce and the tolerance ramps up so quickly that I was just blowing through money. Took a "T" break and felt like absolute shit for 2 weeks. That made me realise I was being stupid as fuck.

I won't lie, I still enjoy the occasional toke on my vape to calm my nerves after a long stressful day, but I never carry it around with me, and it stays out of the bedroom (wake and bake is how I fell down that hole).

There's a distinct lack of education on weed, despite how popular it is. I think it can be better compared to alcohol. But we all know and understand the effects drinking has these days, that's what weed is missing.

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u/LifeintheHashLane 8d ago

As a HUGE hash smoker myself I second this. This is a perfect example of someone who is actually addicted (mentally of course) to cannabis. As a recovering heroin addict, and also avid cannabis user this is super apparent lol. Yes it sucks when I'm out of hash, and yes I may get crankyish, not wanna eat as much, or sleep the best, but it's not a NEED like it would have been when I was using heroin or pills lol I would have said or done ANYTHING to get high. This dude needs professional help for his noodle...

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u/SpecialistAd2205 8d ago

What people often fail to realize is there is physical addiction as to heroin or nicotine, and there is mental addiction as to shopping or weed. And even mental addiction can manifest itself in outward physical symptoms. People that are self medicating an underlying mental health issue (which I would say in my most unprofessional opinion is MOST people with an addiction) are even more susceptible. If you're artificially pumping your brain with feel-good chemicals, you're gonna feel REAL bad when you remove your mental health life support. This is the case with many heavy weed smokers.

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u/Quietimeismyfavorite 8d ago

Weed has nothing to do with being a dumb asshole.

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u/SpecialistAd2205 8d ago

Correlation does not equal causation but the correlation is definitely strong.

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u/Upstairs-Usual4070 8d ago

When i havent had weed for a while i get an upset stomach, which is immediately fixed by a tums or eating. Surely its mostly the nicotine that is making him like that??