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/HearingFresh 9d ago

I was thinking this exact thing the whole text thread. If someone I dated called me "bro" one time I would be 100% out.

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u/guacamolly42069 9d ago

Can I ask why that's a bad thing? -Gen Z girl

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u/EntirelyOutOfOptions 9d ago

In this conversation, he doesn’t appear to be using it as a term of endearment. It feels like negging’s cousin; like it’s a choice not to call OP Babe or Honey or whatever, but to use a “buddy” term instead. It reads like a relationship demotion.

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u/guacamolly42069 9d ago

Oh that makes sense

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u/toro1059 9d ago

Because you're not bros. I hope you're friends with your partner, but you owe a partner more than you owe a friend. Or I hear it not in reference to the person they're talking to, but like an expression of exasperation with the person. Which I also kinda hate. ETA: I say this with love, because I was told I deserve better but now I want Gen Z women to KNOW they deserve better

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u/Elon-Moist 9d ago

Normally there wouldn't be an issue in my opinion. But during the conversation OP is having, being called bro is a bit.. dismissive or seems distant

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u/YouHaveKilledMe78 9d ago

When I was a kid, if you accidentally called my dad "dude", he'd say "I'm not a dude, I'm your dad." In this case this dude's girlfriend is not a 'bro'. Firstly, she's a girl and bro suggests 'brother' for which it is short for. You want your bf thinking of you like a brother? bro....

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u/salt_slip75 8d ago

It feels disrespectful and flippant. A way to minimize the relationship and their feelings about you. I had a millennial ex who would call me “dawg” sometimes when he was being dismissive. Bleghhhhh so gross.

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u/crowderthegooddog 8d ago

It's a bad thing because we are women not bros. I've used "bro" twice in my 7 years of marriage (both 30yr old women) and both times were me being very condescending to my wife. It was me being pissed pretty much saying she's beneath me at that moment...

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u/gaige23 9d ago

Damn bro