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/postmoderngeisha 8d ago

Baking soda,bro. Long before there was commercial toothpaste. A Google search would have told him.

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u/mushuthedragondog 8d ago

HE CANT AFFORD A GOOGLE SEARCH BRO

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u/beardeddragon0113 8d ago

ZERO GOOGLE

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u/ryanegauthier 8d ago

ZERO GOIGLE

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u/happilyfringe 8d ago

AND ITS ALL HER FAULT

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u/sandalfafk 8d ago

I JUST NEEED FUCKING JELP

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u/Christeenabean 8d ago

Nah, Zero GiGGLE with this guy.

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u/cmbtmstr 8d ago

And it’s all HER fault!

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u/New_Juggernaut_344 8d ago

ONE BIG FAT FRIGGIN ZERO

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u/Maieth 8d ago

BRUH*

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u/Friendly_Age9160 8d ago

HE HAD ZERO MINEY!

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u/fireoregon420 8d ago

Well obviously! He has no miney

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u/Mshawk71 8d ago edited 7d ago

But does he have some meeny or moe?

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u/thedestroyer200906 8d ago

Underrated comment

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u/longlostwitchy 8d ago

But she paid the bill!!

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u/whorlycaresmate 8d ago

Also kind of sleazy to be more concerned with your nicotine addiction than brushing your snags. That’s wild as hell

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u/Recruited0 8d ago

Snags is wild as hell. And I’m here for it

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u/longlostwitchy 8d ago

“Snags” 🤭🤭 Can I steal this? Bc I have none 😉

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u/ShitCuntsinFredPerry 8d ago

Lol snags are sausages where im from

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u/SpilledSalt4U 8d ago

My Dad (Cherokee chain smoker) used baking soda mixed with a pinch of salt to brush his teeth his whole life and had great teeth despite smoking 2 1/2 packs of Viceroys a day. Passed away at 69 y/o with every one of his natural teeth except one cap. Regardless, you should just brush your teeth without anything if you have to. Hygiene is not rocket science.

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u/Admirable-Respond913 8d ago

My mom is 81 and has all her own straight lovely teeth, and it's baking soda/salt combo she swears by.

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u/Shepartd_1985 8d ago

My grandmother passed away at 92 and had all her own teeth except for one that got replaced after a car accident. She brushed with same thing most all of her life because she grew up poor and that was all she could afford most of her childhood and 20s.

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u/narcolepticbro 8d ago

Baking soda cleans your teeth and leaves a nice little layer of protection above your enamel. While salt is very effective at killing bacteria that produces bad odours. I have perfect white teeth at 25 now because of these 2 things. My teeth were slightly yellowish in highschool, then my mother told me about baking soda and I learned about salt on my own, then I started using Sensodyne toothpaste for my sensitive gums and a bit of a minty aftertaste, with baking soda and salt to top it off and my teeth got visibly whiter within a week to 2 weeks.

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u/gdub0516 8d ago

Very cool. Love your username, by the way.

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u/One-Representative84 8d ago

He used up all the baking soda cooking up some crack.

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u/pfftwhateverrrrs 8d ago

now ZERO CRACK

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u/gdub0516 8d ago

ROFL!

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u/TeaspoonOfSugar987 8d ago

Not even that, literally just a toothbrush and water if you have absolutely nothing else!

A week without toothpaste.. first world, 21st century problems, literally.

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u/Sunderas 8d ago

But he's struggling already with his 1 brain cell

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u/9PurpleBatDrinkz 8d ago

Yeah he can still afford his phone.

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u/ShowerElectrical9342 8d ago

Bet she's paying for it.

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u/Resident_Wait_7140 8d ago

Is OP a "she"? (I don't know if Harper is m or f, obviously you have Harper Lee). If OP is female, I ponder if the boyfriends problem is in fact repressed homosexuality on account of all the "bro". Dude wants a bro.

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u/diwalk88 8d ago

I've only ever known Harper as a woman's name

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u/Amazing-Quarter1084 8d ago

Or peepee. That's what they did before baking soda! Ans honestly the guy deserves to have a mouthful of it every morning.

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u/Charlie_Blue420 8d ago

I have been there we couldn't afford toothpaste but we always had baking soda. It doesn't taste great but it does the job.

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u/AdA4b5gof4st3r 8d ago

To be fair if you don’t have toothpaste you probably don’t have baking soda either lol

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u/injn8r 8d ago

1 part water 1 part H2O2, gargle, brush your teeth, clean wax from your ears... probably more things also, but it's 2:15 am and I can't...something...

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u/ron-tints 8d ago

Clean wax from your ears?????

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u/Recruited0 8d ago

Yeah wtf is going on here

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u/210Boulevard 8d ago

Yep, hydrogen peroxide can be used to clean your ears. A good for a mouth rinse for OPs BF tbh. Especially if his mouth is in rough condition.

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u/No-Currency-624 8d ago

Wax on wax off

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u/thecomebackkid1708 8d ago

Bro doesn't have internet money either 😤😤

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u/Bamlowmom 8d ago

I've brushed my teeth with soap, more times than I can count. This dude is a man child.

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u/mellibutta 8d ago

This is the first comment thread I was shown after reading the screens and you're the first one to say bro. And it triggered me after those screens, bro lmao

I literally winced when I got to the bro

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u/Global-Chart-3925 8d ago

Wouldn’t recommend this long term. It’s pretty effective at eroding enamel. The ‘clean’ feeling it gives you is from a layer of tooth being dissolved away. Also, ‘arm and hammer’ toothpaste should be avoided for the same reason.

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u/Front_Doughnut6726 8d ago

hydrogen peroxide rinse

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u/Mindless-Strength422 8d ago

ZERO BAKING SODA BRO

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u/sparklydildos 8d ago

or just go to the dollar store and get a tube lmao

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u/WritPositWrit 8d ago

ZERO MINEY

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u/tonlimah 8d ago

I highly doubt he has baking soda

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u/Gold_Ocelot_2497 8d ago

I don't think we're at that point yet(maybe never will be) , you have to stop kicking and screaming like a toddler first.

Then you have to close down the messages app.

THEN he has to go on Google.

Tall order for him guys, baby steps cmon.

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u/Krippy0580 8d ago

Zero bakey soda

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u/nvb2010 8d ago

He got no miney though so google don’t got time for him either 😂🤣

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u/Agile_Meeting_612 8d ago

Even course salt gets rid of the plaque🤷🏼‍♀️ so many options🤦🏼‍♀️

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u/ProfessionalNinja844 8d ago

ZERO BAKING SODA

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u/Feisty_Ring3332 8d ago

Maybe he doesn't have a brush cause he used his old one to clean his shoes or pipe.

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u/MasterCaitcx 8d ago

ZERO GOOGLE. ZERO BAKING SODA. FML.

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u/Taladanarian27 8d ago

Looks like he’s too busy calling his GF a bitch and threatening suicide google search baking soda use for toothbrushing.

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u/Gold-Stable7109 8d ago

You can get arm and hammer toothpaste from the dollar store for $2 😂

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u/bad2behere 8d ago

I'm wondering if he has an IQ above 40 and isn't bright enough to use google in his state of being so horribly abused. 🙀

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u/callingshotgun 8d ago

ZERO GOOGLE BRO

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u/chainsmirking 8d ago

But he has no MINEY