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Hi, welcome to Smosh Reads Reddit Stories.

I'm Shane, and today's theme is entitled. And today joining me are two of the most entitled people I've ever known.
Tommy and special guest, Sarah Whittle.

Hello. Hi.
Hello.

You deserve it. Yeah.
Sarah, who you used to be in charge of this channel and so much at Smosh. Yeah, I think I did over the five years I worked here.
I think I did every single job.

Yeah, you ran like our socials. Coordinator, PA, cast member for a bit, like director, executive producer of everything, like literally marketing, social media, did everything.

Yeah, and I feel like Tommy, like when you first joined Smosh, like you were working with Sarah, it was just

you brought

me to the moment. You're the reason we have Tommy.

Yeah, actually, yes, because like when Mythical bought Smosh, it became like we were like grabbing onto each other like the like the titanic was sinking we were like you and Courtney were like Sarah please come back and I was like okay I'll come back Tommy come back my body was ice cold and Sarah was like oh

you reawakened him

yeah yeah so we got we got Tommy descended back to the LeBron tar pits and we had to get him back

Real talk though, like, yeah, it is so, I'm so proud of you guys. And I know Shane, Shane and Tommy, you guys just visited me in New York.

I think we both separately cried, but like I'll say it again, I'll say it a million times. I am so proud of what you guys have done since I've left in 2021.
I've stayed such close.

I mean, you guys are my best friends, like stayed such close friends, but like seeing the growth of the thing that I felt so ingrained in creating and like seeing where it is now, I genuinely think you guys are in a golden era.

And I'm like, proud mama, super fan. I'm watching all the content.
I'm texting you guys all the time. So I am so, so proud of what you guys have done.

And I'm just like, I am like the number one Smosh fan. Thank you, Sarah.

Well, I mean, I think it goes without saying, like, Smosh has been in this golden era for a couple of years, but so much of it is due to like all the things that were put in place for years leading up to that.

And so much of it is owed to the decisions you made. Like, I feel like you really molded a lot of the creative that we still follow.
That's great. Anyway, I'm waiting for my caviar.
I requested it.

Okay, now you're adding a little

title.

That's called a segue. There we go.

All right, let's get into these stories. That was good.
Thank you.

How much do entitled people bother you? So much. Oh my God.
It rages me so much.

Yeah, and I mean, look, it exists around the world, but I do feel like in America, maybe this is just because I've experienced this more than anything, but I just feel like America can be the heartland of entitlement.

Oh, of course it is. Yeah, like individualism is so popular.
That people are just like, yes,

it comes with it. I have the right to everything.
Exactly.

All right, well, let's get into these and see what we're dealing with. Our first story comes from, am I overreacting? This was posted only a couple months ago.
Am I overreacting?

Roommate constantly expects me to leave so she can sleep with guys.

Oh.

Hello, posting on a different account. This happened yesterday.
Today, she ended up just going to the guy's place instead of bringing him to our apartment, but she refuses to speak to me.

In the first slide, the names I blurt out are my boyfriend's name and a friend of mine's name. So this is a text conversation I'll be reading.
Okay. Visual aid.

Roommate says, hi, I'm having a guy over tomorrow around like seven. Would you be able to stay somewhere else for a few hours? OP says, how long? Hours.

They say, I'm not sure if he'll be spending the night yet if. YGM.
You get me. You get me.
You get me.

I don't know if they'll be spending the night yet. You get me.
OP says, I don't really anywhere I can go. Have anywhere.

I'm just speaking in code.

Can you not go over to your boyfriend's place? He's visiting his family. He isn't around.
Surely there is someone's house you can go to. Go to Blink.

I already went to Blink on Tuesday because you had a different guy over. It's not fair of me to keep inconveniencing people like that.
She doesn't even care and you don't have to say it like that.

What?

You don't have to say that like I'm a whore or something.

Oh, he says, I didn't call you a whore. I just said I already went to blank's place Tuesday because you had a guy over.

You said different guy like I'm sleeping with loads of different people. Okay,

I wasn't trying to make it seem like that. I was just saying it's not fair.
It's my apartment too, and this would be like the third time this week I've had to find somewhere else to stay.

I don't mind you bringing people over, but when it's happening multiple times a week and I have to look for other places to stay over because of it, it's not exactly fair.

The roommate says, yeah, good job on not calling me a whore.

Hopie continues, everything I said are things that are just factual. You are constantly bringing over guys and I constantly have to stay over somewhere else because of it.

That's not calling you a whore. It's literally just telling the truth.
You can sleep with who you want.

I'm not judging you, but I just don't appreciate having to leave my apartment constantly because of it.

So you can bring blank over, but just because I'm bringing over guys I'm not in a relationship with, it's not okay.

OP says, I purposely go to Blank's place because he lives alone, so it's easier that way. And I don't expect you to leave the apartment whenever he comes over when we're literally just hanging out.

Blank barely comes over. It's not even comparable to how often you bring people over.

Roommate says, I don't get why it's a problem having to stay in your boyfriend's place for a night or for a few hours.

Like I can understand not wanting to do that to our friends, but literally, why would your boyfriend mind? OP says are you forgetting that we share the same apartment?

He doesn't mind coming over, but my whole point is that we both live in that apartment. I'm entitled to stay there when I want.

I live there. It's not fair that you constantly expect me to just leave whenever you want me to just want me to just because I can't go to my boyfriend's place.

Roommate says, I just don't understand why you're acting like this is the end of the world because you have to go somewhere else for a few hours and basically insinuating that I'm a whore.

I don't know what your problem is all of a sudden.

says, I asked you in the past to try to stop bringing over so many people because of this and you agreed, but then just kept doing it.

We are both trying to make different points and you aren't understanding what I'm saying about this being my apartment too. Roommate says, okay, let's end the drama here.

I'll figure something else out. Jesus Christ.

OP continues, we were both in the kitchen at the same time today, and she kept slamming cupboards and placing things down extremely aggressively.

I went to shower after her and my conditioner had just accidentally opened and spilled all over the shower floor. Oh, come on.

I really don't know if I was being too harsh or not, but at the same time, I don't feel like it's fair that I'm constantly expected to stay in other places so she can bring people over.

I asked her to try to bring over less people in the past and she agreed, but then continued to just do the same shit afterwards. Am I overreacting in this whole situation? No.
No, no. Next story.

No, move on.

I'm gone. I'm confused.
They have their own rooms, probably, right? That's the thing.

I get that it's like, hey, in common spaces, it's just like, all right, like, hey, like, I'm gonna bring a guy over. Like, we're gonna have dinner.

Is it okay if we kind of hang in the kitchen, like, whatever?

But even then, like, if I were dating someone and I go over to their apartment, it's like, oh, and this is my roommate. It's just like, cool, like, nice to meet you.
You respect them. It's a contract.

It's like, you're going to be, this is your space too. It's like, we'll have a nice dinner.
They come in and they get something out of the kitchen. You don't have to go, hello.

You just keep having your dinner. You're co-living.
Yeah.

I'm going to ask a question that feels obvious, at least to me. Are they having crazy, big band, mariachi, loud, crazy times in both the living room and her room? And that's why she wants

to make a noise thing too on its own. Like, even if she was in the bedroom with her date,

maybe she's self-conscious about the noise. But again, I go back to like the price of community is annoyance.
Like, if you're in a roommate situation, your roommate may hear your love making.

Hey, hey, do you agree with that? You did a great job. You did a great job.

That felt so stupid.

But like, that's just like the, and then the roommate gets to decide, like, oh, am I going to like enjoy this? Am I going to turn up music? Am I going to like hate it and leave the house?

Like, right, like her roommate. You're co-living.
Her roommate can be like, hey, look, I'm bringing some people over. And it's like, great, I'm going to be staying here too.

It's like, great, we're going to be doing some boisterous fucking. But, like,

that's what I'm saying. But okay, then you will.

And also, like, if you made it, like, if you bring home a guy and you're, like, trying to be quiet, ain't that, like, that's a little fun part, too, right? Like, yeah, that's like

that's a little sneaky hot part. But it does make me question what you're talking about, of, like, are they using the whole space? The whole space.
A, are.

Are some of the contracts being broken? I think so. But every time, every time with the new partner, like, I'm not.

It feels strange to, like, if I was in an, if, because I've had roommates before, but if the rule was, whenever we bring someone over, you can't be here. I'm like, that does not work.
That sucks.

That doesn't work. Yeah, that's not.
That simply doesn't. Because what if she breaks up with her boyfriend? Exactly.
It's like, then I need to live here all the time. Yeah, right.
Exactly.

Yeah, go on a three-hour walk. Okay, here, a fun proposal for

the person who's bringing people over. 30-some.
No. Oh.
I thought we were going there.

I thought we were going there. Whoa.
Okay. Whoa.

Whoa.

This is a Christian channel here. Yes, it's a Christian channel.
We have a religious program.

Yeah, we're live streaming after the rapture right now.

We are

If she wanted to pay for two-thirds of the other person's rent. Period.
Yeah. It's like, oh, you want full dominion over this space? Well, then I pay $300 a month to sleep in my bedroom sometimes.

Look. I mean, it's crazy.
Like, I had, we all know offline that I had like a time in my life in Los Angeles where I was having a lot of fun. No, not all I had that.
And it was a really fun time.

I never, it never like phased me.

Not Shane.

But we. But we.

But you guys did.

Sorry, Shane. You didn't miss out on anything.
You didn't miss on anything. It is so much fun.
It's so cool. It was so much fun.

And ain't no shame in the game. So I think it's also nice.

If you have a roster, that is okay.

But it's like you don't, if you don't live alone, you don't live alone. So you got to navigate that as like a normal human being.
And like, there was no name calling in that text.

There was no insinuation. Like, whoa, did you just say whore?

How dare you? Whoa.

Um, this is a feminist program.

Um,

no, I've had roommates before, and when people bring people over, I never thought anything of it. I was just like, yeah, dude, like, we're in our 20s.
One time, I had a roommate

when I lived out here in Los Angeles, and I brought a date over. And the next day, she was like an older lady,

like in her 40s. I loved living with her.
Awesome. And she was so chill, and she was just like, she was just so happy to be living, us living together in Santa Monica.

And I had a date over one night and she was like, Sarah, I was hearing a little bit of last night.

And she was like, that was kind of hot. And I was like, right?

Right?

Okay, so there you go. It's like maybe it could be a positive experience for everyone.

And I have no shame on that. And I have no idea.
No, no, that's really funny. And like, there was multiple dates going in and out of that apartment.
And she never shamed me once.

And so it's like, it's just having that open, like, non-judgmental conversation. Claudio is going to love watching.

You notice that a painting in your bedroom has like Scooby-Doo holes cut out of the eyes.

And then she's like,

that painting, that fisherman, seems to be looking around.

Keep going.

Stop it. I hate it.
I hate it. No, no, no.

No, this is just like really bad roommate like contract.

And the problem, I mean, like, what sucks now is she, she needs to like move the boundary back to like a normal place of like, I do not need to leave my apartment. I'm paying rent.

I'm paying rent for this day that I'm here. Like, if I leave all night, then you owe me that, whatever that amounts to then.
Like, that's not fair. And living with a roommate is difficult.

Like, it's a very, very hard situation.

And so I think like maybe this is a conversation or something that's just like, hey, whenever the lease is up, I think like I got to save up and prep to like not secrets with you anymore. Yeah.

That's a good thing. It's just you really want to be better with your finances.
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Back to the the show. So, in the comments, OP mentions that she has only slept at their apartment six times in the last month.
OP needs to

stand

for themselves and not tolerate this insanity. That's less than a week out of the month.
Yeah. She should be paying $250.

At that point, you don't live there. You don't live there.
You don't live there. The heck? Okay, that sucks.

This is starting to. Can I be be honest? This is starting to not, I'm questioning if this person is sleeping with people.

I'm starting to be like, what are you actually doing that you are kicking them out of this apartment so often?

Oh, you think it's like a I'm just like, I just start to be like, what are all the other options? Right. Like, you're, you're just having me out of the apartment so much.

Well, and that roommate is probably, to go down more the conspiracy, that roommate's probably like going out on dates with these people and being like, yeah, come back to my place.

Like, no one's there. Yeah.
It's like, sometimes go to their apartment.

that's also fun to judge because this has become the this has become the normal for them they're just like oh i basically have this apartment to myself yeah while paying half the rent and why do you like not know if they're gonna like sleep over or not maybe it's like a first date and you don't know like how it's gonna

first date at your apartment but it but it no i'm saying like the after party at the apartment but you don't know if you're gonna like kick them out or like have the sleepover but at that point it's like yeah what are you doing all night long right all night long also i wasn't like with that frequency, I would be kind of worried about my stuff.

That's a kind of more, I think, is like safety of just like, you're bringing strangers. This is true, too.
I don't know.

But if it was like, if it was like three a month, four a month, I wouldn't be as concerned. But it's like, I'm at home for six days.
I'm still at home.

It's like,

I'm going to be bringing my laptop with me, my passport with me. But that's like a storage unit at that point.
Like, that's not a home. Yeah.
No, they're being robbed. Yeah.
Like,

uh comments i mean you two are adults just stay home it's up to the guy to decide if it's weird or not if she gets creeped out by it then uh fucking his house yeah opi says

then fucking his house then fucking his house dude op says i've told her in the past that i don't mind just putting my airpods on and listening to music but she says she doesn't want me there she rarely ever goes to their houses she only seems to bring them here

someone's gonna say like sorry

someone said the main weird thing here is that either of you think the other has to leave when you have someone over for sex. You have your own private rooms.

I've never heard of roommates expecting the other to leave because they have people spending the night. Do you guys think this is normal? Because this isn't something people usually do or expect.

Just because you're going to have sex in your own separate rooms doesn't mean the other has to leave the apartment. Exactly.
Someone says, not overreacting.

You are very calm and explained to her why you were upset with her request. Does she always ask you these things so short notice? It's like you said, this is your apartment too.

Sure, there's something to be said about offering each other a private evening every once in a while if there's intimate company over, depending on the housing situation.

But three times in one week, regardless if it's the same person or not, is a lot.

The fact that she acted like you insulted her and put words into your mouth and then acted very passive-aggressively afterwards is not helping her case.

I agree with another commenter that it sounds like you need to sit down and talk about this. And if not, maybe one of you needs to find another place if that's at all possible.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.

This is the biggest red flag. Nightmare roommate.
Yeah, and the way they responded to. It's like, hey, I'm trying to offer like a What are you calling me a whore? Oh, you're calling me a whore?

It's just like they're just shutting down the conversation. Exactly.
They know what they're doing. Yeah.
Next story. This comes from Am I the Asshole, also just a couple months ago.

Am I the asshole for not waking up a tourist who overslept and missed the day trip she paid for?

Just a tourist. Just a tourist.
Just one tourist. All right.

Hi, guys. I, a 21-year-old woman, am a Bulgarian tour guide who accompanies groups to Sicily.
On a recent trip, one woman who was traveling alone, mid-30s, was consistently oversleeping.

The first day after we arrived, we had a day trip to Etna and Tarmina, for which we departed at 8 a.m., as we do all our other day tours.

I make sure that all tourists are informed of the departure times on the bus the day before, and they also have my number to call in case they forget, so I can remind them.

They also all have printed out pamphlets with the schedule made by the travel agency that I hand out that has the time for departure on it. All of the group was on time except one woman.

She was 10 minutes late, which, okay, maybe she got caught up in something and was late.

I excused it, then mentioned to the whole bus on the mic that I do not tolerate lateness beyond 15 minutes at most in case of emergency, like a forgotten possession, and that I must always be called and informed in case someone is running late.

The trip went by, okay, otherwise. The next day, this same tourist was late again by 25 minutes, almost an entire half hour.

I called her twice to no answer, and we were just about to leave without her when she came out running and got on the bus.

She got lucky, as the receptionist of the hotel asked me about a missing piece of info on the rooming list and earned her some time.

I reminded everyone again that I will not be waiting anymore for late tourists in the morning, and waking up on time is their responsibility.

When we came back that evening, she asked me if I could make sure to wake her up on time. I reminded her a third time that I'm not responsible for waking people up.

Everyone gets a printed itinerary with departure times, and I announce everything the day before. She kept saying, no, no, just knock on my door if I'm not out by 8.15.

And I kept repeating, I really can't do that for everyone. Please set an alarm.
Well, on the day we were visiting Syracuse, she didn't show up.

I waited 15 minutes after the supposed departure time, called her twice to no response, then left with the bus and the rest of the group.

She called me in a panic about an hour later asking where we were. I explained the situation calmly.
She called me two days later. No, uh, that's what she said.

She's like, she called me the next business day.

She got angry and said that I had one job and that I cheated her out of the money she paid to go on that day trip. She missed the whole day trip and was furious the next day.

Later, she told the rest of the group that I abandoned her and also called my agency, leaving a bad review about me. No.

Am I the asshole for not personally waking up a grown woman despite warning her multiple times I wouldn't?

No, no, just knock on my door. No, just knock on my door.
No, just knock on my door, dude.

If you pay the money to travel somewhere and then do the travel guide, if you sleep past the thing, that's your decision. That's your vacation.
Exactly. And saying, oh, you only have one job.

Sorry, her job is to do the

job. Not to wake you up.
She's other people. She's not a concierge.
She's not like.

She's not mommy. Like, she is, she has a job, and the job is not to wake you up.
Yeah. And can I just, does it not like, I have anxiety when I'm running late.
Oh, I hate being late.

I would rather be there. I like so, I'd rather wake up so early and like hate it and get to the thing on time because I'll like wake up late.
You know, you'll kill me.

You know that feeling when you're playing hide and go seek and you're like hiding and you like have to pee and like, and that's what feeling late feels like to me. Yes.
When I'm running late.

It frustrates me so much, but I, it's hard for me to talk on this because I'm someone who wakes up so early anyways.

Like, I love, I love to be up early so I can chill for a second before I go do the thing. Yeah, I don't like being rushed.

Like, I just, I feel like that starts my day off on a bad day, but especially when I'm traveling. I'm so focused on one thing.
The one focus is to be there and be on the tours and go.

So, I just don't understand. Like, these are the consequences of your own action.

For you to blame someone else for you being late when everyone else understood the assignment, like you're not only being disrespectful to the company, you're being disrespectful to everyone else on that trip.

And so now they have to start the day by getting a talking to you about not being late, even though they were not late. It's just so inconsiderate.
And like to be like, oh, can you help me wake up?

It's like, no, you're an adult.

Be an adult, grow up and take the responsibility to wake up on time. If you are late, you are late.
And that is the consequence.

They also give the 10 minute oops you had to do a morning shit exactly yeah yeah sometimes you're late because you have to shit right and that's okay i've been i'll i'll go i'll go hey alexina jonathan i'm gonna be about 10 minutes late today we know why i'm late

it happened at home and not in the office and that's okay and that's yeah that's okay 10 minutes is fine 100 it's it's just it this this woman blows me away because yeah like she she waited an it was an hour and she's like where are you guys where are you guys like so you're expecting everyone to lose an hour of their day trip for you

because you can't wake up. Well, and it's like, I've never been on a cruise, but cruises are similar, right? It's like when they like dock at like an island or whatever.
They don't show back there.

They're like, you better show up at 3 p.m. or the birds.
You're stranded

behind. Yeah.
I can't even imagine the logistical nightmare. I'd rather be there an hour before than even five minutes.

Yeah. And be stranded in a place

without my shit. I don't want to be stranded in a place.

And I also understand, like, when I'm late by my own mistakes, I'm pissed off. And it's like, but you can't redirect that.
You can't like justify it. You have to be like, yeah, I fucked up.

And I'm mad at myself. Of course.
She doesn't know how to be mad at herself. Yeah.
She's mad at it. She's mad and

she clearly never in her life learned how to like handle that. So she just throws it out everywhere else.

I think accountability in general is really hard to like face when you're like, oh, fuck, I fucked up. Like it was was my fault.

And so I think the natural reaction is to like force it on someone else and be like, no, it was your fault. But like learn how to take accountability, grow up, set an alarm, set 20 alarms.

Like, and maybe they're not calling you is them waking you up. Exactly.

And either way, if there's multiple factors or if there's like a medical thing or like whatever, like you, no one forced you on this trip, on this solo trip, like you're also wasting your money if you aren't like totally committed to the mission.

Right, right. Whatever's going on, she has to prepare herself to work for the greater tour of everyone else.
Take care of yourself. It's like, yeah.

Comments. This woman could have also requested a wake-up call from her hotel.

Yes. Someone said.

Someone said, I'm an avid traveler. I'd be angry to sit on the bus every morning waiting on someone who is chronically late.
Time is money, and she'd be wasting mine.

If she's worried about hers, she needs to set an alarm. If she complained to other guests, I guarantee you they weren't feeling bad for her, not the asshole.

Someone said, did anyone notice that the tardy tourist was asking OP to knock on her door 15 minutes after the scheduled departure time?

Which would mean if they were still asleep, even longer waiting time? Not the asshole. Yeah, she's not fully clothed with a coffee in her hand in bed, ready to go.
Let's go. A small little update.
Oh.

I talked to my manager today. I was nervous at first because I was already tired of this whole shenanigan and didn't want to spend ages defending myself.

So I went to him first and explained the situation before he approached me. He told me word for word, hun, I deleted that BS from my email as soon as I read it.
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They'll remove the bad review. Yes, we love a like customers always write not.
Yeah.

Right.

You know? Yeah.

I've never been to Italy, but a tour in Italy sounds great. Sarah's never been either.
Yeah. Never, ever.
Never. No, we're all going to go.
Oh my gosh. A dream for all of us to go to Italy together.

It's going to be amazing. Tourists around.
Oh my God, it's going to be so fun. Claudio could be our Bulgarian tourist.

He has to have a Bulgarian accent the whole time. Yeah, he can do that.
He could do that. He could do that.

Anyway, I hope What's Your Face gets some good sleep. And

I will be waking up at 10 a.m.

No matter what. That's not possible for you.
Don't even

joke. I can't.
No, we'll be up at 5.30.

You guys will, I'll be knocking on cafe doors like, open up.

And Italy does not start moving until like 10 or 11 a.m. I'm up way too early.
They're like, there's stuff that's going to be going on.

All right. Our next story comes from relationship advice.
I'm about a year old.

My boyfriend, 32-year-old man, threatened to break up with me on a Harry Potter marathon night that I, a 29-year-old woman, planned because he was embarrassed and would rather drink at the club.

At the clerb? At the clerk. Drink at the clerb? Yesterday was his birthday.
We are both Harry Potter fans, but I'm more into it and he likes golfing and cars more than I do.

Yesterday morning, I asked him if he wanted to go out somewhere and I told him that I'm planning on a surprise tonight. He didn't ask anything further and left for work.

During the evening, I had set the sofas, spread the blankets, arranged the coffee table, fluffed all the pillows, and warmed up the place. I made damn, okay.

She bought an owl?

Yeah.

Learned magic.

I made pizza at home for the first time and made smoothies. I brought all kinds of sweets and made many mini Harry Potter-like candies with them.

I had got this idea from those reels and had always told him that I wanted to try it out. He didn't see my message till around 9.30 p.m.
and arrived at 10 p.m.

I didn't mind it much, but told him that I had everything prepared and that we could snuggle up and watch together.

He told me that he was tired and didn't want to do it, so I tried requesting him to sit with me for at least one movie. He somehow agreed.

He ate the pizza, but didn't try any of those mini candied structures I made.

And then, when we were comfortable enough, the broomstick scene came on, and I tell him how I used to have a crush on Draco as a kid.

He suddenly got up from there, and I nearly hit my head on the sofa board.

He told me it was embarrassing for me to be obsessing over Harry Potter as an adult, that his friends, girlfriends, are more mature than me and are actually planning their lives ahead.

I didn't know how me liking Harry Potter related to that, because I barely ever talked to him about Harry Potter much before. He just walked away after that, and I let him.

When I don't come to bed, he tells me I have a horrible taste for even crushing on Tom Felton, and that he looks like a sulkin cow now. All right.
LOL.

What hurt me most was that he didn't even taste the sweets I made or even lie down with me for at least an hour. I would have been okay to even change the movie or shut it down.

And when I tried suggesting, he just kept shaking his head. He told me to fix my ways before he gets fed up and leaves me for good.

After that, he denied a really good offer to drink at the bar with his friends. It's morning and I haven't talked to him yet.
He just left without even looking at me.

I might be at fault here for not not taking his interests into much consideration. I just thought we would like it because I would show him stuff like that, and he always admired it.

I feel kind of hurt. The pizza I made was also his favorite, but he didn't seem to show much for it.
I don't know if I may be overreacting.

I don't know if it's right for me to love this series anymore. It had been part of my childhood, and I grew up with it.
We have been together for three years now.

Woo! All right. There's a lot of layers

to this. So it is the boyfriend's birthday.
Yes. So she plans a Harry Potter marathon for his birthday.

Just the two of them. Just the two of them.
Starting at 9.30. Starting at 9.30.
Come on. So you're going to 6 a.m.
Yeah, watching Harry Potter. And he likes golfing in cars more than I do.

Does that mean she also likes golfing in cars? I need some red strips. This is a little confusing.

Yeah. I think the gist is it it feels like she's more of a Harry Potter fan than he is.
So she made like a Harry Potter night for his birthday, which I could see. Now, here's the thing, though.

And they live together. They live together.
Right. So it's like, okay, but

he seems to

like blast off on her in

a crazy other way.

Where he's mad at her for liking Draco Malfoy. Right.
And then he insults Tom Felton. It's like, hey.
Which we don't. Hey.
Tom Felton. Whoa.
Tom Felton does not need to catch a stray here. Right.

Okay. I mean, mean, maybe a little.
Base.

Like, if he started going after J.K. Rowling, I'd be like, okay, fair.
Okay, do it. Like, I thought that was going to be the angle.
He's like, well, I don't like J.K. Rowling.
She's a piece of shit.

It's like, okay, okay, fair. Okay, that's all right.
Let's throw a party on the bottom. That's not what he said, though.
No.

So we're like, what's going on? Either OP is leaving out tons of history of like, wait, what's the pattern here? Yeah.

Because you're talking, I'll also say, she's like, we've been dating for three years. You're talking about your interests as if you're not really sure what you guys are into.

But I also like that I'm like, shouldn't you know? There's a little entitlement of her making it like her TikTok Harry Potter movie night kind of situation. It's her birthday.
Exactly.

In reading the story, I forgot that it was his birthday. I thought it was hers.

So I feel like I, especially if you're in a relationship that long, but any birthday planning, like I always ask the birthday person, what do you want to do? What do you want to do?

You want to go out to the bottom? What's your ideal thing? Do you want to like stay in? Do you want to do nothing? Do you want a small group, a big group? Do you want to build your candy structures?

Yeah, exactly.

Or, and if the person's like, I'm down for whatever, but I want to just stay home or whatever like I think when it comes to people's birthdays everyone approaches it in such a different manner for you to make a surprise like this so focused on your interests yeah it like already is a tough situation yeah it's a little bit interesting and he did get invites to go hang out with friends but it's like did did she ask we're leaving we don't have a lot of info on like what was the planning process of this yeah there's a little bit of like a lot of confusing stuff

This all would have been solved if she just made it a Lord of the Rings watch party. Okay.

Because it's just far, far superior.

It's just far better.

Pretty much anything.

Comments.

I know you feel bad, but sis, you practically planned a night for you, not for his birthday. Exactly.
OP says, I honestly wouldn't mind if that means spending time with him.

OP,

what? What?

Does that mean she's not? I think she speaks in riddles. She's like, I just want to spend time with him.

But maybe you could have spent time at the club with the drinking if that's what he wanted to do. You can spend time with him if you make it for him.
Exactly. Bring a cloak and a scarf if you have to.

But it's also like, I'll say, okay,

because there's so much going on too, like him picking a fight about like multiple random things.

No one's in the clear here.

I think it's my takeaway is, oh, this communication has been so bad for so long. You guys don't like each other, and you have not come to terms with each other.
Exactly.

The boyfriend could be mad because of the way this birthday was planned for her and not for him, but he's expressing it in horrible, just he's expressing it horribly.

I don't feel seen because this is more about you and seen it. And he's like, I think you're stupid.
I hate you. Jake, my boy is ugly.

He's ugly.

He has blonde hair. You want me to get blonde hair now? Yeah, it's like, oh, so you're calling me a whore?

Someone else said, maybe he'll take you for 18 holes of golf in a car show for your birthday. That's awesome.
Awesome. Someone says, as a 13-year-old man, he may like Harry.

You said 13.

As a 13-year-old man.

As a 32-year-old man, he may like Harry Potter, but his idea of a birthday surprise is not a Harry Potter marathon. You sound very entitled.

He didn't even taste the sweets I made or even lie down with me for at least an hour. He feels you have different ideas and wants a more grown-up evening.

There may be more issues at heart for him too. I feel this is the final straw sort of incident.
You need to sit down and have a calm conversation with him. I don't like grown-up evening though.

Why did that make me mad? Because I think like there's nothing wrong with him. None of this is wrong if it's what he wanted.
Like childlike joy. There's nothing wrong with

like a movie Xarathon as Disney adults. Yeah.

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But like, you're not going to run that,

but the communication. It's just

we don't need to limit anything. It's just about doing what he wants for his birthday.

Right, right.

And yes, and the comment does point out, like,

she's upset because of what he's not doing

on his birthday.

Like, hey, this wasn't your night. He didn't like his birthday the way I wanted him to like it.
Yeah. Right.

All right.

Moving on. Our next story comes from Am I the Butt Face? This is posted in 2019.
Really? There's another one. Am I the Butt Face? There's just a bunch of...
There's just a bunch of...

Is that the Christian one? Because I don't want to say asshole. Not necessarily.
They all just have slightly different rules on what can be posted. So what's butt face? What's butt face?

Shut out your mouth? Yeah, probably.

Shut out your mouth.

I know the OG Am I the asshole subreddit. It's not allowed to do with relationships.
Like it has a weird, that has weird mod rules.

So then other ones are made. Butt face is no eyes, no nose.
Exactly.

Well,

the butthole is the nose.

Which I think that's new. It just smells bad.
I've never thought of that.

And it just smells bad all the time.

All right.

This comes from Am I the Butt Face 2019. Would I be the butt face if I demanded to know who reported me to HR?

Butt face?

Butt face?

I want to take this seriously, but butt face is so hard.

I know.

I am in my early 30s and male. In our office, I am known as a bit of a jokester.
Oh.

Nothing mean, and I don't go out of my way to prank someone or hurt anyone's feelings, but I have plenty of jokes and give lots of silly nicknames. I'm not.
I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it.

I'm kind of a jokester. I know.
I saw you.

You turned into an immediately. Silly nicknames.

There is a newer woman in our office. She's in her early 20s and she has a three-year-old.
They live in an RV park a few miles away from work and I've nicknamed nicknamed her RV Reba. No.
No.

I didn't see the harm. It's just a silly nickname.
I've given silly nicknames to most of my coworkers. If anyone complains about it, I just explain I don't mean anything by it.

It's just a silly thing I do, and there was no reason for them to be offended. R.V.

I like how he's like, no offense. Yeah.
No offense, R.V. Reba.

R.V. Reba.
Shall take no offense. Yeah.
They continue. R.
V.

Reba wasn't thrilled with the nickname, said it was insulting, but I explained it wasn't intended to be, it was just something silly I came up with. She asked me to stop using it.

I don't use it around her much anymore, but I think it's a silly thing to get upset about, so I still use it around others. Well, someone reported me to HR.

I got called into a meeting this morning and given a written warning to stop harassing my coworkers. I don't see how this is harassing at all.
They're silly nicknames.

I asked who reported me, and they said it was not just one person, but multiple complaints. R.
V. Reba and a few others were getting coffee.
It's just like every time.

And I wanted to know who reported me. RV Reba said she didn't know, but was glad they spoke to me about it since I wasn't listening to them asking me to stop.

I think it was probably her and one of the two other co-workers who can never take a joke. I want to know exactly who it was, though.

A few coworkers said I'm already the butt face and should let it go, but I really want to know who reported me. Would I be the butt face if I demanded to know who it was?

I just love it says verdict, butt face.

Well, yes, yes, he is the butt face. Yeah, but Nora, Fred, you are the butt face.
Yeah, you're the butt face.

I think legally you are entitled to know who reported you to HP. Yeah, it doesn't matter if you're the butt face for demanding it.
Like, that's just not going to happen.

Yeah, multiple people are like, you suck. Stop.
Doing that. You should not do that.
This is very classic. Like, it's a joke.
I'm just joking. Right.
I'm just joking about it.

That doesn't like wash you of your own. It doesn't just

or even like how people can feel about a certain nickname or a certain joke like right ever heard of empathy ever heard of compassion ever heard of respect like it's true even for our workspace where our job is telling jokes and being silly right we're expected to be silly all the time now even here if someone goes hey i don't like that joke exactly we go all right we won't say that exactly yeah but they're in i'm assuming a workspace where telling jokes is not part of the job.

But even you're not even expected to tell jokes, jokes, man. Like, don't, like, tell jokes, that's fine.
But if someone tells you to stop, you have to stop.

You're not expected to be making people laugh. But even if we, like, like, drill it down to like what it is, it's not even like a but a boomsh joke.
It is a nickname.

And, like, you shouldn't give nicknames to people that you have names already. It's also, it's also.
But it's also, you're not friends.

Also, if we're going to talk about giving nicknames, horrible nickname. Horrible nicknames.
Horrible RV Reba? That's you assigned their location and then then their name.

Well, she's a single mom that works two jobs. Like, come on.
That's so

heavy. Like, what he's saying.
And it's also like, she just started a new job. She's young.
She, she's trying to, like, being a woman in the workplace is also very hard. She's trying to like make a

name for herself in the place. Like, whenever you

and it's not RV Reba. And I think that's just so condescending and weird and off-putting.
Like, absolutely should be reported, HR, and absolutely should quit this shit.

Like, you are not hired to make silly jokes on the job.

Like, be a professional, be respectful, especially to women. Like, it's just so beyond me that he thinks, like, oh, I'm just being silly.
And it's like, did anyone, did anyone hire you to be silly?

No. No.
Absolutely not. Yeah, because your explanation makes it sound like she's a little bit more of an RV Brockovich, you know?

We'll got that.

But I will say, like,

I've been lucky that I've worked in workplaces that, like, even if I am like, there's a joke that goes too far or something like that, I am the type of person that's like, hey, can you like not joke about that?

And everyone's been very

nice about it. And I've always worked in these like creative video fields.
So sometimes the lines get blurred.

And so the fact that like having to ask more than once or even just like to explain why it's inappropriate, it's just like, it's just beyond me. Like we're adults here.
Yeah. Yeah.

I wonder if it's because in our creative fields, I mean, no, I hear horror stories about it in our fields too, but I feel like working at Smosh, like inevitably we run into this so often. Right.

Like of course. I mean, it's not even amongst ourselves, but just in our videos where we go like, oh, we did something that we, that we won't say that again.

Or like, oh, that, that didn't look good or whatever. Yeah.
So I feel like it's just part of our job. So we just have so much experience with it, not to like

take it so personally when it's like, hey, just don't say that. Like learn the behavior now.
Right.

Someone saying, I don't like that you say that, or like, I don't like that, doesn't mean that, like, I mean, maybe not this guy, but that doesn't mean like you're a bad person or I hate you now.

It's just like, hey. I'm drawing a line right there for that thing and that's it.
And you just go, great, I won't do that anymore. Let's have fun elsewhere.
Right. It's just.

You're going to think, what is he going to do with that information? If they name names, which they're not going to because they have to protect who did the report, like what and what then?

He's going to create a hostile interaction. He's going to retaliate.
He's going to be able to

be mean to that person. Like, grow up.
Yeah. He also is clearly like lacking self-awareness of, hey, like

nicknames, jokes, it's one thing, but you are a man in your 30s. And she is a young woman in her early 20s who is new to this job.
And so like, you have to understand how this is going to come across.

Like, she's in

a place where she probably feels scared to speak up for herself. Well, she's new, too.

Like, the last thing you want to do as a new person is, like, ruffle the feathers and, like, be like, feel like it's hostile. It's a very,

she's in a hard spot. They're stuck there.
Like, you know, like, make this easy for them.

Exactly. And we've all met people that like kind of don't know when to stop joking, even

like, even if they're not funny. Like,

they're just like, like, I wish I had that confidence. But like we've all been around those people and I think it is a very difficult situation to sit them down and be like, hey,

I get you think you're silly, but this is not silly goose time. This is be a professional.
And HR did their job here, which is to just lay something out as straightforward as possible. Yeah.

It's like, hey, stop. Yep.
Yep. We're asking you to stop doing this thing.
We've had reports and end it. Comments.
I think you know you're the butt face. Your jokes aren't amusing to others.

This has been explicitly spelled out to you multiple times from the sound of it. Therefore, you should have already stopped.
If others aren't laughing, it's not funny.

If it's not funny, it's not a joke. If it's not a joke, your continued behavior is harassment.
Stop it before you quite rightly lose your job. Someone said, you are the butt face massively.

You zero in on something that someone finds embarrassing and repeatedly pointed out to all and sundry. You say it's just a laugh, but plainly not for Reba.
I'm glad your colleagues reported you.

You sound like a horrible person to have around. Someone said, You're the asshole and insulting.
What's wrong with you? You are not funny. You don't get to demand anything.
You can request.

You can be told no. You do not get to decide what people want or like to be called.
You do not get to decide what someone feels about anything.

With multiple people complaining, I'm shocked you're not in more trouble. What you're doing is harassment and bullying.
You're at a place of work. Be more mature and professional.

Damn. Yeah.

I also think, like, I've been in relationships and dynamics mostly with like a male and me, where, like, if you, if you do say your boundaries, or you're like, hey, that's not funny, or hey, that makes they go, it's a joke.

So, I think it's like, if your response is, it's a joke, like that itself needs to be like a self-reflection thing because you're also like brushing off that person's emotions.

And like, I've been in that situation kind of gaslit of like, it's just a joke. Why are you taking it so seriously? And you're like, well, I'm kind of like not feeling great after you said that thing.

And that's the issue. Yeah.
And like we work in comedy and we know like

jokes do there. There is like a reality to it.
Yeah. Like you can't just say like, oh, well, it's just all silly and there's no, there's no implications.
There's no meaning behind it.

It's like all jokes have some reality to it.

How much of it? is to be determined, but it's a very privileged position as a guy to just be like, oh, it's just fine. It's whatever.
It's like, yeah, because you're not threatened in this place.

Exactly. Where she's scared.
She doesn't know you. Exactly.
All right. Our next story comes from Am I Overreacting? It's a new one.
It's only like a month or so old.

Am I overreacting? Girlfriend threw away the dinner I cooked because she wanted pizza instead. Oh.
Oh.

What shit did you eat? I cooked you dinner.

I want pizza. Pizza!

Pizza!

Girlfriend texted me earlier. I'm too tired and frustrated to even respond.

I was trying to do something nice for her and surprise her with something she said she really liked, but apparently she wasn't in the mood for it. I feel pretty tired of trying in general.

I guess I didn't really ask her what she wanted tonight for dinner, but I still feel pretty angry. Text messages between OP and girlfriend.
So the girlfriend texts him, hey, when is your break?

Can you pick up a pizza so I have something to eat tonight? OP responds, no babe, I made the wine braised short ribs you said last night were your favorite. I got up early to cook them.

You just have to pull them from the pot. There's that and the small s'mores cake I made for Wednesday since there's extra and I figured you'd want some.
Okay, so he made wine braised short ribs. Yeah.

And there's small ribs. S'mores cake.
Okay, Martha.

Girlfriend responds, I don't really want that though. Can you just grab a pizza on your break? We can eat that stuff later.

That's stuff. That's stuff.

Opie says,

OP says, no, I'm locked in for the night. What's wrong with the short ribs? You literally just told me it was your favorite thing, so I made it special for you.
Kind of sucks.

Well, I tried it and it came out kind of gross anyway, so I'm tossing it. Can you ask to leave for a bit and stop by a Papa John's or something? I just want stuffed crust.
What do you mean gross?

You tossed it? As in like threw it away? It just tasted bad. I don't know what to tell you.
It wasn't eatable. It's not a big deal.
I just need to eat something tonight for dinner though. Did you ask?

Dude, what the fuck? That was expensive meat. Why would you throw it away? I already told you I'm not leaving work.
Well, I don't know what you expect me to do. It's simple as fuck.

Just order a pizza then if you're busy. Like, I have to eat something.
Hello? Places are closing soon. I'm busy at work.
I don't want to talk about it right now. Please figure it out.

We'll talk later.

She says, Seriously, you're going to be this much of an asshole over this. I didn't ask you to cook anything.

If you can't deal with the basics of being a supportive partner, then it should be something I consider and find someone who will support me.

Dude, oh no. Why can't she order the pizza? Yeah, I think that's my confusion.
That's my confusion. Why can't she get the Papa John's with the little pepper? I can't do it.

I can't do it.

Clearly, she has her phone.

Yeah, you have your phone in your hands. You have your phone in your hands.
Like, get it delivered at your workplace and just like heat it back up or something. Or like,

stop and get a frozen pizza. I feel like there's a lot of problem-solving.

Pizza closing soon. Papa John's is open forever.

You can get, if there's one thing you can get, it's

it's pizza. You can find a pizza somewhere.
I don't know where you live, but like, you could probably find a pizza. And if not, there's short ribs.
She's at home. She threw the short ribs away.

I think that's a little brutal to say like over text. Like I feel like I don't even know where to begin with this story.
There's so much. I'm like line by line.
Let's go.

This is a lot. This is a lot.
This is ridiculous. Okay.
This is where it goes beyond like needing, like, if I knew this guy, I'm like, we don't need to talk about this, man. yeah I know it's like

I'd be like man look in the mirror

everybody sit down take a breath yeah how long did they say how long they were together for

no but like we don't get much before the text messages so who posted this

the boyfriend posted this and

he posted all the screenshots of the text messages and

yeah

The verdict's not overreacting, by the way. Right, of course.
Of course. We probably get some more in the comments.
Let's go to the comments. Yeah, you really shouldn't be dating a teenager.

I can't comprehend this person being an adult. Sarcasm aside, get the hell out of this relationship.

You want to spend the next 40 years or whatever with someone who throws homemade meals in the garbage, demands pizza from a chain restaurant, and is seemingly incapable of ordering delivery herself, and is rude as fuck to you?

Dude, there are so many red flags in this exchange that you could open up an Etsy store selling used red flags and become a multi-millionaire. Okay,

fedora time.

Okay, stand-up comedian. OP responds to that, though.
Oh. And says, not sure why I can't edit to add more information on mobile, but I'm borrowing the top comment to answer some questions.

She lost her card last week while hanging out with some friends and had to cancel her accounts. She's using mine until her new one comes in the mail.
I have not gotten to eat any of the prepared food.

Cooking is my love language. I think I mostly just feel heartbroken at this point, and that's why I've decided to just finish work tonight and talk to her in the morning about it.

Dude, my God, she sounds useless.

It's his love language. I know, but that's what my gut.

I was thinking, like, maybe their love languages are like off, and then there's also no consideration. She threw it out, though.
She threw it out as crazy. Throwing it out before even asking.

Before he gets to eat it. Yeah.
Yeah. That's a breakup.

And I'm thinking, like, maybe there are a stew or whatever is savable. A stew's always savable.
I feel like a stick.

more of the other stuff.

I don't believe her that she tried it. No.

He wanted a pizza. Pizza.

It's not eatable. Eatable.

That's all I need.

I mispronounced stuff all the time, but no. And he works quickly.
She said it last night and he cooked it this morning. Damn.
I know.

She could have at least sent a text like, hey, babe, I appreciate you cooking dinner, but it wasn't my favorite. Can we order something else instead? Exactly.

There was no appreciation shown and just throwing it away was rude, especially if you liked it.

I honestly probably would have just ordered myself something else to eat and told you later that I didn't like it, etc. Your feelings are valid.
Update. Oh! Yes.
Yay.

After spending the morning at a friend's house, I went ahead and just went back to our apartment. I haven't really slept, honestly, with how anxious I've been.
Basically, I went back to the apartment.

She was there scrolling on her phone. I went ahead and just came out with it and explained to her that I can't keep trying to make things work with someone who doesn't care about what I do for them.

She started to cry and told me it's it's just the way her brain works and it's not her fault.

She said she's trying in therapy and that she feels like she doesn't deserve to be loved. I'm more or less followed up.

Oh no.

Oh no. I gotta go home.
I'm more or less followed up and explained to her I can't be the one to keep dealing with her when she treats me like garbage.

She basically got angry as hell at this point and told me I never cared and I never really tried or I wouldn't just leave over something so stupid. She broke a glass I kept from growing up.
She broke

a glass I kept from growing up that was sitting on our counter by throwing it on the ground, at which point I just stopped talking.

I spent an hour with her yelling and begging me while I grabbed things I have that are valuable. I'm just going to disappear for a bit at my friends.

I need to figure out what to do about the rent and stuff since we have a month until renewal. I know it's not really all that crazy of an update, but I'm throwing things.

But I wanted to just get in and out and be done after thinking about it and being ready to move on from being unhappy. I appreciate everyone's comments and to the people who reached out.

I'll be honest, I feel like I've wasted a ton of my life trying to help a broken person and it's just equal parts depressing while also a feeling of being empty and tired.

I'm going to try my best to make things better in my life and only give people who appreciate me and the stuff that I do.

That's the whole point.

You can't. You can't be down on yourself for

doing that thing of like trying to help help someone. I know we all have the thing of like, you can't, you know, they have to help themselves.

You can't be the person, but it's like, I feel like it's a canon event for most people to be in a relationship with someone who is like this, who has

probably some wonderful positive things, but then has

these other things that are hard to deal with.

It's a pairing that happens, I think.

So often and it's because when you know the source of someone's toxic traits. Exactly.
you go, well, I know why they're that way.

But at a certain point, you kind of have to be like, it doesn't matter. It doesn't change.
Because here we are right now and you're thermal. You're breaking my glass.

You're breaking glass on the floor. And I

can't be here for that. Exactly.
Exactly. Oh,

God. Jeez.
I think it's also too, like, you, you kind of like,

I think I'm a natural optimist, but I think in relationship, everyone is a natural optimist. So you're just like, you know, maybe they had a bad day.
You're being very compassionate.

You're being very empathetic. But there is a point in relationships where you can also go, this is just not gonna work.
Like, and it's like, I still care for the person. Of course.

There's still emotions there. Like he's probably going through some heartbreak too.
But like at some point, you got to be like, this is not my mess to fix.

And this is also not my person that I want to like continue with. And so you kind of have to like break the cycle.
So sometimes little things like this break it, where you're like, holy shit.

When the cycle breaks. You're like, oh my God.
And like, finally, I'm free.

Frontal lobes are connecting and snapping. And you're like,

you're like, oh, my God.

And then, like, six months later, when it's just a story, because everything you do turns into just a story, you're like, holy shit. Thank God I got out when I did.

Because like, that's just not a mess that I had to clean up. Right.
Especially when this is my life as well. And you look back and you go, there's no way I could have ever clipped.

Like there was no chance of me ever doing that. Exactly, exactly.
And, you know, I've been in situations where I look back and I go, oh, I was never going to help this person. Exactly.
Right, exactly.

Like, by just being bad. By just,

you know,

being part of the toxic,

they're doing their toxic things and I'm tolerating it. Right.
Like, what's going to happen here? No,

we have to leave. We have to leave.

And there's guilt.

I think there's like when you're that person that's like finally making call and witnessing all this stuff happen, like as he's packing up and she's crying and begging, like you're feeling guilty because you're like oh i am like quitting this thing but like some things are worth quitting and some things are worth walking away and relationships are like if you're in a bad relationship it is so like and not even bad a wrong relationship like it's painful as hell i'd much rather be by myself figuring out than being in like a situation like that.

So like he's making a good call, not only for him, but for her as well, because she has growth to do too. Saying I'm unlovable, it's like that's taking the accountability.

It's a manipulation technology. Exactly.
Taking the accountability out of it because it's like you unlovable. You just crashed a glass from my childhood on the floor.

Are you trying to prove your own point? Exactly. Like it's a self-fulfilling prophecy at that point.
Exactly. Yeah.
Oh, God. I mean, it's painful.
I feel bad, but both of them, in a way, you know?

It's like, but he is making the right move by getting out.

And sometimes the chemistry of like two people like that is just like a bad situation.

Like I've I've not been perfect in relationships either, and just that chemistry is often sometimes you have two people that don't

mix, right? It's like the volcano experiment, like baking soda and the like vinegar. It's like

it's just like, this is not my best. And I don't know.

We don't know.

You're like, I'm not bringing my TK. I'm bringing my TK.
I'm not bringing my hydrogen peroxide.

Yeah, exactly.

We don't know their ages, but I do think it sounds like

she sounds very young. Yeah.
Maybe she's not, but she's coming across.

But I'm glad that she's in therapy. Yes.

But I'm sure the therapist would probably be glad to know, like, hey, yeah, that relationship should not be happening, like, especially if this is the type of behavior she's eliciting.

But I'm hopeful, like, you know, like if she genuinely puts work in, which it sounds like she needs to still do, but

you won't ever find that like

answer to, like, am I unlovable in another person? Nope, like, you gotta, like, RuPaul, what does RuPaul say? You gotta love yourself first. How the hell are you gonna love somebody else?

Yeah, exactly. If you don't love yourself, and like, that's a hundred percent it is like true.

If you don't find the reasons why you would fall in love with you, like, it's just never, it's gonna be an endless source of failed relationships. Yeah, right.

Um, well, I hope for the best for the both of them. Same, but and they will, but I'm, yeah.
They will. I'm very optimistic.
If they didn't work, they will. Right.

All right. Moving on to our last story.
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This comes from relationship advice. Comes from 2022.
I, a 25-year-old woman, begged my partner, a 28-year-old man, for an open relationship. Eight months in, he left.
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Someone else? Oh,

so I have read so many stories on Reddit. We don't read a lot of these types of ones ones here, but I have read so many stories and heard so many stories about

people

in monogamous relationships asking for poly relationships and then it backfiring on them. Yes.

I've heard about that so much. It's also similar.
There are so many stories on Reddit about people having threesomes and then the aftermath of it. And they are crazy stories.

This is a wild one to end with. This is nuts.
Eight months ago, I, a 25-year-old woman, asked my partner, a 28-year-old man, for an open relationship as I got bored with him.

Oh.

Nothing wrong, but he just didn't excite me much. And he agreed, but he proceeded to tell me there's a catch.
If he catches feelings for a partner, he's going to leave me for her. Oh.
Oh.

This is like a. Yeah, it's like.

Yeah, you want to do this? Yeah, oh, you want to

do this? You want to

Yeah, and then if I fuck someone real good, I'm going to post that.

So he said if he catches feelings for a partner, he's going to leave me for her.

And that's exactly what happened.

Well, he said it was going to happen. And she was born.

And she continues, I want him back in my arms. He left me for his new partner.
What can I do to win the love of my life back? Time machine, baby. Still alive.
Time machine. Love of your life.

I thought he bored you.

He was fucking boring, dude. Look, man, that's not a reason.
That's not a reason to get into an open relationship. Like,

come on, man.

Wait, that's the whole thing?

So that's, I will say there's an update. Oh, okay.
But that's the main story.

That is the post. Okay, so she posted that being like, guys,

I was bored. I was bored, so I wanted an open relationship.
So I went open relationships. And he told me exactly what would happen and it happened.
And he did. Bold move on him to be like, well, all

So it's like basically like you have an open door to do like one night stand.

From what I know of people who have open relationships is it is like you

everything is an agreed upon thing. Exactly.
You have to

really lay it out.

But it's also the people that I know that are, that it seems to be working with, it's like they got, they both got into a poly relationship Yeah, it was like that was to be a monogamous relationship and then be like uh Let's open our relationship it does not work

in at least in for anecdotally from everyone I know

that I'm like no one of you wanted to cheat and or you were already cheating and this is your way into it.

It's like no if you want to be poly I think you need to end your relationship and go and then start a poly relationship on even grounds.

But like to go from monogamous to poly both of you probably have different ideas of it. You're both going into a new thing to like at the same time.
Your ideas of it are so different.

You're starting a new relationship.

And then it didn't work out. This new type of relationship didn't work for you.
Yeah, I've never explored open relationship. Claudio and I are monogamous, but we've had this conversation a lot.

Just to like go through the exercise. Right.
Just to be like, what would that be like if we did that? Exactly, exactly.

And to me, it's like, it's not even like if we're doubling the relationship, it's double the I think it's like exponential. I think it's like,

if we were to have an open relationship, it's not double the work.

It's almost like triple the work because it's like, yeah, it's just exponentially the communication needs to go, the dynamics between all the different things, the like nights out, like that, there's a lot involved that there's like a social responsibility in those dynamics to put a lot of work into it.

It's a massive change. And if you're making that change, it's got to be like, oh, this is something so deep in me.
Yeah. That this is who I am and this is what I want.

Not just, oh, I got bored with my partner.

Yeah. It does sound fun.
In Fluffy World, it's like, oh, yeah, I get to smooch the cuties over there. I go home to my love of my life.
Isn't that nice and beautiful? Exactly.

Isn't that nice and beautiful? But if you really think about it,

it's complex and soft.

Okay.

See, I have too much anxiety for that shit. I'm like,

yeah. I just think it's like what Claudio and I have like with us being together in our love is like, I just love it so much.

That is like an an hour or two of playtime really worth all that extra hubbub to like make that worth it.

I'm like, well, no, and if I'm bored, maybe in like our sex life or whatever, that's a conversation to have with my partner first before I go exploring.

So like if she was bored in the bedroom, like talking about it's also blaming, she's like, I got bored with him. And it's like, hey,

that's a thing. Yeah.
But this is how you're solving it. It's like, and it's like, exactly.
You're bored with him. That may not be just him.
That's you two together. Yeah.
That's the dynamic.

There was a really interesting, I forget, it was in a book I read about like, you know, when you've been together for years upon years, like you have to find a way to continue the narrative. Yes.

Right. Because when you're single and you're dating, it's like, it's like, whoa, all these exciting elements.
Like, whoa. Yeah.

And that's, that's, she's looking for a rush that she'll get from meeting new people. Exactly.
But that rush will end too. Exactly.

She's treating it like a drug where it's like, you can find that rush. Exactly.
Yeah. But you have to work on that together.
And that's creativity, communication, like maybe a sex therapist.

Like, these things work. Totally.
They take time and focus. No, but she made a brash, massive decision not considering the ramifications.

I just love that he was like, I will leave you if I catch feeling. Crazy move.
And he did it. He thought, like, that'll get her to not open up the relationship.
I think he, to me,

it feels like he almost broke up then and there.

Like he was like, this relationship's over.

Go hunting for someone else. Comments.
Comments. Not going to lie, that's the ultimate reverse card for this situation.
Big ups, your ex.

OP said, really?

He said exactly what he was going to do.

Someone said, ha ha, good for him. Get a therapist to help you work on yourself so you learn to end an unhealthy relationship instead of pretending to be Polly.

OP said, I've been in and out of therapy for at least a year now. Someone said, Yes, really, you played yourself.

He didn't excite you, so you asked for an open relationship, and now you want him back when he caught feelings for someone else while in the open relationship that you asked for in the first place.

You only have yourself to blame for this one. You should stay single for a while and grow up.
I don't want to be single. I want to prove to my boyfriend I can be better now.

Sure. All right.
Okay. It's too late.
Update. Oh.

Probably nobody asked for this, but here's an update.

It's so aggressive. Probably nobody asked for this.

The way that this person writes. Probably nobody asked for this.

I was kicked out of his house last Sunday. That's six days now, and I excruciatingly miss him.

I will do anything to get him to return to me, but he looks happy on social media with his new partner that I'm pretty sure he was cheating on me with.

But you were open. You were in an open relationship.
Anyways, I tried calling him. No answer.
I saw him in public, and he pretended to not even know who the fuck I was.

He won't acknowledge my existence, so I went to our former place just to talk, and things got hostile. His new girlfriend hates me for some reason.

I didn't even know her, and she proceeded to try and attack me while he tried to split us up and get me out the door. When he had his back turned, she maced me.

What?

And now he's trying to file a restraining order on me. The hell did I do wrong? She attacked me and pepper sprayed me.
Didn't you show up at their house? Yes, she did.

How can I convince him he's dating a psychopath?

Uh-oh.

Jerry. Jerry.

Jerry.

Oh my god. That's wild.
That's embarrassing. Is this real? It's probably not, but

it's probably, I'll say this. It's probably not, but

I know of these types of situations happening. I know of these anecdotally.

Not of showing up and getting pepper sprayed, but of the open relationship turned into regret, into

classic story. Turner classic.
Comments, you got what you wanted. And if anyone sounds like a psychopath, it's you who was stalking their ex.

Seek some mental health or do some inner reflection, but most importantly, leave the man alone and move on. Stalking, I previously lived at that residence.

Our narrative was.

She's like, I got kicked out six days ago. Kicked out is not like, I moved out.
It's like, this feels like Joe from you.

You know how Joe from you can like rationalize every reason he like murdered every woman on that show and every person. It's like you, you are like out of touch with reality and perception.
Like

you should turn actually to your closest friends and community. Hopefully they can call you out on your shit because like bring it back home.

Like yeah, if it's getting to like legal to mace to like separating like That woman also in the relationship with your ex had nothing to do with this.

She was exploring a relationship that I hope he was like open and honest about being open to.

There's no reason to go after her either. Yeah, this is a delusional person, if they're real.

You need to leave him alone. This isn't going to end well for you.
Opie responded, I can't walk away until this is fixed. Uh-oh.
Walk away.

Someone said, and if it was an open relationship, then how was it cheating? She says, because he left me within eight months. That's way too fast.

eight months is two quarters two fiscal quarters that is a very long time okay update number two oh here we go again

this will probably be the last update the restraining order has been

thank you queen we love that the restraining order has been filled and I am not allowed within 100 feet of my ex Harry and his new girlfriend Jess I'm planning to move back to my home in Arizona and start over they're happy and I just want to find peace with myself thanks for everyone's advice and opinions Yes, I was already in therapy and I am still in therapy.

Please, anyone my age or younger, listen to my advice. TikTok is not cool.
Please delete it. It's done me nothing but harm and other people's stupidity can really poison your minds in living proof.

Thank you. Take care.
I'm starting to go back to thinking this is real and this is a person who is very like

they've lost their mind. Yeah, they lost the plot.
So OP in the comments alluded that TikTok was the reason she wanted an open relationship. She saw some stuff talking about it.

So this is a very immature. Wait, wait wait.
You're telling me everything on TikTok is not to be trusted. It's not to be trusted.
You're telling me that is some sort of misinformation?

You're telling me all the people that are poly on TikTok may not be on to something?

Update number three. Josh, let's go.
This is. Let's go.
So this is two years later.

Can I make a Can I make an assumption that she's going to like open it up with like nagging herself about doing an update. Like guys, I can't believe.
I'm like, literally, no one asked for this, but.

It's been two years. I've tried to stay offline and live life, but my ex and his now wife find new ways to live in my head rent-free.
I wanted an open relationship, so what?

You don't just string me along for eight months, get some new girl who you met through me, and then marry her. She's, this isn't fair.

She's living in my home with someone who should be my husband, and he's been renewing the restraining order ever since it first expired.

And I know he's going to keep doing it because for reasons beyond my knowledge the man hates me FML

dude this is why she's doing it

two years later oh man this is why he's doing it guys I fear this is real I fear this is real the way and I will also say the way this is written has me like this person is typing this not like they're just going off oh this is bad

now I'm like scared for the husband and wife and this is beyond entitled this is they're they're in a different world.

They're living on a different planet and it's unfortunate. Two years later,

what kind of therapy? I think the on and off, I've been in on and off therapy for, I think that like might say it too, because it's like.

On and off when you're leaving a therapist as soon as they call you out on something exactly untrustworthy narrative. That could be a thing.
Right. That could be a thing.

Yikes.

Take, take, take the hint. I don't know.
It's been two years.

I don't know what. I feel like the hint's going to stick.
I don't know what you would do. Also, like,

did she not meet anyone nice when she was open? Like, I find it so hard to be so sprung, like, when he's clearly moved on. The story that I've heard on Reddit that is one of my favorite stories is

a person writes in about their parents. And what happens is their parents were in their like 50s.
The dad wants an open relationship. So they begin to have an open relationship.

He starts sleeping with his secretary, who he clearly had already been sleeping with. Yeah.
And then the mom just starts sleeping with tons of dudes. I love it.

And the dad loses his mind, and then the mom leaves him. And the dad, like, then the secretary left him.
And it just like plays out just horrendously for the dad.

I am always amazed.

I mean, this person is, this is scary, but I'm always amazed at people who cheat and do so much horrible stuff and then are blown away and cannot handle when their partner leaves them.

I'm like, wait, you thought you were allowed to just make all these mistakes and do all these horrible things and treat your partner so horribly.

And the second that they choose themselves, you can't handle it. And they often can't handle it for years.

Yeah, yeah. Cause I think, like,

when you're in that position, you're not even thinking of the consequences or you're rationalizing why this can be totally okay.

Like, Ned Try Guys podcast, like, that's the kind of situation you're like looking into. And it's like,

it's just already gone once you've like disconnected from like the reality of the situation. Oof.

Wow. Yeah.

Well,

that's all our stories. Wow.
Damn. That was great.

That was really solid. I think we did good here.

I feel really good. I feel like good work here.
Yeah. I think we're going to get an Emmy for this episode.

Yeah, let's get an Emmy. We're going to get an Egot for this.
Yeah, Brett Link can, right? Egot nominated or something. We can.
Damn, Sarah coming back and just shooting shots at other channels.

All right. Let's go.

Sarah, thank you so much for joining us again. Thank you guys so much.
These are so fun. I love

it. I love coming back.
I love coming back. Well, I think we'll see you on some other videos too.

Yeah, just a few other ones today and tomorrow. Yeah, just a couple of times.
Just a couple other things. You're on a whole tour.
Nice.

And Tommy, thank you for joining us. Okay, thanks.
Okay.

Yeah, I live here. All right.

And thank you so much for watching. Let us know what other types of stories and categories and subreds you want to see on this show.
And we'll see you next Saturday. Goodbye.
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