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killerwhat
May 13, 2010

There’s no way this guy is doing any cleaning or home maintenance, I assume it’s not just cooking she’s doing.

Edit: hmm snipe
I was looking for content and found an update that I didn't remember seeing, about the woman who pretended she could speak multiple languages.

Update: AITA for accidentally calling out a new colleague on lying about her language skills?

quote:

So a couple of months ago things went down with a new colleague who was lying about her language skills. Original here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AmItheAsshole/comments/logumz/aita_for_accidentally_calling_out_a_new_colleague/

Many people gave the advice to go to HR, others said NOT to go to HR because that would be escalating the situation. I decided not to go to HR right then, but I did take the advice to write down what happened, with the time and the names of the other colleagues present just in case. I thought the situation might blow over, because Cathy was probably just embarrassed.

Well, I was wrong. Cathy kept being cold to me, rolling her eyes at me in meetings and talking behind my back. Another colleague came to confront me at one point to ask me why I'd been so mean. Apparently Cathy was telling a different version of what happened. Cathy said that I'd said mean things to her in Dutch and was making fun of her in Dutch, so no one else but her could understand. She was smart enough to only tell these stories to colleagues who weren't actually there for it. Word got around and it turned into a bigger issue, with a couple people actually questioning my character, mostly just colleagues that don't work very close to me.

HR got wind of it after a while and I got called in close to a month after the incident. They had already met with Cathy and she'd told them the "she cursed me out in Dutch and was very mean to me" story. I told them the full story and everything that happened after. They asked me if there was anyone else present who could confirm this, so those colleagues came and told them that Cathy had lied about speaking a language, stormed out and then started calling me a b-word etc. to others. They thanked me for my time and I got on with work.

Nothing happened until a week later when I was informed that Cathy was asked to leave. Apparently Cathy had doubled down on the lies and told everyone I was the one lying and she did speak those languages, so my boss told her in that case she'd have no problem talking to one of our Canadian colleagues (who wasn't involved in the situation) in French in front of him, just to confirm. At this point Cathy admitted she had been lying. It turned out she didn't speak a word of French either, or Norwegian, which was the third language she was lying about. This was enough for them to let her go, because part of the reason they hired her was that they were so impressed by her speaking multiple languages and work experiences she'd had abroad. The work experiences were made up as well.

I'm just happy it's over. I'm confident it wasn't really my fault it blew up now, if it wasn't me who caught her in a lie, someone else probably would have down the line. The few people who kind of believed her ended up coming to me and apologizing for questioning me about what happened, so that's all sorted

Edit: some people asking why they didn't test her language skills in the hiring process: our jobs don't actually require us to speak Dutch, French or Norwegian. I think they probably just saw it as a "plus" or something that made her stand out from other candidates.

Sorry if this already got posted before. I like how Cathy tried to double-down as long as possible.

killerwhat fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Jun 17, 2021

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therattle
Jul 24, 2007
Soiled Meat

henkman posted:

AITA for mentioning to my partner how awkward it is when her sister stays?

Having a 3 year old her dominance and own you this much

Has nobody suggested that perhaps the 3-year-old is the 24-year-old's daughter, who lived with her at the parents' house and was called the sister to prevent embarrassment at a child being born out of wedlock? Now the kid is angry at the BF for taking mommy away.

Barudak
May 7, 2007

DoubleNegative posted:

The comments on that one go from 0-100 real quick. To quote the OP farther down...

Sounds like this woman is already busy laying the foundation for "you can't see your family anymore, they're literally trying to kill me."

There is absolutely no way this wasn't what she was doing and the family should immediately have sided with him when she was claiming missing text messages and food that she ate that morning suddenly affecting her now and not being worth mentioning.

School Nickname
Apr 23, 2010

*fffffff-fffaaaaaaarrrtt*
:ussr:

Owlspiracy posted:

now as a functioning adult i just want to scream WHY

Can't help but think of the goon quote, "Imprisoned by the good dick" in situations like this.

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!



my coworker told everyone we’re married … we’re not even dating



quote:

Last year, I left on a leave of absence for a few months to take care of my elderly parents. Then I returned to work. Apparently during that time, one of my coworkers began telling people we were married … not as in “work wife,” as in legally married, and everyone believed him. Honestly, I had no idea he had any feelings for me and I don’t think he knew I would be coming back. I’m an introvert; I keep my personal life private and don’t talk about myself much, but the fact is, I have a husband (not him) who I’ve been married to for 10 years.

Not wanting to cause him embarrassment, I privately went to our boss, explained the situation behind closed doors, and asked for a department transfer. Even though he’s never sexually harassed me or made a move on me, I’m very uncomfortable being around him right now and don’t want any contact with him. My boss agreed, said she would speak to him, and though she didn’t have the authority to move me to another department, she would see to it that we wouldn’t be put on a team together, and kindly offered to adjust the schedule so he wouldn’t be in the office at times when I was there.

I’ve tried to handle this whole mess as discreetly as I can, but today I lost it. He walked into the break room while I was in there, and I basically yelled at him in front of everyone there, saying I’m not his wife and to stop telling people we’re married. I know this was not the most mature way to handle the situation, but I was at my wit’s end. What to do?

ilmucche
Mar 16, 2016

teen witch posted:

I won’t probe you for this, but take it to DMs, PMs, or the streets. If the latter, I require video proof, ideally with “world star” being shouted.

I do kind of miss shaky vertically-filmed videos of something happening with someone screaming world star hip hop in the background. It seems like that era of the internet is over

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

Mx. posted:


my coworker told everyone we’re married … we’re not even dating


The followup to this Ask A Manager is insane.

quote:

I think he was in shock, because he said nothing but immediately left the room. However, there was definitely a palpable tension between me and my colleagues who had witnessed the whole thing. As I said before, I didn’t want to cause a scene or embarrass him publicly … unfortunately, I was “in the moment” and I let my emotions get the best of me. I fear there can be no good resolution to this situation. Either I’ve just exposed him as a liar to my coworkers, or they think I’m the one lying, since he’d apparently been telling people we were married for quite some time. Since I can’t transfer departments, I’m entertaining the idea of putting in my two weeks, but I’m still emotionally reeling from what happened and I don’t want to do anything impulsive or make the situation worse.

Just terminal doormat syndrome. In what world do you have to justify to people that you're not married to someone?

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


and then she quit, just the weirdest update

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012
girl who bullied me in middle school and high school found out where I work and won't stop harassing me.

quote:

this is in MI. This girl in particular made my life a living hell when I was in middle school and continued the bullying and harassment even when I went to another high school on the other side of the school district. She has now found out where I work and will not stop harassing me on my linkedin and other social media and keeps prank calling my office to the point where I'm scared I'm going to lose my job. I need some advice.

We are both in our late 20s (I will be 28 in a few months). This person would spread rumors about me having a penis and being transgendered or gay and both physically and verbally bullied me in middle school up until my senior year of high school. She would throw things at me when I was walking down the hall and even pushed me down the stairs once (which I got in trouble for because the hall monitor thought I was 'fooling around' and I almost got suspended for it (?)). She made up a derogatory name for me (it was a play on words of my name and a derogatory slur for homosexual people) and would shout it in the hall all the time and even etched it into my locker which I also got into a lot of trouble for.

obviously there is nothing wrong with being gay and there is nothing wrong with being transgender but it obviously was still name calling and harassment (this took place back in 2006 for those who are wondering). The school didn't do anything about it and my parents didn't care.

When I was in high school, she made a fake facebook profile for me and would post links to porn websites (and made them public) and would photoshop photos of me on there and would keep doing it no matter how many times I blocked her. I tried numerous times to get facebook to get the page taken down and they wouldn't do it. What's also funny was that this girl wasn't super popular or anything. She was part of the emo/scene/art clique or group or whatever in school.

I finally never heard from her again after I started college up until this point. Apparently she is some kind of graphic designer in our hometown. Beginning late last week, she has been *67 calling my phone, left numerous bad reviews about me on the google reviews page of the agency I work at, wont stop messaging me on linkedin and now is prank calling my office. I knew it was her because I was called downstairs by the secretary and she mentioned the caller and that they were asking if (insert derogatory name she called me here) worked here and that she didn't know that my place of employment hired transgender people. My heart sank when the secretary told me that this is the 10th time that they have called this week. I'm now worried about losing my job over this and I have no idea what to do.

Like.... Are you seriously that bored in your pathetic life to still bully me 15 years later??


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Yt0xJKDY8

But seriously I want the update to this real bad. The fact that no adults did anything to assist and only made poo poo worse is just :discourse:

E: went through the OPs other posts and boy howdy I now get why their parents did nothing, poor gal. Last thing she needs is a stalker from MIDDLE SCHOOL

teen witch fucked around with this message at 11:23 on Jun 17, 2021

Mx.
Dec 16, 2006

I'm a great fan! When I watch TV I'm always saying "That's political correctness gone mad!"
Why thankyew!


teen witch posted:

girl who bullied me in middle school and high school found out where I work and won't stop harassing me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1Yt0xJKDY8

But seriously I want the update to this real bad. The fact that no adults did anything to assist and only made poo poo worse is just :discourse:

what the fuuuuck
absolutely lovely that everybody is still doing nothing about it

Evil Willow
Apr 26, 2007
Bored now...
AITA for prioritizing my well-being over a child's happiness?

quote:

Emotions are running high in this issue, so an outside perspective would really help here. Thanks in advance for offering your judgments!

The people involved (we all live together):

- Me (24F)

- L (boyfriend of 2.5 years, 55M)

- M (bf's son, 15m)

- D (bf's daughter, 10F)

So this issue begins with typical weekday mornings. M and D get up for school. L and I are in bed, sleeping.

D comes into L's bedroom, and asks him questions about her morning routine. Questions such as "can I open this box of cereal? I don't like the other ones", or "how hot is it outside today?" (both kids have a weather app on their tablets and know how to use it, but sometimes she just prefers to ask her dad).
Sometimes she just comes in because she wants attention, and she'll start playfights just for fun.
And that is where the problem begins.

To say I have sleep issues is an understatement. It often takes me hours of tossing and turning to fall asleep at night. I am a very light sleeper and rely on a fan next to the bed to drown out the sounds of the kids' morning routines in the other rooms. D wakes me up when she comes into the room to talk, and it can take me hours to fall asleep again. It cuts several hours out of my day and leaves me feeling like crap.
L is the opposite. He tends to fall asleep quickly, and has no problem with being woken up.

The problem escalates when I try to talk to L about it. I have explained my sleep issues to him. I have asked him to encourage D to solve her own age-appropriate problems without coming in and waking me up.
L is unsympathetic to my side of the issue. He says she is just a kid and shouldn't have to "walk on eggshells" around me. He says I'm being selfish and inconsiderate of D.
He says I should just go to bed earlier (my body says otherwise).

He thinks he is standing up for his daughter, but I think he is encouraging overly dependent behaviour that comes at my expense.

So, Reddit, is my request reasonable? Or am I the rear end in a top hat here?

Ghost Leviathan
Mar 2, 2017

Exploration is ill-advised.
It says something when workplaces are less tolerant of violence and harassment than schools.

DreamingofRoses
Jun 27, 2013
Nap Ghost

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for prioritizing my well-being over a child's happiness?

- Me (24F)

- L (boyfriend of 2.5 years, 55M)

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

There was a group of guys that would randomly shove me in school, one day I turned around and laid one out and ended up getting suspended.

American schools will punish you for making an issue of anything basically rather than being a doormat

artsy fartsy
May 10, 2014

You'll be ahead instead of behind. Hello!
Right into my veins, y'all

AITA for my telling my father how I planned to take care of him?

quote:

I’ll start this off with my father and mother are divorced. I grew up with my mother and maybe every other weekday with my father. I noticed for a while that my dad was falling off the deep end a little while before the separation. I don’t remember when, but (it felt out of nowhere) my father really became obsessed with money and appearances. Suddenly being a slightly overweight father of three became repulsive to him.

This cause a rift in which my father stopped using his paycheck for things like food and bills, and started for “cool things” like a new car, tv, computer. Which of course burned through my parent’s savings and got to the point he was spending my mother’s check too. Eventually this lead to a divorce. (I also didn’t know about any of this cause I was like 10. I thought my dad was still my dad)

So when mom left dad she went to court to settle custody and we (my sister’s and I) were asked who we wanted to live with and we all said mom. Dad was “forced” to pay 1/3 of his paycheck for child support. In reality it was like $100 a week if that.

My father did this for years, forced my mother to pay for rent, clothes, toys, school supplies, and food on one paycheck. All in an attempt to financially manipulate her to going back to him.

When I grew up and learned everything, cause my father always poo poo talked my mom I always half believed him. I started to hate him and even one day asked “why did you do that? Why did you give us less money in turn giving us less opportunities when you could of helped us.”

And he said and I quote “because I could”

This has turned my against my father entirely, I hate the man. But today my sister and niece are in town my father dropped by. It eventually came up how we were already planing mom’s retirement and how we had it mostly figured out. So he naturally asked what our plans for him were. We didn’t have one except me.

I told him that I planned to pay him $100 every other week I felt like paying it. Just like him.

He asked me why I would do such a thing and be so cruel to my own father?

I told him because I could.

My partner and sisters weren’t happy with me, saying I was cruel. How I shouldn’t treat my father that way, but I don’t think so. I think my father shouldn’t be so upset to see consequences of his own actions.

cumshitter
Sep 27, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
"You can't prove a negative. And you can't prove I'm not NOT married to my wife."

"I don't want to make a scene but we're not married."

The Manager: Hmmm....... you both present strong arguments.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

artsy fartsy posted:

Right into my veins, y'all

AITA for my telling my father how I planned to take care of him?

Oh yeah :thatsrad:

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

There was a group of guys that would randomly shove me in school, one day I turned around and laid one out and ended up getting suspended.

American schools will punish you for making an issue of anything basically rather than being a doormat

They sure do. When I first moved here I got bullied pretty bad, like physically assaulted on the school bus, and eventually I gave up and started riding the public bus to school instead where I'd only occasionally get punched in by high school kids I didn't know. Eventually I went to the school councilor because I was at the end of my rope and just needed someone, literally anyone, to just be on my side I guess and he just flat out told me it was my own fault for not looking like the other students, and what could I possibly expect? And I guess he was right, but that didn't really help, especially when even teachers would just single me out in class for looking and sounding different from the other kids and humiliate me day in and day out.

Anyway I wound up taking like a week off when I had a nervous breakdown or something at the age of twelve. Just spent a week laying in bed staring at the ceiling.

artsy fartsy posted:

Right into my veins, y'all

AITA for my telling my father how I planned to take care of him?

:boom:

thotsky
Jun 7, 2005

hot to trot

BOOTY-ADE posted:

First time I heard "findom" I thought it was a weird furry sex thing that involved fish or something

You're thinking of flipperdom.

thotsky fucked around with this message at 12:17 on Jun 17, 2021

Cythereal
Nov 8, 2009

I love the potoo,
and the potoo loves you.
From the Rejected Parents thread:

AITA for not acknowledging I have a sister?

quote:

9 years ago, we found out that my (28F) mother had a five-year affair with someone she met from work. My parents divorced and she went on to get re-married to the man, Greg. My mother moved her husband and his daughter, Kylie (26F) from his previous marriage into our house and I lived with them before I left for college. I remained in minimal contact with them until Kylie joined my company and started working in my department. Nobody was aware of our relations since we had different last names and I had told Kylie not to disclose anything about this.

Last Friday, while clocking into work with a few of my co-workers, Kylie came up to me and asked if I could come home for a family dinner. By lunch, our entire department was gossiping about it and Kylie would confirm their suspicions. Fed up, I told the department that I do not have a sister.

Things died down at work and I agreed to make it to dinner considering it was my mother's birthday. At dinner, I was bombarded with questions about why I refused to acknowledge my sister at work and refused to even call her my sister. Greg told me I was a petty bully for embarrassing Kylie at work and that he has had enough of me mistreating his daughter. He told my mother that my misbehavior was a result of my parents' coddling. He demanded that I address him as my father and Kylie as my sister and to tell everyone at work that too.

At that point, I had enough of his relentless chastising so I told him that all he signed was a marriage certificate and not adoption papers so I am not his daughter, therefore, will not be addressing him as my father. I brought up the fact that I know my dad had created an account for my college fund and paid child support each month, but they used the funds to purchase a new car and to pay off credit card debt. Back then, they told me that I would have to get a part-time job to help with paying off college because money was tight since they just got a new car. I always found it weird that Kylie never had to get a job to go to college and could afford to stay in a nice apartment during.

Kylie was crying by the end of the argument, my mother broke down and yelled at me to stop while Greg called me an ungrateful bitch. I told them that if they only have the capacity to acknowledge and care for one daughter, then do not expect me to be in Kylie's life as her big sister and left the house. I guess Kylie posted about it on social media because friends and family called me up. Some told me I was being harsh and unfair to Greg and my mother who took care of me as well as Kylie who had nothing to do with this while some understood where I was coming from. So, AITA for doing this?

Propaniac
Nov 28, 2000

SUSHI ROULETTO!
College Slice
I did my own dirty work and tracked down the cable box story myself. Hope nobody minds a repost (in part so I'll have it in my history forever).

Me [30F] with my bf [35M] of 6 years, I have repeatedly caught him lying and just discovered he is hiding that our house is being foreclosed on. I don't know what to do.

quote:

Hi reddit. I'm pretty desperate to be posting here. My boyfriend browses reddit so I have used a throwaway and changed the details a tad and will need to be vague about other things. My apologies.

TL;DR My lying boyfriend may have lost his inherited house to foreclosure, after we got evicted from our rental property, because he insists on handling the finances and does so poorly. Can counseling help us or is the relationship a loss and I should run? I don't have a job or a car but I am in college. Moving would mean a super long commute or dropping out. Should I give him a deadline to get a job or stay silent and re access the situation once my semester is over?

I am a 30 year old female currently in a 6 year relationship with my boyfriend who is 35. The past few years have been extremely rocky for us. 2 years ago my boyfriend began to start the process of opening a small business. I was all for it and he asked for my help. I was unhappy with my current job so I went part-time to help him while he quit his job outright. I was under the impression that we were financially secure enough that we would have enough money to survive until the business was open. I later learned this was a lie.

The first lie was that he had secured a building for the business but would never let myself or any of our friends who were helping him go to the building. After expressing my concerns to a mutual friend they suggested I ask for physical evidence that he owned the building because our friend could not find anything online like real estate transfers or taxes that indicated my bf had bought the building. That night when I got home I asked to see the key to the building. When he gave some excuse for not having it on him I flat out said that I thought he was lying and that the building didn't exist. We then had the worse fight in our entire relationship. We were both sobbing, me because I felt betrayed and him because he was scared I was going to leave him that night. He begged me not to leave. He claimed that he did try to buy a building but at the last second the owner changed their mind and didn't want to sell and that he was too embarrassed to come forward and tell of us and was hoping he would be able to secure another building before we found out. As a result he lost a friend and another friend took a giant step back. Both of these people still consider me a friend.

After this we struggled to survive. We had to constantly borrow money off his parents for groceries. He claimed that he was scrounging up enough money to pay our rent and utilities. Our cell phones were turned off in April of that year. My phone was a requirement for my job so I was let go. In June we discovered that our landlord had start the proceedings to evict us. The court document said it was for unpaid rent. My boyfriend still swears up and down that he paid our rent, delivering it to our landlord in cash. We found out too late to fight it. His parents offered to let us stay with them until we got back on our feet so we moved in with them.

Both of his parents were sick and elderly. Within a few months of us moving in his mother ended up in the hospital and ended up passing away. His father was extremely disabled but was of sound mind so we told him we would stay and take care of him so he wouldn't have to go to a nursing home. My boyfriend and I fought constantly about the care of his father. My boyfriend felt that I wasn't doing my part. In hindsight, I agree with him, but at the time his father did show a preference of being cared for by his son when it came to bodily functions.

By now we were both struggling with depression. I felt trapped. I started taking part-time classes at my community college. Nothing life changing, mainly some art classes to get myself out of the house. My boyfriend stayed home to take care of his father and said he would work on starting his small business when his father no longer needed our care whether it was his death or where it got to the point where we could not take care of him.

Last summer his father took a sudden turn for the worse and he passed away. I continued to take classes at school while my boyfriend claimed he was very slowly moving forward with his small business. We ran out of money just before Thanksgiving. My boyfriend claims that we are still owed both his father's life insurance as well as the remainder of his mother's that was put into his father's bank account and never touched it. My boyfriend would always try to cheer me up and tell me that everything was going to be ok and that he would fix it and I believed him.

In January when I was having a particularly bad episode of depression my boyfriend claimed that in a matter of a few days he applied for a job online, was interviewed, hired, and mailed his first assignment. He claimed the job was for red-team security. Something about it reminded me of the building incident from a couple years ago so I asked him to see his first assignment, the paperwork, an email with the job offer, anything. He claimed he had to delete the email for security purposes but would be able to show me the computer the company had supposedly mailed him. After this talk I took a quick shower and when I had gotten out and was in the process of getting dressed he brought a backpack into the room, opened it up only a little and said "see? There's the computer they sent me." I took one glance at it and just said "that's the back of a cable box." He went quiet for a moment and then said "how do you always catch me?". We then had another bad fight. I was upset because I had told him in the past that after the last incident I never wanted him lying to me again. I just wanted him to tell me the truth so we could work on it together. He claimed he was tired of seeing me being so sad and depressed and he hoped that by fibbing about the job that maybe by the time things seemed amiss that he would had already gotten a new job. I yelled at him for two hours. I'm not proud of it. I called one of my friends to see if I could stay at her place for awhile to think but she was out of town so it forced us to talk. The one thing that was different about this fight was that he insisted I was better off without him and that I should ran as far away from him as I could because he didn't want to ruin my life anymore than he already has. After this fight I began my own job search looking for a full-time job but so far I have had a few interviews but no offers.

Again, he promised to stop lying and hiding things. Again, I believed him that he would try to make a change. I insisted he get counseling for himself and that we get couples counseling. He agreed. Because of our money situation I was ok if we had to put off the couples counseling for awhile but he has state medical insurance because of a terminal health condition he has so I asked him to get that started ASAP and to please bring me some kind of evidence that he went. His appointment was late last month and his proof was a generic looking advertisement that was the size of a business card. I don't really believe that he went, especially with his story that the therapist offered him a prescription for adderall to help with anxiety on the first visit. His next appointment isn't until the end of June.

Maybe it was dumb of me, but up until this past January I was able to forgive all this. No one is perfect. Maybe he didn't realize how big the lies were until they were uncovered. It's hard for him to reach out for help because of shame and embarrassment. The excuses seemed reasonable.

The main thing that has me worried is that this past weekend I noticed he has received several letters from lawyers. I did not open his mail but he did leave one letter out in the open. I looked at it. It was a letter offering to represent him for the upcoming foreclosure of his parents house (his parents had taken out a loan for a new roof right before his father got extremely sick and used the house as collateral). The house we are living in. He hasn't transferred the house into his name yet at the (supposedly) advice of his parents' lawyer because there is a wrongful death lawsuit around his mother's death.

I cannot lose another house. I will not be homeless. I love him to death. I want to have a future with him and have a family but I am at my wit's end. I am absolutely convinced that if I leave him I will never find someone I love as much as him and that I will be alone for the rest of my life. I am finally coming to the conclusion that love is not enough and that I may need to sacrifice my dream of being a mother and raising a family in order to survive.

I spent all of Sunday morning debating on what to do. I'm not sure if I can stick it out until the end of the semester because the one thing stopping me is if I do leave him I'd have to move in with my mom and she lives over an hour away from my current address and my college. I'd have to drop out and repeat my current classes. My friend who lives much closer to me has offered me to let me take the place of her roommates who are moving out to get their own place (they are a couple who just got engaged) but the roommates won't be moving until the summer. My mom said I am welcome to take either her guest bedroom or even the entire finished basement of her house but again, I have school, no job, and no car. If I move in with her I will have 2 and a half hour commute via public transportation to school and a 2 hour commute home. I will also always be late for my morning class because the bus system just does not run early enough for me to get there on time.

For full disclosure I did one of those anonymous chats on a domestic abuse website. After answering all their questions honestly, The person I was talking with advised me that my situation seemed like it was a mixture of financial and emotional abuse and a small bit of digital. Financial because my boyfriend insists on handling our money and will only give me enough money to cover my food expenses while at school. Emotional because when my boyfriend and I fight he will sometimes threaten to stop taking his medications so that he can just let his terminal illness do it's job and maybe he'll drown in sleep as his lungs fill with fluid. I do hesitate to leave him because of this. I know I can't control what he does but I am sure that if I do leave him and he loses the house this is definitely what is going to happen. Digital because my boyfriend knows my password for my laptop from fixing it for me and I have found one of my chat clients open but the messages were still unread. I'm personally not sure if my relationship really is abusive but I do think it is definitely becoming toxic if it isn't already.

I'm debating on if I can talk to my boyfriend about any of this. I already confronted him about the foreclosure. He said he was waiting to hear back from the lawyer before telling me what was going on because he wanted to have some kind of news to help soften the blow.

If you have made it this far, thank you for listening.

I guess what I want to know is: can counseling still help us at this point or is our relationship too far gone? I want to give my boyfriend a deadline to get a job and start fixing our finances. Literally any job. The deadline would be the end of semester, so the middle of May. Is this a good idea or will it backfire and cause us to fight and break up sooner? Am I being silly by thinking that we might still be able to salvage our relationship? I'm thinking of packing a small bug out bag just in case. The bag would have a change of clothes, some toiletries, and my important papers like my birth certificate, immunizations, etc and so that if something happens I can run and not look back. 99% of the stuff here to replaceable.Is that a good idea? If I do this I would probably keep the bag in a locker at school or at one of my friend's houses.

packetmantis
Feb 26, 2013
Did he kill his mom???

Propaniac
Nov 28, 2000

SUSHI ROULETTO!
College Slice
If he did, it was only because he was planning to un-kill her before anyone found out.

DoubleNegative
Jan 27, 2010

The most virtuous child in the entire world.
Jesus loving Christ. That story. :stonk:

Nice piece of fish
Jan 29, 2008

Ultra Carp
One of the difficult things to learn as an adult is that you have to resist the sunk cost fallacy at all costs and walk the gently caress away once you realize what kind of a loving mess you're dating.

Once you've built up a suitable allergy to drama and bullshit, you're much better equipped to deal with this kind of person.

Penis is low cost and freely available, so she should really have walked ran the gently caress away at the first massive financial/business lie. That conversation should have ended with "I have no reason to trust you, I'm out". Lmao at sticking around for all that, either they themselves are a much bigger mess than they are letting on or something else is being omitted.

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

DIPAC versus chasing a very expensive yet profoundly mediocre one in terms of money and emotional well-being

Samuel L. Hacksaw
Mar 26, 2007

Never Stop Posting
My wife says what most ladies want is validation and to be loved for qualities intrinsic to them individually.

Maybe that's just her, but it could be a plausible hypothesis for why some folks ignore DIPAC so often.

BabyFur Denny
Mar 18, 2003
wtf does DIPAC mean

Johnny Truant
Jul 22, 2008




Dick is plentiful and cheap

Theophany
Jul 22, 2014

SUCCHIAMI IL MIO CAZZO DA DIETRO, RANA RAGAZZO



2022 FIA Formula 1 WDC

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for prioritizing my well-being over a child's happiness?

Uh, why the gently caress are you pissing away the best years of your life on this you incredible cretin??

Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

Samuel L. Hacksaw posted:

My wife says what most ladies want is validation and to be loved for qualities intrinsic to them individually.

Maybe that's just her, but it could be a plausible hypothesis for why some folks ignore DIPAC so often.
I suppose it's one way to feel needed

Barudak
May 7, 2007

Theophany posted:

Uh, why the gently caress are you pissing away the best years of your life on this you incredible cretin??

She decided she wasn't gonna go out like Sinatra and be unable to mention all her regrets

Theophany
Jul 22, 2014

SUCCHIAMI IL MIO CAZZO DA DIETRO, RANA RAGAZZO



2022 FIA Formula 1 WDC

Propaniac posted:

I did my own dirty work and tracked down the cable box story myself. Hope nobody minds a repost (in part so I'll have it in my history forever).

Me [30F] with my bf [35M] of 6 years, I have repeatedly caught him lying and just discovered he is hiding that our house is being foreclosed on. I don't know what to do.

OP's follow up comments bely the abject loving terror of living with her abuser:

quote:

but if we are having an argument and he gets upset he will take his gun out of his holster and throw it and it scares me. He tells me later, when he's calmed down, that he tries to throw it at a soft surface but it still scares me.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Theophany posted:

OP's follow up comments bely the abject loving terror of living with her abuser:

...is he wearing a holstered gun in his own (well, until the foreclosure goes through) house?

Kurieg
Jul 19, 2012

RIP Lutri: 5/19/20-4/2/20
:blizz::gamefreak:

teen witch posted:

E: went through the OPs other posts and boy howdy I now get why their parents did nothing, poor gal. Last thing she needs is a stalker from MIDDLE SCHOOL

They deleted the account, what happened?

Butter Activities
May 4, 2018

Theophany posted:

OP's follow up comments bely the abject loving terror of living with her abuser:

What the gently caress

E: 3 years old and no update :(

Butter Activities fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Jun 17, 2021

teen witch
Oct 9, 2012

Kurieg posted:

They deleted the account, what happened?

Damnit, well basically lovely narcissistic parents who favored a cousin over her for some time, and ignored the severe bullying.

Soylent Pudding
Jun 22, 2007

We've got people!


AITA for charging my sister in law rent to live with us

quote:

Sister in law has been living with us rent free for 7 months now. She broke up with her boyfriend and had nowhere else to go so we took her in, helped her find a job, let her use our car and paid for the gas until she got enough money to start buying her own gas.

We rented a $2000 beach house last year and took her with us and paid for all the food and she paid nothing.

Co-signed a loan with her because her credit sucked to help her get her own car, fed her home cooked meals every day and charged her nothing for all the food power/internet/water she was using.

She recently got a new job and will be making about 1800$ a month. Her total bills come out to about 250$, but she said it was assholeish to charge her 400$ a month for one bathroom and one bedroom when she's "only here 5 nights out of the week". It's a 3 bedroom home and she's staying in my wife's office who works from home, and has had to move her office into our bedroom.

She said she cannot afford to pay us the rent, but has recently booked a weekend beach house for her brother's birthday, spent $1000 on ghost hunting equipment, got a tattoo and is planning new tattoos, and typically spends the entire weekend driving around and going to different attractions with her new boyfriend, where she pays for everything.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


Yeah but if she catches a ghost she'll be a millionaire and you'll be asking her for money

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Barudak
May 7, 2007

SMEGMA_MAIL posted:

What the gently caress

E: 3 years old and no update :(

Im not gonna lie to you, she escaped her abuser and he fell down a staircase on his own and died and now she runs free on farm upstate with lots of other people who are also in healthy relationships

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