rSlash - r/AITA I Literally Shot My Boyfriend in the Face

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

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Am I the butthole for ignoring our daughter's inconvenient boundary? I'm a 36 year old woman and my wife is 39. We have a daughter together. Technically she's my stepdaughter, but I've raised her since she was 5. She's currently 19 and my wife had her from a previous relationship. Her father is not in the picture. Our stepdaughter has come back home after her first year at university. She's picked up a new and problematic issue since she was last home for an extended period of time, surrounding laundry. Basically, she's established a boundary where

nobody is allowed to touch her clothes. Her reasoning is that she's concerned something will go missing or get damaged, and she thinks it's just gross for us to go through her stuff and that she's an adult who deserves privacy. And that's fine, we have three young kids in our home, a 9 year old girl, another 9 year old girl and a 2 year old boy. So we have plenty of washing to keep ourselves entertained. The issue is that she has a habit of monopolizing washing machines to the extent where we're effectively prevented from being able to get any other laundry done. For example, last weekend she put a wash in before work and hung it out on the line around

11am. Then she left for work from 12pm to 10pm. Her clothes were dry within an hour and obviously she wasn't going to be back all day. We had a few days worth of washing to get through, so my wife, her mother, took everything off the line and folded it. We got through 5 other loads that day. She was not happy when she got home, and said that she had been very clear that we weren't to touch her things.

When we explained the situation above, she said, first come, first served. And that since the weather was supposed to be nice tomorrow too, we should have just waited to get through it the next day, which really pissed us off. We offered her a weekly laundry day where we would avoid using the machine so that she can have the freedom to do as she pleases on that day, but she said that once a week won't cut it. Fair enough. But there are five other people in the house that need clean clothes, bedding,

and towels. Other than that, all we can really suggest is that she keeps on top of her washing. If she's at home, we'll ask her to clean her clothes from the washing machine or dryer or washing line as needed. But like any 19-year-old, she has a social life and work commitments and is often busy. She's upset because she says that we're not respecting her boundaries, whereas we've pointed out that while, don't move my clothes is objectively reasonable, it's not fair for her to do so at the inconvenience of everyone else in our home. Essentially, the last conversation we had ended up with her in tears because we said as long as situations like Saturday keep reoccurring,

we'll continue to move her stuff. And to be clear, we do fold her clothes carefully and leave them in a basket in a communal living area so they're kept together in good condition and we're not going in and out of her room. So are we being unreasonable? Then OP posted an update. So the consensus is pretty much that we're right, our daughter is being massively unreasonable, and that we're being pushovers. We've shown her the comments and unfortunately she's still insisting that WE are the unreasonable ones. We'd never considered a local laundromat and we've banned her from using our washing machine

for the next fortnight given that she's still unwilling to compromise. She's absolutely furious and my wife has ordered a lock for the washroom door to enforce the two week rule. Hopefully a couple of weeks of her hauling her laundry to and fro will help her see the light. Then OP posted an update. Our daughter came to talk to us and apologized for the situation. She said she found the transition back home hard, which I get, and that she had maybe become a bit territorial over her stuff while at university. Again, that's okay.

She then asked if she could please have a laundry day and be allowed to use the machine. We gave her Monday because she doesn't work Monday. A genuine sorry goes a long way with us, and while the advice has been to hold firm, we really don't want an issue if the situation can be resolved calmly. Well, OP, you could say your daughter folded. Am I the butthole for bluntly explaining to my wife why our kids like me more than her? My wife has been complaining recently that our kids always seem to prefer spending time with me over her. They never go to her for anything they need. It's always me.

I just answered her that it's because I spend more time with them than she does. She said that I actually don't, so I just broke it down for her point blank. Both of our kids are young and need parental supervision for everything. They wake up between 5.30 and 6.00 am. I'm the one who gets up with them every single morning. My wife gets up at 7.30am on weekdays and about 9am on weekends. So on the low end, that's like 14 hours that I spend with them more than she does. I also do bedtime for both kids. That takes about one hour a night for baths and stories. That's another 7 hours a week. My wife also says that she gets stressed a lot, so I often take the kids with me to the

supermarket or the park or something and let her have a long bath in peace or an afternoon nap. That probably adds up to about 3 and a half hours a week or so. Add in to the fact that I am also the one who takes the kids to all extracurriculars and picks them up. She NEVER takes the kids out on her own. The longest she ever has them is the time it takes me to have a shower and get dressed each morning. So I broke it down

to her plainly like above. I effectively spend a full actual day more per week with them. I didn't say this in any kind of critical way. I do actually really enjoy spending time with them, so I'm quite happy with this arrangement. I just feel that she can't complain that the kids don't want to spend time with her when she spends proportionately so much less of her time with them. Am I the butthole for pointing this out? And OP clarifies in an edit, we own a business together. We both work at it 5 days a week from 9.30 to 4.30. It's not stressful or particularly difficult work because the business has got to the stage where we're able to take a step back and it mostly runs itself. Then OP posted an update. Our 18 month old woke up at 5.30 this morning. It's now 7.30

AM and she's still in bed so clearly our conversation had no impact. I don't really care or have any desire to change things because I quite like how they are so I don't plan to push it. Well, OP, your reward is that you're going to have loving, involved, caring kids for the rest of your life and her punishment is that her kids aren't really going to care about her for the rest of her life. Which honestly kind of sounds like that's what she wants so I don't even know if that's a punishment. In any event, OP, I'm giving you 0 out of 5 buttholes.

I'm giving your wife 2 out of 5 buttholes. Am I the butthole for telling my dad there will be no making up for missing my high school graduation? I'm an 18 year old guy and I'm graduating high school at the end of this month. My dad dropped the bomb on me two nights ago that his stepdaughter, who's 14, has an award ceremony for some competition she entered in one and another state on the same day and that she really wants him to be there. He told me that he can't possibly make it to both, and since his wife and their kids will be going together, he needs to be there too.

He told me that he would make it up to me and we could celebrate another time. I still live with him, but not for much longer. My mom died when I was 7 and dad got married again when I was 11 or 12. It's been a few years anyways. His stepdaughter never knew her biological dad, so my dad has accepted her as his own. And he's prioritized her a lot in the last 5 or 6 years. It doesn't always show in the most obvious ways, but I can feel it. Father-son time was put on an indefinite hiatus and instead, Dad told me that we needed to

include her in our time together. But he also spent time with just her for father-daughter time. I brought it up to my dad and he told me that I wasn't exactly making an effort to be closer to her, so he wanted us all to bond and didn't want me to just focus on my relationship with him. For example, he's attended her dance things instead of my basketball games if they take place at the same time. It doesn't matter if he knew about mine first, he'll skip my stuff to go to her stuff. He'll take us on family days and whenever he and his wife say the kids can choose, he picks her choices over mine.

He claims it's because they'll be the most fun for everyone, but really he says it afterwards, anything his little princess wants. Our refrigerator and shower broke at the same time. His stepdaughter's birthday was coming up, so he took money from my birthday fund to pay for that stuff. And so that his stepdaughter would definitely get the gift that she wanted. Which was this Barbie house thing and a whole fashion set and I think dad said that it was 250 bucks. He didn't get back all the money in time for my

birthday so instead he bought me a $30 gift card for Steam when he promised me a new monitor and keyboard for my computer. The computer which, by the way, I got from my grandparents. When my dad told me that he wouldn't be at my graduation because he wanted to support her, I told him there is no making up for that. And he can forget about being included in my life going forward. He told me that he would make it up to me and I told him I'll always come second to his little princess and I am not okay with that. I told him he's discarded me for the last time. Dad begged me to be reasonable, but I walked away. Then I invited both sets of my grandparents who agreed to come to my graduation.

His wife told me that I could have come with them and that I don't need to attend the ceremony but I could support my sister. I said that her daughter is not my sister and I don't need to attend the ceremony, but I could support my sister. I said that her daughter is not my sister and I don't want to support their family anymore and I'll be out of their hair soon. She called me selfish and told me that I can't deny her daughter a dad. Am I the butthole? Graduating high school is probably maybe the single most important milestone in someone's life because it's a major

accomplishment and you're transitioning from child to adult. It happens right when you turn 18. So it's like, it's a big deal. I can't really think of what would be more of a bigger deal than that. Maybe having kids or marriage, but I don't know. Personally, I think high school is up there at the top. So the fact that your dad wants to prioritize an award ceremony over you graduating high school is super toxic.

Also, your stepmom sounds like the classic evil stepmom. OP, I'm giving you zero out of five buttholes. I'm giving your parents, if you can even call them that, three out of five buttholes. Am I the butthole for telling my friend that it's not my problem that she married a useless man? I'm a 32 year old woman and I'm a single mother of three kids, a 6 year old boy, a 5 year old boy, and a newborn girl. I'm a single mother by choice. My kids are donor conceived. I'm lucky enough to have a good job, a French teacher in a

private school, and a paid off house. Before I had either of my kids, I made sure to have a year's living expenses saved. Then I would take a sabbatical to recover from birth as well as bond with my kids. While on sabbatical, I still did some tutoring for some extra income. My friend, a 34 year old woman, just had a baby two months ago. She's the breadwinner in her household and her husband has been unemployed since he was laid off during COVID. It was great for us to be pregnant at the same time, as well as having a friend with a newborn, but it's turned sour. My friend's been saying how jealous

she is of me being able to take off a whole year from work. How she would have loved to not worry about losing their home, how she doesn't even have a couple hundred dollars in her savings account, let alone a whole year's worth of living expenses. I usually just ignore these comments or brush it off because I can understand the stress that she's under. Well, about 10 days ago, she started hinting about not being able to afford daycare and any mention of her husband taking care of the kids is brushed off. Then she started remarking about how much free time I must have, which I deflected by saying, truthfully, that being a single mom to a baby and a small kid left me no free time I must have, which I deflected by saying, truthfully, that being a single mom to a baby and a small kid left me no free time, actually. Then, last night she just came out with

it and asked if I could do her a favor and watch her kid while she was at work. I was firm but polite when I said that I couldn't, that I'm not capable of watching two kids under 6 months old. She started almost begging me, saying that she can't afford daycare and if she's not back to work she'll lose her job and they'll end up homeless. I again brought up her husband and she said that he wasn't good with kids and he isn't capable of taking care of her kid. I kept saying no and she kept pushing it until it escalated to her calling me heartless and me telling her that it's not my

problem she chose to have a kid with a useless man. Now she blocked me and I'm feeling very guilty about what I said and I feel like a butthole. At the time of recording this, COVID's been like chill and died down for I don't know like a year, a year and a half so presumably that's how long at minimum her husband has been fired, possibly as much as like two years or three years this guy's been jobless. So he's not good at bringing in an income. And apparently he's not good with kids either. So what exactly does this husband do all day? Does he literally just wake up and I don't know, play video games, go to the bar and drink with his buddies for 8 hours while his wife works or takes care of the kids?

He is a useless husband. Hold on, let me check the comments. I wonder if OP says what the husband's deal is. OP writes, From what I understand, her husband had a middle management position, mainly because he's been working for the same place since he graduated high school. After being laid off, he couldn't get a similar position and fell into a depressive state. Well, okay, maybe the guy is depressed, but even if that's the case, you can't just

sit around and be depressed for like one and a half to three years possibly and not do anything. Either go to a doctor, get a prescription, or go to therapy. You can't just sit around and do nothing. OP, I'm giving you 0 out of 5 buttholes. You're completely justified. I'm giving your friend and her loser husband 2.5 out of 5 buttholes. Our next reddit post is titled, My Girlfriend Pointed an Unloaded Gun in My Face.

We were visiting a good friend of mine when he moved out of state. He brought me to his bedroom closet to show me an AR-15 and a handgun that he purchased after moving. I handled both guns after checking they were unloaded and I knew that they were safe. My girlfriend walks into the room and he hands the AR-15 to her. She does not check the gun to affirm that it is indeed clear. And the first thing she does is point it directly in my face. I slapped the barrel down and said, what the f*** are you doing in an aggressive tone? She then handed my friend his rifle back and stormed out of the room. She- okay, she didn't like the fact that I aggressively chastise her for ignoring basic

gun safety. She told me, you didn't have to talk to me like I'm stupid, and didn't understand my point wasn't to make her feel stupid, but that the action is dangerous, especially since she wasn't in the room to witness it being checked for live ammunition, and she didn't check the gun herself. Am I wrong for aggressively chastising her, or should I have been nicer? OP, you should aggressively break up with her if anything. We come across a lot of deal breakers on reddit and someone pointing a gun into your face is, in my opinion, a deal breaker. Also this top post from Wooden Broccoli is mega mega relevant.

I'm an emergency room nurse, formerly of a level 1 trauma center. Fully 60% of the shootings I've seen were I thought that it was unloaded, not the butthole. Wow, we also have this story from Slimey Lobsters. A few weeks ago my friend witnessed something like this. He was hanging out with some friends and one of their girlfriends was playing with a gun and ignoring the scolding she was getting. She pointed the gun in her boyfriend's face, boom, and accidentally shot him right there in the face. Good on you for not dicking around. And OP actually includes the link to the news article. The title is Heart Wrenching Video Captures Gunshots and Screams of Woman Allegedly Shooting Boyfriend

in the Forehead Shouting, you're not dead! Geez Louise. OP, you get 0 out of 5 buttholes. I think I'm gonna give your girlfriends a 4.5 out of 5 buttholes. That's really bad. That was r slash am I the butthole and if you liked this content be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new reddit podcast episodes every single day.