rSlash - r/Amioverreacting My Boyfriend's Evil Prank Destroyed My Sanity

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

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When you're with Amex Platinum, you get access to exclusive dining experiences and an annual travel credit. So the best tapas in town might be in a new town altogether. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Terms and conditions apply. Learn more at Amex.ca. welcome to r slash am i overreacting where opi is dating a high value man am i overreacting because my boyfriend told me i need to maintain my body because he's a high value man i'm a 28 year old woman and he's 35

i recently moved into my boyfriend's apartment about two weeks ago and since then i've been seeing a darker side of his personality he started telling me what clothes to wear how i should say style my hair, and he discourages me from going out on my own. He's also been pushing me to cut off some of my friends. Last night, he told me that I should stop eating dinner altogether because, in his words, I'm a high-value man, so I can be picky with women. For context, he earns a decent salary, but he's far from being rich or a millionaire. Nothing about my weight or physique has changed since we met. I've always had an athletic build. Just about 15 pounds over the ideal BMI, and he constantly used to call me sexy and beautiful. This shift feels sudden and confusing.

He invited me to move in rent-free. I still work and pay all my own bills, so I don't depend on him financially. I've been with him for about eight months, and this side of him didn't show up until I moved in. I feel conflicted and just need to hear other perspectives. Well, you know, it kind of begs the question. Even if he were a high-value man, even if he were a millionaire, is that the right way to talk to your partner? Bringing in a decent paycheck doesn't mean you get to be disrespectful and controlling and abusive. So even if we give him tons of lenience and the benefit of the doubt, he's still a doucheback here. But on top of that, he's just plain wrong.

Opie pays her own bills and he doesn't make any money and he's a high value man. Whoa, we'll alpha male here. Am I overreacting over this small prank? I'm a 22-year-old woman and I've been with my boyfriend, who's 25, for a little over-year-old. year and a half. Recently, we've been running into hurdles because I've been feeling like he's been bothering and teasing and poking and biting me more than being a serious and loving partner to me. We had a huge conversation about this recently as I was on the brink of ending things with him since the lack of warmth relative to his uns seriousness was making me feel empty. Since then,

there's been a genuine effort and a big improvement and I was starting to feel very hopeful that this was something that we could work through. Fast forward a little. I'm starting a new job as an educator, and while I'm very excited about it, it's also a huge adjustment and has been really stressful. On top of that, for the past six days, I've been hearing this bizarre beeping noise coming from my closet that chirps once every like 20 to 40 minutes, driving me nuts. I couldn't figure out what it was. It was keeping me up and infiltrating my dreams, and it started to freak me out since nothing I own makes that sound. Nothing in the closet even had a battery in it, and from my overall stress and lack of good sleep,

I was starting to grow paranoid that someone had planted a device in my room. To add to this, I'm extremely private, and the only people who are regularly in my room are myself and my boyfriend when he visits. This led to me fearing that my boyfriend was secretly stalking me, and had planted a mic or something in my room that was just starting to make noise. It even happened while I was talking with my therapist, and when I explained the mystery of its origins, she seemed equally concerned. To make matters worse, the fridge at work is broken and beeps nine times every minute, so it's starting to feel like the chirping was following me,

compounding my general distress. Last night, after a stressful day, and finding out some unrelated, unsettling news that is enough to emotionally affect me on its own, my sister heard the noise as well, and we decided to tear my closet apart at 10 p.m. Even though I had to wake up at 6 to figure out what had been plaguing me. After timing the beeps for an hour, it beeped in irregular intervals. We found this tiny Arduino board deep in one of my boxes labeled, Annoying PCB. According to a Google search, its literal sole purpose is to drive its victims insane.

I was immediately horrified, quite literally shaking and crying, as my wildest nightmare of someone planting a device in my room had literally come true. My immediate thought was, who would do something like this? What did I do to deserve this? I called my boyfriend immediately, and he admitted he knew what it was. I hung up and haven't spoken to him since. The reason I'm not sure if I'm overreacting is because, on the one hand, I understand how this might be funny, but to me that doesn't matter, given A, the fact that I've been feeling like he hasn't been generally serious to me to a problematic extent. B, the fact that this has been plaguing me and disrupting my sleep literally the first week of

my new job. And C, I've been complaining about it to him for days, and he played along being confused and concerned, repeatedly asking me, what does it sound like? And even dismissing my genuine concern and paranoia saying, maybe there's a little cricket in your room. I just feel like this is on par with glitter bombing. Like something you do to someone you hate, not the supposed love of your life. It feels like psychological warfare, and between stretching this out for days and planning it in my room, this feels like a massive breach of trust.

I haven't spoken to him at all, and he's been texting me saying things like, It was just a prank, beep, beep, beep, beep, I miss you. Please don't ignore me. I'm so against stonewalling, but I have literally nothing to say to him, and he hasn't apologized or shown any remorse. I don't feel ready to speak to him at all. Maybe it was a good prank with bad timing, but I can't help but feel like this is just setting us back again, and I'm genuinely shaken. I honestly don't see a future at this point, and I'm not really sure what to do. O.P., if someone tried this prank on me, I'd be tempted to literally strangle them to death. This would drive me

up the effing wall between the prank and the lack of concern and the gas, lighting, I say ditch this guy immediately. Even though you cried and shook, I think you might be underreacting here. Am I overreacting because my sister's husband basically stole a TV during Black Friday and everyone's acting like it's fine? This just happened during Black Friday and I'm still processing it. My sister and her husband, Mike, went to Walmart for their Black Friday sale. According to them, it was absolute chaos. Hundreds of people everywhere, barely any workers, total mess. Mike managed to grab one of the Doorbuster deals, a huge 65-inch TV that was marked down from 900 bucks to 400 bucks. Apparently, the checkout lines were so insane that people just started walking out, like literally just pushing their carts through without paying because there weren't enough workers at registers and security couldn't handle it.

And my sister and Mike joined them. They walked out with a $400 TV because everyone else was doing it, and the store should have been better prepared. The part that really bothers me is they were bragging about it at family dinner yesterday, right in front of their kids, who are 8 and 10, and my kids, who are 7 and 12. They were laughing about their amazing deal, like it was some funny story about outsmarting the system. I pulled my sister aside and told her this was basically stealing, and it's

that's a terrible example for the kids. She got defensive, saying I'm being dramatic, and that big stores expect this kind of loss during sales, and that it's not really stealing because the store couldn't handle their own sale properly. Mike jumped in saying I need to chill, and I'm probably just jealous I didn't get any deals. I'm honestly disgusted by the whole thing. Later, my kids were asking me if it's okay to not pay for stuff when stores are really busy, which just proves my point about what message this sins. My sister hasn't talked to me since I called her out, and my parents are saying I should apologize for making drama, and that it's none of my business, but someone needs to say something, right? Am I seriously overreacting here? Everyone's

acting like this is just normal Black Friday behavior, and I feel like I'm going crazy. Opie, what do you mean basically stealing? It's literally stealing. I don't think it's outrageous to be against stealing. I mean, I'm not going to lose any tears about Walmart losing out on 400 bucks, but still, stealing's wrong, and bragging about it in front of kids is even worse. Am I overreacting for wanting to leave my husband after what he did while I was caring for my sick mother? I'm a 25-year-old woman, and my husband is 27. We've been married for two years, together for five. We married young, but we were both financially stable and ready to build our life together. We had just started trying for our first baby. Seven months ago, my mother was diagnosed

with stage four pancreatic cancer. The doctors gave her six to 12 months to live. She lives three hours away in my hometown, and as her only child, I knew that I had to be there for her final months. My husband understood completely and encouraged me to go care for her. I moved back to my childhood home to help her with her treatments, doctor appointments, and daily care. It was emotionally and physically exhausting watching my mom deteriorate. I was sleeping maybe three to four hours a night, managing her pain medications, and trying to make her comfortable. My husband and I talked every other day, and he seemed supportive of what I was doing. My mother passed away six weeks ago, and I came home after handling the funeral arrangements and settling her estate. My husband was loving and supportive

during the grieving process. We started seeing a grief counselor together to help me process the loss and strengthen our marriage during this difficult time. Last week, during what I thought was a healing conversation, he confessed that while I was awake caring for my dying mother, he had been seeing his co-worker, Emily, for the last four months. He said that he was lonely and that I'd been emotionally unavailable, even during our phone calls because I was so focused on my mom. I was completely shattered.

While I was watching my mother die, holding her hands through chemo sessions, and grieving the loss of my only parent, he was building a relationship with someone else. He waited until after the funeral, after I'd started grief counseling to tell me, which means he was lying to me while I was planning my mother's burial. I'm staying at my best friend's house now. I can't even look at him. Both our families are saying I should forgive him because caregiver burnout affects the whole marriage,

and he was grieving too, watching me go through losing my mom. think divorce is too extreme given everything we've been through. But all I can think about is how alone I felt in those final weeks with my mother and how he was actually with someone else the whole time. Am I wrong for wanting to end our marriage over this? Should I be more understanding of how my absence affected him? In my opinion, this is ultimate scumbag behavior. I wouldn't even bother getting validation from Reddit. I would just dump them and grieve on my own. Her next Reddit posted from Classic Region. Am I overreacting for asking my neighbor to stop holding her yoga classes in my backyard? So a few months ago, my next door neighbor, Karen, started teaching

yoga classes in her backyard. No big deal, right? Except her backyard has slowly started to spill over into my backyard. At first, it was just a matter too near the fence. And now her whole group of yogis basically takes over half of my lawn every Saturday morning. One day I look out the window, and they've set up an entire speaker system blasting calming nature sound and healing frequencies, all while I'm trying to enjoy my coffee in peace. I politely asked her if she could keep her classes to her own side of the fence, and she just started laughing, saying, oh, it's all just one big green space anyways. The kicker, last weekend they brought out incense, and suddenly my backyard smelled like a meditation retreat while I'm trying to grill burgers. I asked her again to

to maybe shift the class back to her own yard. She told me I was being too territorial about shared nature and should appreciate the community vibe. So am I overreacting for wanting to reclaim my own yard or is Karen taking Namaste a bit too far? Nah, she can namaste in her own yard. Am I overreacting for refusing to co-sign my husband's dream truck loan when he still owes me $8,000 for my inheritance?

I'm a 33-year-old woman, and I got a modest inheritance when my grandma passed away last year. I used $8,000 of it to bail my husband out of some credit card debt. We agreed that he would pay me back over time. No pressure, but so far, I've gotten $0. Yesterday, he came home all excited about a new truck for $55K and asked me to co-signed because his credit isn't great. I said, no, because, one, he hasn't even started paying me back. And two, we just bought new appliances and are saving for a house. He blew up and said that I was holding money over his head and not supporting his dreams.

He even threw in that a wife should back her husband no matter what. I told him flat out. Until I see him make an effort to pay me back, I'm not co-signing anything. Now he's barely speaking to me. And my mother-in-law texted that I'm emasculating him. I feel guilty because I know he wants this truck badly, But I also feel like I'd be an idiot to sign. So he wants to go from credit card debt to car loan debt, both of which you can't afford.

If he can't afford 8K and credit card debt, what makes him think he can afford 55K in a truck loan? Okay, the problem isn't your husband being emasculated. It's your husband being stupid. You need a reality check. This guy can't afford this truck. You guys can't afford this truck. No. That was R slash in my overreact.

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