rSlash - r/Relationships Everyone Hates Me Because of Warhammer 40k

Episode Date: March 6, 2026

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Welcome to R slash Relationships, where someone thinks that OP is evil because he plays Warhammer 40K. Our next Reddit post is from Efficiency Moist. I'm a 26-year-old guy and my friend's girlfriend is 23. She's convinced that I'm a blank because of Warhammer. The word blank here is two words. The first word is Neo, and the second word starts with the letter N, and it refers to a certain political party that was popular in Germany in World War II. So she thinks that OP is a Neo-Blank because of Warhammer.

To start off, I'm a 26-year-old guy and I'm a bit nerdy. I fix cars and do carpentry, but I also like Warhammer. I don't play the tabletop games, but I read a lot of the lore because I like science fiction. My girlfriend, who's 25, is very sweet and got me an Imperium of Man flag. It's very small, just something I have in a little frame on my desk. My friend Dave from college, who's 26, has a new girlfriend who's 23. She seemed nice, and they both seem happy together. So, me and my girlfriend invited them over for dinner at our house.

I showed them both around. I renovated it all myself. Refinished floors, new cabinets, new trim and crown molding, etc. Then I took them both to see my office. Nothing really happened that night. She got really quiet after seeing my desk, but never said anything directly. When I asked my friend to visit again this week, he said he said, couldn't because I have alt-right insignia in my office. I got really confused and asked what he was talking about.

He mentioned the Warhammer flag and said his girlfriend noticed it's a inward symbol. I texted both of them a wiki page from Warhammer to show what it's from. I thought that would be the end of it, simple mistake that was corrected after knowing better. Dave and his girlfriend didn't respond at all to the messages, But one of our other mutual friends reached out and told me that she's telling our college buddies that I'm a neo-inward. I got a few other messages from these mutual friends coming in because they didn't believe her. I guess she doubled down and found connections between Warhammer and far-right extremism on some quacky articles online. My other friends all accepted that this lady is nuts and distanced themselves from them both. Normally, I wouldn't really care what this woman thinks, but it's affected my relationship with Dave.

I haven't been able to speak with or see him. I also know that she knows where I work, as a teacher, and she was saying stuff like I shouldn't be around children. I'm worried that she'll report me to my job or something to try to get me fired. Dave is radio silent, and his girlfriend just seems to be spinning lies about me. For those of you who don't know anything about Warhammer, this is very funny because there is no real link between Warhammer and Neo Inward. It's way less similar to World War II

and way more similar to like the Spanish Inquisition where they were all like, hey, do you believe in space Jesus? You better because if you don't, we're going to kill you because space Jesus is the best. And there's also space orcs and space bugs

and space demons and a bunch of mean space people that want to kill everyone. And there's just a lot of fighting basically. Also, an interesting fact about Warhammer 40K. Warhammer 40K started in England in like the 1980s, and it started as a way to make fun of Margaret Thatcher and militarism and fascism. So it actually has its roots against far right extremism. The whole world is set up to be this ultra extreme military like dictatorship, and it sucks. The world sucks. You don't want to live here. No one wants to live in this universe.

because everyone's miserable and it sucks all the time and everything is grim and dark. So this woman is extremely stupid. I will say in her defense, I can't really blame her necessarily for seeing the Imperium of Man flag and thinking it might be some kind of right wing symbol if you don't know anything about it, but it's just not. So once you realize you're wrong, you should have been like, oh, I see. I misinterpreted the flag, my bad. Like, do you guys know there's a reversed swastika?

I forget which one it is. one is clockwise and the other is counterclockwise. One is, you know, from inward Germany. And the other is a symbol in, I think, Buddhism that just means like auspiciousness or something. I'm not super familiar with it. So I could understand someone seeing that Buddhist symbol and being like, whoa, what is that? But then like, oh, okay, it's just a completely different symbol that emerged in a completely different culture that has no associations. So this woman is really, really stupid. Our next Reddit post is from Throwaway Car Baby. I'm a 27-year-old woman. And I, accidentally had a baby in my friend's car. My friend is a 31 year old woman. Now, she and her husband

don't want to speak to me. How do I fix this? I'm very aware this sounds ridiculous, but I'm so tired of worrying about this. I need some outside perspective. I was almost 38 weeks pregnant. My partner left for an afternoon to help out her brother, which we were both fine with. She was only an hour and a half away, and neither of us saw this coming. And my friend Alice offered to come spend the day with me, so I wasn't alone. Honestly, it was really nice to have her there. We just watched some movies and hung out, and even though I was so uncomfortable through the day,

I didn't consider I might actually be going into labor. At some point, we realized this was the real deal, and I called my wife. We considered waiting until she got back, but things started to get real, very fast, and I asked Alice to drive me to the hospital. She was fine with this, I think. We didn't fully make it to the hospital,

hospital, and I ended up having my daughter in her husband's car. We're both fine, luckily. I had a few complications, which are now okay again. Our baby is beyond perfect, and though my wife is having a hard time with having missed her birth, we have a wonderful tiny human to focus on. Things have been really messed up with Alice and her husband, though, and I don't know how to solve it. Two days ago, after all that had happened, I sent her a message thanking her again for everything she had done, and told her lightheartedly but sincere to please send me a bill for having the car cleaned. She didn't reply for a while and in the end just liked the message. I've messaged her a few times since and she hasn't replied,

and her husband sent me a message saying not to message her and congrats on the baby, but thanks for messing up his car. I feel so lost and please don't get me wrong. Of course my priority is with my little family right now, but this does keep crossing my mind. This is so unlike her. Her husband and I were never the closest, but still, we were friendly. I don't know how to solve this. Did I just traumatize her so much and I need to leave her alone? Do I keep trying? I'm so grateful for all she's done that day. Then OP posted an update to say that

her friend blocked her. Then OP posted an update. I saw my friend Alice a few days ago. She came to our house unexpectedly. This was after she had blocked me. I know that a lot of you were upset with her, but I was just so happy to see her, I immediately started bawling, and she did too. She apologized, and so did I. We had a long conversation. Everything that happened had been a lot for her, which is fair, and she was having a hard time processing it, but she initially didn't feel upset with me. Her husband had been furious, though. He already isn't our biggest fans, so this really set him off, at her as well. Don't get me wrong, I don't blame him for being upset about his car, but I do wish that we had had different and better communication.

He had been fuming that we hadn't reached out sooner after the baby was born and that my first message wasn't more apologetic. In her words, over the weeks following everything, she started to feel angry at me and us because her husband convinced her to and my message and reaching out was just too much in that moment. After our silence, she realized she wasn't upset with me but the situation and should be relieved that everyone was okay.

We agreed we really just wanted to be okay again, though she admitted she'd have to build up to it slowly, because again, her husband. Luckily, the car isn't totaled. Only the front seat where I was sitting was messed up. The car is already cleaned and fixed. Her husband has had it back, and we've paid for everything. He doesn't like driving it anymore. That's all, I think. Me, my wife, and my baby are okay. I like this top reply from That's Miss Massel. Did he expect you to VINM? him from the hospital? You reached out two days after giving birth. I think that's plenty fast. This guy is absolutely ridiculous. Yeah, this dude seems genuinely unbearable. I don't know why he keeps trying to make another lady's birth about him. It has nothing to do with this guy. Sure, I can sympathize. It sucks that some lady gave birth and possibly even pooped in his car while she was doing it. But dude, get over it. Our next Reddit post is from Wayward Jen. My dad is suing us. I'm a 30-year-old woman and my husband is 31. My dad is 61. I haven't talked to my dad

in about two months. This has never happened before and I drew a hard line. My husband overdid it a bit on the booze on Boxing Day. No incident, just drank a bit too much. My dad felt the need to chew my husband out for it even though he didn't do anything and wasn't acting inappropriately at all. My husband was pissed off but brushed it off the next day. Jumped to December 28th. I had my side of the family over for a Christmas movie slash board game night. The night went well. Around 7.30, the power went out, so people started to leave. There was freezing rain, and we couldn't buy salt due to a local shortage.

My cousin went out and slipped. My dad caught him. My dad came back inside and chewed us out about not having salt. We explained we didn't have any and why. My dad then decided to go outside, alone in the dark, after knowing about the freezing. freezing rain after seeing my cousin fall to do who knows what. He slipped and fell. He bruised himself but had no major injuries.

He drove himself and my mom home afterwards, so he was fine. We offered him ice and Tylenol, and I said that now that he's over 60, he can't be doing that kind of thing alone. He sharply said, don't question my abilities. Then chewed us out again, this time in front of the family. At this point, it got awkward and people wanted to leave. leave. We got kitty litter, flashlights, and helped everyone to their car slowly one by one, safely in the dark and freezing rain. No more falls. I gave my dad 24 hours to cool off,

and I texted him on the 30th asking how he's feeling and if he's okay. He proceeds to say that he blames only my husband, and not me, for not having salt, and that he contacted the municipality and the region, and that he got a lawyer to sue us. He said he's told the whole family he's doing this, like he's proud of it. And I immediately blocked his number. And me and my husband left all the family group chats that he's in, as we can't be talking and have him use any of the things we say against us in court. I haven't heard from him since. My mom is beyond angry and is threatening to leave him for treating us like this. He did this while she was at work, so clearly he knew that it was a bad and wrong idea. She says that he canceled the lawyer, but who knows for sure. We discuss

that this behavior is odd, and he maybe has something wrong with him that he needs checking out. I truly think that he has some early brain disease, and it's manifesting with increased intense need to be right. He's always needed to be right, yelled and screamed over trivial things. He'd gotten violent towards my mom and my sister and I as kids, but got some help, and that stopped when I was around 13 or 14. There were some major anger incidents over the years. I just don't know what to do at this point. Part of me wants to unblock him and send him a message outlying the broken trust and the hurt he's caused. I want to explain to him what he needs to do to try to earn it back. The other part of me wants to just leave him blocked and write it off.

O.P., obviously, yeah, this could be something like dementia or Alzheimer's or some like old person issue, but it sounds like the real issue is he's just a butthole. Like he's just a mean, rude, bad person. And then he did something stupid and embarrassed himself, so he's deflecting and trying to make you feel bad because he feels ashamed for doing something objectively really idiotic. Deflecting blame is a classic butthole move. Our next Reddit post is from Reddit Robin. My boyfriend assumes that I'll take on a $25,000 loss because of his decisions. We're both 31. I've been with my boyfriend for two years, living together for one. He's generally thoughtful, kind, and attentive. We talked seriously about getting engaged this summer. He bought a condo before we started dating. His parents encouraged him to do it

and helped with the down payment. He didn't live on his own before that, and they also paid for his education. For context, I lost my mom 10 years ago. My dad's been sick for years. I moved home for two years to rebuild financially after living in a high cost of living area. I just paid off my student loans, and have worked really hard to build up my savings. Financial security is extremely important to me because I don't really have a safety net or anywhere to go if anything were to happen to my dad. My boyfriend now wants to sell his condo

because after running the numbers, he thinks we'd save more money renting together long term. What? I'm open to renting, even though my monthly costs would increase because I'd be part of the decision. The issue is, he would likely take about a $25,000 loss after fees if he sells. Last night, he said he's debating selling now instead of waiting until

his mortgage renewal because even if he waits, he might still be selling at a loss. And selling now gives him more time to rebuild his savings. Then he said, and realistically, it's going to cost you $25,000 because I don't have that money. That comment really threw me. I didn't think me taking on that loss would even be up for discussion, let alone sad. like the assumption, especially since he knows my views around the importance of financial security. The only way I could help would be pulling money from my retirement, which has tax penalties and long-term opportunity cost. If I paid the initial cost, my monthly expenses would then go up, making it even harder for me to replace that money. Beyond that, emotionally, it makes me feel very

vulnerable. If something went wrong in our relationship down the line, I'd be in a vulnerable position, potentially unable to leave if I wanted to. I don't want to sound selfish, but I also don't feel like I should be responsible for covering a loss on an asset that I don't own and never decided to buy, especially when I've made a lot of sacrifices to get where I am financially. He's a kind and generous partner overall, which is why this feels confusing. But it's making me second guess whether I'd feel financially safe getting engaged without clearer protections in place. Am I being unreasonable for not wanting to take on this $25,000? If you were in my position, how would you protect yourself?

Would you speak to a lawyer, a financial advisor, or both? Girl, I wouldn't do either. I would just dump him. I hate to say this is a breakup-worthy thing to do, but it genuinely, honestly is. What's actually worse here? The fact that he expects you to just lose 25K to fix his mistake, or that this moron thinks that renting,

saves more money than owning. Is this guy a dupus? He's selling his condo that he owns at a loss in order to rent. What? What kind of morning? I was like, oh, geez, I can't wait to give all my money to a landlord and get zero return on investment. Huh? What? Is this guy high? He ran the numbers. What numbers is there to run? I would frankly not be comfortable spending the rest of my life with someone this stupid. Because if they make such illogical, unsounded, untethered to reality decisions, then who knows what other terrible decisions they'll make in life? I'd be out of their O.P. That was our slash relationships. And if you like this content, be sure to follow my podcast because I put out new Reddit podcast episodes every single day.