r/AmIOverreacting 5m ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO? Situationship broke no contact to wish me a merry Christmas

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So, I had a very short but intense situationship with this guy. I fell for him hard and he fell for me too, but due to our circumstances, we couldn't be together or start dating. He decided that just being friends would be too painful and he couldn't get over me if we kept talking, so he broke all contact with me. I was very hurt and upset about it but I respected his decision. Three weeks after no contact, he just decides to wish me a merry Christmas. AIO for being upset he broke no contact?


r/AmIOverreacting 19m ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO? My bf kept me as a secret from his friends

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Ive been dating my boyfriend for a while now, and I love him like crazy. The problem is that I recently learned that he has been keeping me as a secret from his friends, making excuses for me to meet them etc.. He said to me that he has told them about us and stuff but when i caught him redhanded, he admitted that he has been keeping us a secret and lied to me. Im now questioning what other things he has lied to me about, and i honestly dont understand why he would keep us as a secret.. I have bad experience from last relationships ive been on (getting cheated on and such), so i have quite bad trust issues and he is aware of that. Now that he lied to me I feel like the progress ive made on trusting him just completely faded. Am i overreacting? I feel like there is more to this but he wont tell me why.


r/AmIOverreacting 19m ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship am i overreacting??

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so me and my boyfriend were dirty talking im a virgin my boyfriend isnt i said i was scared to have sex with him for the first time (we’ve never had sex) and he said why i said because i don’t know how it would feel and i was scared of what it would be like and he said “well you would kind of know what it feels like right? but it will be much better with me” i was confused by that i thought he meant me fingering myself ??😭 so i asked him what does he mean and he said no no forget it like he said something he shouldn’t have that made me more confused and feel weird he said “it was about you knowing how sex would feel because of your past” i’ve never had sex before i was starting to think he was talking about my rape and i was scared that it was about that but i played dumb just in case it wasnt that and i was being stupid i didnt want it to be that but it was he said “you’ve been raped so you’ve had a dick inside you that’s sex intercourse is sex wanted or not” i’m confused about it i don’t know what to make of the situation or what to do he knew he said something wrong after he said it because he immediately said sorry and he knew i would get upset after he said it i’ve had a lot of unwanted sexual stuff done to me mostly when i was a child and he knows this i’ve told him about it i was raped when i was 5 by a much older man i didn’t even know what sex was ? i was raped 4 times and it just feels like a slap in the face he would say that knowing how much i’ve cried to him about it and told him how gross i feel because of it i didn’t want to talk to him anymore but he kept talking he was making it worse everything that came out of his mouth made it worse the next morning he said he didn’t want to talk to me and i was confused i said what did i do wrong and he said “hell what did i do wrong” (this was all on text by the way) i said oh okay i was hurt i didn’t want to start an argument i took a screenshot of what he said he got angry at that and he asked why i did that and i said i just want to screenshot it and he said im dumb and acting like all this was my fault basically so i don’t know if i just overreacted about it all and he didn’t mean to say anything wrong or what what should i do please help!!


r/AmIOverreacting 22m ago

🎓 academic/school AIO for feeling ashamed

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I confess ( a fake confession to be exact ) to a girl in my class who kinda a bop not really just she's a flirty girl who entertain a lot of boys and been in a few relationship and have lots of experience i guess?, anyway i did a confession to that girl (good thing she rejected me cause i was so afraid she will say yes to me bcuz for some reason she stare at me and even show sign to me back then that i don't like that much, jeez i even had to creep her out like staring at her at the most creepiest way so i can make sure that i get rejected by her 100%) so i can make my real crush believe i don't like her and i can get close to her.

But something really bothering me, I'm very self-conscious person and i was always thinking what if my classmates are laughing at me in the back cause i confess to a girl like that and got rejected even i planned to get rejected by her, i just can't get it off my mind i Feel like, feel so ashamed and embarrassed cause i made everyone believe i really like that bop girl, she's not really a bad person she cares for her family and a good daughter for average standard and also had good acads( i admit i stalk her a lil bit cause of Feeling of shame) but even after knowing her good tribute and stuff, i still feel shameful.

My classmates don't really tease me about my confession to her (maybe cause everyone in my class like the girl, sure she entertain lot of boys and been in a relationship but she's still a good and a kind person, it's actually a reason why i make her my fake crush, her overall image and character made it convencing that it would make sense that i would like her) but they tease me about having a crush to her bcuz afterall they all believe when i say i like her and confess to her and act like i was shy around her and i don't really like it.

Maybe i was just insecure that everyone will think that i get rejected from someone i don't even like in the first place, maybe it was bcuz of my ego or pride?

Idk i just hate that everyone will think i get rejected by a girl like that, i wish i do it to a girl who had lot of respect to herself ( she had respect to herself yes but not just the way i like) and worth getting rejected cause of how precious and Worth she is, i really wish i just made the fake confession to someone Worthy and not to that bop.


r/AmIOverreacting 44m ago

⚕️ health Am i overreacting?can't cum to a picture of a crush

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So I have had problem I use to easily cum to a crush picture but now I can't, so I can get hard but I can't cum and I find her atractive like super but no matter what I can't cum to her pic anymore and is because of porn so I promised to not watch because I suffer of porn addiction but I really like this girl and I am worried is this normal or what and how I can make it better?


r/AmIOverreacting 44m ago

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws AIO

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My bf bio dad showed up this year; after over a decade. He is always texting my bf for help with his new business and asking that he do stuff for his friends or for him to make him look better. When my bf doesn’t respond, he sends a half ass text. He’s insulted me before and my bf let him away with it with the claim”that’s just who he is”. He validated him over his insulting claim just to “shut him up”. My bf is not dependent on him.my bf has a lot of people who surround him who love him and also don’t like the guy. Earlier this week the guilt tripping texts kept rolling in. One by one. I politely asked his dad( bold to give someone so uninvolved a title) to refrain from texting this specific thing because it comes across differently. He tells me to bud out and block his number and no chick will come between him and his son. My bf stood up a bit more for me this time as the guy insulted the mom who raised him and other things.

He comes back, he acts like he has the position and title of “Dad” . He disrespects me. I think anyone in his position should be hands and knees begging my bf for another chance. The other he tried to make my bf choose between me and him. My bf plans on marrying me and tells me everyday. I do everything I can to keep my bf happy. However if he continues to associate with this person I don’t think I can stay, I’d feel disrespected by it. I’ve given him all the opportunities to respond in the right way to this guy. I don’t know why my bf lets his absent dad assume he has importance even close to mine in his life. It’s insulting into how much I do for him and the background education in psych I have because so many red flags wave about this guy. Him having contact with this guy is insulting to everyone around him including himself. I know he wants a father figure but this person is just using him and assuming importance in his life he never earned. Using titles to manipulate my bf and telling him he loves him with no actions to back it up. My bf never had a father figure. I love him and I want him happy but in my previous relationship I dealt with a jealous and toxic Mother of my ex -bf so I don’t think I have the energy considering that was six years.


r/AmIOverreacting 47m ago

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws AIO For going Full no contact with my bio mother? Spoiler for heavy topics Spoiler

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So to start this out, here is a key for everybody.

Dad = Dad

Bio Mom = A

Older brother=W

Lil sis = M

So TW for heavy topics such as drugs and mental/physical manipulation and abuse. 

A wasn't the best mother.She was a druggie, an abuser, and a racist (even though she had kids with a Black man). When my siblings and I were growing up, she had left us multiple times for drugs and had blamed her chemotherapy for it. (she had been a drug addict before the chemo.) Back in 2020 was my brother's graduation. She came across states to see him and instead went to go get her fix with my aunt. She did eventually come but missed my brother's graduation. After her visit, she took my little sister back with her because my little sister wanted to go back with her. After that I tried to maintain contact with her, talking through Facebook mainly. I had come out to her about being atheist and transgender, only for her to make fun of me in front of her new fiancé. Things only got worse from there. She and my father were in an argument, and I had agreed with him on this side of the argument. I was called brainwashed, an ungrateful brat, a manipulative jerk, the hard n-word, among other things. And that was my breaking point. I had suffered years of abuse from her, being hit, being told she didn't mean to, empty promises, being yelled and screamed at; at one point my little sister and I walked 5 miles up the road to get away from her. I blocked her on everything; I just couldn't anymore. 


r/AmIOverreacting 1h ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO to bf not knowing how he feels about me and wants to have sex with other people

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We’ve been together for 5 months, not a long time. He has always confessed to me that he’s not 100% for monogamy. He knows I’m not for non-monogamy relationship, but still he stuck to me and asked me to get into a relationship after a few months.. We’ve had our fair share of issues in these 5 months, but nothing jaw dropping. We’ve been very happy overall.

A few days ago we were studying together and out of the blue, he confesses to me that he had started jerking off again. This is an issue to him because before knowing he was masturbating 9 times a day to porn, he was addicted and he told me that this led him live life like a real life porn and makes him lose focus on everything else.

So, not only he tells me that, since jerking off would make him lose focus on everything including me, but that he would start entertaining thoughts of having sex with other people and that he “distorted” his true nature for me. Plus confessing to me that he would feel in love one week and the other not.

I instantly broke up with him, also because he goes away for 6 months to study abroad in February and I need security. He called the next day asking me if he could think about how he felt about me for a week. 4 days later he tells me he wants to stay with me, but that he felt very hurt that I had broken up with him because he was just trying to open up to me about his issues and I hurt him because I reacted very badly and left him.

Have I overreacted? He told me he never intended on breaking up with me, so now I feel very guilty about it ever since he told me wants to get back together and wants to work on his issues, but he still felt very hurt by me breaking up with him.


r/AmIOverreacting 1h ago

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws AIO- I was kicked out over a conversation with my fiancé’s mom and sister, is it reasonable to be this upset?

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This is a long story and I will try to be as detailed as possible because I genuinely need help! | 20F met my fiancé 20M a little more than a year ago, it was literally the definition of love at first sight I could tell a whole other story about just us! He had asked me to move in 2 weeks after asking me out (I know that's really fast) but we haven't spend a day away from eachother ever since and we love it that way we never argue we talk thru things no problem and we communicate very well in my opinion! So skipping the months a year later, on our anniversary he proposed to me and of course l said yes! But that point forward his family acted weird towards me, as I moved in with them (them including his sister (26F) the sisters boyfriend now husband (29M) their child (2) my fiancés mother (49) and father (52) and grandmother) everything was fine I was welcomed with open arms by all and I was extremely grateful I was given 1 obligation, his mother told me I want you in school and that's it, which I was I have done full term max unit semester fall, spring, summer, and just now finished up another fall! I did however have a job for most of the time I was living in their home! My fiancé nor myself were ever asked for any kind of help as all his mom wanted was us in school! Most months were great, until he proposed to me then all of a sudden weird things started happening his older sister all of a sudden was getting proposed to around the time I was after his sister and her boyfriend had been together for 5 years and have had a child for 2 of those years, I didn't think much of it as I was told the information because I had no idea my now fiancé was proposing to me! However the date kept suddenly changing closer and closer till it just so happened that his sister was getting proposed to the day before my fiancé proposed to me (the entire family knew when he was proposing to me !) his older sister was also aware that her at the time boyfriend was going to propose to her so this was no surprise to her! I was of course overwhelmed and extremely excited because i absolutely love my soon to be husband, but once the initial feelings calmed a bit i could see my fiancé was upset that his sisters boyfriend would do something like that to him and i completely understand his feelings behind it! But we were both extremely happy to begin the next chapter of our lives and he tried not to overthink it look to far into it or dwell on it! Around a month later his sisters birthday came up and they had made plans for a dinner, my fiancé and my self were not informed till the absolute last minute while we were leaving the house to take care of some responsibilities, once we got back home they were already getting in the car, I told my fiancé to go and that he shouldn't miss his sisters b day dinner i unfortunately had a strictly timed test that evening in which they did know I had they strict scheduled tests and did not bother to ask when they were! Still to me no big deal i understand plans get busy and people forget things. But yet they get home and I was treated like I did something awful, the following mornings I wasn't talked to and kinda of just stared at which is the best I can explain it. I should make a note now that I already am uncomfortable around his family as I really dislike how they treated him he was treated as a tool and unless he was useful in a situation it did not matter to them how he felt or if he was okay! I personally am not big on conflict, I prefer to avoid it at most costs, same as my fiancé he will try to avoid it at all costs. So after that situation I stayed in his room focusing more on school as I was out of work at the time, so if I were to come out it was fairly late and if I left during the day/early evening l'd just leave out of the window (they had a single story home) again not an abnormal thing for my fiancé or myself as my car was normally parked right in sight! Fast forward some time later I get a message from his mother asking me why I am avoiding them and if they did something which i politely responded with I don't mean to be avoiding anyway I'm very caught up in my school work at the moment and having my own hardships missing my family and pets etc. if you would like to talk about it further l'd have no issues with that! In which she responded with id love to sit and talk with you, which she never followed up with and continued to ignored me as she claimed I was ignoring them! Once again fast forward to a day or so after and my fiancé tells his mom I think we should all talk as at this point the way I'm seeing him get treated feels like I'm chained to a fall and am forced to watch him get beat up and it was taking a large toll on my already complicated mental health, (I can't explain how hard it was for me to watch him get treated the way he was and not be able to say anything) later that night his sister comes into the room refusing to leave as we were not ready to talk to her and just wanted to speak to his mom (this is important for later) my fiancé eventually says okay fine whatever let's all go talk to mom, which we all follow to sit In her room and have a conversation. His mom and sister are notorious for 2 v 1 in argument/conversation with him they never let him finish a sentence, they immediately try to debunk what he says as it "not being true" etc. As the conversation they have continued in the room I have yet to say a thing and have only stood there for about 30 min trying my best to support my fiancé, I can progressively see him getting really upset to the point of which anxiety has fully taken over and he's starting to shake, which is when I had said "hey can I talk to you for a minute" as an excuse to calm him down we step into the garage I give him and hug and ask him if he's okay and if there is anything I can do in which he responds if I can't say it I need you to and I say okay. We exit to the garage to see his sister coming toward which she immediately looks at me and goes well I don't think it's okay that you pull him out of the room and have your own little conversation which I respond look at him he's shaking I just wanted him to be able to calm down and take a breath. The conversation then gets moved into our room where it proceeds to again be a 2 v 1 of them completely dismissing his feelings and claiming his experiences didn't happen. The conversation then becomes very for lack of better words a "poor me conversation" where his sister starts claiming random information that she took care of him when he was little and some other private information I will not and can't share here, I became extremely upset at this point as I know what she's saying is a lie I have had this similar conversation with my fiancé that she claims to have done these things and they didn't happen that way. I am extremely hurt by her lies even tho they aren't directed towards me because what she has claimed to have done responsibilities I actually did have to do, l have 3 younger siblings that I very much had a large roll in helping to raise them as my father was in and out of incarceration and then suddenly passed away when I was 15 leaving behind my struggling widowed mother, my 3 younger siblings and myself being the oldest. As she continues to make excuses for their actions and completely discount any of my fiancés experiences, there is a pause where I am now fighting tears watching my man cry which I speak up and say can I have the green like to talk and say something which is met by a very small nod from him, I proceed to say to his mother and sister "I apologize if I come off bluntly or aggressive I was raised different and I know I can come off very blunt and I mean everything I'm about to say with the at most respect" (I am very blunt as most of the time l don't want to walk around a situation rather than just handle it then and there) I proceeded to talk about things myself and man have discussed before, things we both agree on. I explain that the SAHM (stay at home mom) job is not difficult (I will explain further after this) as I had to do the whole SAHM thing as a young girl till my later teenage years and it's truly not a hard task to do, I then looked at his mother and say I have so much respect for you because what you have done is hard and I have seen my own mother do it, I continued on with it's so hard for me to watch my man get attacked that he doesn't do anything ever when this entire home and all things surrounding it would fall apart without him, anything they needed fixed, built, or troubleshooting he was the person who did it he was the only capable man in the house to do it. (The reason I mentions the SAHM job isn't difficult because his sister acts like she has the entire world on her chest when she had a perfectly capable man who works from home who chooses to be lazy, serval adults to watch her child, low rent/living costs, a mother who constantly does things for her, and barely any responsibilities. I have seen her maybe clean 4 times in the year I lived there, she would do their own laundry, but often saw the mom doing it for her, and would make dinners that somehow took 4 hours to taste like they came out of a can) I could get into so much more detail but I won't unless needed, I then proceeded to be yelled at by his sister and told that it was a slap in the face to say that to them and go off on a tangent about irrelevant things I didn't ever talk about. the conversation ended, and the awkward uncomfortable silent weird looks treatment continued till I received a text a few days later being told it's best if I move back home with my family please keep in mind I am fully engaged ring on my finger and everything at this point, which I then show my man and he obviously isn't happy, he calls his mom who we later find out was purposely not coming home to talk to him and she was hiding, the conversation they have later doesn't go well in the slightest bit. I stayed in the room while they "talked" (his mother yelling at him while he's speaking normally to her) for almost an hour in which I hear my fiancé come back to the room and say that was it I gave her a chance to fix this and we need a plan to leave. Some other uneventful things happen such as the moving process of moving back into my house with him. Till we go back about 2 weeks later from the day I was asked to leave, to find all of our things in a pile in the garage just shoved in boxes and not able to find anything. (We had a wedding to attend in the area and only planned on picking up a few things) we both obviously are upset and he's on the phone with his mom going back and forth which she simply continues to make up excuses, but it's very clear that it was done out of spite to me. We then return another day a few days later to get the few items he had asked them to find which I waited in the car for! Again trying my very best to avoid as I don't feel it's necessary to make a bigger issue, he comes out with the family tablet that we often used for school I had drawn a few pictures on it of ours cars that he wanted to send to us, we leave and his dad comes outside arms in the air like something happened we then find out there is a reason why he acted like that we found well over 100 messages of his mother telling absolutely everyone in his family/ close friends, absolutely lies about the entire situation making it seem as if I was kicked out then I just lost it on them and started saying horrendous things. The amount of insults they came up with for me in these messages some of which these people have only met me 1 maybe 2 times. Things like I'm trashy, a nasty girl, a whore, a fat bitch, them making fun of some of my facial piercings calling me a rhino also calling me fat his sister joking about "seeing someone big" and saying it was probably me. (To note I'm 5'1 and not very big I played a lot of sports so l'm fairly muscular so big thighs and that sort of thing so not even like the insults are true either) insulting her own son calling him a jerk and a brat that he needs to be humbled to his own grandfather calling him "pussy whipped" and we continue to find her insulting my man's best friend who literally did absolutely nothing but help us move our things, calling him a bastard and making some kind of joke that he can go sleep with me too, my fiancé and l are in absolute shock that these things were said about us and are beyond disgusted! which my man's words were I'll never have a relationship with any of them after this I can't believe they did any of this, (I have 100 plus pictures of all these messages now) moving forward we stop by his aunts after seeing the messages and dropping the tablet back off at his house as we were still in the neighborhood, and by a lucky guess all of his family was there and once confronted about it all we were attacked by multiple people his aunt yelling at him his mother yelling at him his cousin who doesn't even live in the state screaming at him to "fuck off and to leave if he doesn't care" and other shitty things his uncle getting in his face trying to fight him" all I say to them because god forbid if I was ever going to get a word in was "we will be at the house tomorrow to get the rest of our things" fast forward again the next day we go to get the rest of our things and we are completely locked out of the home they open the garage and amazingly his mother and sister are not home his father will absolutely not allow him in the home which we were still under our 30 day move out time, and they were harboring our things and his animal from him, lucky us tho they thought we left closed the garage and let the animals out in which my fiancé was able to get his dog and we leave however on the way to my house he gets a call from the police department asking to call them back or to answer the next time he calls him, which follows up with a message of his mother accusing my minor brother who helped us move our things, of stealing their dog (it is not there dog she is microchipped and is registered to my fiancé) lucky for us they are apparently ignorant enough to forget I am a studying law and my mother is a paralegal. But as the dust is "kinda settling" | find it extremely hard now to process everything that has happened and and slightly still happening, it's extremely difficult to sit with the fact that all of these people that barely know me now think I am some disgusting awful human that's manipulating him and forcing him to be with me! I'm trying my very best to maintain calm and healthy while trying my absolute hardest to support my man and make him feel loved and welcomed into my family especially around the holidays! Please any input or advice anything would be a dream to me right now. I have literally not been able to sleep or do anything as this whole thing is making me feel sick! If any clarification is needed let me know, I tried my hardest to give the entire story from start to finish so it doesn't seem as if I'm not explaining everything!


r/AmIOverreacting 1h ago

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws AIO for yelling at my brother and mom when my brother looked through my sketchbook w/o permission?

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as the title says, yesterday, i (14) left my sketchbook on the dinner table w/ it closed, allllll throughout my life i told my family members that they cannot look through it without my permission and this particular brother (19 yrd old) keeps asking me if he can look through it and i obviously say no every time.

anyways, he was on a call with my dad, and he flipping through it without asking me. so i closed the book, grabbed a fistful of his hair, pushed his head back and started yelling at him. things like "who do u think u are", "i never have you permission to look through it", "why do you think this is ok" etc etc, he counters by saying he didn't know (how is that even possible when i told him no every time for like the past 5 years??), etc, then my mum came over and was like stop yelling he promises he will never do it again (he did not promise, she's promising for him), anyways, he threw his phone to the ground, blames it on me bc it cracked "look what you did", he storms off, I yell at my mum for never giving him consequences for his actions, she says im yelling so much she doesnt understand what im saying, i say i dont care bc she clearly doesnt care abt how he invaded my privacy.

I feel that i should mention every time that brother does something like this to me (throwing my clothes on the floor bc he wants the cardigan that he gave to me back, asking me if he can "see your pussy" bc he wants to see my cat pin, keeps outing me to my homophobic family (i counter this by acting straight and telling my mum he's calling me gay), you get the gist i hope, my mum will always defend him bc he has 'mental problems', and is 'mentally unstable', then give him a couple hundred dollars to go out, whilst i have to go back to my room and deal with my emotions/the mess he made myself, so i was extremely mad at my mum for defending him in this situation

anyways, i havent talked to any of my family members all day today, probably wont for a few days, and rly wants to know if im overreacting bc i lowkey did start the fight even though he was the one being dumb and flipping through my sketchbook like that


r/AmIOverreacting 1h ago

💼work/career AIO, got a 11 cent yearly raise

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Every year I've gotten at least an additional dollar. Saw my raise yesterday and it was almost exactly what I already make. Should I send payroll an email? This honestly feels like a slap to the face. Company has been super demanding this year working us all hard af and this is my compensation?


r/AmIOverreacting 1h ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO by being bothered that my girlfriend made another guy move down so she wouldn't have to sit by me?

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My GF of about a year has issues showing affection in public. To me. We go to the same bar A lot so we know everyone there pretty much. She will often give long hugs to other guys there or lean on their shoulder and tell them she loves them. She says that I'm insecure and controlling when I tell her this bothers me. I just ignore it for the most part but sometimes it's obvious that I'm bothered. She noticed that I was bothered recently. We went outside together to smoke A cigarette and sat next to each other. There was another guy on the bench and she was in the middle. She got up to say goodbye to someone and then came back to the bench and asked the guy to move over and then sat next to him. I knew she was doing it to get some kind of reaction so I just let it go. After we left she asked me if anything was wrong because I was obviously A little annoyed. I told her that I thought it was disrespectful of her and embarrassing for me. She told me she was testing me to see if I would react. Her reasoning is that we know everyone there and that she isn't screwing any of them so why do I care if she hugs them or sits next to them instead of me. I think the fact that we know them makes it even more embarrassing. Am I just A controlling asshole or is something wrong here?


r/AmIOverreacting 1h ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO to bf’s relationships with parents

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My boyfriend is 29 and still lives with both his divorced parents, it feels like they either have joint custody of him (they separated when he was 20) or the relationship has crossed over into companionship. I don’t know why it bothers me so much but it does.

He spends two nights a week at his mums and the rest at his dad’s. He’s constantly back and forth and it feels like he lives out of his backpack.

He’s the middle child of three, the eldest lives locally with his wife and child and the youngest lives a few hours away so it seems he’s the free one to run around after everyone. Including his siblings and any extended family.

His parents make plans, go away for weekends, evenings etc. and it feels like he’s just expected to be around and run back and forth to feed cats, walk dogs etc. Christmas Day he spent with his dad but his mum was away so he did the hour round trip to feed her cats and a two hour walk for his aunties dog.

I know the main point here is he says he’s happy to do it, he enjoys their company and wants to help. I feel like that should be a lovely thing but from the outside looking in, I just feel he’s taken for granted because I think it’s expected that he’ll do it. He said he can say no if he wants but everyone knows he’s not going to.

I’ve been on the phone to him and heard his dad say ‘you need to go to Tesco for XYZ’. Not ‘can you go?’ Or ‘if you’re passing’, it’s an out right instruction.

I feel the relationship with his dad is still one of a parent/child. This is what we are doing and you are coming, like when his dad’s car was going in for a service and he had to go with him. Again he said he wanted to and it was an opportunity for a day out but is that not what you do with a partner, not a parent?

Yes ok he’s happy to but when does that stop and you become a real grown up with an independent life??

With his mum I definitely see it as crossing some boundaries. She’ll cut recipes out magazines for them to try and he’ll cook them for her getting home from work. They’re often DIYing or crafting together but it comes across to me in a way where she’s decided this is what we’re doing this weekends the way wives spring jobs on their husbands. He was late setting off to come see me once because his mum’s friend came round to see her for coffee… I have no idea why that involves him but hey ho.

He’s not working just now due to injury and so living ‘rent free’. He says his parents are just being very good to him to allow that. I’d argue his parents are doing what parents are supposed to do and supporting their son, but that doesn’t mean he’s indebted to them. If it was my son, yes, I’d expect him to help out and I’d like to spend time with them but I just feel he’s either still a child in their eyes or a ‘companion’. I looked into enmeshment and I think some of it fits. He took that the wrong way and thought I was suggesting something dodgy was going on with his mum. I wasn’t suggesting that, but it all just seems weird to me

I tried to figure out why this bothers me so much. I even wondered if I was just jealous of his attention and affection elsewhere but I don’t think it is. It technically doesn’t affect me and I’m an outsider looking in, I’m not experiencing it first hand. I think I just find the situation odd.


r/AmIOverreacting 1h ago

👥 friendship AIO? My best friend has expressed that she feels like an inconvenience now that I’m in a relationship. I

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This is the second time she (23F) has mentioned it.

I’ve been with my (23F) girlfriend (23F) for 6 months now and we spend a lot of time together. We’re young and in love lol.

When I was single, my best friend and I hung out multiple days a week after work and spend most Saturday’s together. Now that I’m in a relationship, we don’t really do that anymore. I make sure I always make plans with my best friend at least once a week and we talk every day. I know it is very different from what it once was, but I feel like this is normal? I get so upset when this topic comes up with friends because I honestly don’t know what they expect. I am building up my life with this person, so yes, I am spending a lot of time with her.

Note, my best friend does have a boyfriend. They live together and have been together for 5 years so I guess they are past the “wanting to spend every moment together” phase.

I would really appreciate any advice you have. Am I overreacting? Is she? Am I an asshole? What the hell do I do?


r/AmIOverreacting 1h ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship Am I overreacting?

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My Fiancé can’t control his insecurities

I need some help please!!!

I was engaged 15 years ago. Break off was mutual. Became best friends 5 years later and we’ve never been sexually involved with eachother since being engaged, basically what feels like as kids! I’m 38 y/o now, I have been dating a guy who recently asked me to marry him, but when he focuses on something in his head, like remember that I was engaged in my twenties, he flips out and causes a huge argument. He has never met the guy, nor is the guy a threat to our relationship (if anything I’d think it would be the boyfriend prior to my current “fiancé”) I found a message of him and his friend texting (in which HE HANDED ME THE PHONE) to look at something and it said “I asked her to marry me but I wasn’t sober 😂😂” I called him out on this as it hurts a lot, considering he ruined Christmas Eve, my favorite part of this holiday season. We didn’t even open gifts last night or this morning because he was so mean and obsessing about my ex fiancé from 15 years ago!!!

What do I do? And am I the mean one for blowing it off saying that person has nothing to do with us and the text message is way more hurtful??? Please give me some advice 🙏


r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

🏘️ neighbor/local AIO/should a neighbor being on my driveway bother me?

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Okay let me provide context, I was coming home from the gym around 6:30 am and in our new neighborhood that we recently moved to, there are a lot of people always out and about either riding bikes or walking dogs and I’m driving down my street to see someone with a flashlight standing on my driveway, I pull a little closer and it’s some man standing in my driveway with his dog sniffing my yard as if he’s about to let his dog take a shit in the yard which I guess if he’s willing to pick it up is okay but I just couldn’t fathom doing that to someone else’s property because it feels almost like an invasion of privacy and space? And just respect to not? It really bothered me but I wasn’t sure who this person was and it was still dark so I was going to play it safe and didn’t really say anything other than good morning. After I pulled into my driveway he moved to the edge of the street in the grass still and off my driveway but still didn’t really move far. I guess if he’s going to clean up after the dog it’s not that big of a deal I just thought it was kind of rude because I wouldn’t do that just out of respect for someone else’s property like I said. Am I making it a big deal? Just thought it was so weird. Idek which neighbor it is either bc I couldn’t really see his face but I can recognize the dog if I see them again. Should I just shrug it off? I just don’t want them thinking that’s an okay thing to regularly do.


r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship Am I overreacting

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F-22lesbian f-20pansexual A couple days ago we went raving like we normally do together.I’m around chit chatting with my friends smoking listening to music and just vibing etc I allow my gf to have her rave time so she doesn’t feel like she has to be by me 24/7 about 2hrs or so i looked over I saw my gf conversating with this guy I don’t know nor does she. The guy had her hello kitty ears and book bag on as soon as I looked over she went “this is my gf xyz” I was in a frenzy trying to figure out what this guy is doing with her hat and bag my face could tell I wasn’t feeling it she asked “are you ok?”to me.He tried to give me a handshake he then said to my gf “I’m sorry if I did too much or was on to too much” fast forward I was still trying to figure out why a random guy has your stuff on¿? on our way home she kept trying to touch my leg and acted like that was just it so I asked her if she thought it was ok to give a random guy her stuff her answer was “he asked to see my book bag and ears” I then said “if you’re comfortable removing all that for a random guy you’re comfortable enough to take your clothes off if he asked you to?” That sent her in anger at me stating im trying to paint her as a Slut etc but I feel like she disrespects our relationship because we are girls she asked “if it was a girl would you have reacted the same?”compared to when she was dating guys because if you had a bf you would’ve never given a man your stuff just like that.she then stated oh he was “under the influence of something” then she said “he looked gay” he did not look gay did I overreact?

If you’re aware of raves guys at raves are up to no good he left as soon as I stepped in.whenever a guy gets too close to her and it turns out differently she doesn’t know how to respond then I have to take action I can’t do that everytime because you’re there chit chatting with men.


r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO: Boyfriend of 1yr keeps forgetting I'm vegetarian

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Sometimes it feels like he doesn't know the most basic things about me. He says he just forgets. But like. I'll get excited when he invites me over for food. Yesterday he did it again and made pork chops so I said I am going to go get takeout (salad) and some pasta and he procrastinated until my restaurant closed. I brought it up politley that it sort of offends me and he says "All you do is nitpick and find reasons to fight, not like you've never had meat before" and I felt very annoyed am I overreacting?


r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws aio boyfriends mother left me out again

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My boyfriend’s mum, who refers to me as “part of the family,” decided to leave me out yesterday, and it made me feel awful. Last week, before Christmas, she told me I was welcome to join the family bowling on Boxing Day, even if my partner was at work. On Christmas Day, I messaged her to say I was really looking forward to coming and asked if she could let me know what time we’d be leaving. She responded, “Definitely,” and I left it at that.

We messaged back and forth throughout Boxing Day, and all of a sudden, she said she’d booked bowling. It was last minute, but I was still up for going. However, she never invited me or asked me to join at all, even after telling me the week before i was welcome to come along. I felt so embarrassed and disappointed that she decided to leave me out like this. I said to her, “Well, I did tell you last night i still wanted to come, I wouldn’t have minded if it was last minute, and it doesn’t take a lot to come by for me on the way there, but that’s that. I’m not a beg.”

She apologised, said it was last minute, but she didn’t even ask if i wanted to come. honestly, her apology means nothing to me. This isn’t the first time she has excluded me or failed to invite me to things. She wouldn’t dare to leave out her other sons partner, but i guess that’s because she has her grandchild. unfortunately i have trouble conceiving so either way she’ll never see me as the same as her.

I’ve now blocked her on Facebook, but obviously, this is going to go badly in the long run, i’m not interested in carrying on any type of relationship with her. My boyfriend doesn’t understand and, frankly, has no backbone when it comes to his mummy. Lmao.

Am i overreacting or do i have reason to feel as slighted as i do? it’s obvious she didn’t want me there.


r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws AIO over that fact that my mum keeps on disregarding my wishes cause her to ruined my projects

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Ok so hi I just wanted to know if I’m overreacting on this situation for getting mad.I’m 16 f and I really into crocheting and my mum absolutely ruined my projects because she won’t listen to me when I tell her not to touch my stuff. I was making a bunch of winter stuff like gloves and beanies as im in summer rn but and I want to prepare for the winter as I don’t have any winter stuff other then jackets. I know that you probably think im overreacting but it isn’t the first time she ruined my stuff because she ignores what I say. she destroys things that I deeply care about but as they mean nothing to her she doesn’t seem to care about them which sucks cause I don’t act the same with her and I know that she is my mum but that doesn’t make it fair. I starting crocheting because she doesn’t let me go out with my friends (which cause me to loose at lot of friends as I don’t hang out with them since I’m not allowed to). and the fact that she gets mad at me for the fact that I got upset that she doesn’t hear me out on anything, it got to the point where I don’t even bother talking about anything cause I know she won’t care. She also always uses that fact that she paid for the stuff so she can do whatever she want with it, but she doesn’t let me get a job so how am I meant to get money to buy the stuff (yarn) and now she completely ignoring the issue even if she knows that it upsets me (I’m not a confrontational person so I’m probably gonna not speak about it to her)

Ps. This is mainly also me venting but I just wanna know if I’m in the wrong also ignore any grammar error English may be my first language but I still suck at it I also don’t fully understand how reddit works yet so sorry if I mess something up


r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

👥 friendship AIO if I'm pissed at my friend for abandoning me while I was choking?

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this happened earlier this month but it's been ticking me off since.

i have a friend, let's call her elliott, i've known her since like 1st grade and we did become really close around 6th, we're currently in 9th grade and we even had plans to move in together once we finish school.

it was thursday, we were dreading art class, and we were supposed to do a bunch of tie dye shirts but only really 3 people in our class bothered doing them, while they were spraying the shirts with spray paint, i accidentally inhaled it and for the next 50 minutes i think, i had to leave the art room/class and try and breath, because i genuinely couldn't (i think i already have breathing issues too, so that isn't too fun)

i forgot my jacket in class, and mind you it was really cold, two of my classmates did come amd check up on me and get me something to drink because i was barely even conscious, i was cold as shit and couldn't even get my jacket and i didn't even know where my own best friend was.

a bunch of breathing exercises later, i finally go back to my class and guess where my friend was? sleeping on her desk with MY jacket that she took without even asking me. she saw me choking and still walked past me just to go to class and sleep.

once it was time to go home i straight up yanked my jacket off her and didn't talk to her, just went to my bus, this was all between 12:00 PM and 1:20 PM if im correct, or atleast somewhere around that time.

she proceeded to text me at 8 pm saying she was too tired to check up on me at school and said if she asked me if i was doing fine then i'd probably blow up on her and she didn't want to tire herself even more, which im not sure if that counts as an excuse. i just told her fine and acted dry as hell with her, i was with my family eating so i couldn't do much, but ever since and i've been unintentionally acting snappy with her or just ignoring her entirely, and our friends think i'm an asshole because she was just tired, im torn as hell right now,

but it was upsetting as shit seeing all my classmates talk about how my own best friend (we literally are that weirdo nerdy duo in class) just abandoned me and took my jacket, meanwhile the two girls i didn't even know that well went ahead and bought juice and some food to help with my dizziness and even checked up on me later.


r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws Am I overacting to be disappointed that the only Christmas presents I got are two silly gifts (Luigi Mangione merch)?

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For our family’s Xmas gift exchange, (8 adults) we each secretly pull one person to get a gift for. My BIL pulled me this year and got me a gag-gift only. He got me both a T-shirt & socks with Luigi Mangione’s face all over it. And I got my SIL (his wife) $160 Birkenstocks from her wish-list. I honestly feel disappointed.. and annoyed. I can’t stop thinking about it. Am I overreacting?

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-I have (along with other family members) shared a couple funny memes about Luigi to our family text thread. But in no way am I obsessed or is it my whole personality.

-I don’t neeeeed anything but I had a wish-list (it’s known in the family to ask the persons spouse for your Secret Santa’s ‘wish list’ if you need direction/help.

-this “Secret Santa” is the only type of gift exchange our family does. And my husband and I didn’t do gifts this year (money is tight). So that was it for me.

-luckily I laughed a lot when I opened it. But then when I realized there was nothing else special or thoughtful, I immediately felt stiffed. Didn’t say anything of course.

-this is “on-brand” for my 40y/o BIL of 10+ years, but he knows everyone else goes a thoughtful direction. Plus he is the one who gave me his wife’s Wish List (which had Birkenstocks and jewelry on it).

-this is my husbands family (whom I couldn’t love more) - Husbands private reaction to me was “eh, someone every year gets shafted 🤷”

-we’ve never set rules or a price. Usually people do $75-$200 gifts since we’re only getting one person a present.

-I’m 8 months pregnant so the hormones are hormoning 🤪 I’m okay if you think I’m reacting spoiled but please tell me kindly 🫶🏻

I guess I’m just looking for solidarity or for it to feel funny and not frustrating. I feel like an 8 y/o spoiled brat for being disappointed when I know none of this matters and there are so many less fortunate people in the world. Not my normal reaction but I can’t lie - I feel some type of way. Am I over-reacting?


r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws Am I overreacting to my mil leaving my gift on the floor like she doesn’t like it

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I live with my in laws. We did secret Santa with my husband’s side of the family. They had a party on Christmas Eve but since I was sick I stayed in our room. I got my husband’s mom gifts for secret Santa and on the gifts I wrote “To: secret Santa “ and “From: (me)”. I was expecting everyone to wait for me at least until everyone left so I could join them for the secret Santa exchange but they all opened their gifts without me. Even the gift that was for my mil. What got me upset was that my gift for my mil was just opened halfway and left on the floor of the living room. Then my mil asked my husband yesterday if she opened the right gift bc they weren’t what she had on her wish list … my husband told her yes they were. So I was expecting her to grab her gifts but they’re still there on the floor unclaimed like she didn’t like them or something. I got her 3 things off her list and the 4th gift I picked for her myself.


r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦family/in-laws AIO on the rocks and sent away on Christmas.

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So I’m having issues with my relationship. On Christmas night we got food and I was sent to get it. No one offered to come with me and no one came after I asked if anyone wanted to come. I’m at the restaurant alone for an hour waiting for the food to be done. I get home and everyone is on the couch just chillin. I found out while I was gone they all decided to play a game. It was not mentioned until today. They played a game and finished before I got home. I’m not sure of if I should feel upset or what. My relationship is in n the rocks and she was there along with my immediate family. Feels weird and avoidant to me.


r/AmIOverreacting 2h ago

🎲 miscellaneous AIO, my girlfriend keeps lying, also sorry for bad spelling an English it’s still pretty bad I really apologize ask for clarification if needed please

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So for some context my gf and I have been dating for about 9 months now we are both in our 20s. both of us never had any relationship like actual real life dating I’ve had hookups since high school and she has had a few online relationships in high school nothing crazy and nothing sexual at all I took her V card 2 months in our relationship. My problem is that she asked me about my past and I expressed my past and what I’ve done how many people I’ve been with and any other details she wanted to know, I then asked her the same at first she tells me she’s been with no one then come to find out later she tells me about an online relationship, from there it gets super confusing.

She has had 4 online relationships I only knew about one after she lied which was a guy from our city but it was all online I even messaged him and he said they never met and same with his and her friends, I expressed how that’s was a little weird that she kept it hidden but u said I understood and asked if there was anyone else she said no.

Then come to find out there was another online relationship that started from Roblox in junior year the previous one only lasted like 1-2 months this new one lasted about a year or so I don’t really know since she never actually tells me when it all happened she always changes the months and time frame.

I asked her again after this new guy I said is there anyone else she then said no again a little later she lied and about cheating on me and other random stuff and other people it was all fake it never made sense and then I got receipts and checked everything it was all a lie, I asked why and she said she wanted me to leave her because she had never been treated well by a male before she is a child SA victim and other stuff from a step brother when she was about 6-9 it lasted that many years, then her father when she was 12 ok fair i get understand we talked it all out and then I said take more time and tell me about the other guys and the real story later on she does and says that’s everything later she lies more and then it all keeps coming back to just the 3.

Then come to find out recently which is why I’m asking AIO she she dated another guy online from Roblox she was on Tik tok and we were watching together she gets a DM saying Isaiah wants to talk again I asked who is that calmly no anger no loudness just like a genuine question she freaks out lies says she doesn’t know then says he was a friend from Roblox to then he asked her out and she said no then she asked him out and he said no to they actually did date and I feel betrayed because of all of this but this one was a final straw I mean the first three paragraphs are just from our first 3 months dating she has put me through a lot and I’m irritated by all of this so much can someone help.