We have reached peak fragile masculinity with this story from u/throwawayzip32123 on r/AmItheA**hole about how he ruined his relationship over a pillow. Yes, he was jealous over an inanimate object that he couldn’t beat up for stealing his woman.
The story starts with him explaining that his girlfriend moved in with him at the beginning of the pandemic after six months together, because her lease was up and it seemed to make sense. That’s when he and her favorite body pillow started butting heads:
“Anyway when she moved in she brought this like five foot long body pillow that she insists on sleeping with every night. It kinda pisses me off because we’ll be cuddling and then she’ll turn away and wrap herself around this pillow when I’m literally right there tryna snuggle, not even asleep yet. It’s been bothering me for a while cuz it feels insulting, like she doesn’t even wanna fall asleep in my arms? I’ve never dated a girl who didn’t want to cuddle all night and I’m hella confused. Anyways this morning I asked her to stop using the body pillow and just cuddle with me instead and she said no cuz it “helps her back” and “she gets too sweaty cuddling me all night”. That really hurt my feelings and I called bullshit on it helping her back, it’s a f*cking pillow. She said I was overreacting and I told her if she thought so then she could start sleeping in the guest room instead cuz I’m not boutta get rejected every night for a f*cking pillow. We kept fighting for a while but she’s been giving me the cold shoulder for a couple hours now.
I’m starting to feel bad and like I should’ve just dealt with it but I’m tired of being rejected every single night. So am I seriously TA?”
So, you brought something up to your girlfriend, she explained it, you didn’t believe it and called her a liar? And when she tried to deescalate, you kicked her out of your bedroom? Gee, wonder why she doesn’t want to speak to you anymore.
The man was definitely labeled as an a**hole by body pillow lovers everywhere and all of their sleeping partners:
The man’s girlfriend definitely thinks he’s an a**hole, too, because he updated with this edit:
“edit: so I went to apologize and found her packing her shit. i begged her to stay and honestly lost my temper because she’s leaving me over a dumb fight over a pillow. so all of you who called me controlling got your damn way, she’s at her sister’s now. f*cking thanks.”
What a piece of work: blaming Reddit somehow for his failure to apologize like an adult and save his relationship. As people pointed out, that’s stupid as hell:
He updated again to say this:
“edit 2: i get that im the asshole but can y’all please stop PMing me, i got the f*cking message”
Do you? If a woman is choosing to leave with her pillow, you have a lot of self-reflection to do.