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AITAH for breaking off my engagement because my fiancé made an offensive joke about me to his friends?
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I couldn't imagine the shock and pain after overhearing something as heartbreaking as this. There's no excuse for him to speak about her like this. In a decent and mutually respectful relationship, you should always uphold your partner's dignity. It doesn't mean you can't vent to friends about things in the relationship, but he's not venting, he's deliberately humiliating her and joking at her expense. How could someone who was so sweet to her about her body turn around and shame her for it behind her back?
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His reaction says a lot about him as well. Sure, it's extreme for her to completely ghost him and go MIA out of the blue, but he needs to practice patience a little harder. She's processing it in the way she will process it, blaming her is only making the situation worse. He did a horrible thing and he needs to make amends for it, not turn it around on her for being upset. He's showing his red flags, and she's wise to leave now before saying “I do.”
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Woman breaks off engagement after overhearing fiancé joke about her body, she goes full M.I.A on him and stands her ground on body positivity: “I don’t want to hear his apology”
There's a lot to say about the progressive steps to dismantle tradition made by generations like millennials, Gen z, and beyond. Everyone has their own opinions about marriage, relationships, work-life balance, wages, just to name a few topics that have undergone major changes in the past couple decades. There are pros and cons to everything, but one of the topics that changed culture for the better has to be body positivity.
For women in generations erst, their physical appearance was (usually) one of the only values they posed to the world. In a world dominated by men, and not necessarily the most egalitarian men, a woman's place was in the kitchen or their bedrooms. Women lived in a world under constant scrutiny about their appearance and their bodies. Skinny used to be the symbol of beauty, but times are changing. Every body shape is being more and more accepted, thus steering away from so much pressure on women that they have to be skinny if they want to be beautiful. We're far from reaching ultimate equality about this, but it's definitely a more body positive world for everyone.