Entitled 29-year-old refuses to help 31-year-old ex-girlfriend switch internet accounts, she gets even by removing his video game access: 'I could change my password and kick him out permanently'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Mar 4, 2025 4:00 PM EST

In the age of shared accounts for streaming, internet, and other services, breakups can become especially petty. It used to be just figuring out who gets the couch and who gets the bed. Now, it's about who gets Netflix and who gets Disney+ in the divorce. Such is the plight for chronically online couples going through a separation.

Here, we have a gamer who was overly attached to his now ex-girlfriend's gaming account, while she merely wanted to transfer their shared internet service to her own name. Keep scrolling below for the full debacle and for her subsequent petty revenge!

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  • This 31-year-old woman may have just been dating someone 2 years younger than her but based on his actions after their breakup, he seemed much more naive in terms of emotional maturity. He made the process of switching primary account holders for their internet service all the more difficult by refusing to help her out. Meanwhile, she later learned that he was frequently using her gaming account to play several expensive video games from her gaming library. When she discovered that she could simply change the password and lock him out of the account permanently mid-game, she couldn't resist!

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    My ex (29M) has not been taking our breakup kindly since I (31F) ended it in December. He's tried to guilt me into getting back with him, not respected my boundaries and really living up to his comment that he 'no longer
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    needs to be nice to me' now that we're not together. I've done my best to not engage with these interactions where I can by removing myself from the room or not replying to messages when they are of this nature and blocking him on social media.
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    We shared a rental house together, so when he moved out I started the processes to change the services that were in his name over to mine. One of those was the internet. When he left, I
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    called the provider but as I was the secondary on the account, I could not make changes without his permission as it was his account. I explained the situation
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    (that he'd moved out), so they emailed him the form he needed to fill out to change the account over to me. All he needed to do was fill it out and email it back, a
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    5 minute task at most. Now did he do that? Of course not. He called them up and cancelled the account instead. Leaving me without internet. To his credit, he
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    let me know AFTER he'd already cancelled it that he'd done so, so I didn't come home to a surprise. This meant I had to create a new account and restart the service.
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    Unfortunately the previously set up router didn't like this, leaving me without internet for a week while we solved the issue and it removed the deal we had for a cheaper price on a faster internet
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    speed. Overall it was a massive headache that could have been avoided if he'd simply filled out a form. After all that, I hadn't planned to do anything about it. It
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    was done and sorted, he was out of my life and his poor behaviour no longer impacting me, but a few weeks ago I got an opportunity I couldn't resist.
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    I log onto my computer one Saturday afternoon and open up my steam account to pick a game to play. I go to open a game and get a notification that 'another device is playing Star Wars: Jedi Survivor, opening a new game
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    will close this device'. For those that don't use Steam, it is typically a single user system (unless you have a family account) that only allows one device to play at a time. My ex
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    had previously logged onto my steam account on his laptop while we were still together to play Hogwarts Legacy so he didn't have to buy it himself.
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    Once he'd finished that, he made the poor decision to not make his own steam account and keep buying games he wanted on mine. Also it's important to note
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    here that once you've bought a game on an account, you cannot transfer your accounts copy to another. I had looked into this previously to try to give him the games he'd bought but couldn't find a solution and left it for another day.
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    I knew I had 3 options here: 1. I could just play my game and kick him off his temporarily. Allowing him to log back in later and play, giving my time to see if I could find another solution for transferring the games he'd bought
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    2. I could go do something else and let him play 3. I could change my password and kick him out permanently
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    So what did I do? I picked option 3, I kicked him out permanently, mid game, with no curtesy message first. 10 minutes later this boy has the audacity to send me a message asking for my steam password. I did not justify him with a response.
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    The icing on the cake? Turns out he was out at sea for work with minimal internet. So even if he created his own steam account and bought himself the games, he would have struggled to download them
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    EDIT: I have since learned from a few commenters that he won't have to redownload the games if he creates his own account. Thanks for the intel! I'm still going to enjoy that he has to buy them all again. Some of these games cost $70 each
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  • Several members of the online community chimed in with their responses to this drama! It turns out that dealing with who gets which account in a breakup truly is as difficult as any other part of the separation process. Here's what they had to say about her petty revenge!

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    jitasquatter2 What a missed opportunity. For maximum petty, you should have chosen options 1 several times before going for options 3.
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    wlfwrtr Respond 'Remember the internet?'
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    Munchkins_nDrag... no longer needs to be nice now that we're not together... Gosh he really didn't see that one coming did he?
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