Girlfriend’s jealousy gets the best of her when boyfriend goes to friend’s girlfriend’s birthday dinner, she demands he sleep on the couch, he refuses: “I’m cutting all ties with her”

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Mar 28, 2025 12:00 PM EDT

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen of the internet. Jealousy is a nasty thing. When we're insecure, it paints the world in evil hues, where malice, anger, and pain reign down. Goddesses of fury and suffering get the better of us when we're feeling jealous. It's one of the worst feelings in the world, and can dominate so much of our lives and actions. When we were once pleasant and smiling with everyone, we become antisocial, withdrawn, and even may lash out with rage at our friends, family, or loved ones. It feels like a glacier in the shape of a knife just dropped down into your stomach, it feels like you can't swallow or think, it feels like you could throw up or cry at any moment. It's a horrible feeling, and it can make us go out of control. 

In the story below, the protagonist seems to have done nothing wrong, but that doesn't stop his girlfriend from being incited with a terrible, ruthless jealousy. He comes home with food for her and she just throws it in the trash. She threatens him, insults him, and tells him to sleep on the couch when he's done seemingly nothing, and is innocuous to her fury. 

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    AITAH For Refusing to Sleep on the Couch

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    I (22M) told my girlfriend (20F) that I was going to the bar with my friend (24M) and his girlfriend (21F) to celebrate her birthday. I was leaving at 7pm and said I would be gone for at most two hours. I offered to grab my girlfriend fast food for a late dinner. She was okay with this
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  • This woman seems insane. She doesn't even talk to her boyfriend like they're in the same plane of reality. She just wants to hurt and attack him. It starts to get very dangerous in fights with your partner when there's name calling thrown around, or when someone starts making up things about you. 

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    plan. I even texted her a few times while I was there. I also only had one drink and one test tube shot. I paid for the 3 shots to celebrate her 21st. My buddy paid for my drink since he lost a bet on the way to the bar.
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    I get home and my girlfriend is in bed watching TikToks. I hand her the food bag. Since it was a late dinner I didn't mind if she wanted to eat in bed. She gets up so I assume she is going to eat at the table, but she tossed the food in the bin telling me she already ate.
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    Okay that's fine, but we could have put the food in fridge. I would have eaten it for breakfast. I mentioned this to her. She starts going in on me, about how I am a person for enjoying a drink with some " (friend's girlfriend). She saw the photo of us online. A photo of the 3 of us. I
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    texted her throughout the night and even said my friend brought his girlfriend since it was her birthday. She didn't answer back.
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    She was so mad that she told me to sleep on the couch. That I was dr_nk and she feared for her safety. I wasn't drink and I wasn't going to harm her. I refused to move. I paid for this bed. She grabbed the blankets off me and throw my pillow across the room
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    knocking over my desk lamp. I told her to stop being such a b and to just sleep, that we could talk about it in the morning. She got defensive and left. I did not try to stop her or even text/call. I guess she went to her parent's house. Her friends
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    are telling me that I am the ah_le. My friend and his girlfriend are telling me to break up with her. That I don't need that toxicity in my life.
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    Edit: I apologize for my misleading first sentence. The original plan was just drinks with my buddy. The plans changed (his girlfriend joining us) throughout the night, I texted my girlfriend to update her. I never received any texts back. I took no texts back as an "Okay" from my girlfriend.
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    To clarify my girlfriend is underage and legally can be carded and escorted out by any staff for being near a bar or casino in my state.
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    Update: I have been texting a few of her friends to clarify what was being said that made me an a hole. My girlfriend told them I had hit her in a drunken rage. I feel sick by this. A few believe me, but because they are her friend they have to be there for
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    her.Thankfully she doesn't have a key. Her friends that believe me are coming over to pack her belongings. I'm cutting all ties with her. I don't know. I guess all I can say is I wish her the best.
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    StorminWolf 19h ago NTA. From a 42 Y/o dude. Do not let her back in the apartment and do not meet without witnesses and break up immediately. She basically threatened you by saying she fears for your safety by you.
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    jrm1102 20h ago NTA - sounds like there's a lot more issues than just you going out and this whole food situation
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    Popular Procedu... 20h ago GF thinks something happened, but instead of addressing it like a mature, grown up, she acted like a child. However, the bigger issue is that she reverted to the potential victim - fearing
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    for her safety, getting violent (not that she hit you, but the violence was still there). Count your blessings, dude, and move on. She is too immature right now (and perhaps always will be).
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    BYLY BO B PASTA & PIZZA BASTA HIS PASTA .O
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    Noodlefanboi • 19h ago That I was drink and she feared for her safety You need to get this woman out of your life immediately.
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    DataDude00 15h ago My girlfriend told them I had hit her in a drunken rage. Bro you need to take immediate action to SAVE YOURSELF LEGALLY
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    1. She isn't allowed back in the home 2. All communication should be written, DO NOT SPEAK ON PHONE OR IN PERSON 3. Consider getting cameras for the interior of the home in the
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    event she comes to get her stuff or arrange to have mutual friends / witnesses present. Do not interact with her or allow her into the home without other people there.
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    Do not assume this is a simple rumor and do not assume you will win or come out even in a "he said, she said" scenario. Protect yourself and get this woman out of your life
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