Jealous boyfriend asks girlfriend to rehome her cat, then grows to love the cat but she leaves him anyway: 'Me and my cat have our own place to ourselves now and happier than ever'

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Briana Viser • Writer and Editor
Dec 12, 2025 5:00 PM EST

The story here centers around a couple and a cat. The protagonist is a girl who's had some rough patches in her housing situation. She was separated from her cat for a bit while she was figuring out where to live. They finally found a place, and she starts dating someone. Her boyfriend starts to complain about the cat – about the fur everywhere, about how the cat likes to sit in the sink. The boyfriend threatens to leave his girlfriend over the cat, claiming that he wants her to consider her priorities. She cries, she begs him to stay and that he's breaking her heart. 

As time goes on, the tables turn, and the boyfriend is the one who finds he loves the cat. Suddenly, he's into the cat, he wants to spend time with the cat, and he doesn't want to break up anymore. But something doesn't feel right for the girl. She ends up leaving him over the whole fiasco and deems him controlling. She moves out, and her and her cat get an apartment together. She takes her authority and power from him, and does what's the right thing for her, and claims she's never been happier. 

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    My boyfriend is leaving me because of my cat UPDATE

    Woman and her cat
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    Early this year I made a post about how i had recently moved in with my boyfriend, and he was very upset about my cat leaving
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    fur and liking to sit in sink. I wanted to provide an update because It got a lot of views and I
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    want to provide some info in case anyone else gets in a similar position.
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    For some background, I made that post about a month into us moving in together, we had only been together for FOUR months
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    and I had no idea what i was getting myself into. I am pretty young and was struggling with having a place to live, I had to
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    separate from my cat for awhile while i found housing, ended up renting a room and reuniting with him just for the place to have
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    bedbugs, so my boyfriend offered to get a place with me. I felt horrible with keeping my cat in that room all the time so of
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    course i accepted and was excited for my cat to have a condo with space.
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    I made the original post before he had confronted me, but I could tell by things he was saying and acting that he was not
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    enjoying living with a cat, and i was heartbroken and terrified. About a week after i made the post, he came up to me and asked me to rehome my cat and
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    to "really think about my priorities". I was devastated, said that he was breaking my heart and kept saying "its over its over”.
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    He apologized not for what he said but because he "didnt expect me to react like that”. My cat is more then a pet to me, and i
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    know ESA status is a red flag to some people on here but this cat is genuinely for my mental health,
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    i have never used ESA status to get him in housing, everywhere we have stayed is pet friendly. he runs up to me when i have panic attacks :)
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    My boyfriend later told me that he had fought the urge to "leave the patio door open and put him outside" but that he would never
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    Couple arguing
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    do it. That fucking horrified me but i stood my ground that this cat is part of me. I barely left the house after that, i was so scared
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    of something happening to my baby. The relationship continued to go downhill, i think partially due to my mental health
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    declining over stressing about the safety of my cat. more and more control issues started showing up too.
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    but then the weirdest thing happened. He started to love my cat. by the time our lease was ending at 3 months, he told me
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    he was going to miss my cat and if he could have him visit his place on weekends?? i still dont understand to this day, he claims
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    if there was a door so he could lock the cat away from kitchen sink he would have no issues.
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    Anyways me and my cat have our own place to ourselves now and we are both happier then ever, no more boyfriend either :) nobody will ever separate me from this cat.
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    my conclusion is that if a man expects you to desert your cat for him, there is some serious control issues going on.
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