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AITA for trying to make Super Bowl plans with a guy friend?
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Image is representative only and does not depict the actual subjects of the story.
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By the time that falls through, the boyfriend has already made plans with his high‑school friend group, guys she has never liked, who have a history of being immature and disrespectful. One of them has a record of pushing the boyfriend not to date her, even after they were already together. When she realizes he did not even attempt to coordinate with her schedule, she feels hurt, then frustrated, then resourceful. She decides not to sit at home while he watches the game with men who already had a poor track record with her; she reaches out to a mutual friend, Thomas, a guy she considers one of her best male friends, and makes a plan to watch the game with him at a packed sports bar.
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The boyfriend interprets this not as a night of independent fun, but as a personal slight. His reaction is extreme: if she goes, her belongings are on the curb. He claims he trusts both her and Thomas, but insists a one‑on‑one outing “looks bad” even though the venue is public, loud, and full of strangers. He turns a simple contingency plan into a loyalty ultimatum, treating her attempt to have plans of her own as a threat to their relationship.
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What makes it quietly troubling is how little space he leaves for her to exist outside of him. She did not propose a secret outing, she did not hide it, she did not lie. She sought plans that did not revolve around a group of men who already had a history of disliking her and trying to drive a wedge between them.
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Of course she is not in the wrong here. She is someone who tried to create a reasonable boundary and he responded with a threat that sounded more like a demolition than a discussion.
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