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Relationships can be a source of support, love, and companionship, but they can also bring about challenges that test our emotional well-being. In a recent Reddit post, a young woman bravely shared her experience of leaving her boyfriend after a prank took a severe toll on her mental health. This poignant story highlights the importance of understanding, empathy, and respecting boundaries within a romantic relationship.
The journey of relationships is often filled with ups and downs. In the story of a young woman (18f) and her boyfriend (20m), the emotional toll of pranks goes awry and led her to make a life-altering decision. From the outset of their relationship, the young woman disclosed her history of mental health struggles, including depression, anxiety, and self-harm. She made it clear to her boyfriend that her mental health required understanding and compassion. However, his responses indicated a lack of comprehension and empathy.
The boyfriend’s dismissive attitude toward mental health issues was evident in his comments, where he belittled depression and trauma-related concerns. His inability to grasp the gravity of his girlfriend’s struggles set the stage for future misunderstandings.
Keep on scrolling down to read the full story in OP’s own words and we will see you at the end of the article.
1. OP is leaving her boyfriend over a prank!
2. OP has been with her boyfriend for almost two years she moved in with him last August
3. OP has struggled with her mental health her whole life
4. OP says that her boyfriend never seemed to really get the whole mental health thing
5. OP says that her boyfriend recently started watching a couple of prank channels on YouTube and he also started pranking OP
6. OP says that things escalated last week when he put some noise makers under the toilet seat in the middle of the night
7. OP slept in the living room the rest of the night!
8. The next day OP sat him down and told him that he can not keep scaring her like this
9. Everything was fine for a week
10. Yesterday OP got home from being out with a friend and was actually feeling better for the first time in a while
11. OP got up to go get his phone and when OP got to the bathroom OP saw him laying in the bathtub
12. OP started having a panic attack
13. OP does not even know how to describe the feelings she was experiencing
14. OP’s friend will go over to his tomorrow to get OP’s things when he is at work
15. OP ended up texting her now ex-boyfriend that he crossed a line and that she does not want to hear from him again and then she blocked him
16. OP’s friend went over to his house around noon today with her boyfriend and was able to retrieve most of OP’s stuff without issue
17. Before OP’s friend left she put OP’s copy of his house key on the kitchen table so he knew OP didn’t have it
18. OP’s ex-boyfriend’s mom reached out to OP to ask what was going on
19. His older sister also reached out to OP to apologize for his behavior
20. OP has just been laying in bed for the day and she is exhausted physically and emotionally
21. OP is not expecting much else to happen and she hopes that nothing else happens
22. Exactly you don’t even need to have PTSD to freak out about that prank!
23. Exactly suicide is not a joke
24. Exactly this prank is unacceptable under any conditions!
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