What Exactly Should You Do If Your Boyfriend Pretends To Propose To You?
We hope you all had a lovely Christmas…well at least one that went much better than the poor soul below. In a very ridiculous story posted to /r/relationships, a 25-year-old woman asks users what she should do about her 27-year-old boyfriend who fake-proposed to her on Christmas. After her story was reposted by the Twitter account @redditships, many tweets were sent begging her to absolutely burn the whole relationship down.
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smolbirb
I hope that dude's family doesn't invite him to their family christmas anymore. what a shithead
HardcoreHunter
Break up over a prank is pretty shit advice. Relationships are built on understanding and compromise. She should; like a functioning adult understand that he didn't mean anything malicious by his prank, but at the same time explain to him her feelings and why this prank is negatively affecting her. In turn he should understand that this emotionally hurt her despite it being in jest.
Paul Nelthorpe
The only reason to do something like her boyfriend did, is out of cruelty.
He didn't think she'd find it funny, he just wanted to laugh at her misery.
If he did think she'd find it funny, he must be quite literally and severely retarded.
I'll bet any money that he's pulled some real bullshit like this already.
HardcoreHunter
Pranks aren't really something the one being pranked on finds humor in when it's happening to them. Having someone smash shaving cream in their face while they're asleep is funny when it isn't happening to you, when it happens to your, you're annoyed and pissed at your friends and maybe a little pissed for a bit before getting over it. Hell when I was little my parents went through the trouble of finding an empty SNES box, filling it with coal and wrapping it up for christmas and recording my reaction to show for decades to come. It wasn't nice I didn't think it was funny at the time, but you get over it. Would it have been reasonable for 6 year old me to say I didn't deserve that cruelty and walk out the door and go work in the coal mine with the other 6 year olds digging up coal for kids to open out of game boxes. I mean maybe it was an option anyway. Though suffice it to say I would have missed out on any better times I'd have had should I have decided to simply move past it. In this case if something like that would have broken the marriage then it never would have lasted 80 years so why even bother?
Paul Nelthorpe
Dude, that is a terrible thing for any mother or father to do. Your parents sound awful.
Your situation is a little different in that you don't get to choose your parents, and you are completely dependent on them. Obviously it's a dumb idea for a 6 year old to leave home. No coal mine would have taken you.
A romantic relationship, on the other hand, is 50/50 give and take from both parties. You choose who you want to be with, and can totally leave someone if they're making you unhappy.
If your girlfriend gave you a ps4 for christmas and it was actually just a box full of coal, I would not blame you for leaving her. I wouldn't insist that you do so, but I wouldn't blame you for it.
An engagement ring means at least a hundred times more than a PS4
A prank should be something that the victim sees humour in, even if it takes them a few minutes (or even hours) to come around. Otherwise you can just throw a few cartons of eggs in someones face and say "hahaha prank."
The above example is not a prank, it's just someone being a total asshole.
Not even the internet found this "engagement ring prank," to be funny.
He's either a sociopath or legitimately retarded.
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