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A Reddit user is “really confused” after seeing his girlfriend cry over something he thought was a considerate gesture during a recent trip together.
“I am currently on a weekend away with my girlfriend,” the man began his post. “I was really excited and planned this trip as a surprise, and she absolutely loved our first night out. I took her for dinner, then we watched a live musical, before heading back to the hotel.”
The dinner seemingly led to a less-than-ideal situation for him the next day.
“I woke up at around 6 a.m. needing to use the toilet really badly,” he added. “I’m talking, my stomach was making those super bad noises that usually indicate I’m going to stink the bathroom out for a few hours.”
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“I was probably gone a good half hour, but when I came back my girlfriend was in tears. Crying about me leaving, saying what if someone broke in, why I didn’t tell her I was going, what if something happened while I was gone, to me or her,” he recalled.
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Within 72 hours after posing his questions, he received more than 1,700 responses, with the consensus being he’s “NTA [not the a——].”
“I’d be re-evaluating the relationship,” they added. “Do you need a partner who melts down at the unexpected and wants you to be glued to her 24/7 unless you’re keeping her posted as to your whereabouts at all times?”
Most Redditors agreed, and some also offered a simple remedy.
“While [he] probably should have texted her when he disappeared for half an hour, her thumbs work too,” another person wrote. “I accidentally disappear on my husband like this sometimes, and he just texts, ‘Where did you go?’ No tears involved.”
source: people.com
