A 33-year-old woman sadly lost her dad, and when he passed, he made sure that she inherited his most prized model ship.
She placed her dad’s model ship in her living room so she would always be reminded of him, however, she never told her boyfriend about the importance of the model ship.
She’s been dating her 37-year-old boyfriend for half a year now, and she does not live with him, nor does he come to her house that frequently, so she thinks that’s why she never thought to tell him about the model ship.
Several days ago, her boyfriend invited his friends to her house to “celebrate his birthday.” All of the guys had a lot to drink, and then they picked up her sofa cushions and began throwing them right at one another.
She made an effort to try to get all the guys to stop disrespecting her house like that before she made her way back into her kitchen to “clean up” after the mess that they made.
Suddenly, she heard a noise come from her living room, so she went to see what on earth was going on.
She noticed that her boyfriend was holding the model ship that her dad had left for her, and she tried hard to grab it right out of his hands.
Before she could catch it, her boyfriend tossed the ship to his friend, and then his friend in turn threw it to a second guy.
She screamed at the guys to cut it out as she desperately attempted to scoop up the model ship.
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“I was so angry I told him to hand it over but he said I needed to kiss him first,” she explained. “I yelled at him and he tried to throw it to his friend who tried to catch it but it missed and it hit the wall and broke.”
“I lost it!! I kicked all of his friends out, then had a fight with him, telling him this was a sentimental item from dad and demanding that he pay me $3,500 because this is how much it costs.”
“He left then called in the morning asking if I was serious about wanting him to pay $3,500 and I said I was dead serious.”
Her boyfriend tried to weasel his way out of paying her. She understands it’s partially her fault for not making sure her boyfriend knew about how special the model ship was to her, and she’s upset she never made that clear.
She and her boyfriend have been arguing since then about him owing her the money to replace the ship.
During their latest call, she hung up the phone, but not before making it clear to him that if he doesn’t pay up, she’s going to be forced to “take the legal route.”
“He kept texting asking me to let it go and saying it was cruel of me to threaten him with the law,” she said.
“He had his friends apologize thinking this would be it but I insisted that he pay me. I get that I might’ve got worked up over an item and treated my boyfriend badly but to me, it seemed like recklessness on his part.”
Do you think she should do whatever it takes to get her boyfriend to pay up?
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