Her Boyfriend Retaliated Against Her After She Didn’t Wake Him Up For Work
This 29-year-old woman’s 35-year-old boyfriend has been living with her ever since he got his very first engineering job around two months ago.
He starts his work at 8:00 a.m. and has to leave the house by at least 7:45 a.m. in order to get there on time. But several times, she has been the one that has had to wake him up when she notices that he is sleeping past his two alarms.
She, on the other hand, is a freelancer who works from home, so she has no real need to wake up that early.
Some mornings, she wakes him up when it’s already 7:30 a.m., and he still hasn’t gotten out of bed, and he gets frustrated with her, questioning why she didn’t wake him up sooner.
Recently, since they slept in the same bed, she was awoken by his 7:00 a.m. alarm. As usual, her boyfriend woke up, turned off the alarm, and went back asleep until his 7:10 a.m. alarm sounded. After that alarm went off, he fell back asleep again.
“I wasn’t really paying attention to the time, but I was using my phone as some clients were texting me already. I kept looking at my boyfriend from time to time, and he would open his eyes at me, smile, and nod, then close his eyes again,” she explained.
Then, she checked the time and saw that it was already 7:37 a.m., so she looked over at her boyfriend, and when he looked back, she asked him if he was aware of what time it was.
He, thinking it was 7:25 a.m. or so, checked his phone, saw what the time actually was, and raced to the bathroom.
As he was quickly getting ready for work, he started arguing with her about how it was rude of her not to have woken him up earlier and that now, because of her, he was going to be late to work and had no time to even brush his teeth!
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“I told him that I didn’t mean to make him [angry], but that being on time for HIS work isn’t MY responsibility,” she said.
To which he replied that since she was awake and able to help him out, it was rude of her to choose not to. While she understands that partners should help each other out and doesn’t want him to lose his job since he pays for the majority of their bills, she still doesn’t feel like his being late is her fault.
She wasn’t too bothered by the situation until he retaliated in a way that shocked her. She has a favorite white towel that she keeps in their bathroom for decoration, and he intentionally blew his nose into it and made sure she knew.
“He’s, in general, a very good partner, so I was appalled that he would retaliate like that, which made me rethink if I should just keep waking him up if he sleeps in, as I’m already awake and capable of doing it,” she stated.
Do you think that she should continue to wake him up at a certain time? Do you think it was rude of her not to, or do you think her boyfriend should not blame her for his lateness?
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