My (28/f) boyfriend (29/m) laughed at me getting beat up
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I need some help wordings this because I’m still pretty shook up, so I apologize if it’s incoherent. Yesterday, my boyfriend and I were at a bar/club having a few drinks. I went to the bar to order another drink (2 ipa beers) and the guy next to me asked if I was done with my drink menu. I’ve always been a people person, so I initiated a conversation with him. <br><br>Anyways, long story short, this guy seemed nice in the beginning and we had a good conversation. We talked for a solid minute, but I had to end the conversation bc I’m a terrible texter and my boyfriend was trying to get my attention. As the conversation went on, the guy started acting weirder and weirder (he had a thick accent, so I don’t think English is his first language). <br><br>Eventually, he ended up grabbing my head and kissing me (not passionately, but like a peck). I was kinda surprised and when I got back to my boyfriend, I told him what happened and showed him the text messages (we were both tipsy but conscious). My boyfriend laughed and said he was jealous of the guy for kissing me first and that I was flirting with him when he went to the bathroom. I told him I was just being nice and that I didn’t think I was flirting/being mean or leading him on. At one point, my boyfriend got upset and left the table, but I think he was just drunk and needed time to be alone bc he came back shortly. <br><br>Anyways, my friend was in the bathroom and she saw the guy I was talking to grab a girl by her hair, drag her into a stall, and hit her. I was out of sight, so I didn’t see this happen, but my friends said she was screaming. At this point, my boyfriend and I were trying to find a Uber, but my friend came running out and said that the guy I was talking to beat up a girl. <br><br>When I saw the girl, I told my boyfriend I had to help her and my boyfriend told me no, walk away. I ignored him and I helped her up, dusted her off, and asked if she needed help. She was really upset and crying, so my friend and I tried to calm her down. She said she didn’t want to call the cops bc she was worried they would think she was drinking and the guy wouldn’t get in trouble. Anyways, she eventually ended up calling the cops and my boyfriend told her to stop and not call the cops. My friend and I got upset and told her to ignore him. <br><br>When the cops came, they asked me and my friend what we saw and we gave our statements. The cop asked me if I wanted to file a report and I said yes. My boyfriend and his friend were trying to get us to leave, but the cops told them to wait. Before we left, the girl was really thankful for our help and gave us a hug. When we were in the car, my boyfriend told me I was stupid for helping the girl and that I put myself in danger. I was really upset and told him I couldn’t believe he thought I should’ve just walked away. <br><br>He said I should’ve just walked away and that I shouldn’t have let the girl attack him bc she tried to hit him when he tried to walk away. Apparently, the guy I was talking to tried to fight my boyfriend when he was outside. When we got back to our air bnb, I told him I don’t think I want to be with him anymore and he started screaming at me for being dramatic. He said I over reacted and it’s not that big of a deal when really it is bc what if that was me getting beat up when I went to the bathroom? <br><br>He just kept saying I put myself in unnecessary danger when I could’ve just walked away. He said he was just trying to protect us and get us out of there when really I think he just got scared. He has apologized, but I still don’t feel good about this. <br><br>TL;DR my bf didn’t want me to help a girl who got beat up and kissed by a guy I was talking to at a bar/club. <br><br>Edit: to clarify things, I wasn’t flirting with the guy I was talking to. He was acting weird, like he kept telling me to smile. I saw a lot of people smiling at me, so I think he wanted me to smile back. When he kissed me, I was kinda surprised, but I didn’t make a big deal out of it bc I didn’t think it was a big deal. <br><br>Edit #2: I think there’s a lot of confusion about what happened at the bar. I wasn’t flirting with the guy I was talking to. He came up to me when I was at the bar ordering a drink. He seemed nice at first, but he looked confused when I was talking to him. For example, he kept telling me to smile. I didn’t think he was trying to hit on me bc he didn’t seem confident enough to approach me. <br><br>Anyways, when I went back to my boyfriend, I told him the guy kissed me and showed him the text. My boyfriend laughed and said he was jealous of the guy for kissing me. The text messages were just the guy asking me for my number and telling me where he was from. The messages were normal and nothing flirtatious. <br><br>When my friend saw the guy grab a girl by her hair, my boyfriend was outside. When we called the cops, my boyfriend was trying to get us to leave. <br><br>I think there’s a lot of assumptions about this incident and people don’t really know what happened. My boyfriend thought I was flirting with the guy I was talking to, but I think it’s because he doesn’t know how to talk to people he doesn’t know. <br><br>Edit #3: I just want to say my boyfriend and I are not together anymore. I broke up with him last night. The next morning after the incident, he took my phone and looked through all my text messages and made copies of them. He also read all my messages on Reddit. <br><br>He tried to use those messages to manipulate me and said he didn’t think we should be together bc I don’t trust him. <br><br>I don’t think I would’ve broken up with him if he didn’t do that.
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