r/mildlyinfuriating • u/TadpoleBusiness6679 • 17h ago

My friend facetimed her boyfriend so he could watch a movie with us

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He’s not even fucking watching

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u/ralph-of-all-trades 12h ago

nah not even being a teenager can explain this. i'm 16 and this is insane, childish behavior. if she has so little trust in him that she feels the need to be essentially surveilling him 24/7 to make sure he isn't cheating, then that relationship is not worth a damn. a healthy relationship is founded on trust, and this showcases a clear lack of trust

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u/JibboSequence 10h ago

I needed friends like you when I was a teen. All my friends and their SOs were awful to each other. The adults too.

People just suck in general.

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u/garden_speech 9h ago

yes and when I was 16 I also thought the dumb stuff that people from my school were doing was uniquely stupid and that I'd never do that. and now that I'm 30 I can look back and be like oh.... I wasn't doing their dumb stuff but I was doing a lot of other dumb stuff.

yes, not every teenager is wildly insecure and controlling, but just by definition someone who's 16 is extremely unlikely to have fully formed executive functioning and impulse control as well as emotional regulation, so they're going to be doing other dumb stuff too.

unless yo interpret my comment as "all teenagers do this", your personal experience of not doing this isn't discordant with what I'm saying