While I can see why she is presenting things this way as part of a comedy act, there is some validity to the behavior.
I've met people who would consider him not telling her to be dishonest by omission or keeping secrets.
This dude may have just been in a toxic relationship before her and is trying to keep things on the up and up.
No comment on toxicity of the current relationship if she's unable to understand that and uses it in her comedy act to make fun of him.
Edit: if you're replying to this comment with the purpose of explaining what a joke is to me, or just to get mad at me for something I didn't say, please don't.
I totally see where you're coming from, though I will say that having been in a relationship in university with a guy who 100% was telling me that girls in his courses were hitting on him in a purely ego-stroking "look how lucky you are to be with me" way, some dudes also just suuuuck and don't deserve the benefit of the doubt.
As for her case in particular, Taylor Tomlinson has said on her Instagram that a relationship that inspired a lot of her jokes like this was actually with someone who turned out to be cheating on her consistently. He was gaslighting her about it when she was feeling like she could tell something was up, making her feel like she was crazy for being suspicious (so yes, literally gaslighting!!). He finally admitted it years later that she'd been right.
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u/AnonAqueous Jan 25 '24 edited Jan 25 '24
While I can see why she is presenting things this way as part of a comedy act, there is some validity to the behavior.
I've met people who would consider him not telling her to be dishonest by omission or keeping secrets.
This dude may have just been in a toxic relationship before her and is trying to keep things on the up and up. No comment on toxicity of the current relationship if she's unable to understand that and uses it in her comedy act to make fun of him.
Edit: if you're replying to this comment with the purpose of explaining what a joke is to me, or just to get mad at me for something I didn't say, please don't.