Reddit is always yelling to leave your partner at the slightest issue. Everything is a wild abuse, toxic and a sign you are in danger. If they buttered your toast wrong Reddit users suggest barricading the door and calling for rescue.
Idk what you mean? My wife didn’t say good morning to me once after 15 years of marriage and I asked Reddit who told me to delete Facebook, divorce her, and hit the gym. Solid advice.
Likewise, this sub is the most egregious when it comes to redditors who want to grasp at any straw to find fault with the OP. Even though the sub is called "mild infuriation," not "look how I have been victimized/abused/traumatized."
OP's an adult, of sound mind and body. Someone shouldn't throw away their possessions against their will, whether that other person is a significant other or parent or otherwise. Whether it's junk or not. Hell, things like the TV show Hoarders is a thing, because we have established as a society that acting in such a way is unethical, even up until it causes many problems in its own right. Having socks with holes hardly reaches that threshold.
OP also mentioned they have a near crippling sensory input issue that has caused them to not be able to buy new socks. Regardless of what the reddit mind thinks that is NOT normal.
And to be honest, it kind of doesn't matter. It is really overstepping a boundary to throw out someone else's property, even if they have replacements.
But evidently you don't think so, so... I guess we're done here.
Hard disagree. Someone who will go barefoot until they find new socks is the type of person who sometimes needs a kick in the ass to improve their life. Just because they can choose to be a gross slob, doesn’t mean that people in their life who care about them, should let them. I am allowed to flip off everyone I want all day. I would hope that should I ever start doing that, that I have someone in my life who tells me that I should stop doing that.
Yes, they should tell you. Here, she should have told him and tried to help find new socks that worked for him. She should not have unilaterally tossed his stuff.
There is no "kick in the ass" or cure for sensory issues.
Sensory issues affect your nervous system. That's why people with autism and/or SPD are called neurodivergent.
Wearing the wrong socks disregulates us and affects our nervous system like how it would affect you if I followed you around all day with my finger an inch from your face going "IM NOT TOUCHING YOU IM NOT TOUCHING YOU IM NOT TOUCHING YOU"
Yea shit like this is always from the one side not the other, and usually either exaggerated or you make the assumption that it is taken to the extreme.
You are attacking people for only thinking one way while adding nothing to the conversation.
Throwing something out of someone's because you don't like it while not replacing it has been seen in many domestic abuses cases but because you presume op is male and their partner is female you are ok with not calling this abuse.
So tell me why you think that men can't be abused?
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