In relationships , there are times where one partner wants to prove a point to the other, trying to make them open their eyes to something huge. However, when their partner doesn’t agree or see things their way, they strive to make sure they learn their lesson . Sometimes, this means going the extra mile and even lying or fabricating things to get them to see the truth.
Many couples believe lying to their partner is wrong.
However, there are also couples who believe a little white lie in order to prove a point and get them to see the bigger picture is okay.
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When you want to get your point across, you’ll do just about anything to do it.
One girlfriend decided to fake an illness in order to prove a point to her boyfriend.
Reddit user u/PacificPhoeniiix wrote into Reddit asking for advice about a situation between her and her boyfriend.
She says the two like to cook dinners together as a couple, but that she oftentimes struggles with her boyfriend’s cleanliness when cooking.
Her boyfriend does not wash utensils and cooking tools between using them.
Many times, she states, that her boyfriend will use the same knife to cut raw chicken and meat and then cut veggies and other things.
She says she has constantly been on him about cross-contamination and that she feels they could both get sick from this.
One night, when making carnitas, she noticed him use the knife for pork and then onions.
The two got into a huge fight over it, with her boyfriend leaving the kitchen and refusing to finish cooking with her.
The following day, the Reddit user wanted to make sure he learned his lesson so she decided to fake “food poisoning” due to the “cross-contamination” with the knife.
However, that day, the two had plans to go to his parent’s house for a celebration.
The two were supposed to go to her boyfriend’s parents’ house for a celebratory day as her boyfriend just landed a big, new job.
However, she did not go, due to her “food poisoning.” Her boyfriend went by himself.
His mother was not happy the girlfriend missed dinner.
“His mother messaged me later on, explaining that it was extremely rude of me to have missed the dinner and that I should have taken some Pepto Bismol or something so that I could be there to celebrate with them,” she wrote.
His other family members were also angry, calling her an “unsupportive girlfriend.”
She asked the Reddit community if she was “wrong” for staying home and faking an illness to prove a point.
Many said the girlfriend was wrong for lying.
“You’re not entitled to lie to your boyfriend to teach him things, and you chose a horrible time to do it where you weren’t there for him to celebrate his achievement with his family. You can point him to information about cross-contamination, or you can refuse to eat anything he cooks until he learns the hard way by poisoning himself,” one person said.
Others agreed that the lying was wrong.
“What kind of hinky high school [expletive] makes a grown woman need to be right so bad that she fakes being sick to the point of missing out on an important event for her partner? It’s super unattractive,” another added on.
Some, however, said that the boyfriend is wrong.
“If the veggies were going to be cooked I might give it a pass but raw onions and radish on a blood covered cutting board, hard pass. He is going to get someone sick messing around like that,” one person wrote.
“Raw pork is not a joke. She was being a little petty but literally intestinal worms are a possibility. I’d be pissed enough to miss a party too,” said someone else.
Do you agree?
