Gf and I have been dating for a year and we are both 20. There’s not much story here. Last weekend was my birthday. My girlfriend came over and said her present was a surprise. She went into another room and came out in a lingerie set that she said was new. She looked hot. We fooled around. That’s that.

Afterwards she asked what I thought of my present. I was a bit confused and this is when she inferred that the lingerie was my present. This rubbed me wrong and it felt like a lazy excuse for a gift from someone I’ve been dating for a year. To me it’s she bought something for herself and said it was a gift to me. I MIGHT have been an asshole for this comment “so if we break up do I get to keep that and give it to whoever I date next?” This comment rubbed her the wrong way and she called me an asshole.

I’m also upset because I took her out to a fancy dinner for her birthday that costed like over $200. That’s no small cost for a 20 year old college student without a job.

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Longish story so I will try to keep it short. New job, new boss, old problems.

She's one of those super aggressive types that wants to be CEO before she is 45 so she's doing it on the backs of the entire team. I'm close to retirement. I give zero phucks. Her MO is to send emails all day asking & expecting an immediate response. She sometimes emails up until midnight, and starts again always after 7AM. So I figured she is a Midnight to 7AM sleeper. She has three kids, a 9 year old, a 12, and a 17. The 17 year old kid has most of her attention her right now because of 17 year old girl drama. No further explanation needed.

So Outlook has a function when you can delay sending an email to a set time. So for the last month I have been selecting certain emails to be delayed-sent at set times, beginning at 11:30PM, 11:47 PM, 11:58PM, 12:01AM, 12:07AM, 12:15AM, 1AM, 2:30AM, so on a so forth.

I am bracketing the time I know she is winding down getting ready for bed and trying to fall asleep. My goal is to spin her up on random days via email so she can't get to sleep easily.

I don't do it to all of my emails, just the random emails I need to send her during the day when I am the topic starter, and usually random subjects like: "Hey I noticed we are overspending New Business Funds by 17% on this project, but we could reduce that spend by 3% by switching to using one of the interns who get paid less than Barbara, who is paid more."

These emails trigger her because I know she is super sensitive about budget overspend and also older workers who cost her more to use. She usually can't not answer. And I know she leaves her smartphone on next to her bed, and won't silence it. My goal is to deny her sleep and to spin her up all night long so she can't get back to sleep. I know her husband (informally via a co-worker) and he told him that he's been sleeping in a spare bedroom because she won't silence her phone and it "dings" all night with emails.

That's me.

So, these delayed emails I am sending, she can't figure out if I am using delayed send or not (The IT team works for me, so they aren't helping her) but the lack of sleep is starting to make her crack. She asked me last week if I am working all night. I told her the wife and I are getting a divorce so I am so depressed that I bury myself in work all night and doze in my office chair at home. I don't actually. I'm in bed hugging the wife and sleeping like a baby from 10PM to 7AM. Except for certain days when I like to awake at 4-5AM and go for a walk or jog in the early morning.

Yesterday during a staff meeting she dozed off right in the middle of the meeting. She just nodded off almost in mid sentence. All of us in the room stopped talking while she snored softly for about 4 minutes and then popped awake. Nobody said a word. While she was dozing I sent her a delayed email set to arrive at 12:05 AM tonight.

I'm awake right now. It's 5AM. I've been sending her live emails for the last hour. She's responding. She's losing her mind right now, I can tell from the tone of her emails.

Happy Friday Gwen

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." Galatians VI. One of my favorite bible passages.

I cannot visit this subreddit without people who have no idea what they are talking about violently opposing any idea of change in the highest 1% of wealth that is in favor of the common man.

Every single time, the point is distorted by bad faith commenters wanting to suck the teat of the rich hoping they'll stumble into money some day.

"You can't tax a loan! Imagine taking out a loan on a car or house and getting taxed for it!" As if there's no possible way to create an adjustable tax bracket which we already fucking have. They deliberately take things to most extreme and actively advocate against regulation, blaming the common person. That goes against the entire point of what being fluent in finance is.

Can we please moderate more the bad faith bootlickers?

Edit: you can see them in the comments here. Notice it's not actually about the bad faith actors in the comments, it's goalpost shifting to discredit and attacks on character. And no, calling you a bootlicker isn't bad faith when you actively advocate for the oppression of the billions of people in the working class. You are rightfully being treated with contempt for your utter disregard for society and humanity. Whoever I call a bootlicker I debunk their nonsensical aristocratic viewpoint with facts before doing so.

PS: I've made a subreddit to discuss the working class and the economics/finances involved, where I will be banning bootlickers. Aim is to be this sub, but without bootlickers.