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He's got this opportunity to own his number 1 hater. He could high-road the fuck out of him by buying it at a price that fully compensates Alex's victims. He could keep Alex on with a functioning HR team and crew until they eventually prove that he's drunk on the job or he quits. Why have all that money if you're just gonna be the most boring fuck about it. God damn I hope he sees this somehow.

This morning, I packed my bags and walked out of my girlfriend's house. For context, I (28M) and my girlfriend (26F) have been together for 2.5 years. We met while working in the same industry—she was a server, and I worked security. Our relationship hasn’t been perfect, but overall, I was happy.

After the honeymoon phase, she started constantly accusing me of cheating with no evidence. She has her own issues to work through, and while she’s been improving, it's been a slow process. The fights have become less frequent, and things seemed to be better—until recently.

Currently, she still works in the industry, while I’ve moved on to concerts and events since getting a full-time job. This shift in my career helped reduce our arguments because I wasn’t in the club scene as much anymore.

The main issue now is that she goes out a lot, and I’m not comfortable with how often she’s out at clubs with friends. Most of her current friends are people she met in the club—either coworkers or through socializing. Almost every time they hang out, it’s at the club. To be clear, I don’t think she’s cheating on me, but I’m not thrilled with her constant partying.

When we first started dating, she was heavily into drugs as a way to cope with stress, and I helped her cut back. However, when she goes out now, she often gives in to FOMO and will still partake in drugs, even if she only plans to stay for a short time. Lately, she’s been going out more than usual—there’s always a birthday or some other reason for her to meet up with her friends after work. It bothers me, and I’ve told her, but she says there’s nothing she can do because that’s just what her friends do.

Recently, I had plans to go out of town for a boys' night with some friends, and I’d be staying overnight. I told my girlfriend, knowing she’d be upset. Sure enough, she got distant and upset, even though I wasn’t doing anything but hanging out. I explained to her that the emotions she was feeling about me going out are the same ones I feel whenever she’s out with her friends.

When I got back the next evening, she was distant. I called her on the way home and asked if she wanted to grab dessert, but she said there was food at home. I dropped it and came home, but her mood didn’t improve. When I tried to dig deeper, she gave me the usual “nothing’s wrong” response and eventually said she was just tired.

I also mentioned that I’d like to take Tuesday off so we could go watch a movie, since we hadn’t had a proper date night in a while. She shot that down too, saying I should work instead and that we could plan another night. She didn’t want me to bring up the fact that I’d taken time off to spend with her during a future argument. This has been a recurring issue—when I have time off, I try to spend it with her, but she often cancels plans to take extra shifts at work. While I don’t mind her making extra money, it’s frustrating when she later complains that we don’t spend enough time together.

This morning, she told me she was going to her friend’s house after lunch with her parents. I asked normal questions like, “Will you be home for dinner?” and “Are we staying at your parents’ or mine tonight?” (We’ve been bouncing between homes after a flood.) She kept answering with “I don’t know,” which eventually led to her suggesting that we take some space.

At that point, I’d had enough. I told her we didn’t need space—we should just break up. In my mind, we’ve been together for over two years, we were literally looking for a new apartment together, and I felt like if she’s asking for space, what are we even doing? So, I packed my stuff and left.

Now I’m wondering—did I overreact? I feel like I’ve done everything for her, and I’m just tired of all the back and forth. When things are good, they’re great, but when it’s bad, it’s really bad.

Am I the asshole for walking out? Any feedback is appreciated—this is my first post here.

Hello all, about a week ago I posted on here asking for help. My (25M) and I (27F) broke up yesterday. I did something bad, I went through his phone and I didn’t find anything at first until I looked at his cash app transactions. There was 2 transactions on there from the night we were fighting the first time about how we argued over paying his car. 1 transaction was $360 to a girl, I felt so sick to my stomach and the other was $100 to another girl. He says he went to a strip club because I was ignoring him that night when I had plans to hangout with friends originally and then on top of that we started fighting. He says he just wanted someone to talk to, but for $360 that’s a champagne room for 30 minutes at most clubs and $100 is at least 3 lap dances. Even if I did forgive him and work on it, the paranoia and lack of trust would get 100 times worse and I just can’t do that to myself. We argued and he chose to seek out other woman, what’s more sad is he paid $460 for it. I will never know what happened there and I don’t want to. I used to think so highly of him, he made me feel so special, it was just shocking what I found. So I broke up with him, I was calm, he didn’t freak out cause he knew he was wrong. He says he’s sorry and that we didn’t have to do this. I honestly didn’t want to either I thought we would get married we were so happy. There’s other things but the important thing is I can’t respect someone who doesn’t respect me, I took everyone’s advice and decided to get out now because that’s who he is, he makes his choices and I don’t need to witness it. We still have a dog, we would like to be friends, I don’t hate him I just realized who he is as a person. Thank you everyone, I need some positivity because on top of breaking up yes my papa also died.. so it’s like I lost 2 people in one day. My now ex comforted me most of the day yesterday, and I needed that. Right now it feels like I’m alone and nothing will make me feel better so encouraging words would be nice to hear right now.

EDIT: The original post it’s also on my profile titled the same sorry for confusion, I didn’t use Reddit before until recently

I (28m) and a chronically single person. I've had one real girlfriend, and we were together for only about four months. My mom always asks me when I'll find a girlfriend. Every time she asks it almost makes me cry because I want a girlfriend, but I know I'll never have one.

The reason I'm single is because I'm ugly. I don't just mean I'm "not conventionally handsome" or I'm "just not some people's type." I mean I'm ugly ugly. I'm on every dating app: at least the ones people actually use. I have not had a single match in almost 6 years. I overheard girls in public say things like "do you think he's cute?" "Oh hell no. Do you?" "no he's so ugly." Even my ex called me ugly when we were together.

Should I just tell my mom all this, or just keep saying I don't have a girlfriend until she eventually gives up like I have many years ago? How do I tell my mom?

Knicks fan here, I know Bill is biased but his takes on the trade were ridiculous from a Knicks perspective considering his previous position. One month ago he was teasing Fennesey that while the Bridges trade was good the Knicks:

-Lacked a center

-Randle didn't fit in

-People like Donte were going to be unhappy with a reduced role.

The KAT trade fixed ALL 3 OF THESE PROBLEMS. And then Bill played the "why couldn't they wait" card. He said all the reasons why the Knicks would do this a month ago and then barely acknowledged them. Then he starts going "Why do teams always feel the need to change." He implied they should!!

Granted KAT is not a slamdunk of a deal and how he plays in NY with Thibs remains to be seen but for Bill to say all his gripes, have those gripes all be fixed and then still say we should have waited was insane to me. Also Austin Rivers is annoying.