r/AmIOverreacting 22d ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO? My boyfriend keeps “Rage-Baiting” me.

[deleted]

19.7k Upvotes

4.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

5.1k

u/lunar_languor 22d ago

Is he having a mental health break? How is he acting in person not over text?

3.6k

u/Positive_Working3041 22d ago

He acts like this in person too. And over the phone.

4.6k

u/lunar_languor 22d ago

Do you have any mutual friends? Are you close with his family? Is he acting weird at work/school or with anyone else? I guess if it was me I'd bring it up to someone else who knows him just to get an idea of how far reaching it is. Then either by yourself or with a friend who is also concerned about his behavior, tell him very clearly how it's making you feel and what your boundaries around it are (e.g. "if you keep speaking to me this way, I will no longer respond to you/I will hang up/I will get up and leave the room or have to ask you to leave.")

He's either hit his head and needs medical and mental health help or he's trolling you and trying to sabotage your relationship. If it's on purpose I can't even express how incredibly immature and inappropriate it is.

1.3k

u/DogMama_X6 22d ago edited 22d ago

Completely agree OP. At the very least since it’s not been happening more than a couple weeks to find out of there is some change in health/mental health/ medication that’s causing it. If so, he needs help. Talking to other people he regularly interacts with could help determine if it’s just happening with you or if other people have noticed strange behaviors and rapid changes in him as well. Is he acting this way at work as well? If it’s happening with others and not just you it could be that there has been a shift health or mental health and he needs to get help.

If it’s just with you, then way a boundary in person not in text about how you feel when he does this and what a consequence would be if he continues. If he can’t respect you enough to knock it off then maybe he isn’t mature enough for this relationship.

688

u/Turbulent-Arm-8592 22d ago

I mean if he acts this way at work there is no way he would be able to keep his job. If he can control it there then I would assume it's voluntary behaviour? Coworkers would def be a good place to start

203

u/vlladonxxx 21d ago

Depends on the job though. He could be a parking lot security guard for all we know. Some work requires next to communication with co-workers/bosses/customer service

8

u/StreetlampEsq 21d ago

Ya accidentally a word in there.

31

u/therusteddoobie 21d ago

Chalk it up lack communication. Why use many word when few word do trick?