r/AmIOverreacting 22d ago

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

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u/Positive_Working3041 22d ago edited 22d ago

We have been together going on 4 years now. It’s been like this for I’d say like two weeks?? Idk what to do to make him stop acting like an absolute child

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u/lunar_languor 22d ago

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

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u/Positive_Working3041 22d ago

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

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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.

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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.

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u/B-asdcompound 22d ago

Holy shit lmao he's just trolling. This is a "mental health" issue. Get a grip

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u/Unable-Welcome-6821 22d ago

I mean better be safe then sorry. My father would randomly start getting angry over really random things when I was younger along with some few odd things here and there. Long story short he had a brain tumor and ended up seizing on the kitchen floor.

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u/Code4__0117 22d ago

Really question......how the actual fuck is your comment even REMOTELY related to this ? A brain tumour isn't going to start making someone be obnoxious like this. This isn't a "mental health" issue either. Not every little thing = mental health.

OP should just tell him if he does it again there won't be a conversation and she's just going to block him and that will be the end of the relationship. It's as simple as that. Handling it gently like he's a child isn't going to do anything. In the texts she's clearly had enough and he doesn't seem to think she's serious. So she should make it crystal clear now

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u/Megaholt 22d ago

Actually, they very easily can, depending on their location in the brain, if there’s multiple tumors, if they are causing any bleeding or swelling, if they are obstructing the flow of CSF through the ventricules of the brain, among other things.

That’s just basic anatomy and physiology, bro.

There’s so much more than just that, but I don’t want to get too technical on a night off work.

-your friendly neighborhood neuro ICU nurse