Love, Awkward and Dad jokes: Freaked

Freaked

By Anonymous - 12/06/2023 15:00

Today, my dad joked he’d have to fight my boyfriend to find out if he’s worthy. My boyfriend grew up abused by his dad and older brothers, and has a powerful instinct to fight back. My dad is now out cold on the floor and my boyfriend is in the corner rocking back and forth and crying. FML

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By Random - 25/02/2016 22:09 - United States - Tuskegee

Today, my dad walked into my school and joked around saying that he's going to shoot my boyfriend. We all laughed. Except my boyfriend. He was sobbing in a corner. FML

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By quit fucking up my life - 23/11/2013 01:08 - United States - Kenai

Today, my dad met my boyfriend for the first time. He soon "casually" took a huge knife from the kitchen drawer and told my boyfriend that he's always wondered what it'd be like to stab someone. FML

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Alpha

By Anonymous - 09/02/2022 18:01

Today, both my dad and boyfriend are serious weightlifters, plus my dad boxed in the army, and my boyfriend is a mixed martial artist. Ever since they met, they've been circling each other like bears in the forest trying to work out which is bigger and meaner before the fight even begins. They're both so childish. FML

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Fight!

By Anonymous - 31/08/2022 06:00

Today, my boyfriend has never gotten along with my dad, but this afternoon during what I thought was a completely normal conversation, he just stood up, yelled he couldn’t take my dad anymore, punched him in the nose, dumped me, and drove away. FML

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By Anonymous - 04/01/2014 23:13 - Canada - Hamilton

Today, my boyfriend met my parents. Within minutes, my dad managed to verbally sever his balls and reduce him to tears, "just for fun" apparently. FML

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Property law

By wtf dad - 22/07/2020 23:00

Today, I asked my boyfriend, who’s a massage therapist, if he could help my mom with her chronic migraines by massaging her head and neck. My dad came home, saw them in the dimly lit room and knocked my boyfriend out cold for "touching his woman." My boyfriend dumped me and wants my dad arrested. FML

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By Anonymous - 10/03/2013 22:37 - United States - Denison

Today, my boyfriend drove me back home. My dad was sitting on the porch in his underwear, with his shotgun in his lap. He stroked the gun, looked my boyfriend dead in the eyes, and slowly shook his head. Now my boyfriend refuses to see me for his own safety. FML

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Oil and water

By Anonymous - 13/04/2022 14:00

Today, my parents met my boyfriend, and to say it went badly is an understatement. My mom went outside to relax by chain smoking and the shouting, and the screaming only ended when my dad took my boyfriend by the scruff of the neck and threw him out the front door into the street. FML

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By mothtal - 03/06/2012 16:13 - Bulgaria

Today, my boyfriend picked me up to take me on a date. Just as we were about to drive away, my dad ran out of the house in his underwear and started yelling that he'd kill my boyfriend if I wasn't back home within the hour. FML

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By immaturity all around - 31/03/2013 17:55 - United States

Today, I came home in tears over finding out my boyfriend has been cheating on me. I told my seemingly sympathetic dad everything. His advice was to lure them both to our house with the promise of a three-way, after which he'd "kill the shit" out of them. Real mature, dad. FML

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Ubehage 32

Monday 12 June 2023 15:45

I guess he is worthy.

cuz803 44

Monday 12 June 2023 15:52

Poor thing...it sucks your dad foolishly wanted your boyfriend to prove his valor but he got what he asked for: a concussion. Now it's time for communication to make amends because fights can create bad blood and your dad may or may not request round 2. They have to talk their differences out like grown adults or your bf may have to leave you for his own or your safety. Whatever consequences occur is your immature dad's fault.

Comments

Ubehage 32

Monday 12 June 2023 15:45

I guess he is worthy.

cuz803 44

Monday 12 June 2023 15:52

JackWood 20

Monday 12 June 2023 17:28

That's toxic masculinity for you.

spinningrecords 14

Monday 12 June 2023 18:47

**** around and find out… he did. Poor kid.

RichardPencil 30

Monday 12 June 2023 21:24

Hopefully, your boyfriend can pull his shit together before your dad comes to. Even if he passed your dad's Fight Club test, he might fail him for the crying bit.

Hangryko 29

Monday 12 June 2023 22:24

Your dad is a dick.

tiptoppc 19

Wednesday 14 June 2023 20:37

Dad was an asshole for starting that. Best thing you can do is intermediate, and have a three way talk where you explain to your dad that your boyfriends trauma led to this beatdown, and suggest dad not do that again. Also, if your boyfriend apologises for hitting hard enough to knock him out, but suggest that he and your dad spend time to at least get to know who the other really is (personality wise), it’ll help rebuild the image of each other. If either is sensible, a rocky start can be salvaged without ill will towards each other, and maybe help both save face. Tbh, your dad is the asshole in this, but all isn’t lost. It is something that through communication and understanding can be a dilemma that is solved