Today, my boyfriend found the box of photos I've been saving for my daughter. He was convinced I was pining over her father and emptied the box into the dumpster behind our apartment. I'm still not done digging through the garbage to find the photos from the day my daughter was born. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my boyfriend asked me if I'd help clean out his ex-girlfriend's closet. I found their wedding photos. FML
Today, my mom found a box full of stuff she had been looking for. She started going through it and found baby pictures of my sister and me, as well as pictures of the cats. She put my baby pictures back in the box and closed the lid. The cat pictures are now hanging in her living room. FML
Today, my boyfriend of two months went through several memory boxes and destroyed anything that may have come from a man. My pictures were all film, so I can’t replace them. My bear was from my grandfather and other letters were from friends. No amount of legal action can replace what I’ve lost. FML
Today, my parents dropped by my new house, and my mother offered to tidy up for me while I was out. After they left, I noticed that her "tidying up" included throwing out all the pictures of my girlfriend and replacing them with pictures of herself. FML
Today, my dad went through my room while I was out and threw away the "inappropriate pictures" that he found. They're the nudes I've been working on for art class. FML
Today, I asked my mom if she had some good pictures of me for my resume. She gave me her phone to look through her gallery. I found a beautiful album of photos of me and my ex. FML
Today, my wife can barely contain her rage at me for throwing out her collection of unique glass bottles, which she was saving for gifting and decoration. I'd feel more guilt if she hadn't been storing them in a box underneath our sink mixed with recyclables. FML
Today, at nearly 9 months pregnant, I came home to find the nursery that had been set up was now completely stripped of everything. My husband was angry at me for not forgiving him for getting another woman pregnant at the same time, so he took everything from the room and gave it to her. FML
Today, I rummaged around in the attic, looking for old pictures of me and my family, so I could make a surprise collage. Instead, I found my dad's old journals, talking about how desperately he didn't want a kid, and how he wanted to leave my mother more and more every day that passed since I was born. FML
Today, I found an old disposable camera while cleaning out my parents' attic and got the film developed. Most photos were blurry family photos from 2007, but the last few showed my dad outside a restaurant holding hands with someone who wasn't my mom. I'm now debating if I want to know anything else. FML
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Top comments
vcapelo 19
I think I would leave a partner that irrational!
Unenunciable 14
Total disrespect for someone's property and boundaries is a classic sign of abuse, and combined with rabid jealousy, this doesn't bode well.
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Comments (130)
AMcM_fml 21
as a guy, leave him if he's this irrational frequently. if it's a one off out of the blue freakout it could just be his paranoia, maybe discuss it with him if it's the latter.
CrazedSanity 17
I'm not usually one to say people should break up but damn, there's certainly reason. He doesn't respect your belongings, he put them in the garbage and his reaction to jealously is way over the top. I damn sure hope at the very least he helped you get them out of the garbage.
sk8erd 15
Make him dig through the dumpster. Then leave him! thats no man...
cptncuttlefish 24
I'd throw his pathetic ass out onto the street. Both you and your daughter deserve so much better.
Thegoofygoober 15
I think it's a safe bet that the community is able to agree unanimously that you should leave the man child.
AshesNicole623 17
Red flags! Leave now before he does more harm than just tossing photos.
OceanLady 1
That's definitely a red flag. If it was bugging him, he should have talked to you about it. I have photos of all my exes. My husband was originally jealous of them, but now he gets that they're memories (though I think it still bugs him a little bit). We're different people. He gets rid of everything he doesn't need anymore, and I hang onto everything longer than is probably healthy. When he's cleaning without me around, he makes a pile of things that I might want to keep, and sometimes I even have to laugh at some of the things I've hoarded... but he wouldn't throw them out without checking with me first. And when he finds another photo of one of my exes, he's happy to listen to my story of the day it was taken.
JLVs 12
Seems like your boyfriend should be in that dumpster
zuzu000001 9
I read photos as potatoes.
LyricaSilvan 30
On the bright side, at least he tossed them instead of burning them. I would suggest giving him a piece of your mind and telling him to cut the jealous bs.