Today, my girlfriend of 3 years told me that I was part of an experiment for her Sociology doctorate. I also learned that the notebooks she's been writing in for the past three years aren't for her "doctorate in literature" as she had told me, they were notes on my behavior for the past 3 years. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, my girlfriend of 3 years confessed that at first, she'd only dated me to get her friend jealous, and that even now, she "only kind of liked" me. I bought a ring only a few days ago, and was planning on proposing to her. FML
Today, after I'd spent $3,000 dollars in preparations to move in with my girlfriend of 2 and 1/2 years, she confessed she's a mental patient who stole someone else's identity. She was telling the truth. FML
Today, I volunteered to be a "mentally stable" person in a psychology experiment at my university. Little did I know, they'd paired me with a psychology grad student who asked me a series of increasingly bizarre and personal questions about my life. I ended up questioning my own sanity. FML
Today, I was having a deep conversation with a woman at a bus stop about philosophy. Little did I know, her boyfriend was rummaging through my purse while she kept my focus. I’m a PhD candidate in philosophy, and it was the best conversation I’d had it months. FML
Today, I filled out a political survey for a psychology experiment. A really cute girl was doing it, too. We hit it off and flirted through the surveys, and I asked her out when it was done. Then I found out it was really an attraction experiment and she was in on it. She was acting. FML
Today, my girlfriend, who I've loved and dated for over a year, confessed that she's actually straight as an arrow. All this time, she's basically been using me as an accessory to enhance her "social status" and make her guy friends horny. FML
Today, after complaining that I had nothing to write about in my weekly journal for college, my professor suggested in front of everyone that I should get a girlfriend. FML
Today, I learnt my boyfriend has just been using me for character development for the last 5 years. FML
Today, my girlfriend of nine months made a huge scene in public, calling me a "cheating bastard" because she saw me with another woman at the library. That "other woman" is my Calculus tutor. FML
Today, I found out that my girlfriend has been cheating on me with two different guys. Her incredibly moving excuse was that she was getting "more experience" so she could please me better. FML
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MoobyTheCow 2
That's illegal... press charges?
lennavan 0
Can't be an experiment because if it was, human subjects have to give prior consent. Want to get even, complain to the dean of students that you unwillingly were a human subject for her experiments, feel as though your rights were violated and want to talk to someone at the university about its policies. She'll be F'd.
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pbuk 0
She just mindfucked you, loser. As if you're so enthralling that she would spend three years in your company for a PhD. What do you think she is? An intellectual prostitute?
sas_nmn 1
I'm surprised her research even passed the ethics committee... I feel sorry for you!
ObadiahtheSlim 2
Sounds fake.
cowgomoomoo 0
My favourite thing about this thread is how it is really clear how many college/university students are on this thing. The discussions of university ethics committees or the differentiation between social sciences... you guys are great.
jaynedoe 0
you should read "the shape of things." it's a play by neil labute.
RiverRelic 0
You should inform her that she's been part of an experiment to see if you could pass along herpes. Then ask her if she's been itching of late. And any college kid who's had to take Psych 101 would know what is legal and what is illegal on human test subjects.
wut_fml 0
That is completely unethical, and I doubt any IRB would approve an experiment like that. She's lying to you.
your_face 15
Yeah, you're probably right. I mean, no one ever does anything unethical! She couldn't possibly have just, oh, done the experiment without getting it approved, or getting his informed consent! That wouldn't be ethical, and everything everyone does is ethical, always! OP, I hope you know the right people to report her to. Some ideas: her advisor, a professor, the dean, someone on the IRB.
lauraxxexplorer 0
actually #12 you DON'T need to tell the test subjects anything you just have to not mention the names in you paper. oh the joys of taking sociology
DameGreyWulf 1
Yes, you do. You need a test subject's consent before you can do shit to them. It has NOTHING to do with anonymity or any of that, it's that you could be damaging them in some way, and so need their permission to risk that, AND they need to be fully informed of the risks involved... there's a whole big deal about it, I can't exactly remember everything, but the point is you NEED consent. And yes, using someone as a sociology experiment CAN be damaging, mentally speaking. I think you are confusing blind (and double blind) studies, where there are CONSENTING patients, with what's going on here.
JanisEvans 10
FAKE! The OP obviously has no ******* clue what sociologist are and aren't concerned with.
xSinful 0
You're obviously a retard for not understanding what a sociologist is too. Not only that, but you had to post about how the OP doesn't know. Good ******' Game all I can say to you. Seriously go on ******* Google and learn to read there. Behavior is one of the things a sociologist studies. So all you deserve you ******' dolt is a big ******' facepalm.
simon4599 3
Oh wow, that really, really sucks! But isn't there some sort of law against doing experiments like that without prior consent? Otherwise we'd see this going on all over the place. I agree with other people out here, you should sue her. I've been with my girlfriend for just over four months, and even now I couldn't imagine how I would feel if something like that were done to me. Mind you, I really doubt that is the case, unless she's a damn good actress. Something like that just can't be legal. I wonder though whether she's making that shit up as an excuse to break up with you. It wouldn't surprise me, honestly.