AITBF for breaking up with my girlfriend over a TV show, basically?
I know that's not really what happened but that's what she told people so I might as well address it. Claire and I were together for about eight months. She's not a bad person, I want to be clear about that, this isn't one of those posts. But for a while I'd been feeling like I was just kind of there, like an option she kept around rather than someone she actually wanted to make plans with. Stuff would come up and I'd get rescheduled. She'd agree to something and then quietly change it later. Nothing I could point to and say look at this specific thing, just a general feeling that I wasn't really a priority.
Then last week we started a show together, her idea, and two days later while I'm at work she texts me reacting to episode four. I didn't respond much, just said something like oh cool. But that night I couldn't really let it go. Not because of the show, I don't care about the show. It's just that if you actually want to watch something with someone you wait. It's not complicated. The fact that it didn't even cross her mind said something I'd been ignoring for a while.
I ended it that weekend. She cried and said I was making it about nothing and her friends think I'm being dramatic. Maybe I am. But I'd been pushing that feeling down for months and the show thing just made it impossible to keep pretending it wasn't there. Was I wrong to call it