AITA for exposing my friend after years of humiliation?
I (20M) have a friend (21M) who loves embarrassing people for laughs. He constantly roasts everyone and acts like it’s harmless banter, but he targets me a lot.
Over the last year he’s made jokes about my appearance, my dating life, and private stuff I told him in confidence. I’ve told him multiple times that I don’t like it, but he always says I’m too sensitive and need to toughen up.
Last week we went out with friends and he took it way too far. He brought up something really personal in front of everyone and the whole table laughed. I felt humiliated.
I decided I’d had enough.
This weekend he had people over at his house. While he was distracted, I got into his room and found a box under his bed with letters, photos, and gifts from his ex. I knew about it because he told me he kept everything because he wasn’t fully over the breakup.
I took the box.
The next day I burned most of it in my garden and sent him a photo of the ashes with the caption, “Time to move on.”
I thought he’d be angry, sure, but also maybe finally understand what it feels like to have something personal used against you.
Instead he completely lost it.
Apparently some of the stuff in there was irreplaceable polaroids, handwritten letters, and even a necklace from his late grandmother that his ex used to wear. I genuinely didn’t know that was in there.
Now he’s telling everyone I’m psychotic and demanding I pay him back, but I don’t even know how you put a price on sentimental stuff.
Some friends think what I did was unforgivable. Others think he pushed me to breaking point and had it coming.
I know it sounds bad, but part of me feels like if he hadn’t spent years humiliating me, none of this would’ve happened.
AITA?