August 12, 2025 • 23 mins
Hey bestie! Ever wondered what people actually do when their heart gets shattered? In this episode, I’m sharing the most bizarre, hilarious, and unexpectedly relatable ways real people coped with heartbreak...straight from Reddit’s wildest confessions. From keeping weird keepsakes to starting strange new habits (hello, 17 cats 🐱), you’ll see you’re definitely not alone in your breakup weirdness.We’re diving into the raw, unfiltered side of heartbreak recovery...no sugarcoating, just honest stories and a few laughs along the way. Whether you’re in the middle of a breakup, healing, or just love hearing about real human messiness, these stories will hit different.Share your story with me lolWhat’s the weirdest thing YOU did after a breakup? Drop it in the comments ok? no judgment, just good vibes.
take care talk to you soon
xoxo tiredgato
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
00:26 Theme Song
00:46 Explain a bit more bestie bc yapping
02:16 AITA for keeping gifts from my ex boyfriends r/AmItheAsshole
07:29 Boyfriend kept a gift from his ex r/AskMenAdvice
18:44 can i give my current girlfriend gifts intended for my ex? r/moraldilemmas
22:10 Lets talk about today
23:14 time to hang up bestie talk to u soon
23:36 closing song
Topics covered: breakup advice, heartbreak recovery, reddit stories, relationship advice, mental health, coping mechanisms, real stories, healing after breakup
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(00:00):
We've all been there. A breakup.
It leaves you with a pint of icecream, a shattered heart, and a
playlist you can never listen toagain without ugly crying.
But what about when it also leaves you with a 2 foot tall,
hand carved wooden leopard that seems to watch you sleep?
Today we're diving into the weird, the wonderful and the
downright creepy things people have refused to throw away after
(00:22):
a relationship. Bestie, let's get into it.
(00:46):
That post breakup purge, it's basically a ritual.
You gather the photos. The oversized hoodie that still
smells faintly of their Cologne.Am I right, Bossy?
I feel so bad for you, For you audio listeners out there.
Anyways, the toothbrush, they always left by the sink and
(01:06):
never cleaned. And you perform the ex partner
exorcism. It's a necessary step to reclaim
your space and your sanity. But sometimes, in the back of
the closet, or a forgotten shelfor forgotten pockets, there are
relics. Those aren't just sweet
mementos, they are artifacts of oddities, monuments to incite,
(01:30):
jokes that literally aren't funny anymore, and they never
were. And sometimes things that are
just too weird to trash. And according to 2024 a survey
the the data, this is so shocking. 65% of adults still
have an item from a past relationship, while most keep
(01:52):
sentimental things like letters or jewelry.
Well, some they don't. It's up to you.
But let's venture into the atticand dusty storage boxes of the
heartbroken to uncover the trulybizarre keepsakes that have
survived the great relationship purge.
It's me. It's you.
(02:13):
We're going to read it, bestie. OK, let's go puke.
Let's start with a classic case of talking about your ex with
your partner, and they're the ones that brought it up because
they found the thing you kept. That's at least what I'm
assuming is going on in this story, so let's read it, Misty.
(02:33):
OK, Emma the asshole for keepinggifts from my ex boyfriends.
This was posted five years ago and the account is deleted.
Yeah, let's read it. I recently got into a spat with
my current boyfriend over this topic.
It started because he wanted to know where I got my Tony Chopper
plushy from as he wanted to buy one for his sister and I told
(02:56):
him that I didn't know because it was a gift from my high
school boyfriends. What the hell is Tony Chopper?
Let's look this up. Hold on, Tony Chopper.
Oh the is this one piece? Yep, the one Piece community is
coming for me right now. Tony Chopper is this little
(03:18):
fella right here. Let's get a let's get a little
look of it. Bam, that little fella right
there. OK, interesting.
OK, he got kind of bummed out and asked me if I had any other
stuff from his exes and his exes, my exes from my exes.
(03:42):
And I was honest, a few books, aChanel perfume and some of my
earrings. Not that expensive stuff.
I mean, yeah, I I could see why you'd want to keep that.
Then we got into an argument about keeping things from XS.
He believes that once the relationship is over, you
shouldn't keep anything from them because that means you have
(04:02):
moved on. My stance is that they are
objects that I like and throwingthem away slash gifting them is
unnecessary. I don't connect those things to
my exes and I don't think about them when I use them.
Maybe this comes from the POV that is relationship ended badly
whereas mine just didn't. That's a very good perspective
OP. My high school boyfriend and I
(04:23):
broke up because we were just stupid kids and the other two
and I noticed we were not going in the same direction so we had
a clean cut and are on good terms.
We don't talk or anything but ifwe ever run around the same
circle we can be cordial. His ex cheated on him and the ex
broke. Broke what?
And the ex before ghosted him somaybe that is that.
(04:45):
So am I the asshole for keeping things for my ex boyfriends?
No you're not the asshole because it's not like you're
keeping God damn like dildos that he gave you and you're
using them like the fuck dude. Like I I think you're good.
I think obviously the plushies badass if he wanted it to.
He's trying to find like where to get one as well because it's
(05:06):
cool. So no, broche is a butthurt cry
Boo Boo baby that obviously might still have feelings for
his ex for him making such a bigdeal about yours, because
usually that's how people treat their emotions.
We do have an edit edit guys. Thanks for your inputs, but I
don't understand why you're interpreting more to the story
(05:26):
because you're on the Internet, babes.
This is really just a spat a little disagreements.
It's not relationship breaking. I mean, do you really write
every single little spat in a relationship online, bestie?
No, you don't. That's that's where I hope
(05:47):
you're not over overlooking whatthe Internet has to say because
there's some people on this bitch that know what the what's
going on. We are not mad at each other or
anything. He's not a manipulative
controlling asshole that it should dump.
He is insecure, yes. No shot really and I'm going to
talk to him about this yes but damn y'all need to chill out.
(06:07):
Thanks for the most of the comments that were insightful.
I get to see these comments. Top comment.
Not the asshole, certainly not over the sort of things that
you're describing. I have things I've gifted that
were from my exes that I choose to get rid of because they were
deeply personal and it felt inappropriate to keep them, but
what you're describing is prettynormal gift items.
How long ago did you split up? Oh and they said like 8 years
(06:27):
ago. I am 24 now.
Yeah girl you're fine. I just think I just think bro
has a little bit more to talk about than just his exes.
Yeah, and it is insecurity more than anything else right here.
If I'm giving a sex toy from an ex and I really like it, I'm not
throwing that shit away. Quality sex toys are expensive.
(06:49):
Oh my. I was not expecting them to say
that they were. Keep that.
To each their own. To each their own.
And obviously account is deleted.
So yeah, take it with what it isand let's hope he just got over
(07:10):
his insecurity because always remember, just because you went
through something or you saw something in a relationship,
does that mean everyone else hadthe same experience with theirs
as well? So you can't, you can't drag
your mess into somebody else's mess.
It doesn't work that way. OK now here is another story
(07:32):
that I stumbled upon that was posted in the Ask Men advice
titled Boyfriend kept a gift from his ex.
So now we have flipped the shoesaround and I'm very curious on
how this one plays out. OK let's read it.
My 20 female current boyfriend, male 21 has a gift that his ex
(07:53):
got him. She was his first everything
except intercourse and he was obsessed with her.
Even after a year they had stopped talking.
They only went in dates but talked nearly every day and
called all the time for three months.
The ex ended it and he was really heartbroken over it.
Asking for her back 2 * a month after it ending. 2 * a month
(08:15):
asking her back two times monthsafter ending.
OK, so not 2 * a month, just twotimes months after.
OK 'cause that's extremely important because you can get
stalker charges if it was the other.
When they were dating, she got him a cassette player with a
custom cassette tape of songs that reminded her of him.
(08:37):
Oh, Bessie, this is bad. This is really bad.
Yeah, No. All including really.
And for my audio listeners, keepyour eyes on the road.
This girly wrote it really with 1234567Y7Y.
So we got really romantic songs.Write that down.
(09:00):
Keep that noted, as well as Legoflowers.
Oh, not the Legos. First person to give him
flowers. Oh, the way she's writing this
is like really making her sound sad that she wasn't his verse.
But first, what is it? First is the worst.
Anyways, I found that he still keeps these gifts and asked
(09:22):
about it, he just said that theywere one of the most thoughtful
gifts any ones I've given to himand he doesn't want to get rid
of it. Step.
It up bitch. What the fuck?
Buy him better flowers. What?
Anyways, you shouldn't be comparing yourself to XS
anyways. It should naturally be the best
of what you do, then the X does.And if it's not, somebody's a
(09:45):
little bit more stuck than the other person, not making it a
fair, equal playing field 'causeyou're already automatically
going to lose over somebody else, and it's not fucking fair.
And that's where I'd better get addressed, because if not,
you're always going to come in second, even if you really truly
are the best for him. In his eyes, he's fucked up or
(10:07):
she's fucked up, vice versa. Doesn't matter if you got a Dick
or you got breasts. That's the reality of what is
it, the love shades. OK, let's continue.
Let's see where we stepped off. Do do do do.
This makes me question whether or not he still listens to the
cassette tape. Should I be worried that he
(10:28):
still loves her? It's been about a year and a
half since they've last talked. Oh my gosh, you know what I'm
talking to little British bitch.Take that motherfucking cassette
player. Switch out the goddamn tape and
put it with like farting sounds.I, I turn a little country
farting sounds and God damn, just do something funny.
(10:50):
Do the fucking Sonic God damn theme song looped around or
like, what is it like a 10 hour loop of Nyan cat or Nyan cat,
however you pronounce it, man, God damn, I don't know, GIF,
GIF, whatever, do that. That's it.
That's your answer. That's your answer.
You know what you need to do. You need to change your ringtone
to that song and just see his motherfucking reaction because
(11:14):
that dude's not going to fuckingask you.
He's not going to ask you, but you'll know when you get a
notification with him around. Let's see top comment.
My advice is that being so insecure, yes.
How she was fucking writing thisshit.
Oh my God. I still have a mixtape CD made
by an ex of mine that I still throw on from time to time.
Do I still love her? Nope.
(11:35):
Do I think about her when I hearthe music?
Sometimes. But in the same way I think
about anything in the past when someone reminds me of it.
See, different people have different emotional maturity and
based on how the boyfriend explained why he's keeping these
items, there isn't the emotionalmaturity that is at equal levels
of OP writing this post. Someone did reply to that
(11:58):
comment. He doesn't sound like he's over
his ex more than the problem of keeping the gifts.
The gifts are just a symbol of his unhealthy attachments.
Correct? Bingo.
To clarify, I'm not saying he's wrong for keeping the gifts,
correct because I have. Nobody has any say on what
somebody can keep or can't, right?
Like except for the US government, you cannot keep like
(12:18):
dead bodies in your fridge or you can't like bury people in
the backyard because if they know you can get a lot of
trouble. But at the same time, if you get
approved for it, you don't have to pay taxes, OK, and taxes on
your property, by the way, you can't get it taken away from
you. But since he has these
unresolved feelings, then his situation, the gifts, just
(12:39):
magnifies the situation. It's the same way of like, how
could you explain it? There's certain people that
could be looking up ex's social media accounts and they could
either do it for one or two ways, 1 to reminisce and be sad
and miss them, or two, to laugh at their failures and how much
(13:00):
they suck. See what I mean?
It's all about the motive, not what you're trying to not not
the thing that's evidence. Like keeping gifts.
Like is it either because A or B?
Like are you searching accounts because it's either A or B?
That's what they mean, bestie, that's what they mean and let's
read this last little comment. It is not the last comment
(13:21):
there, but kind of comms in thismotherfucker, but let's read it.
I like that his little tag this use this Reddit user's tags
called his flair is man. Oh my God.
Because it's in the ask men advice.
That's crazy. You have to be validated that
you're a man. I would have that go.
(13:41):
Do they take a picture of your fucking balls like to show that
you're a man? That's so weird.
Why do you have to put a man as your flair?
I need to look at the rules after this comment.
We'll look at the rules right after I read this comment.
So I'm a stereotypical guy? No way.
I thought you were a man. Now you're a guy.
Most of the nice things I own are gifts from women, X's and
otherwise. If I threw out bro's a player.
(14:03):
Not just X's, Woman too. If I threw out everything a
woman gave me, my apartment would be decorated with pretty
much a bed, a table, and some dust.
Ah, you were a codependent little bitch.
A codependent? Wait, are all dudes like that?
Hold on, because now I think I just uncovered something because
(14:24):
the way I read that comment was that I am incapable of
purchasing myself, myself things.
So the gifts I get are all I have because I'm not good at
having initiative in my surroundings.
See what I mean with that? But now I'm like, are they doing
(14:47):
that? Because that's what they, you
see what I mean? I don't mean to be rude about it
because now I just kind of fucking feel bad.
Oh, it's like the male spaces subreddit where it's like,
because I used to live like this.
So I guess I need to think back on what changed.
What did I do where it was like all a bro needs is this.
(15:11):
And it's like a tiny little fucking TV or a big fucking TV
and like the cardboard box that the TV came in and a blanket and
like maybe a chair maybe. OK, I guess what changes that I
started connecting with like younger self me and
(15:33):
acknowledging that I am still younger self me as I will still
always be me right now me for future me.
And that really helped with realizing that day-to-day
actions and what I'm around makes little me, current me, and
future me happy. That's kind of what got me out
(15:55):
of that. And, you know, education
allowing me to have money to buymore and more platypuses every
single day. Yeah, catch me on eBay.
How about that? Oh yeah, let's see.
Let's see the rules. Let's see the rules on this
motherfucker, 'cause I'm so confused why it said, oh, no,
not that. I'm so confused on why his flare
(16:15):
said mail. How to apply a user flare flare
guide. These are flares.
Oh yeah, man, woman, non binary,Incognito, a trans man, trans
woman, intersex choose the oh, because it allows you to see
where you come from and what your your perspective because
(16:38):
gender does play a pretty big role into it's it's a it's a
undisclosed rule of how society treats each other.
As much as I'm not a fan of modern day feminine femininity,
feminism, it's there there. There's definitely the tricks of
(17:03):
the trade, the jacks of the trade, the the crybaby.
I want more money than you. Then do the scary work.
But I'm woman. I can't carry £800 this OK but
then you don't have same job. So not same pay but I want job
(17:23):
that's male dominant. But you see what I mean?
But there's also this, the edge of it, of holy shit, being a
female walking by yourself is terrifying.
Or holy shit, just being a female, like online.
Like brother, I grew up in the, I wasn't in the COD lobbies
because my dad tricked me into not knowing we had Wi-Fi when I
was a little kiddo, like a little 8-9 year old.
(17:45):
I was just playing Call of Duty by myself, me and the boys by
the boys, the NPCS. He saved me probably of a lot.
I'm gonna be quite fucking real.Bro knew what he was doing.
But when I decided to be a big grown up, by that I mean 14, I
went on call, Call of Duty, CS go.
(18:07):
I accidentally pressed the the mic button on the keyboard.
Brother in Christ, the the, the quickness of the press to kick
tired Gato was astonishing. I still I, I and you wonder why
male reflexes are so strong. I learned real quick and I don't
even know what I fucking said. I, I, I just think I, I didn't
(18:30):
say anything and they just felt the presence of a vagina and
they were just like, no way, getthat out of here.
Don't. Doesn't she know that this is
ball territory? OK, all right.
In this next story, it's from moral dilemmas.
Beautiful, celebrated, Absolutely delicious for those
(18:53):
that love society and all that fun.
Mambo Jambo titled Can I give mycurrent girlfriend gifts
intended for my ex? You hear how scrumptious that
fucking title is? Hell yeah.
We're going to get into this title.
Let's read it personal too. Too long, didn't read Right at
(19:15):
the beginning. They just know us so well.
OK, Too long, Didn't read. I have gifts intended for my ex,
who had ended up breaking up before.
I can give. I have no other use for these
gifts. Sounds like dude dates the same
people I guess. Fast forward to a few months
later, Valentine's Day is comingand apart from the new gifts I
already bought my current girlfriend, I want to know if
(19:36):
it's morally acceptable to give some of them with some of them.
What the hell is this shit? What did you get Like a custom
like plug? Like molded size?
Like why can't she have the Why can't she have the custom butt
plug molded size? They have similar interests
after all. Just to clarify, my ex and my
(19:57):
girlfriend have never met. Are you sure about that?
Neither my ex nor my current areaware of the existence of said
gifts. Thanks and yes for fucking
advice. And you don't tell us what the
hell it is. Let's figure it out with it
being zero up votes and 32 comments.
This is going to be juicy. This is going to be good one.
Top comment, ask yourself how she will feel when she finds out
(20:19):
it was meant for your ex. Another one saying probably best
to give them to non girlfriends.Most feel kind of sleazy taking
gifts purchase for others. You could tell her, ask if she's
interested, but otherwise give them to family or friends.
Another comment. My sweetheart and I have been
together 15 years. Several years ago he handed me a
pair of small diamond earrings and asked if I wanted them.
(20:40):
They're not the type of thing heusually gives me.
He's not a diamond sort of guy. Then he told me that he had
bought them for a different girlfriend long before my time.
She broke up with him and he forgot he had them.
I have them but I have never worn them.
I think he should have tried to sell them or even give them to a
charity. They mean nothing to me.
Damn bitch. I think you were the charity.
(21:01):
Also, really good advice on thisfor anyone wondering.
You got siblings. OK, Now imagine your parent
going, yeah, like at Christmas and everybody's unpacking gifts
and everything. And you open one of your things
and you're like, wow, I have this hoodie of this so and so
artist and your mom says that was supposed to be for Bill, uh,
(21:26):
your brother, but he already hadthree hoodies.
So we figured you like it because you like the band too.
You're you're going to want to fucking burn that motherfucking
hoodie. Like you thought that the
sibling rivalry was strong enough.
No, that that that thing's one of the motherfucking God damn
trash, right? See what I mean?
Keep it as simple as that. It's fucking weird.
(21:49):
You feel like what? Am I too difficult to shop for?
Am I like you? You the person started blaming
themselves because if it if you were capable of buying it for
somebody else. Am I not capable of a person to
purchase something for? Like get the fuck out of here
bro. Hell Nah, Nope.
(22:10):
So there you have it. Apparently people just don't
know how to fucking throw shit away.
OK, you can always throw it away, but I like to use it buy
you a better one. The fuck bro?
Just bye bye. That's all you need to do.
That's all you need to do. Okay, get it, okay.
(22:30):
And these things aren't just like junk cluttering on our
homes. They are strange.
They're they're horrible. They're like, who wants diamond
earrings if they don't even likediamonds would be like that.
That story made me like I, I don't think that they should be
together on that one. I honestly don't even think that
they are still together on that one.
But it's OK to hold on to a few things.
(22:52):
And I really hope that girl changes out that cassette to the
Sonic Underground theme song. And she better change her damn
ringtone to that to see his eyesdrop to his goddamn balls.
Yep. And don't forget to like, if you
enjoyed it, subscribe to join the Gato gang.
(23:14):
We're going to go on more adventures.
OK, Bessie, you and me, we're going to be the worms.
Our last brain cells right here.Last brain cells.
And I'll see you in the next one.
Tired Gato out. Take care.
Bye.
We've all been there. A breakup.
It leaves you with a pint of icecream, a shattered heart, and a
playlist you can never listen toagain without ugly crying.
But what about when it also leaves you with a 2 foot tall,
hand carved wooden leopard that seems to watch you sleep?
Today we're diving into the weird, the wonderful and the
downright creepy things people have refused to throw away after
(00:22):
a relationship. Bestie, let's get into it.
(00:46):
That post breakup purge, it's basically a ritual.
You gather the photos. The oversized hoodie that still
smells faintly of their Cologne.Am I right, Bossy?
I feel so bad for you, For you audio listeners out there.
Anyways, the toothbrush, they always left by the sink and
(01:06):
never cleaned. And you perform the ex partner
exorcism. It's a necessary step to reclaim
your space and your sanity. But sometimes, in the back of
the closet, or a forgotten shelfor forgotten pockets, there are
relics. Those aren't just sweet
mementos, they are artifacts of oddities, monuments to incite,
(01:30):
jokes that literally aren't funny anymore, and they never
were. And sometimes things that are
just too weird to trash. And according to 2024 a survey
the the data, this is so shocking. 65% of adults still
have an item from a past relationship, while most keep
(01:52):
sentimental things like letters or jewelry.
Well, some they don't. It's up to you.
But let's venture into the atticand dusty storage boxes of the
heartbroken to uncover the trulybizarre keepsakes that have
survived the great relationship purge.
It's me. It's you.
(02:13):
We're going to read it, bestie. OK, let's go puke.
Let's start with a classic case of talking about your ex with
your partner, and they're the ones that brought it up because
they found the thing you kept. That's at least what I'm
assuming is going on in this story, so let's read it, Misty.
(02:33):
OK, Emma the asshole for keepinggifts from my ex boyfriends.
This was posted five years ago and the account is deleted.
Yeah, let's read it. I recently got into a spat with
my current boyfriend over this topic.
It started because he wanted to know where I got my Tony Chopper
plushy from as he wanted to buy one for his sister and I told
(02:56):
him that I didn't know because it was a gift from my high
school boyfriends. What the hell is Tony Chopper?
Let's look this up. Hold on, Tony Chopper.
Oh the is this one piece? Yep, the one Piece community is
coming for me right now. Tony Chopper is this little
(03:18):
fella right here. Let's get a let's get a little
look of it. Bam, that little fella right
there. OK, interesting.
OK, he got kind of bummed out and asked me if I had any other
stuff from his exes and his exes, my exes from my exes.
(03:42):
And I was honest, a few books, aChanel perfume and some of my
earrings. Not that expensive stuff.
I mean, yeah, I I could see why you'd want to keep that.
Then we got into an argument about keeping things from XS.
He believes that once the relationship is over, you
shouldn't keep anything from them because that means you have
(04:02):
moved on. My stance is that they are
objects that I like and throwingthem away slash gifting them is
unnecessary. I don't connect those things to
my exes and I don't think about them when I use them.
Maybe this comes from the POV that is relationship ended badly
whereas mine just didn't. That's a very good perspective
OP. My high school boyfriend and I
(04:23):
broke up because we were just stupid kids and the other two
and I noticed we were not going in the same direction so we had
a clean cut and are on good terms.
We don't talk or anything but ifwe ever run around the same
circle we can be cordial. His ex cheated on him and the ex
broke. Broke what?
And the ex before ghosted him somaybe that is that.
(04:45):
So am I the asshole for keeping things for my ex boyfriends?
No you're not the asshole because it's not like you're
keeping God damn like dildos that he gave you and you're
using them like the fuck dude. Like I I think you're good.
I think obviously the plushies badass if he wanted it to.
He's trying to find like where to get one as well because it's
(05:06):
cool. So no, broche is a butthurt cry
Boo Boo baby that obviously might still have feelings for
his ex for him making such a bigdeal about yours, because
usually that's how people treat their emotions.
We do have an edit edit guys. Thanks for your inputs, but I
don't understand why you're interpreting more to the story
(05:26):
because you're on the Internet, babes.
This is really just a spat a little disagreements.
It's not relationship breaking. I mean, do you really write
every single little spat in a relationship online, bestie?
No, you don't. That's that's where I hope
(05:47):
you're not over overlooking whatthe Internet has to say because
there's some people on this bitch that know what the what's
going on. We are not mad at each other or
anything. He's not a manipulative
controlling asshole that it should dump.
He is insecure, yes. No shot really and I'm going to
talk to him about this yes but damn y'all need to chill out.
(06:07):
Thanks for the most of the comments that were insightful.
I get to see these comments. Top comment.
Not the asshole, certainly not over the sort of things that
you're describing. I have things I've gifted that
were from my exes that I choose to get rid of because they were
deeply personal and it felt inappropriate to keep them, but
what you're describing is prettynormal gift items.
How long ago did you split up? Oh and they said like 8 years
(06:27):
ago. I am 24 now.
Yeah girl you're fine. I just think I just think bro
has a little bit more to talk about than just his exes.
Yeah, and it is insecurity more than anything else right here.
If I'm giving a sex toy from an ex and I really like it, I'm not
throwing that shit away. Quality sex toys are expensive.
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Oh my. I was not expecting them to say
that they were. Keep that.
To each their own. To each their own.
And obviously account is deleted.
So yeah, take it with what it isand let's hope he just got over
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his insecurity because always remember, just because you went
through something or you saw something in a relationship,
does that mean everyone else hadthe same experience with theirs
as well? So you can't, you can't drag
your mess into somebody else's mess.
It doesn't work that way. OK now here is another story
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that I stumbled upon that was posted in the Ask Men advice
titled Boyfriend kept a gift from his ex.
So now we have flipped the shoesaround and I'm very curious on
how this one plays out. OK let's read it.
My 20 female current boyfriend, male 21 has a gift that his ex
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got him. She was his first everything
except intercourse and he was obsessed with her.
Even after a year they had stopped talking.
They only went in dates but talked nearly every day and
called all the time for three months.
The ex ended it and he was really heartbroken over it.
Asking for her back 2 * a month after it ending. 2 * a month
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asking her back two times monthsafter ending.
OK, so not 2 * a month, just twotimes months after.
OK 'cause that's extremely important because you can get
stalker charges if it was the other.
When they were dating, she got him a cassette player with a
custom cassette tape of songs that reminded her of him.
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Oh, Bessie, this is bad. This is really bad.
Yeah, No. All including really.
And for my audio listeners, keepyour eyes on the road.
This girly wrote it really with 1234567Y7Y.
So we got really romantic songs.Write that down.
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Keep that noted, as well as Legoflowers.
Oh, not the Legos. First person to give him
flowers. Oh, the way she's writing this
is like really making her sound sad that she wasn't his verse.
But first, what is it? First is the worst.
Anyways, I found that he still keeps these gifts and asked
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about it, he just said that theywere one of the most thoughtful
gifts any ones I've given to himand he doesn't want to get rid
of it. Step.
It up bitch. What the fuck?
Buy him better flowers. What?
Anyways, you shouldn't be comparing yourself to XS
anyways. It should naturally be the best
of what you do, then the X does.And if it's not, somebody's a
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little bit more stuck than the other person, not making it a
fair, equal playing field 'causeyou're already automatically
going to lose over somebody else, and it's not fucking fair.
And that's where I'd better get addressed, because if not,
you're always going to come in second, even if you really truly
are the best for him. In his eyes, he's fucked up or
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she's fucked up, vice versa. Doesn't matter if you got a Dick
or you got breasts. That's the reality of what is
it, the love shades. OK, let's continue.
Let's see where we stepped off. Do do do do.
This makes me question whether or not he still listens to the
cassette tape. Should I be worried that he
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still loves her? It's been about a year and a
half since they've last talked. Oh my gosh, you know what I'm
talking to little British bitch.Take that motherfucking cassette
player. Switch out the goddamn tape and
put it with like farting sounds.I, I turn a little country
farting sounds and God damn, just do something funny.
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Do the fucking Sonic God damn theme song looped around or
like, what is it like a 10 hour loop of Nyan cat or Nyan cat,
however you pronounce it, man, God damn, I don't know, GIF,
GIF, whatever, do that. That's it.
That's your answer. That's your answer.
You know what you need to do. You need to change your ringtone
to that song and just see his motherfucking reaction because
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that dude's not going to fuckingask you.
He's not going to ask you, but you'll know when you get a
notification with him around. Let's see top comment.
My advice is that being so insecure, yes.
How she was fucking writing thisshit.
Oh my God. I still have a mixtape CD made
by an ex of mine that I still throw on from time to time.
Do I still love her? Nope.
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Do I think about her when I hearthe music?
Sometimes. But in the same way I think
about anything in the past when someone reminds me of it.
See, different people have different emotional maturity and
based on how the boyfriend explained why he's keeping these
items, there isn't the emotionalmaturity that is at equal levels
of OP writing this post. Someone did reply to that
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comment. He doesn't sound like he's over
his ex more than the problem of keeping the gifts.
The gifts are just a symbol of his unhealthy attachments.
Correct? Bingo.
To clarify, I'm not saying he's wrong for keeping the gifts,
correct because I have. Nobody has any say on what
somebody can keep or can't, right?
Like except for the US government, you cannot keep like
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dead bodies in your fridge or you can't like bury people in
the backyard because if they know you can get a lot of
trouble. But at the same time, if you get
approved for it, you don't have to pay taxes, OK, and taxes on
your property, by the way, you can't get it taken away from
you. But since he has these
unresolved feelings, then his situation, the gifts, just
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magnifies the situation. It's the same way of like, how
could you explain it? There's certain people that
could be looking up ex's social media accounts and they could
either do it for one or two ways, 1 to reminisce and be sad
and miss them, or two, to laugh at their failures and how much
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they suck. See what I mean?
It's all about the motive, not what you're trying to not not
the thing that's evidence. Like keeping gifts.
Like is it either because A or B?
Like are you searching accounts because it's either A or B?
That's what they mean, bestie, that's what they mean and let's
read this last little comment. It is not the last comment
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there, but kind of comms in thismotherfucker, but let's read it.
I like that his little tag this use this Reddit user's tags
called his flair is man. Oh my God.
Because it's in the ask men advice.
That's crazy. You have to be validated that
you're a man. I would have that go.
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Do they take a picture of your fucking balls like to show that
you're a man? That's so weird.
Why do you have to put a man as your flair?
I need to look at the rules after this comment.
We'll look at the rules right after I read this comment.
So I'm a stereotypical guy? No way.
I thought you were a man. Now you're a guy.
Most of the nice things I own are gifts from women, X's and
otherwise. If I threw out bro's a player.
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Not just X's, Woman too. If I threw out everything a
woman gave me, my apartment would be decorated with pretty
much a bed, a table, and some dust.
Ah, you were a codependent little bitch.
A codependent? Wait, are all dudes like that?
Hold on, because now I think I just uncovered something because
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the way I read that comment was that I am incapable of
purchasing myself, myself things.
So the gifts I get are all I have because I'm not good at
having initiative in my surroundings.
See what I mean with that? But now I'm like, are they doing
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that? Because that's what they, you
see what I mean? I don't mean to be rude about it
because now I just kind of fucking feel bad.
Oh, it's like the male spaces subreddit where it's like,
because I used to live like this.
So I guess I need to think back on what changed.
What did I do where it was like all a bro needs is this.
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And it's like a tiny little fucking TV or a big fucking TV
and like the cardboard box that the TV came in and a blanket and
like maybe a chair maybe. OK, I guess what changes that I
started connecting with like younger self me and
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acknowledging that I am still younger self me as I will still
always be me right now me for future me.
And that really helped with realizing that day-to-day
actions and what I'm around makes little me, current me, and
future me happy. That's kind of what got me out
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of that. And, you know, education
allowing me to have money to buymore and more platypuses every
single day. Yeah, catch me on eBay.
How about that? Oh yeah, let's see.
Let's see the rules. Let's see the rules on this
motherfucker, 'cause I'm so confused why it said, oh, no,
not that. I'm so confused on why his flare
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said mail. How to apply a user flare flare
guide. These are flares.
Oh yeah, man, woman, non binary,Incognito, a trans man, trans
woman, intersex choose the oh, because it allows you to see
where you come from and what your your perspective because
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gender does play a pretty big role into it's it's a it's a
undisclosed rule of how society treats each other.
As much as I'm not a fan of modern day feminine femininity,
feminism, it's there there. There's definitely the tricks of
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the trade, the jacks of the trade, the the crybaby.
I want more money than you. Then do the scary work.
But I'm woman. I can't carry £800 this OK but
then you don't have same job. So not same pay but I want job
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that's male dominant. But you see what I mean?
But there's also this, the edge of it, of holy shit, being a
female walking by yourself is terrifying.
Or holy shit, just being a female, like online.
Like brother, I grew up in the, I wasn't in the COD lobbies
because my dad tricked me into not knowing we had Wi-Fi when I
was a little kiddo, like a little 8-9 year old.
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I was just playing Call of Duty by myself, me and the boys by
the boys, the NPCS. He saved me probably of a lot.
I'm gonna be quite fucking real.Bro knew what he was doing.
But when I decided to be a big grown up, by that I mean 14, I
went on call, Call of Duty, CS go.
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I accidentally pressed the the mic button on the keyboard.
Brother in Christ, the the, the quickness of the press to kick
tired Gato was astonishing. I still I, I and you wonder why
male reflexes are so strong. I learned real quick and I don't
even know what I fucking said. I, I, I just think I, I didn't
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say anything and they just felt the presence of a vagina and
they were just like, no way, getthat out of here.
Don't. Doesn't she know that this is
ball territory? OK, all right.
In this next story, it's from moral dilemmas.
Beautiful, celebrated, Absolutely delicious for those
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that love society and all that fun.
Mambo Jambo titled Can I give mycurrent girlfriend gifts
intended for my ex? You hear how scrumptious that
fucking title is? Hell yeah.
We're going to get into this title.
Let's read it personal too. Too long, didn't read Right at
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the beginning. They just know us so well.
OK, Too long, Didn't read. I have gifts intended for my ex,
who had ended up breaking up before.
I can give. I have no other use for these
gifts. Sounds like dude dates the same
people I guess. Fast forward to a few months
later, Valentine's Day is comingand apart from the new gifts I
already bought my current girlfriend, I want to know if
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it's morally acceptable to give some of them with some of them.
What the hell is this shit? What did you get Like a custom
like plug? Like molded size?
Like why can't she have the Why can't she have the custom butt
plug molded size? They have similar interests
after all. Just to clarify, my ex and my
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girlfriend have never met. Are you sure about that?
Neither my ex nor my current areaware of the existence of said
gifts. Thanks and yes for fucking
advice. And you don't tell us what the
hell it is. Let's figure it out with it
being zero up votes and 32 comments.
This is going to be juicy. This is going to be good one.
Top comment, ask yourself how she will feel when she finds out
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it was meant for your ex. Another one saying probably best
to give them to non girlfriends.Most feel kind of sleazy taking
gifts purchase for others. You could tell her, ask if she's
interested, but otherwise give them to family or friends.
Another comment. My sweetheart and I have been
together 15 years. Several years ago he handed me a
pair of small diamond earrings and asked if I wanted them.
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They're not the type of thing heusually gives me.
He's not a diamond sort of guy. Then he told me that he had
bought them for a different girlfriend long before my time.
She broke up with him and he forgot he had them.
I have them but I have never worn them.
I think he should have tried to sell them or even give them to a
charity. They mean nothing to me.
Damn bitch. I think you were the charity.
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Also, really good advice on thisfor anyone wondering.
You got siblings. OK, Now imagine your parent
going, yeah, like at Christmas and everybody's unpacking gifts
and everything. And you open one of your things
and you're like, wow, I have this hoodie of this so and so
artist and your mom says that was supposed to be for Bill, uh,
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your brother, but he already hadthree hoodies.
So we figured you like it because you like the band too.
You're you're going to want to fucking burn that motherfucking
hoodie. Like you thought that the
sibling rivalry was strong enough.
No, that that that thing's one of the motherfucking God damn
trash, right? See what I mean?
Keep it as simple as that. It's fucking weird.
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You feel like what? Am I too difficult to shop for?
Am I like you? You the person started blaming
themselves because if it if you were capable of buying it for
somebody else. Am I not capable of a person to
purchase something for? Like get the fuck out of here
bro. Hell Nah, Nope.
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So there you have it. Apparently people just don't
know how to fucking throw shit away.
OK, you can always throw it away, but I like to use it buy
you a better one. The fuck bro?
Just bye bye. That's all you need to do.
That's all you need to do. Okay, get it, okay.
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And these things aren't just like junk cluttering on our
homes. They are strange.
They're they're horrible. They're like, who wants diamond
earrings if they don't even likediamonds would be like that.
That story made me like I, I don't think that they should be
together on that one. I honestly don't even think that
they are still together on that one.
But it's OK to hold on to a few things.
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And I really hope that girl changes out that cassette to the
Sonic Underground theme song. And she better change her damn
ringtone to that to see his eyesdrop to his goddamn balls.
Yep. And don't forget to like, if you
enjoyed it, subscribe to join the Gato gang.
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We're going to go on more adventures.
OK, Bessie, you and me, we're going to be the worms.
Our last brain cells right here.Last brain cells.
And I'll see you in the next one.
Tired Gato out. Take care.
Bye.
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