My (30M) gf (33F) broke up with me for making a joke about her sickness. Was I out of line?
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GF and I have been together four months. The past two weeks, she had some cold symptoms (headache, 99F body temp). Doctor ran some tests and wasn’t sure. In the end, said that he thinks it’s mono.
My gf has this habit of teasing me. I don’t mind some teasing and like the playful banter. Although her teasing some would consider rude. She makes fun of my physical features. Like a big forehead or a big nose. I have some belly fat that she constantly squeezes and asks why there’s fat there but the rest of me looks skinny. We also like to take embarrassing photos of each other and send them to each other during the day. But I never comment on her physical traits.
Yesterday she was being a bit extra with the teasing No problem, but I’m going to tease back when I find a chance. So we get on the topic of her potentially having mono and she starts to tease me that it must have been me that gave it to her. She keeps up the teasing for a bit so I finally respond and tease her back by saying that she shouldn’t have been kissing all those guys while partying on the weekend (I know very well she was at no party doing no such thing).
She immediately got so upset and said how dare I insult her health. I told her I only meant it as a tease since she teases me. She says that’s not the same because my nose really is big or I really do have fat but her sickness is not from kissing people. I said that’s what makes it a joke since her sickness is temporary while her jokes about my features are more permanent. She says she is too insulted and cannot be with someone who doesn’t take her health seriously and would make such outrageous accusations and jokes. So she broke up with me and blocked me.
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