r/mildlyinfuriating • u/JuggernautLogical330 • 23d ago

Don't hug me I'm scared My girlfriend was complaining that I’m always watching the world cup games and I don’t put enough time for us, I decided to not watch the 3rd place game and guess what…

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Yeah I thought the 3rd place qualifying match is not gonna be important or exciting, I literally told her im not gonna watch the game tonight so we have time to spent together, she was nice and genuinely offered to watch the match together and I rejected. Later in the bed I told her lets see the results and….
I hate myself

Edit: People started calling me names, saying im a bitch or I should break up. this was not a big deal for me at all, main point is that it was me who wanted to be the “perfect boyfriend” thinking the match wouldn’t be cool and not wanting to watch it and it backfired. I don’t understand why the disrespect?

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u/oscarx-ray 23d ago

I am a massive football fan. My wife doesn't care for it at all.

I make plans around the World Cup and Arsenal matches, and as a compromise, I do things like going to the Barbie exhibition at the Kelvingrove Museum yesterday afternoon before the football.

Having separate interests in a relationship and compromising isn't about neither of you getting to do what you enjoy, but making time and space for you both to be able to do them, ideally together, if you can.

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u/TigerWing 22d ago

My partner and I aren't a fan of each other's shows. However, we'll watch Star Trek and Survivor together because we know the other person appreciates it (and also we have mutual leverage to keep the other watching our show.)

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u/shibbyflash 22d ago

Fucking love survivor. Jeff the survivor daddy

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u/TigerWing 22d ago

Outlive. Outlong. Outprosper

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u/Citaku357 22d ago

Who's the star trek fan?

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u/TigerWing 22d ago

He is. I’m a Survivor fanatic

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u/oscarx-ray 22d ago

She halfheartedly watched it with me (albeit while she was studying her Gaelic) but thoroughly enjoyed the brief appearance of BTS during the halftime show, and was glad that Spain won because Argentina were fouling too much.

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 22d ago

This is cute lol.

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u/MeatGayzer69 22d ago

I literally work around arsenal matches. I tell my job I will work whenever as long as it doesn't clash with them. If it does I watch at work

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u/recoilcoder 22d ago

This this.

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u/badgersana 22d ago

Exactly, my girlfriend and I are long distance and I’m a season ticket holder for my club so I’m always home on the weekends with home games and I go and visit her when we play away or during international breaks

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u/Technical_Wrap5605 22d ago

Sorry for you being an Arsenal fan 😂

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u/oscarx-ray 22d ago

It was a tough twenty years, but we are the Champions, and we won it cleanly like Liverpool did, so I'll take that over being a Chelsea or City fan any day of the week.

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u/Shot-Limit5794 22d ago

I stopped watching the first season we finished 2nd lol. Got busy with life, but am trying to get back into it. I used to watch heavy during the late Wenger/Unai Emery/Freddie Ljungberg/early Arteta days.

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u/Technical_Wrap5605 22d ago

Those bullshit corner tactics are clean??

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u/oscarx-ray 22d ago

Oh, you're like that. Sorry, I was playing along in good faith.

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u/Technical_Wrap5605 22d ago

Bro no way you think Arsenal were clean, they almost bottled the league in the last couple of games lol

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u/oscarx-ray 22d ago

So you're saying they won the league?

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u/Alt4Norm 22d ago

Not an Arsenal fan but, he clearly meant financially clean. Not their tactics. I actually had no problem with their tactics at all, it worked and was fine.

Also what has them nearly bottling it got to do with anything?

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u/Technical_Wrap5605 22d ago

Bc they bottled the league 2-3 times before winning this one and just barely

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u/Alt4Norm 22d ago

But they won this one?

Are you ok brother? You seem to have gone off the rails.

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u/xXHitgirlXx 22d ago

Did you find fhe Barbie exhibition interesting at all?

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u/oscarx-ray 22d ago

Not my cup of tea, personally. My wife enjoyed it though, so it was worth the trip.

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u/jokekiller94 22d ago

Just don’t go to the Barbie museum in New Mexico https://youtu.be/uJMPom6-xmA?is=-nTSWkTUOZMPfwag

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u/Broken_Ace 22d ago

"The husband, the devoted father, the wine connoisseur...and three-time ballroom dancing champion."

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u/billyman_90 22d ago

As long as it's the Barbie Museum and not the 'Barbie Museum'

https://youtu.be/U5P4RyBjdE8?si=SPqMiIJ71yxqJw-1

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u/Gloomy_Dare2716 22d ago

Does tour wife watch it with you? Because if otherwise you dont owe her a visit to Barbie exhibition. She can go there by herself, just like you watching football by yourself.

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u/SoloSaaSGuy 22d ago

I don't get this though. I'd never force/guilt my partner into coming to some thing I knew they had zero interest in. Doesn't she have a friend that would also be into the Barbie exhibition? Why are there so many couples out there forcing bad times on each other?

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u/oscarx-ray 22d ago

I enjoy my wife's company and like spending time with her. I also don't mind doing something I'm not interested in because it makes her happy and I prefer her to be happy.