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This Horrendous ‘Relationship Advice’ Reddit Post Is Proof Of Just How Fragile Men Can Be

Nothing more romantic than forcing your girlfriend to stay with you by convincing her that she stinks, hey.

by Michelle Rennex  10 June 2020
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The r/Relationship Advice and r/Am I The Asshole subreddits have been an insightful tool in learning that… some people are just majorly fucked up.

While the online communities can be a good place to get genuine relationship and life advice, a recent post has left people disturbed. In the post titled ‘Boyfriend won’t stop telling me I have B.O.’ by u/ThrowRA-doistink, the unidentified woman recounts her experience with her boyfriend of one year.

Turns out, that while almost everything is perfect in the relationship, he’s been telling her every day, at least once a day, that she stinks. In response to his comments, the woman said that she has changed her habits completely.

“Now I am so paranoid about smelling bad that I shower at least twice a day, I apply new industrial strength deodorant every few hours (I have a reminder on my phone), perfume, and I brush my teeth anytime I eat or drink something that isn’t water,” she wrote.

“I feel like I’m going crazy… I have been to the doctor and he has said there is nothing medically wrong,” the woman continued. “I am getting so paranoid. He won’t cuddle or anything when he says I smell. I really don’t know what more I can do?

Boyfriend won’t stop telling me I have B.O. from r/relationship_advice

After sharing her story, u/ThrowRA-doistink updated the post once she confronted her boyfriend. After only an hour of being awake and showering, her boyfriend said his usual: “God, you stink”.

Finally taking the opportunity to question him on what exactly he was smelling, her boyfriend got all worked up.

“He got all panicked and upset, I eventually got out of him that this is what he father always said to his mother,” the OP shared. “Apparently his father told him that is was a surefire technique to have a woman never leave you because ‘she will feel too low to cheat, will love only you, and will always be clean’.”

From this answer, the woman said that she made the decision to break up with her partner and kick him out of her house for good.

As the r/Relationship Advice post made its way through the subreddit and across to Twitter, people started to share their disgust in the woman’s ex-boyfriend, who was clearly emotionally abusive and gaslighting her.

“Imagine telling a girl she smells to make her want you more. Fuck people are stupid,” wrote one Reddit user. “Your edit shows how utterly pathetic and manipulative he is. Him and his father are pieces of shit,” wrote another.

But not only were people feeling sorry for the woman who posted the question, but also for her ex-boyfriend’s mother, who was also being subjected to the same treatment by his father and being totally disregarded by her fully aware son.

The sheer concept that the son’s first reaction to his father telling him of his emotional abuse towards his mother was to replicate his fathers actions instead of, I don’t know, consoling his mother and chastising his father is concerning, yet unsurprising.

In conclusion: If you are this man, or are like this man, please, genuinely, seek professional help, ASAP.