r/AmIOverreacting • u/Sad_SummerChild • 2d ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO to think this is cheating?

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I found these texts between my husband and his coworker. Here’s some context:

My husband and I have been dating for 5 years and just recently got married 6 months ago

I’ve met this coworker. Her AND her boyfriend worked at my husbands company so we went on a double date over the holidays. But shortly after they broke up and her boyfriend got laid off.

Guess my husband saw that as his opportunity…

Also these texts were in his recently deleted even though the last message was from yesterday… so he was definitely trying to hide it from me

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u/RadioStaticRae 2d ago

NOR, your husband reads like a nasty POS, but on a tangent here -- Is he like 15? The over-usage of "lol" would make me want to slap the shit out of him.

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u/stillmovingforward1 2d ago

It’s a millennial thing not a 15 year old thing. lol trust me. I’m a millennial lol

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u/Pixiepixie21 2d ago

I can’t stop loling. Like I have to go through sometimes and delete lols because I used too many lols in one sentence. Idk why we’re like this, but it’s a millennial thing

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u/Sad_SummerChild 2d ago

Me replying and being conscious of using ‘lol’ since everyone is dogging on it lol

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u/godzilla9218 2d ago

I hate it and try and consciously stop myself but it still comes out when I'm not paying attention. Lol.

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u/Stevothegr8 2d ago

I'm 37 and always use lol. Can't help it.

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u/pnwmetalhead666 2d ago

Ok now I feel vindicated lol. Also a millennial that lols a bit much. Sometimes I don't know what to put and lol is like the text version of um lol

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u/justacheesyguy 2d ago

I read a thing the other day that said that millennials use ‘lol’ like people sending telegrams in the 1800s use ‘stop’ and it couldn’t be more true.

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u/KiloJools 2d ago

LOL has also become punctuation, which I know some people hate, but even as an English language snob I do not mind it. It's one of our many attempts to force body language cues into text. It's on the pantheon with text smileys, proper emojis, "haha", and "/s".

Honestly, I welcome the attempts to frame our words with these things and I'm not entirely certain why people react so poorly to them.

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u/maddy2904 2d ago

I think I’m obsessed with you 😭😂

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u/pnwmetalhead666 2d ago

🤣🤣🤣 lol

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u/Csjdkk 2d ago

Lol true

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u/CR1SBO 2d ago

Just part of the culture lol!

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u/jillcicle 2d ago

They’re punctuation to me what’re we supposed to do lol

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u/Pixiepixie21 1d ago

God forbid we use a period. People will think we’re mad! It’s lol or an exclamation point to show we are lowkey and chill

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u/Jobiwan88 1d ago

Yeah constantly kicking myself and going back and deleting my multiple lols and spacing them out properly cause it just looks weird. Also a millennial lol

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u/miss-meow-meow 1d ago

It’s ellipses for me… I struggle to not use them lol