📝 AITA for asking my boyfriend if I can give my friend a hickey?

By Consistent-Will4983 • Score: 0 • April 20, 2025 11:52 AM


Hey Reddit! Around two weeks ago I (21f) asked my boyfriend (22m) if I can give my best friend (21f) a hickey. My best friend, let's call her Jane, was recently broken up with by a guy in our friend group for pretty hurtful reasons. We were at a party all together and she was feeling bad about him having moved on so quickly as he was already flirting with others. We were all pretty tipsy and started brainstorming for a way to make him jealous. Someone said that if she showed up with a hickey it may make him feel some type of way. I realize that it is quite childish, but even if it would at least make her feel better about her breakup and more confident it was worth it to me. We are in an extremely close group of girls, all very affectionate with each other, but nothing that crosses boundaries. I am quite casual about physical interactions, as for me it is more about the intention behind them. Of course I understand that that isn't the case for everyone. Out of our tight knit girl group, me and Jane were the only ones at the party. I offered to give her a hickey, but said I would need to ask my boyfriend if he was comfortable with it first. Yes, she could've gotten it some other way but we were a little drunk and its what we came up with in the moment. I approached him and explained the situation, saying I will absolutely not do anything he isn't comfortable with. He said he wouldn't be okay with it and called us immature for trying to orchestrate this. I said fair enough and left it at that. The rest of the night was uneventful and me and him hadn't mentioned this conversation at all in around two weeks. Recently, he has texted me saying that what I asked him at the party was unacceptable and I better not do that again. I wasn't planning to as I now know his comfort levels, but I didn't appreciate the confrontational approach and was also confused about why he is only bringing it up now. I've talked to my friends about it, and some are pretty split about whether it was weird of me to ask to give Jane a hickey. I don't think it was, since it was in no way sexual.

Am I being unreasonable or disrespectful?

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