📝 AITA for “not communicating properly”

By snowdgo • Score: 2 • April 11, 2025 4:16 AM


Sooo basically I want to know if I’m being manipulated or idek what but. Basically I was on the phone with my (24)F boyfriend (24)M, talking about how our day was gonna go. I was doing DoorDash today and he asked me what time I’d be done. I replied and said I’d be done around 6-7. He kinda hesitated and expressed how he wasn’t aware I would still be working. He then asked if I could come over instead because something got in the way. I agree and go pick up some order. As I’m waiting for my order, I start contemplating which time I should end my dash. I wanted to spend more time with him and truthfully, I was a bit tired but still needed to make more$. but I just wanted to see my baby for the rest of the day soo I told him on the phone that “actually I might end early” he then sighs, and while sounded a bit aggravated says “soo what are you doing because I’ve just texted that I might still be able to do this favor” and as said woah what happened? I was instantly thrown off by the sigh and attitude, I knew I had irritated him because he was currently stressed and felt bad for cancelling on the favor. Sooo I get in my car and say “what happened?”And he tells me he just texted again confirming he’d go, because I said I’d still be on the road. And i started saying how I was just feeling indecisive and that’s why i was going back and forth, i told him I was trying not to stress him. A minute later, exactly a minute later is when I said welll yeah no I’m sorry, I can still do DoorDash bc I still need to make more money anyways and I don’t wanna cause any trouble. He gets defensive because I said I didn’t wanna cause any trouble. He claims there was no reason to say that, that I must insinuate that some bad argument might occur or something idek. And he told me I couldn’t communicate properly, when in reality I told him I’d still continue. And me saying I didn’t wanna cause any trouble isn’t bad but he took it that way. I meant it in a way of you already sound irritated and I don’t want to mess up your plans so I felt as if was fitting and appropriate but he believed otherwise. He ended up dragging it and talking about how I didn’t instantly tell him what I was going to do, I told him I was distracted because of the gps and him talking at the same time while I’m pulling out the parking spot… I don’t feel like I deserved to get yelled at. He says he yelled because he’s so tired of me continuously not communicating properly, but like what the fuck? Simply because I first stated how I was feeling indecisive? He says I just need to communicate properly and tell him what it is but I feel as if I just did that and he’s more mad at the fact that I said I don’t wanna cause trouble. I don’t know, I’d really like to hear what you guys think about this. It’s stupid, I know.

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