📝 AITAH for being smug around my cheating ex?

By Party_Yoghurt_3318 • Score: 1 • April 24, 2025 9:41 AM


Hey all, I'll keep this brief.

A few years ago I (M17) got into an online relationship with (F18), because she seemed pretty and I didn't want to die alone. I was pretty ugly, a recluse, but I had a sweet accent.

Over the course of our six month long relationship she weaves this narrative that I'm being emotionally unavailable, using this as an excuse to kick me out of her friend groups (from which we originally met).

I kind of just accept this. A week passes, I then add one of those dudes from the group again to check up and see how things are without me. He replies "It's weird you're checking up on your exes friends" This is news to me. I ask him to elaborate, he sends me screenshots of her and another man in the group flirting. I of course confront her.

She argues he manipulated her and she banned him anyway. So after a long back and forth I let it go, offering to continue things.

Then, after a month, she breaks up with me. I admittedly go full stalker mode (I just had that gut feeling sometbing was up) and find her private instagram, of which she had another boyfriend for the past 3 years. I. Was. The. Side. Hoe.

I let the boy know, they break up, she accuses me of ruining her life, I laugh in her face.

Fast forward 3 years. I'm now 20, I have now converted to christianity, I started modelling, I have accomplished my dream of going to university and I'm in a happy relationship. She contacts me out of the blue, saying how she saw my photos (mutual friend) and was amazed she ever got the chance to date me, I told her that I was grateful for the learning experience she gave me. She asked if I was single and I sent a photo of me and my girlfriend on holiday, in an expensive restaurant, flipping her off. I blocked her.

Her friends contacted me, stalked my linkedin, and said I permanently ruined her mental health and that she was my soul mate. Was I too harsh? AITAH?

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