📝 AITAH for wanting space after my dog died

By Mediocre_Userbase • Score: 1 • April 14, 2025 11:35 PM


I (27F) had to go home to put my dog down on Friday. He was 15 and it was time to do it (he was really struggling). My GF (27) and I have been having some relationship problems, but we’ve been working on it and I feel optimistic that we can work things out. I came back to our apartment Sunday night after spending the rest of Friday and Saturday with my family. When I got back I told her I was really emotionally drained and I didn’t want to talk too much about it because I just wanted to be distracted and that tomorrow id want to talk about it more because I didn’t want to cry again after a whole weekend of a lot of emotion and social time with my family. She said she understood and we watched some TV together and then I took a shower and started to play my video game. Around 11 pm she came to the living room to tell me she was going to bed and I told her I’d come to bed soonish. Then at midnight she came back again and seemed slightly upset and told me she was having a hard time falling asleep without me there and that “I couldn’t even say goodnight to her while making eye contact”. I told her I was going to come soon but she kind of lingered and I got frustrated. We got into a bit of an argument and then she went to bed. I followed about 30 minutes after. When I got in bed she asked if we were “friends” and I said I wasn’t sure. Then this morning when I got to work I texted her that I was still frustrated. To me it felt like she couldn’t just let me have my alone time before the week started after a super difficult weekend. We’ve been arguing about it all day. She made it about all of our other relationship problems and we just now talked again when I got home and I explained how I felt and she just can’t just say like I get it I’m sorry. I’m really frustrated because now it’s blown up to a huge fight and all I wanted to have was a calm night without having to worry about my feelings or anyone else’s. AITAH for not going to bed with her last night? Also should I just let it go? The only reason I held on was because I genuinely was frustrated that after this weekend I couldn’t just do what I wanted with my time without her getting upset.

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