📝 WIBTAH If I stopped gamesharing with my ex after he bought $300+ worth of games?

By Skittles5139 • Score: 5 • April 4, 2025 2:48 AM


For context, we had a very toxic relationship towards the end, I eventually broke up with him recently (maybe a month ago?) because I felt he was emotionally cheating on me with his girl best friend. Safe to say the breakup was not a very pleasant one.

Throughout our relationship I was allowing him to gameshare with me on our xboxs, for those of you who don't know gamesharing is when he signs into my account on his xbox and gets access to all of my games for free. While he was gamesharing with me, he bought a ton of games for us to play together and gifted them to my account so that he could just get it through gamesharing so we didn't have to both buy the same game.

Well, I'm petty enough to see that he is playing all of my games (the ones he doesn't own that I bought with my own money) as well as the ones he bought that are on my account with this girl best friend that he is already in a relationship with and with my pettiness at the forefront of my mind I told him I am kicking him off my account so he no longer has access to my games. He is telling me that since he bought all those games it would be unfair and that he is in no place to rebuy all of the games he got me (probably around or over $300 worth of games) and that I just need to give him a few months to get the money to rebuy the games he wants. He gave me a big sob story of his life and how bad of a spot he is in.

I feel like since we are no longer in a relationship that I don't owe him anything, he chose to buy the games and send them to my account - granted neither of us expected to breakup at the time - but there was always the possibility. I am 100% doing this out of pettiness, not because I need to or anything so I do have that voice in the back of my mind telling me I should allow it for now since it isn't affecting me in any way other than annoyance at the situation.

Would I be the AH to kick him off even though he was the one spending money on these games and force him to rebuy them?

ETA: I did tell him to ask his bestie to gameshare since she has the money to buy him games (which she does already) and his only response is “I’m not asking her that” so he does technically have other options he just doesn’t want to seem like a bum to her.

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