Boyfriend Obsessed with Ex, Friend's Art Worth $3000, and Apartment Roasting: Reddit Stories

Boyfriend's Obsession with Ex

• 💔 A 2-year relationship is strained as the boyfriend becomes increasingly obsessed with the girlfriend's ex-boyfriend.
• 📱 He stalks the ex's social media, befriends him, and inserts himself into his friend group, causing significant distress.
• 🗣️ The boyfriend exhibits passive-aggressive behavior, using the ex as a weapon in arguments, making snide comments about finances, and pressuring the girlfriend for sex.
• 🚩 The situation escalates with the boyfriend ditching the girlfriend for the ex, leading to a fight where he tells the ex what the girlfriend said, and later brags about their sex life and makes a disturbing comment about "loaning" the girlfriend to the ex.
• 💔 The girlfriend eventually breaks up with him, but he retaliates with a smear campaign and continues to harass her.

The Case of the Priceless Artwork

• 🎁 A friend gifts three art pieces, initially described as ugly, which the recipient cherishes and displays prominently.
• 💰 Upon discovering the artwork is worth $1,000 each, the friend demands them back, threatening police involvement.
• 🤝 The recipient, after realizing the friend's true intentions and a similar situation with another friend's gifted item, decides to return both sets of items.
• 🎨 The artwork is later revealed to be created by the friend's relative, making them technically priceless but worthless to the friend, who then tells the recipient to throw them away.

Apartment Roasting and Couch Surfing

• 🏠 A friend, Kyle, who is couch surfing, visits the OP's apartment and proceeds to mockingly roast every aspect of it in front of others.
• 😬 Despite the initial jokes, Kyle's comments become rude and annoying, touching on the apartment's size, lack of a dining table, and even the bathroom.
• 🚫 When Kyle later asks to crash at the OP's place, the OP refuses, referencing Kyle's previous insults.
• 📱 Kyle reacts negatively, calling the OP petty and leaving a group chat after seeing the OP's Reddit post about the situation.
• 🛋️ The OP stands firm, refusing to let Kyle stay, and later buys a folding table, humorously noting that if another