r/Offmychest: Tragic Family Deaths, Relationship Betrayals, and Enabling Behavior

Tragic Family Deaths and Shared Delusion

• 💡 A mother's paranoid schizophrenia led to a tragic event where she and her sister, along with a friend, starved themselves to death, believing they could absorb energy from the universe.
• 🧠 The mother's delusion convinced her sister to join her in this act, resulting in three deaths due to starvation and dehydration in a locked apartment.
• 🔍 Post-mortem diagnosis confirmed the mother's schizophrenia, offering some answers but not alleviating the narrator's guilt and lingering trauma.
• ✨ The concept of "foydu" (shared madness) was discovered, providing peace and understanding for the narrator regarding the inexplicable events.

Relationship Dynamics and Financial Disagreements

• 🎯 A couple's 50/50 agreement on chores and bills shifts after the boyfriend receives a promotion, leading to him expecting the girlfriend to handle all household tasks.
• ⚠️ The boyfriend's refusal to contribute to chores, blaming stress, escalates to moldy dishes and neglected responsibilities, causing the girlfriend to take a day off work to clean.
• ⚖️ The girlfriend proposes hiring a cleaner or adjusting her work schedule to 4 days a week with compensation for her labor, which the boyfriend dismisses as frivolous and calls her a gold digger.
• 💔 The relationship ends with the girlfriend moving out, feeling manipulated and realizing the boyfriend valued the ideas from masculinity podcasts more than their equitable partnership.

Husband's Infidelity Discovered Through Work

• 💔 A woman discovers her husband of six years has a child with his mistress when the mistress applies for WIC (Women, Infants, and Children's Program) at the woman's workplace.
• ID The mistress provides the husband's name and birthday, and eventually, a photo of his driver's license, confirming his identity.
• 😔 The wife is devastated, especially after trying for three years to have a baby and experiencing miscarriages, while her husband was with another woman and their newborn.
• ❓ She questions if others knew about the affair and feels humiliated and numb, unable to process the betrayal.

Enabling Addiction and Relationship Breakdown

• 📈 A husband admits to enabling his wife's relapse into alcoholism after she had previously recovered from drug addiction.
• 💥 Initially enjoying their shared drunken experiences, the wife's behavior escalates to infidelity, including bringing a third person into their bedroom and sleeping with multiple partners.
• 💔 The husband discovers an STD, confirming her infidelity, and finds explicit photos and evidence of her promiscuity on her Reddit profile.
• 😔 Despite loving his wife, the husband struggles to look at her the same way, acknowledging his role in her relapse and the destruction of their relationship.