Help me get through tonight so I can get rid of him tomorrow

[MessedOfTimes]

This is pretty much the most intense week of my life, and I’ve been through a whole lot in my 33 years...”D”P and I were just having smoko. I put a lighter in my lap and it fell to the ground. I made a joke about “thigh gaps”. “It’s actually called a box gap”, says he. Gross. I am currently doing an “end of lease” clean on what was until last week my first real home. I am in a flood effected area, so am having to tackle it all myself. I know tomorrow is goodbye for him (feel free to suggest choice “final farewells”)...til then, I’ll be scrubbing walls, missing my kids, seething at this moron and hoping to laugh at something you bloody brilliant lot say. Cheers to hopefully-blessed final straws. Thank you in advance, Vipers ♥️

You’re on the countdown to freedom now. Every time he says something that makes your skin crawl or irritates you beyond belief, tell yourself that is the last time you’ll ever have to hear that particular comment. Keep thinking of the peace you’re going to have and it’s so, so close!

Sounds to me like she's moving out without her partner. Her kids are with their dad and she misses them. She's in a flooded area so although you'd normally hire professional cleaners for end of tenancy she either couldn't hire them or she did ages ago but they've had to cancel on her. She's pissed off and her soon to be ex has done a ton of shit during their relationship, hence the last straw comment and she's timed ending things with moving home to make it easier for her.

Seemed fairly easy to interpret to me but I may have made some incorrect assumptions.

I understand when something is the final straw, something so little that people who didn't know the back story, might think is an extreme reaction. It's just that light bulb moment when you think, fuck this.

Is box gap offensive? Or was he correcting you again? Just trying to figure out what the last straw was. Either way hope your move goes smoothly and you can start fresh.

I once dumped someone because they did an excited dance everytime we sat down to eat. He was just annoying in general and his little shimmy tipped me over the edge. I didn't even sit for the rest of the meal, I blurted out that I can't date him and left. So I get it.

Oh I'm aware of finals straws, have you read the story 'she kicked me out for leaving a cup next to the dishwasher?' it rings so true with these!

Stick on some 90's pop OP, have a dance about while scrubbing and think about how light you'll feel tomorrow when all the stress is over and done.

Are you pissed?

I should hope so, sounds like she’s having a really shit time

I'm figuring there's much more to the 'box gap' remark than just that one comment. But really, who cares. People can leave relationships for whatever reason they choose.

@MessedOfTimes Best of luck to you. Keep your head down and your hands busy until it's time to 'have the talk'. No need to create problems before we need to.

Guessing you are in Australia, the floods over there right now are awful. I hope you're ok.

Why are you leaving your partner? Because of his bad joke or because he's an arse other than that?

Might cheer you, Aussie slang wasn't awful to get used to. But I couldn't find an off-licence no one had a clue what I was talking about until I said 'you know the place to buy beer and wine', 'ah you mean the bottle-o'

Why is box gap gross? I thought it was a synonym for thigh gap

"Box" is vulgar Australian slang for female genitalia.

@deadlanguage

Why is box gap gross? I thought it was a synonym for thigh gap

Box is vulgar derogatory slang for vagina.

I’m another one who wants to know why box gap is gross. I’ve never heard that before is it something I should know?

@BluntWithAC

I once dumped someone because they did an excited dance everytime we sat down to eat. He was just annoying in general and his little shimmy tipped me over the edge. I didn't even sit for the rest of the meal, I blurted out that I can't date him and left. So I get it.

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Ah thanks @BoreOfWhabylon @Thoosa!

Only one more day of having to his nonsense OP. Do you live in a big city? You may never have to run into him again. Actually if you live somewhere small, bumping into him and pretending not to remember him could be satisfying!

What shit were you smoking to dump him over a comment like that ??

I would hope that most reading the OP would know full weell that there worte a woman at the far end of her tether, trying to remain lighthearted for fear of dissolving into an emotional heap
Thank you for saying it. The “you’re leaving him for a joke? (insert a passive aggressive emoji here” posters are either spectacularly brainless or can’t find another way of making a dig. It’s exhausting.

@GrannieD

What shit were you smoking to dump him over a comment like that ??

Are your comprehension skills always this poor?

I dint fully understand your post but best of luck for the future x

Bonkers threads...

I rest my case

@BoreOfWhabylon

"Box" is vulgar Australian slang for female genitalia.

Oh, some nuance would have helped with that then!

I'd guess the OP is in NSW - we've had some dreadful floods here recently, and if this is an end-of-lease clean that the OP is doing, it's a lot of work to do by yourself - I imagine that all other cleaners in her flood-affected area are a bit busy with other jobs!

Sounds like her partner is just a bit of a shit generally, and the crude comment was, as she said, a final straw so she's dumping his arse tomorrow when she moves out of her first real home.

Hope that you have somewhere half decent to go to, @MessedOfTimes.

So where you smoking whacky baccy because this is the weirdest post I've ever seen, lay off the smoko.

@noirchatsdeux

I'm guessing OP is Australian, and is in one of the areas on the east coast that has been hit by bad flooding...probably Brisbane (my home city).

'Smoko' is Aussie slang for having a cigarette. The rest of it is pretty self explanatory, she's getting where she lives ready to leave, and is planning of breaking up with her partner at the same time.

I always thought smoko was having your packed lunch!

What,