A 29-year-old guy has a job working as an engineer for a tech company, and lately, he’s really been able to move up at his job.
Several months ago, he was given an enormous promotion which saw him advancing to the top of his career.
He now has the ability to keep growing while starting his corporate career at his current company.
Since he got promoted, he was then invited to attend a corporate dinner with the head honchos at his company.
All the guys going to this dinner are people he aspires to be in 5 or 10 years, and they’re not the kind of people he would normally be able to interact with.
You can see why this dinner was so incredibly important to him and his career. He was invited to bring a plus one to the dinner, so he asked his 32-year-old girlfriend to attend with him.
“People come in their best attire to the dinner, so I also wanted us to come looking our best,” he explained.
“I bought a new suit for the occasion and invited my GF out to go shopping and buy her a dress. So we went out, and I bought her a nice dress she wanted.”
“The day of the dinner itself, my girlfriend and I got into an argument. The argument was about something that happened at her job, and she asked my opinion on it.”
angel_nt – illustrative purpose only, not the actual person
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Essentially, his girlfriend got in trouble at work with her boss for not following a mandatory protocol set by her company.
He let his girlfriend know that he was not on her side with what went down at work, and she was furious with him.
He kept trying to get his girlfriend to see why he had the position that he did on the matter, and eventually, she said she understood where he was coming from.
Thinking everything was resolved, he went out to run a couple of errands before getting ready for dinner.
Later on, he arrived at his girlfriend’s place to pick her up and drive her to the big dinner. When he got to her house, he was shocked to see that she was dressed in a hoodie and a pair of jeans, but he thought that perhaps she was behind on getting ready.
“Instead, she told me that she was ready to leave very passive-aggressively,” he said. “I asked her if she isn’t going to change into the dress I bought her for the occasion. She told me no.”
“I asked her if she was still mad at me or if there was anything she wants to talk about. She then brought up the argument about her boss up and told me that I should side with her regardless of the situation because she is my GF. I tried to reiterate that I understand her and wasn’t judging her in any way and that I was just being real with her.”
Well, his girlfriend did not appreciate his honesty, and this was how she was going to show him that.
She wouldn’t let up about how she didn’t like what he said before informing him that she would not wear the dress he wanted her to wear because she simply did not feel like doing it.
He replied that it was ok so long as she picked out another outfit that would be good for such a fancy dinner.
He pleaded with his girlfriend to put something else on, but when she said no, he had no choice but to leave her behind and go alone to the dinner.
“Thankfully, the dinner went great, and I did what I had to do that night,” he continued. “I ended up telling them that my GF wasn’t able to make it because she was sick.”
“The morning after the event, my GF called me. I was expecting an apology from her since she knew how important this was for me, and she couldn’t keep it together for 1 evening.”
“Instead, she basically went off on me for going to the dinner without her. She didn’t even let me get a word and kept going on. I eventually just hung up on her.”
He can’t believe how immature his girlfriend is, and he never wants to deal with something like this again.
He’s left wondering if perhaps he should end things with her over this. Do you think so, or do you think her behavior was justified?
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