Boyfriend Pranked Me With Gnomes, Now My Relationship Is Ruined r/Relationships

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[00:00:51] Much love guys. Now today's first story comes from horse horse cow who says me 26 female

[00:00:58] with my boyfriend 27 males sister 28 female held my yard with gnomes. I got rid of them after two

[00:01:05] months and boyfriend is furious. I'm not sure what to do. My boyfriend's sister Chrissy

[00:01:14] pulled a prank on me two months ago. She left about 50 gnomes in my front yard.

[00:01:19] No warning. They were just there. I called people and asked them but no one would tell me.

[00:01:25] I guess this is part of the prank. I fucking had no clue what was going on. Eventually,

[00:01:30] the kids in the neighborhood started picking them off so I brought them inside my garage.

[00:01:35] Two of them were pretty cute so I cleaned them up and put them in the house.

[00:01:39] I waited for someone to come clean, but no one did. After three weeks I decided I was

[00:01:45] just going to donate them. A few friends asked if they could have some and I let them.

[00:01:50] I started giving them to people who commented on one being interesting or cute.

[00:01:55] I told my boyfriend about my army and he laughed. I thought he might have done it but he said

[00:02:00] he honestly didn't so I believed him. Well, he went on a four week trip with his family to

[00:02:06] Europe. I got a few emails from him but we were both busy. I went on a trip myself for work

[00:02:12] and for pleasure. So when he got back he asked how the gnomes were treating me and I let him know

[00:02:17] most of them had found new homes. He got really silent and asked how many I had left. I told him 10.

[00:02:25] He asked who took them and said we needed to get them back. I was confused. It had been two

[00:02:31] months and the gnomes were kind of a funny story but I don't remember everyone who took one

[00:02:36] let alone the kids who picked about 10 off the lawn. He then told me they belonged to Chrissy

[00:02:42] who I thought had just stored them in my garage which is why she didn't pick them up before the trip.

[00:02:47] Chrissy is his sister. Apparently Chrissy has been pulling the gnomes army prank for years

[00:02:53] and I am the bitch who gave away her army. My boyfriend is furious with me and asks why I

[00:02:58] would do that. I told him he should have come clean and I would have just kept them in my

[00:03:02] garage for her to pick up later. He said it wasn't how the prank worked. He said he needs to rethink

[00:03:08] the relationship. He wants me to get them back as they are dear to Chrissy. Chrissy doesn't know yet.

[00:03:15] I am not sure what to do about this. I had a few people offered to return their gnomes but

[00:03:19] the rest of the people said they gave them away to so and so and didn't know where they were

[00:03:24] now. This is such a surreal situation and I have no fucking clue what to do about it.

[00:03:30] I don't see how I was wrong but I feel bad so what can I do?

[00:03:35] I don't understand their logic in this situation. You knew nothing about what the hell was going

[00:03:40] on just a bunch of gnomes that had turned up on your front lawn you know to even leave them on

[00:03:45] your front lawn anyway if they're that precious to Chrissy it's just insane because anything

[00:03:50] could happen to them. If someone randomly left a whole bunch of gnomes in my front garden

[00:03:55] I'd be like first what the fuck is going on and secondly you know after a bout of time I'd be like

[00:04:00] yeah they gotta go you got to store 50 gnomes somewhere I mean that's a lot of space by the

[00:04:05] sands of it but regardless you're not responsible for this and the fact that he's saying that he

[00:04:09] needs to rethink the relationship because of this but the first commenter says they have no

[00:04:13] reason to try and hold you accountable for not following the unreasonable rules of a game

[00:04:18] you didn't know about. Give back the gnomes you have but don't feel like you have to

[00:04:22] acquiesce and go out of your way to try and recover the gnomes that are lost that's not your business

[00:04:28] they left a bunch of stuff on somebody else's property unannounced and unidentified and you

[00:04:33] shouldn't be blamed for cleaning up your property. OP says I'm willing to give back the ones I have

[00:04:39] and have gotten three back from people. Drunker Klunker says and quotes OP saying I told him he

[00:04:46] should come clean and ought to just kept in my garage for her to pick up later. He said it

[00:04:50] wasn't how the prank worked and then said oh I get it so how the prank works is you secretly leave

[00:04:56] someone these 50 yard gnomes and then you wait two months until they start getting rid of them because

[00:05:01] what else are they going to do with them and then you come clean like oh my god no those were mine

[00:05:05] and they're super special and you act super offended and it gets all dramatic and everyone

[00:05:10] has a good laugh right? Great prank. Sigourney laughs and says what the actual fuck. God damn girl

[00:05:18] if this dude and his sister are too dense to realize that no one is going to hang on to 50 gnomes for two

[00:05:23] plus months while they figure out who they belong to I don't think there's any help for them.

[00:05:28] Show him this post responses he's being ridiculous you cannot reasonably expect someone to keep 50

[00:05:35] fucking garden gnomes. If they were that precious to her she should have come clean about it

[00:05:40] after a week to ensure that she got them back. Two months is absolutely preposterous. I would

[00:05:46] have donated a lot of them actually I probably would have recycled them all don't feel bad your

[00:05:51] boyfriend isn't being fair at all. Edit I bet he borrowed them from her and he set the whole thing up

[00:05:57] then he neglected to come clean even if he swears he didn't do it. I don't believe him at this point

[00:06:02] based on his reaction and you gave away the gnomes that he borrowed from his sister and now

[00:06:07] we realize she might be upset and is blaming you what a dumb dumb sorry. Another commenter

[00:06:14] said here's my bet on what happened boyfriend decided to pull the gnome prank on you without

[00:06:18] telling Chrissy because he knew they were his he probably felt almost like he was storing them

[00:06:24] himself. Your airso's place does start to feel like your own after a while too bad he never let

[00:06:29] you in on this part of the plan and you did what most people would do with abandoned stuff

[00:06:34] toss or donate now he's facing the prospect of telling Chrissy he took the gnomes and

[00:06:40] lost them and one more comment saying similar saying I highly doubt it was his sister's prank

[00:06:46] if she cared about the gnomes that much no way she would have left them on your lawn for two months

[00:06:51] also he probably would have immediately told her that she was losing gnomes fast instead of

[00:06:55] continuing to keep quiet. This reaction makes me think he borrowed the gnomes from someone who

[00:07:00] didn't realize they weren't going to get them back he done fucked up and instead of owning

[00:07:05] up to it he's trying to make you feel like shit seriously that's not how the prank works

[00:07:10] rethink the relationship is he always this sensitive you can ask him what's really going on

[00:07:16] is this really about the gnomes you seem disproportionately upset over a prank gone

[00:07:20] wrong and slash or if you want to keep the peace you could try apologizing to the sister

[00:07:26] even though it's not really your fault so op comes back in with an update and says

[00:07:32] I decided to bite the bullet and talk to Chrissy I brought the gnomes I had to her house and knocked

[00:07:37] on the door Chrissy's mom answered and asked me in I was tired of the immaturity in mind games

[00:07:43] my boyfriend has been sending me to retinine get me more gnomes bitch type text I could see a lot

[00:07:50] of red flags or red hats if you are so inclined I wanted Chrissy to have her gnomes back and

[00:07:56] just get it over with when I handed Mrs. Mom the open box she asked where I got these

[00:08:01] she seemed really upset I even had them I told her the story pretty much what I said in the last

[00:08:07] post but with some more detail her reply was Joe has been telling a totally different story

[00:08:14] she seemed really hurt about the whole thing and while I wanted to make a quick getaway

[00:08:19] was fucking curious blah blah blah Mrs. Mom told me a little bit of background

[00:08:25] I'm not going to repeat everything she said because some of it's sad and pathetic

[00:08:29] and a little too dark for a post about a gnome invasion the gnome army belonged to Chrissy's

[00:08:34] late boyfriend Steve Steve and Chrissy used to put them in people's yards and then demand another

[00:08:40] member for their army so the gnomes came from people Steve and Chrissy knew over a period of

[00:08:45] about five years Steve passed away Chrissy stopped the gnome pranks and put them into storage

[00:08:52] she has not pulled the prank in almost two years now but freaks out as someone mentions

[00:08:56] getting rid of the gnomes or even move in the box I felt like an arsehole but Mrs. Mom thanked me for

[00:09:03] bringing some of them back she did say the annoying line you should have kept them even if you didn't

[00:09:09] know who they belong to she did say she was going to replace the gnomes in the boxes with

[00:09:14] other ones and hope Chrissy didn't notice not sure this is a smart idea she said she wanted

[00:09:20] to believe me but that this is likely the last time she'd want me in her house gee thanks

[00:09:27] I said that was fine had no intentions of staying in a family who pulled weird pranks and blamed

[00:09:32] the victims one bridge burned I mean I understand she's like the upset because Chrissy apparently

[00:09:38] doesn't handle any mention of Steve well she is likely going to be upset never speak to the

[00:09:43] person at fault again which is likely me how I got them out of storage unit three hours away

[00:09:49] the mystery will likely haunt their family for years as for my now ex-boyfriend I went to his

[00:09:55] house and asked him why pulled the prank his answer was stupid and telling I don't know

[00:10:02] he wouldn't answer me and he wouldn't tell me what was going on he said he just wanted to

[00:10:06] do something cute and it got out of hand and he thought I would keep them having about

[00:10:10] having his own little secret made him happy I got my things from his room and left I told him

[00:10:16] that our mutual friend Jake would bring his stuff by at a later time Jake agreed to this and said

[00:10:22] Joe's story was BS I guess Joe told people I got the names out of the storage unit and put them

[00:10:28] in the yard to get attention that totally makes sense I guess it was a spiteful to do but I did

[00:10:34] send Chrissy a message on Facebook the message said Chrissy I don't think we'll be friends

[00:10:40] after this I know you want to believe your brother but I did not take your names I did

[00:10:46] not know why they were in my yard or even that you had them please understand I would never aim to hurt

[00:10:52] steal or take from you your brother admitted to putting them in my yard though I have no idea

[00:10:57] why he did it hope he continues I got an okay back and she blocked me I blocked Joe and his

[00:11:04] family and I'm not sure what to do now but it has been a really interesting few weeks for sure

[00:11:11] and a couple of final comments from OP someone said you know she's got a great story to tell

[00:11:16] people which you know it is OP says yeah it's pretty weird has to be the strangest end to

[00:11:22] a relationship I ever had I have some doozy ex-boyfriends have a doozy someone suggests to OP

[00:11:29] it's gotta be a troll post imagining sort of like a bunch of adults having a feud over gnomes

[00:11:35] OP says I didn't feud why the fuck would I want an argument about gnomes I returned what I had I

[00:11:41] got rid of the ones that were in the yard and the issue was the fact my boyfriend lied and made it

[00:11:46] into a huge deal and OP says one more thing saying even I can't take this seriously there's a

[00:11:52] shitty thing to do to anyone but the fact that Chrissy had some sort of secret gnome army

[00:11:56] belonging to a dead boyfriend seems so creepy and my ex is just yeah it was an asshole thing to

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[00:13:31] I personally didn't find that the gnome thing creepy you know she's obviously going through a lot of

[00:13:37] stuff losing her partner and I'm not excusing any of the behavior from that side of the family by

[00:13:42] the way it's just going down that path you know and although most of the time on this channel

[00:13:47] you know the pranks always go wrong another example right here I kind of like the idea of what they

[00:13:53] used to do as a couple like putting the names in people's yard and then like you must add to the

[00:13:57] army I thought it's quite a funny idea but back on the weird object something that has a memory

[00:14:03] for most of my family was an old plate like a dinner plate and it was like a an old British

[00:14:08] World War one helmet it was white and it was chipped with little black bits and it was

[00:14:12] just like it's like the worst looking plate you've ever seen in your life but it's something that

[00:14:18] brings back memories for all of us when we see it you know it's absolutely worthless in monetary

[00:14:24] value but to us that that memory is just wonderful but how about you guys is there any

[00:14:30] sort of like items that you keep from from past family members that bring you some joy to

[00:14:35] keep around op's totally right from getting themselves away from that family at this

[00:14:40] moment in time boyfriends are more on mums not helping the situation by trying to lie to Chrissy

[00:14:47] about this whole situation and again not excusing Chrissy's behavior and blocking your anything like

[00:14:52] that because again it's not op's fault but she's clearly dealing with a lot of shit as well

[00:14:57] but now I'm going to turn this one to you guys what do you guys make of this situation

[00:15:03] let us know your thoughts down in the comments below let's move on to another story

[00:15:09] and our next story does have an update as well it's from Revengeance666 from the Am I the arsehole

[00:15:14] and the Am I the arsehole here subreddit and says am I the arsehole for not kicking my friends out

[00:15:19] of my house when my nephews came over I 26 female had this happen yesterday and so far my family

[00:15:27] keeps saying I'm in the wrong so I was spending my first Saturday off in weeks planning and

[00:15:33] outing with my friends but at the last minute my sister asked if I could babysit my twin nine-year-old

[00:15:38] nephews since her mother-in-law was having a medical emergency they had to go to the hospital

[00:15:44] I agreed because I know her mother-in-law has heart issues she's already had a pacemaker put in

[00:15:50] so I canceled my plans and my brother-in-law brought the kids over since some of my friends

[00:15:55] were already over they helped me watch my nephews and we did some family friendly

[00:15:59] activities like watch Scooby-Doo order pizza and play around with my child safe face paints

[00:16:05] along with some Mario games and like a good time it wasn't the weekend I planned but it was fun and

[00:16:11] my nephews and friends enjoyed themselves too thankfully my friends haven't met the twins

[00:16:16] before at events I've invited them to so I didn't think it was an issue that I didn't chase

[00:16:20] them out of my home the moment the boys were dropped off when my brother-in-law and sister

[00:16:25] came late that night to pick up the kids they were surprised to see my friends there and my

[00:16:29] brother-in-law asked if they just came back I explained they didn't and that we just made a

[00:16:34] day of taking care of the kids it both gave me looks and took the kids home me and my friends

[00:16:39] pulled out the wine and some ice cream and decided to watch horror movies midway through I got

[00:16:44] a text from my sister demanding to know why I let strangers around her children without letting

[00:16:49] her know I told her she dropped the kids on me last minute and she knows the four

[00:16:53] that come over today and the two of them live at least an hour away from us so sending them back

[00:16:58] would have been rude my brother-in-law also messaged me saying he felt uncomfortable that

[00:17:03] I allowed strange women to touch his children I literally know my friends husbands and wives

[00:17:10] I don't get why they're making a big deal about it but today I woke up to more messages

[00:17:14] of how I endangered the kids by having them around strangers and worse alcohol in the house

[00:17:20] we got drunk and posted pictures around midnight I guess I don't remember much beyond the insta post

[00:17:26] most of our relatives are saying I prioritized my friends over my nephew's safety

[00:17:30] I'm confused as fuck anyone on my side and weirdly is my sister's mother-in-law who

[00:17:36] turns out Neville was at the hospital so I don't even know where my sister and brother-in-law

[00:17:40] were all day yesterday I don't know the twins have dropped off on me at the last second my friends

[00:17:46] are known by the family we never drank or did anything adult until after the kids went home

[00:17:52] did I seriously fuck up here I'm so confused and by the brook quotes the section about

[00:17:59] the mother-in-law not being in the hospital at all and the commenter says your sister's

[00:18:04] mother-in-law is on your side because she knows your sister lied to you about a medical emergency

[00:18:09] wouldn't be surprised if your brother-in-law is running an offense to distract from their lies

[00:18:14] now your family are focused on what you did when babysitting not your sister's lies and leaving

[00:18:19] her kids with you in the first place simple solution they shouldn't ask you to babysit

[00:18:24] your nephews again since you did such a poor job in their opinion not the arsehole pink spotted

[00:18:31] butterfly says not the arsehole you did them a favor you didn't have the kids in a dangerous

[00:18:36] situation you sacrificed your night and your friends were kind enough to help it make it fun for

[00:18:41] the boys next time tell them one of them will have to stay and watch their own kids or let them pair

[00:18:46] professional to do it neo says not the arsehole and I'd forward screenshots of those messages to

[00:18:52] said friends and tell them that apparently they're dangerous to children so they could all have a

[00:18:56] laugh over it I'd fully understand if it was friends your family didn't know but as you

[00:19:01] said they do know them and frankly when trusting kids to my sibling I'm also trusting that said

[00:19:07] sibling can be trusted to vouch for other people that might be around the house if I didn't trust

[00:19:12] the sibling's judgment like that I wouldn't have had them watch the kids in the first place

[00:19:16] and the alcohol thing is just a cherry on top of the icing on the cake so they really think

[00:19:21] you were exposing the kids to alcohol you specifically kept it packed away until after

[00:19:26] they left it's like uppity drama mums being butt hurt because they saw a teacher having a

[00:19:31] drink at a restaurant on a Friday night buddy your fam needs a reality check badly so op came in with

[00:19:39] an update and says so people wanted an update on what happened after I spoke to my sister's mother-in-law

[00:19:45] and basically had to force the truth out of my sister and brother-in-law by

[00:19:49] threatening to call our parents and well the reason they wanted me to babysit was extremely

[00:19:54] stupid so let me give you guys a little info on my sister and brother-in-law before they had

[00:20:00] twins they were into the swing as seen after they were born they stopped or that's what they told

[00:20:06] everyone turns out the twins rolled enough to be left alone they would have mother-in-law babysit

[00:20:11] while they went off the clubs she figured it out and refused to babysit anymore so

[00:20:15] they moved on to our parents who also apparently said the same thing they also threatened to

[00:20:20] stop helping them pay the mortgage on the house if they didn't start being better parents

[00:20:25] so that left me apparently they've used me to watch the twins to go out with couples before

[00:20:30] but this time was a last minute date they had so they lied about mother-in-law's health

[00:20:35] the thing that started all this was due to one of our aunts seeing them that day

[00:20:39] with the other couple and they were afraid of this getting back to me or to our parents who

[00:20:43] already told them that stopped helping them with their mortgage if they kept up their swing

[00:20:47] as lifestyle while the twins were still little so when they saw me posting pictures later that

[00:20:53] night they decided to lie and say that I invited people over after I agreed to watch the twins for

[00:20:58] the week so they could have a Valentine's child free week and spread this through the grapevine

[00:21:03] I hope that people would be too busy being furious at me for being an irresponsible aunt

[00:21:08] enough that our aunt would be too busy with the family drama to remember what she saw that day

[00:21:13] so yep this was the BS they pulled on me mother-in-law was with me when I told my parents

[00:21:19] who were livid that my sister lied to them parents are telling the rest of our relatives

[00:21:23] through family chat what happened they're gonna talk to my sister and brother-in-law later so

[00:21:28] I have no idea how that's gonna go but yep apparently they made up this whole lie just

[00:21:33] to cover up the fact that they went out with another couple and dumped the twins on me for it

[00:21:38] so yeah not the craziest update I've seen here sorry about that but so I'll let you guys know

[00:21:44] and it's I don't care that they're swingers I'm just annoyed that they lied to me to get me to

[00:21:49] watch my nephews and someone asked a question saying are the twins your brother-in-laws?

[00:21:53] Obi says the kids are his even without the DNA test they looked like him when he was their age

[00:22:00] Obi said at the end there that not the craziest updates it took me by surprise I gotta say

[00:22:05] when it said the swinger lifestyle that everyone seems to know about he's like what the fuck

[00:22:10] anyway what do you guys make of this situation let us know your thoughts down in the comments below

[00:22:17] how would you deal with that one? Oh dearie me I just a huge thank you from the bottom of my heart

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