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I met my gf (over 1yr now) at my security job at a casino. I’m getting a promotion to a specialized team which pays a little better but doesn’t have good days off. She doesn’t want me to accept the offer because we wouldn’t have holidays off. What do I do? I wanna move up in this company but because we’re dating we can’t go into investigations or management. She’s upset because I’m planning on accepting the offer. Any advice?

Okay, I know that the title sounds horrible, but hear me out.
About a week ago, a group of friends and I took a trip to Vegas. (And for the record, we all got COVID tested before we went out. I'm looking for a judgement on this specific thing, not on me taking a vacation.) The casinos have just opened up recently, and my friends and I have always enjoyed a little bit of gambling, so we decided to check one out.
I usually have a specific fund dedicated to gambling so I don't use up any of our savings, but most of that fund ended up being put towards rent during quarantine, since my GF got laid off of work.
Now, here's where I think I might be the asshole. It had been over a year since I had gambled last, and I really wanted to gamble. Any other gamblers out there reading this post will get it. I didn't want to take away from the house fund or from our grocery fund, so I decided that taking money from my kids' college funds would be the best option. One of them is 14 and the other is 11, so there was still plenty of time for me to get the money back before they actually go off to college.
And I ended up winning! I kept all of the money that I gambled, and I ended up making a profit of about a quarter of the fund. I called my GF and excitedly told her the news, but she asked where I had gotten the original money from. I told her, and she freaked. Out. She screamed at me, told me that she was going to tell the kids how immature I was, and hung up on me.
I know that it was a little bit irresponsible, but I don't really see the issue. If I had lost the money, it might be a different story, but I won, so I don't get why there's a problem. Now my kids have even more money to put into their college fund, and I got to gamble like I wanted to.
It's been three days since that conversation, and she hasn't responded to any of my calls. I'm getting really sick of reaching out to her when I don't think I did anything wrong, but my flight home is soon, and I don't want her to bitch about me not apologizing when I get home. But do I even have anything to apologize for?
So, reddit: AITA?
Edit: I don't think you guys get it. I only gambled about 30k, and now me and my family are all better off because of it. Don't you guys understand that I won? I accept my judgement, but I disagree.

Shout out to u/sprinkydinks73 for requesting this review. Much like MS, I guess I am just a sucker validation from strangers on the internet. So here is a long rambling about her relationship with C that she has somehow deemed general relationship advice.
MS sets the tone by screeching, "#nofilteramIright?!" She loves Instagram filters though, and will probably always use them because she thinks they're fun. Over a bowl of cinnamon toast crunch, MS started reminiscing about how far her relationship with C has come and therefore decided she wants to do a "relationship advice" style live today. She gives a rough TL of their relationship: First date in 2017, became bf/gf in 2018. But 2020-21 was the first full year they've gone without breaking up. She acknowledges maybe she shouldn't be the one giving relationship advice, in part because she doesn't like speaking on C's behalf and putting everything out into the open since he's not really a social media guy. But this is about advice of course, not strictly the intimate details of her relationship, right? Wrong. She proceeds to tell us her and C broke up in July 2017, and New Years of 2019, and then got back together last January. So today she's going to tell us what made her relationship work so well this year because they've been BFFs lately. She jokes she would much rather talk about shitting her pants than her relationship.
Now Ms proceeds to talk at length and in detail about her relationship. Previously, MS had felt very insecure in her relationship with C for various reasons. After high school, C went to a big state school and was in a frat, meanwhile during that parallel time in her life MS was in her first marriage before getting divorced in 2014. After that, she went on a self-described 'wild phase. She also always assumed sorority girls were hoes, which is lovely. According to her, she had strict parents and for example, wasn't allowed to wear nail polish until high school. She later admits she was wild in high school, but not that wild because all she did was sneak out and go to parties and have a few beers and smoke weed. So it sounds like her parents maybe weren't so unreasonable after all. She always wanted to be a cheerleader but her parents said no, only because you "should not cheer for someone else, you should have people cheering for you!" So she did ballet instead. And if she was going to college she had to be there on a sports scholarship or be there to "pursue an education", and she was never good enough at any sport to get a scholarship. And I guess she just didn't care to pursue an education instead. Her sister did however get a soccer scholarship. after she got divorced then she went on a real crazy phase while she was waitressing and drinking/smoking a lot after work.
C was apparently really popular in his frat, and he was a flywheel instructor at the time so he was in really good shape back then. So a bunch of gorgeous college girls would take his class. And so when they first got together, she was insecure about the fact that C had female friends because she never really had guy friends. All the guys she met would either want to date her or sleep with her appearance. She's a total girl's girl, who doesn't really have guy friends. There was one girl who lived in the area, and something in her 'gut' told her something was going on. So she would cry, and go through his phone all the time, and part of the reason they broke up the second time was that he was tired of her doing that. He didn't feel like she trusted him, and she kept violating his privacy. Nothing she found was under the category of cheating, she just found normal exchanges between him and his female friends. Her last bf before C was what she calls 'protective' and would frequently look through her phone, but she "knew she wasn't cheating so it was never an issue". This is a really toxic mindset. Anyways, this female friend in question would invite C out places, and then if he mentioned MS was coming along with them the friend would allegedly cancel the plans last minute. She would then talk all this trash about C's friend and how ugly and terrible she is. Then they'd get into a fight because C would defend his friend and tell her to not be so insecure. Eventually, they sat down and decided to tell C's friend that she needs to learn to deal with MS coming out with them sometimes because they're together now. And the friend allegedly said sometimes MS made her feel insecure because MS is just such a badass. She admits she felt that the friend had an 'agenda', not that she necessarily wanted to be with C but that the friend wanted C to break up with MS.
She then goes "shit! he's about to walk in the door. when he walks in we're going to pretend to be talking about something else". Apparently, C doesn't like being put on blast to all her followers! C comes in and says hey, and she goes "Hi baby" and he leaves the room. She then resumes talking about their relationship just as loudly as before. She was just being this 'too cool' aloof girl, and C wanted her to communicate with him more. But she doesn't go through his phone anymore, because he got a new phone and changed his password to a 6 digit one. She's so confident, but she has issues with men because of her relationship with her dad and her ex-BF who cheated on her. Except when her dad gives her rent and purse money, then they're good. But she reminds us she still watches C's Instagram feed, and if she sees any hot girls on his feed he makes him unfollow them.
Anyway, her main relationship tips are communication, setting your boundaries, being able to banter together. C tells her a lot she can't take a joke, because he will make the smallest criticism in jest and MS will get really mad right away and say something actually mean back. But she never takes anything she reads online seriously though guys! The biggest change this time around for her and C was "wanting it" more. Usually, as soon as they fight, MS will shut down and say he's done with the relationship without talking about it at all. And now MS has realized life without C sucks, so the fights are worth choosing to talk through. Wow, imagine that. Also, apparently, guys are just not smart, or at least they just don't think about what women want and fail to compliment them as much as they want. So now she tells C "give me a compliment" or "I need attention". She then reads some comments and mentions she and C make date night a priority, and they always go out Sundays after church. Not sure about this one, I've seen her go to church maybe 3 times the past few months. But they do eat out a LOT. And they eat dinner together every night and try to do fun activities, like tonight they're going to an ax-throwing place tonight. I am imagining a picture of her holding an ax later tonight with a caption about strong women/female empowerment. She ended up not going to the casino because she didn't know how the weather would be, but she's going to go have a date night with C and play pool. She signs off by blowing a kiss to the camera, and saying she will save the live because she hopes everyone will find it "insightful"

Do nothing and we win. Put your mouth where your money is, or better yet your actions. Watch a movie (AMC) instead of worrying about how far down you are. Play a game (GME) instead of watching the ticker all day. Do literally nothing, and we win. GameStop didn’t get to almost $500 by sheer luck. AMC didn’t get to $20+ because we were playing games. They reached these heights because we saw POTENTIAL in these stocks, we like these stocks 😎 💎 🙌
“But movies are only streaming now”... really? Yeah, Trolls 2 opted for streaming. Sure, Mulan opted for streaming—whatever. But even... TENET opted for streaming, but guess what? They barely broke even in the box office. Mulan flopped. Trolls did well, but let’s face it, crying kids shouldn’t be in the theaters in the first place so playing their movies at home is actually a better idea anyway. But THEATER movies? There’s a reason why the new Bond movie has been finished since last April and delayed until post COVID. They’d rather sell 4 $20 tickets than 1 $30+ PPV. Hollywood makes most of their $$ from ticket sales, whereas theaters profit from the concessions, but you already knew that. The point is, Hollywood would NEVER let a cash flow like that go out of business and start releasing movies only at home.
Let me ask you an honest question: Anyone else heard about the Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, Tobey Maguire trio rumored for Spider-Man 3? You think Marvel would EVER release that directly to Disney plus? Have you ever been to any Marvel movie ever in lMAX / Dolby opening night? The energy is UNPRECEDENTED.
Robert Pattinson’s Batman, new James Bond, King’s Man, Pirates of the Caribbean reboot, Ready Player 2... the list goes on. These are, for the most part, THEATER movies. Surrounded by fans and overpriced icees, buttery popcorn and your nerdy gf that loves that shit more than you do. THATS the value of a movie theater, and AMC does it best, so in my humble opinion they’re not going anywhere.
And on top of all of that, we HOLD with some shiny 💎 🙌 then boom... to the fucking moon baby. Simple maths, more demand = higher price. Now you still believe we’re just a big cluster of degenerates throwing money at a casino? Okay, maybe. But is it a hell of a good guess? I think so. But what do I know? I’m just a stupid ape that hedge fund suits with slicked back hair and AXE body spray profit off of, and this isn’t financial advice 🤷‍♂️

My cousin stole money from me for gambling, but later used it for medical bills
This is my first post on not only this sub, but Reddit entirely, basically my(22m) cousin(28m) I'll call him C, stole money from my room over Christmas. For the Christmas holiday, my extended family, aunties uncles etc, went to a holiday home owned by my grandfather, this has always been a sort of tradition in my family. It's a large building with a wooded area included. As I am coming here for the first time as an adult, I got my own room, I had about $2000 cash with me. Before we came here, my parents told me that my cousin would be there, I expressed my concern as he has stolen from his mother on various occasions to fuel his gambling habit, and he also had a drug problem that we thought he had gotten over, though now I'm not so sure. Everyone was at the house for 5 days, and it was only on the fifth that I realised 1800 of my 2000 dollars were gone. I told my parents it must have been my cousin but they brushed it off. Fast forward less than a month and I here from my aunt (not my C's mother) that C had appeared at her house asking for money. She explained he told her everything about him stealing my money, apparently he was originally going to take the money to a casino, but then decided to put it towards treatment for his girlfriend, who still does drugs and is one of the reasons I think he still does. It's not been made clear what the treatment is yet, although it's not life threatening. Now yesterday my mom tells me that the whole family is collecting money for C's gf treatment, our family does a zoom call once a week and I told them that I'm not donating, as I hardly know the gf, and on top of that I want my money back. Now no one in the extended family is talking to me and my parents, apparatus from one of my dad's sisters, and my parents are telling me to just drop the whole thing.
So AITA?
Edit: for all the people asking a) why I had that much money on me, the money was the final payment on my car, the dealership which I got it from is closed, but its part of a chain so you can make payments at any branch and coincidentally there is one en route from the holiday home to my brother's house, which is where we go for the family zoom b) people asking why I didn't have the money on my person, it was in a locked safe in my room, and I had the key on my at all times, I'm still trying to figure out how he actually got the money. Chances are he stole the key from my pocket at some point then replaced it, this is also why I didn't realise the money was gone until the last minute as I assumed that the money was safe.

so my bf's bsf, we'll call Sam, and his girlfriend, Alex, are possibly the dumbest kids on earth. when they had their 1 month anniversary, they decided they were ready to have a child. Neither had jobs, or career plans. Sam's parents are p rich so i guess they just kinda wanted to leech off of them. the money that Sam does have, he blows on weed, nicotine, alcohol, and was doing lean but stopped when the baby was born. He is unable to hold a job due to constantly failing drug tests, skipping out on work without an excuse or even notifying the boss bc he just didnt feel like going or was too drunk to drive that day. The girlfriend does not work, she takes care of the baby. She does drink a lot though. They are constantly dumping their baby on Sam's parents to take care of, id say his parents take care of the baby 40% of the week because they wanna go somewhere. I went over to their house when the baby was about a month or so old, and they decided it would be alright to just put her in the crib upstairs, go in the backyard and get wasted. No baby monitor or anything, checked up on her maybe once or twice throughout the night. It was really sad. THey are constanly drinking and smoking around her. Irrelevant but Sam is SUPER racist, homophobic, sexist, and just a straight up bigoted anti masker (I know because of the things he posts on his story). He, his gf, and his baby actually had COVID last month because he is constantly going to parties and out with friends, which is why my bf and i never interact with them anymore bc i have older parents and dont wanna risk them getting it. The leftover money he does have goes to his gambling addiction. I see him at least every other week post about how he lost $200 in a casino. His mom is a real estate agent and hooked them up with a cheap apartment because she was so sick of being the fulltime live in babysitter. It is, however, located in one of the most dangerous cities in California and they have 3 roommates (2 bedroom 1 bathroom). I remember Sam jokingly mention to my bf about putting his daughter on a diet a cuz he REALLY needed a J (basically he didnt feed her as much so he could save more money for weed). My last point: Sam is borderline abusive to his gf and rarely helps with the baby, chores, or anything really. he smokes, works, comes home and drinks. THey've been broken up for maybe 1/3 of their relationship and i am willing to bet $1000 they wont last forever, and the kid will grow up in separate homes.

Bf (Mike)& I have been together just shy of 2 yrs. I love him. He's spontaneous, funny & kinda irreverent. I'm more sedated, but I try not to censor or change him. He's his own grown man.
Mike bought us both custom shirts. Hilarious: they had each other's face on them. Mine has him, bare chested, flipping people off. His has my face ultra zoomed in, cross-eyed with a drawn on moustache. I planned to wear them to friend's houses and everyone would get a kick out of it.
Our state is on lockdown, and were itching to get out of the house, his bro (Pete) & gf (Ann) invite us out, for the first time, we crossed state lines, dinner at a nice place, casino, have a good time.
Mike wears the shirt.
Ok, so, I tell him "Haha, don't you dare. You better not take your coat off", he makes a joke about "i get hot easy, whos to say..." I give him a look, but I make a decision at that point- he loves it. It's funny. Maybe people won't know it's me? I can be the cool gf.
But me? I don't wear the shirt. I do my hair, makeup, nice shirt. It's my first time out, I try not to be vain, but I have my own insecurities, I wanted to look nice.
We arrive, Pete & Ann laugh at the shirt, good natured, ok, I can do this. Of course, Mike wears no coat the whole night. Admittedly, I'm self conscious. I have trouble looking at it, but I look at Mikes face, he's having fun, I'm having fun.
People point & laugh. He keeps says "it's my girl! It's her!" I shake my head & blush.
FFwd:I'm full on drunk. Sitting with Pete &Ann, laughing, the shirt comes up again. Maybe someone asked me what I thought about it, drunk w/o filter, I say, "I hate it. It's funny in private with friends, but this is a first nice night out for a while and my extra ugly face that's the size of a man's chest keeps staring at me, and I'm struggling." Mike: "I thought you enjoyed it, like a fun cute thing between us, you could have worn the shirt with me on it." Me: "I'm sorry, but I dressed up nice, I would have been embarrassed." Pete: "ohh snap, she's embarrassed of you!" Mike: "oh dang, I didn't know it was like that, that you were embarrassed of me." "No, I'm just self-conscious of how I look, and I tried really hard all night to be cool, but no, it sucks. My main saving grace is that maybe people wouldn't know it's me, but you immediately tell everyone it's me. I hate I feel this way, but I asked you not to wear it, & you thought it was a joke, so now I'm no- win, I either make you not wear it & I'm a bitch or I try to get over it, which I've been trying to do, but I can't when it's this huge focus all night!" I'm drunk & an easy crier, so I start to tear up, which makes me more frustrated, & I know I need to get out of there right now. I get up & go to the bathroom.
I come out. I'm held together with booze & tp tissues but... I'm out. Mike is there waiting for me. He threw away the shirt and wearing a random tee from the casino gift shop.

long read, please don't be too harsh I'm a little emotional over this situation. I keep thinking did I do right?
This guy is blocked and deleted. But I have some lingering emotions...I was seeing this guy at the start of last year. Everything went really well the first date he seemed amazing...second date was amazing too...we went back to his place things got heavy and before anything further could happen I asked if he had a condom. He told me no he doesn't wear them...he has never worn one before. We are in our early 30s...I asked him when was the last time he was tested...he hasn't been tested either...I tell him I don't have sex without protection and I'm not on the pill...I tell him next time bring a condom. Next date again we try...I brought a condom and he still refused...I even talked to him about getting tested he wouldn't do that either. I got tested and showed him. He got defensive and asked if I trusted him all his other gfs were fine with it. Also said he is very good at pulling out...I couldn't believe he was acting this way out of the norm during other times together. When it comes to sex its raw or nothing...so he broke up with me...months later asks for another chance excuse is he got busy..again condoms and testing comes up refuses again...I'm just not comfortable... fast forward to now we gave it one last shot he is suddenly busy...few days ago he sends me video of him and another female on dates basically breaking up with me and rubbing it in...I also wouldn't go out during the pandemic im sort of high risk (which he knew but still insisted) he goes everywhere he could go (restaurants and bars casinos ect..)plus no sex, I wanted to but he wasn't having it with condoms...was I too careful? I was just looking out for my health...made me feel like I was at fault and like he didn't care. But he kept coming back? Why? But I wonder was I being too careful, he made me feel like I was. Thoughts?

so my bf's bsf, we'll call Sam, and his girlfriend, Alex, are possibly the dumbest kids on earth. when they had their 1 month anniversary, they decided they were ready to have a child. Neither had jobs, or career plans. Sam's parents are p rich so i guess they just kinda wanted to leech off of them. the money that Sam does have, he blows on weed, nicotine, alcohol, and was doing lean but stopped when the baby was born. He is unable to hold a job due to constantly failing drug tests, skipping out on work without an excuse or even notifying the boss bc he just didnt feel like going or was too drunk to drive that day. The girlfriend does not work, she takes care of the baby. She does drink a lot though. They are constantly dumping their baby on Sam's parents to take care of, id say his parents take care of the baby 40% of the week because they wanna go somewhere. I went over to their house when the baby was about a month or so old, and they decided it would be alright to just put her in the crib upstairs, go in the backyard and get wasted. No baby monitor or anything, checked up on her maybe once or twice throughout the night. It was really sad. THey are constanly drinking and smoking around her. Irrelevant but Sam is SUPER racist, homophobic, sexist, and just a straight up bigoted anti masker (I know because of the things he posts on his story). He, his gf, and his baby actually had COVID last month because he is constantly going to parties and out with friends, which is why my bf and i never interact with them anymore bc i have older parents and dont wanna risk them getting it. The leftover money he does have goes to his gambling addiction. I see him at least every other week post about how he lost $200 in a casino. His mom is a real estate agent and hooked them up with a cheap apartment because she was so sick of being the fulltime live in babysitter. It is, however, located in one of the most dangerous cities in California and they have 3 roommates (2 bedroom 1 bathroom). I remember Sam jokingly mention to my bf about putting his daughter on a diet a cuz he REALLY needed a J (basically he didnt feed her as much so he could save more money for weed). My last point: Sam is borderline abusive to his gf and rarely helps with the baby, chores, or anything really. he smokes, works, comes home and drinks. THey've been broken up for maybe 1/3 of their relationship and i am willing to bet $1000 they wont last forever, and the kid will grow up in separate homes.
EDIT: When they decided to have a baby he didnt work. he jsut recently started working and has already gone through 3 jobs

I'm 22 (m). 3 suicide tries. Right now ems student and card dealer im casino. I have a flat, a gf, even a friend but something isn't right. I don't know what's wrong but last time I realised that I'm sociopath. I told that my gf but she doesn't gave a fuck about that. Even told me that's nothing wrong. I always hear from other people about how amaizing am I: Cooking, clearing, working, studing, etc... But I see that nobody care or is jealous. I'm alone with thought's in my head almost hear words like "You are alone, nobody care, people hate you" I don't care about atencion. I hate people, everybody near me act like animals. I feel like I'm something else. Like... I'm not human but something more. I can do whatever I wanna do. Become a doctor, a pilot... anything I want. This is only in my mind. If I'm focused enought I can do everything. I'm a bit drunk and my head hurt. I'm alkoholic and stoner... Sorry for that... Just do what You wanna do and don't care about anybody. Try to be the best person. I hate'd myself because I didn't understand rules of the world but I realised that if You wanna make world a better place You need start for yourself and show everyone how strong You are. YOU CAN DO EVERYTHING IF YOU FOCUSED ENOUGHT. Sorry for my english... I'm drunk and don't know why I'm writning this now but I belive in everybody who read this. I'm scared posting this. This is my first post on Reddit. I don't need help with myself but please give help everybody who need it. I know that everybody need atencion and help even fucking "what's up?" can change somebody's life. I believe in us. We are the hero's. if we believe in ourselves strongly enough. I'm out my head hurt too much... Goodnight. (Don't worry i will life but hangover is comming)

3 AM in Montreal, Quebec. Felt nice reading these posts knowing I am not alone. 10 years ago when I turned 18 (legal age here to gamble) my friends brought me to the casino in Montreal just for fun. Even though I was iffy about it and had a bad feeling about this place, I went to check it out and played $5 for the heck of it. Second time, went back with some close friends and hit that $125 "jackpot" at War and that was it. It turned the switch in my head. So many wins and losses mostly losses. Changed to blackjack one day when my brother taught me the game and lucky me had won about $1500. Followed by more losses. Some big wins (7-8k) then lost it all. Fast forward 10 years with so often on and offs, digging holes, getting back up and so on. My ex at that time left me and I don't blame her. Got myself a second pizza delivery job to pay some of it off. 2017 got a new gf, told her about some of my problems and promised to not do it again very supportive and helped me pay it off when i got a new job at the bank. 2019 when things were going, I gambled again and maxed all my credit after having it cleared after years that really fd me up, so I turned to making quick money to fix this. 2019 ending, got fired from my job. Mentally fd me up even more so I turned to gambling. Luckilly found a decent job in finance and decided to never gamble again. Everything once again going well with maybe only 15k in the deep from gambling (very fixable). Started trading stocks in March through August. Little did I know my gambling nature would impact my trading decision started taking big risks and thought of big WINS. During that time while losing in stock, friend showed me bet 365, was just betting small amounts for the fun of it. September 2020, I had ordered a ring for that same gf who supported me soo much and looking at my finances, stocks not soo good. So this one day in September I played a round of online blackjack after being free from card gambling for almost 10 months. I made 7k which would cover my gfs ring and told myself im going to take time off and not go back. September to October 26th while I kept telling myself I wont go back I was on my hottest winning streak of net $50k. I had lost my head, my whole life was uphill, I was living the life. I had enough to pay all my debts, my car , my motorcycle and still have a little left. Heck Come Ocober 27th, overnight I lost it all. Then it had hit me, I needed change, self excluded myself right away on bet 365. Started applying to new jobs and stayed busy with the interview process. December 24th, got an offer for a job but I was still unhappy about having lost all that money which could have given me a different life. Told my fiancée it was through stock trading and I would not do it again. During the holidays I saw an ad on casino.com, couldn't resist the thought of having that same streak on bet365 and fixing all my problems. Made 8k wow was feeling great. Nope, 2 days later all gone and another 15k on cc maxed out on top. Went through depression for the 10000th time. Told myself new job pays well and ill get a second part time job which to my luck oncd again a local mikes needed a driver and schedule works good. On last Thursday got an email, after self excluding from stupid casino.com, from casino tropez. I am so fked financially about 40k deep and supposed to get married in June, told myself IF ONLY I can make it back. These fkrs took another 2K of money I needed and have had to borrow. 20 and 20 I have, machine gets 21 with 4 cards and followed with 3 blackjacks in a row. Just some examples. Anyway I self excluded from all these online sh1t sites and hoping to work hard and pay off this mess and live peacefully with my partner who deserves much more. I'm tired of being depressed, sad, anxious and stressed. I wish gambling were illegal. Anyway I don't think anybody will read this because it's long but felt good to share this here and for everyone going through this, there will be better days.

This is a throwaway to hide any sort of identity. Anyways I guess ill get started. My journey down the dark rabbit hole that is gambling started when I was 23 and my mom passed away. I got a little bit of money, the most money I've ever had (even to this day, sadly) of about 8k. I never really cared too much for gambling. I had gone with my friends a few times and had fun but nothing crazy. That all changed when my mom passed.
I'd go to the casino with my gf and blow a few hundred. Occasionally win a few hundred. At the time I loved roulette. The ball spinning the rush of the gamble, the lights and the sounds of the casino, it all made me forget about the passing of my mom.
This continued until I ran out of the money. Then I heard about cash advances with credit cards. How amazing!! If I run out of money I can use a cc! So I got one, then my gf got one, and then I got 2 more. Eventually I got sucked into slots. Idk what it is about the lights and the music and the atmosphere but I fucking love it. Eventually I max out all of my credit cards and so does my gf. I miraculously pay them off only to do it over and over again.
This year alone with stimulus and my dads passing ive probably been given around 12k. Its all gone. Ccs are all maxed out again. My gf of 5 years left me. It absolutely crushed me but I dont blame her a bit. Im a hopeless loser. Im writing this now as I've just gotten back home after spending another thiusand i cant afford to lose. I just dont ever want to feel like this again. I dont even have a good job. Here I am at 28 without so much as a fucking license. 5k in the hole again. I just dont even know where to start.
Thanks for listening reddit. Im hoping to put this all behind me.
Here's to hoping I can be the man I want to be one day.

So several months ago, I had a weird situation with a couple of friends. This particular set of friends are a couple (male and female) and I've know the female for about 15 years and would talk to her almost everyday. I'd describe the level of friendship as fairly close in terms of things that we share although we've never really done anything together outside of playing video games and going to the casino. About six months ago, the female (let's call her Mary), offered to let me use some of her Best Buy rewards points because they were going to expire and she didn't want them to go to waste. At the same time of the offer, she said that I would have to give her money for said points which puzzled me immediately. At that particular moment, I didn't give an answer as I thought it was odd for something like that to happen.
Fast forward about a month ahead, I asked if those points were still available because there was something I was interesting in getting. My friend said she still had the points and would order what I wanted. Right after which, she still said that I would still have to pay her for the rewards points. At that point, I became a little uncomfortable and asked why I would have to give her money for the rewards points?? My main concern was that you're not really supposed to sell those types of things, but I don't think it's illegal and people probably do it fairly often. But apparently after talking about it she wanted to use the money I gave her for the points to pay off her credit card. Which also made no sense and led me to wonder if they were just struggling money wise and if so that would be a completely different story altogether.
At this point, I didn't feel like she was being sincere and honest about her offer to let me use her rewards point which later on I would catch some flack for saying. At the same time, I knew that she wanted me to give her money for them from the start so it's on me that I took up the offer. However, after a little back and forth she came back and said that she would give me the rewards points for my birthday which was coming up soon and that I would owe the difference since the points weren't enough to cover what I was getting. I had no issue with paying the difference no matter what though. But in this case, I thought it was even more odd that they would now give me these points for my bday and then make me pay the rest as it was now meant to be a bday gift. But to me that would mean, that it if it was mean to be a gift then I shouldn't have to pay for it. I didn't bring this up in conversation, but started to think that this situation may not be healthy.
They tried to reach out to me to talk about things, but in the present moment I was a little frustrated and upset and really wasn't in a mood to talk over the phone. It's also worth noting that Mary has several health issues and was on a lot of antibiotics and meds at the time and her and her bf tried to use that as an excuse for her offering me the points. Now, I am totally sympathetic to people having health issues and not feeling well, but I don't think you should use your health as an excuse for certain behavior (but correct me if I'm wrong). At which point, Mary's bf (let's call him George), started sending me Facebook messages stating that I was being ungrateful and treating his gf like shit and being an asshole. Just to point out, I did not call either of them any names or use any type of insults of any kind during this whole ordeal, but simply just tried to share how I felt and my perspective which didn't really seem to help and felt I was being made out to be the bad guy.
So at this point I just wanted to be done with the whole thing. So I took back the item to Best Buy as soon as it came in the mail because I didn't feel comfortable keeping it and at that point I basically said that I didn't think it was good to be friends anymore because it all seemed sketchy to me. I told them this and then I just get more of the same that I'm ungrateful and an asshole. I tried to explain the situation and again that Mary wanted money for the points and the bf acted like he didn't know what I was talking about.
Fast forward about another two months, I get a letter from them in the mail. The letter was poorly written and at times even incoherent because the grammar was so bad. But in that letter, I just got more of the same as before.... that I was ungrateful and was the bad guy. On a semi related note, I had made several trips to the grocery store for them during the pandemic. Because of her health issues, Mary is considered very high risk for getting covid so neither of them wanted to go out which is understandable. But at the time, I was happy to do it because well I need groceries too. They claimed in the letter that I squeezed extra money from them for those grocery trips which they sent to me thru Zelle out of nowhere without me requesting it or mentioning it in any prior conversation. So this to me was another weird occurrence.
Throughout the last few years of friendship, I had observed several other weird things in conversations I had in the past with these friends and also between how they would interact with each other. Obviously, it wasn't any of my business to say anything about their relationship so I always get stayed quiet. One final thing worth noting, that Mary has always described herself as a "princess" and even heard her mom described as "the queen" a couple of times if that tells you anything. But I feel that this situation was just the straw that broke the camels back. I certainly admit any wrong doing I had in this situation and think I have my answer, but just wanted to share my thoughts here to see what others think as well. Thank you in advance for any comments!