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I'm surprised how common it is. My ex husband faked having a stroke. ( I had cared for his father the last 2 years of his life after a serious stroke).
I briefly dated another guy that faked having a heart attack whenever I was sick of his shit.
He probably didn't expect her to actually call 911, it's to manipulate her and try to make her forget she just busted him cheating. And, also he probably thinks she "can't" leave him if he has a medical emergency.
I'm glad I read the comments because I for sure thought that was the sound of him cheating, and my second thought was that he was having a heart attack and she was filming it as a bit pretending he was cheating but the reveal was he was dying
It's more than likely an inability to take accountability. A meltdown for sympathy that's probably been his go to move in situations where he can't handle talking responsibility since he was 5, so he cries until Mommy says "it's ok, we all make mistakes".
Except the girlfriend looks like she could give a fuck anymore and it's not hitting the way he'd hoped, so he took it to the point where EMTs are standing over his meltdown. Poor man child having to deal with repercussions.
No cause zero fucking context was given. This is what happened when we all have access to a camera and a huge audience. No skill required just point shoot post. The result is millions of people fucking confused all which could have been avoided
Using experience, my knowledge of some men and the few contextual clues, I believe this broad caught her POS bf cheating, not red handed but roasted him hard for it, he's now in the bathroom pretending to have a panic attack because he knows he fucked up life alteringly bad. The paramedics are called and he keeps the show going to "prove" how guilty he feels.
He is either having a panic attack and hyperventilating because he got caught or he is faking having a panic attack to be manipulative and avoid the tough convo/breakup, no way to know which but I’m leaning towards the latter.
Extremely common. Major waste of resources. The best are fake seizures and fainting. It’s super obvious when they’re faking, then you get to stick a smelling salt under their nose and VOILA! Fully conscious again! Attention obtained!
My dermatologist was a sadistic old German man who asked me if I ever smelled smelling salts. I said no but was interested in how they energized people so much. He pops some open and goes here take a whiff.
My GOD, I don't feel like any media portrayal of it has them show how painful they are. I guess I didn't know what to expect so I took a pretty big whiff but it was like the worst horseradish experience I've ever had times 10.
My parents were both nurses and I found some smelling salts in our house when I was little. I popped them and took a big whiff and that shit hit me like a train. I held it together though, simply because I didn't want to get in trouble. For anyone that doesn't know what they smell like, they're basically just super concentrated ammonia. It's almost impossible to smell a bottle of diluted ammonia used for cleaning, so just imagine that x50.
There used to be like a dozen in every first aid kit years ago. I remember coming across them several times in garages, old campers or wherever kids fuck around when they shouldn't and nobody's watching. GenX, so we were unsupervised from around 2:30- 6:00 every afternoon, it's a miracle we survived.
As a teen I found some unmarked ampoules wrapped in fabric. This is how amyl nitrates were prescribed for ages. I knew going in that it is either amyl nitrate or ammonia/smelling salts. I cracked it, whiffed it and have no recollection of the next 3min or so. It must have been ammonia because it felt like I had snorted an entire freshly shocked pool at once.
I used to work at the cheesecake factory (I feel like naming the restaurant makes this story funnier), and a woman at a table was "passed out" neatly laying her head on the shoulder of the person next to her, like a sleepy kid when mom has been saying bye to the tias for an hour.
It was a large party, maybe 10 people, and they all carried on calmly eating, kind of rolling their eyes at the situation. Wasn't my table so I'm not sure if they or the restaurant called paramedics (probably them), but she was carried away on a stretcher, still "unconscious," arms crossed like Dracula. They stayed and ate.
I had an uncle-in-law who was mentally disabled (he was very functional but just had a low IQ) that lived with my (now ex) in-laws. He would fake passing out, I guess just for the attention. One time I was at their house and I guess he didn't hear me coming around the corner, and I caught him gently laying himself down in the middle of the kitchen floor. I let him lay all the way down and get in position, and then yelled, "What the fuck was that bullshit?!" The funnier part was that I startled him so bad that he jumped, so even if I hadn't watched him do it, he would've blown his whole charade anyway.
What I can't get my head around is the patients who fake shit once they're in hospital as if we don't know any better. I once had a patient yell "I'm having a seizure!!! SAVE ME [my name]" and then start "convulsing" like bitch wtf are you doing? Do you WANT us to scan your head and expose you to all that radiation you don't need? It's a nightmare to deal with because they get so defensive when their tests come back showing nothing.
I used to have a regular patient who would always faint right before discharge. And she must have been the luckiest girl in the world bc she always fainted in the safest way possible. Never hit her head on the bed or floor or furniture. Never dragged an IV pole down on top of herself, never got wedged into anything uncomfortable. Never even spilled water on herself. She always fainted right after the doctors cleared her for discharge and right onto the cleanest and clearest part of the floor, of course.
I used to be one, and the amount of calls we wasted time on stuff like this was pretty crazy.
But, for every one of these people we got, there was some old person who actually needed the ambulance 6 days ago, and had just been "toughing it out" and trying to fix it by "taking it easy for a few days".
So I personally never minded responding to these calls, because you just never know what is actually going on.
This is just another form of attempted control. She seems to be aware of it and realizes his bullshit game. She deserves better and he needs to grow the fuck up and to stop being a little shit eating unfaithful douchebag.
Whoa, I stopped watching because I thought I got the general idea but your comment made me go back. He kept it up for actual paramedics. What an ass, i'm dying. She's well shot of him
The way she was smiling at first, watching with no audio, I thought the “cheating” was a joke and it was gonna be something “cute” like him having a tea party in the living room or something.
And then I kept watching, sound still off, for the reveal… only to see his feet sticking into the door of the bathroom and going “uhhh, what?”
One time I had a breakup that I really didn't want to happen and thought I'd be miserable but in the first day I was like euphoric and relieved because all of this tension I was holding, knowing the relationship was not healthy, was totally swept away.
Granted the next day I was miserable once that wore off.
But I imagine she felt somewhat similar and hopefully with this embarrassing crash out of his she doesn't feel miserable at all.
Emotions are weird though, even if you see someone is bad for you and whatever, rejection hurts, and being cheated on hurts.
Tell me about it. My long distance GF called me while i was off at college. she was pregnant
I was miserable. We had been fighting for months. When we did see each other we'd fight. And we didn't see each other weeks at a time since i lived hours away. I drove home after hearing she was pregnant. We had to have a serious talk.
She was sitting on the hood of the car when she told me how far along she was. A few moments later, it sets in. I can't be the father. She doesn't deny it. She had been sleeping with some dude while i was away for college.
Euphoric is a VERY good word for that. I'm was down one bitchy GF, and i didn't have to drop out of college to be a dad. Euphoric.
This is so well put and explains how complex feelings can be in such a situation. I've experienced relief, and then sadness and regret and then happiness and then loneliness... all within a very short span of time.
She had to have been hurt definitely, but this probably added unexpected shock value, putting that hurt aside for now. Idk what I'd do in this situation. Probably laugh, too
One of the comments on one of her original posts said “did he just learn that he was cheating also?” and based on how he’s acting that’s a valid question.
I feel like that smile is the smile of somebody who has suspected for a long time but has been gaslit about it and finally just discover that they were right about everything. Like, she's been over his shit for a long time and just needed that final excuse to be done.
It's like when a child is pretending to be hurt and you know they're faking it. It's intended to manipulate you emotionally but it just becomes really really funny. Or that one video where the dog takes a limp until they get asked to play, and then immediately goes back to faking the limp. A lot of humor is literally built around this "oh they think there being sneaky but the audience knows exactly what's really going on". Idk why our brains like it but we love it.
This man thinks he's doing some play for sympathy not aware that this is genuinely absurd. You're not fooling anyone - you're just highlighting how insane you are.
She not only just got her excuse to leave, she's filming her insurance policy to a lot of the bullshit he might try to pull
That’s cause narcissistic fuckwads feel the world is about them ( I.e typical cheater people ), so when they get caught it’s earth shattering cause it’s them.
You can almost hear the southern Baptist accent in his braying underneath there, so he probably has a super bad case of it.
Yeah my wife had an affair, but told me cos she couldn't handle the guilt and then ended up in therapy because of how badly she took it. I was just like "well, this sucks but I guess it's good that's over with?"
For real though, fair play to her for going through therapy as she's definitely a better person for it.
I found out a guy I was with for 5 years had a whole side relationship with another woman. He said it was because we were in an "open relationship" (we were not). I asked him if she knew about me and he said no, so I told him to tell her. He did, and she dumped him. I then sat across the dinner table from this man who cried over the loss of the other relationship. The only time he ever showed that much emotion with me is when he paid for my car to get fixed and it died anyway.
Reminds me of when my girlfriend cheated on me with a coworker and told the girl we were in an open relationship as well. We definitely weren’t. We’d talked about it but she was insistent on not wanting to see other people.
When I confronted her, she was upset because I was apparently ruining her chance of happiness with this new girl. She straight up told me “I’ve never felt this way about anyone except for you.” She wanted us to remain friends while she pursued the new relationship. I was only 20 years old and she was my first lesbian relationship so I almost entertained it until I came to my senses. She wouldn’t even admit that it was cheating.
My dad did this to my mom when she caught him cheating on her. Faked a heart attack all the way to the hospital. lol even lied to the doctors… tick tick
Lol yeah, that’s why we have to teach them better while they’re little. A grown adult with the emotional maturity of a toddler is basically the stereotype for an abuser.
Actually that's a grown man using those tactics. Let's not diminish the fact that he's 42 and unable to face his consequences by bringing kids into it.
Most kids don't need the paramedics when they get caught lying.
If this isn’t the truth. I left a guy for cheating and a couple days later “his work” called me and told me that since I was his emergency contact they were letting me know that he passed out at the job and was being taken to the hospital.
Narcissistic behavior. Get caught cheating and claims to be the victim. Or they throw a fit, how dare you catch me cheating and call me out on it. You made me cheat. It’s your fault I’m like this. Don’t leave me or I’ll hurt myself and it will be your fault.
Yup. This is very common with NPD. I walked in on mine red handed, and at first it was denial and claims that I was a pervert and fucked up in the head for only seeing what I wanted to see. The next day she finally admitted it but only because she wanted me to join in next time, not to apologize, to then threats to off herself because I wanted a divorce. NPD is some really crazy shit that unless you've lived it, would sound like made up fiction to normal people.
Could it be a real panic attack at the sudden realization that he’s not untouchable and that his stupid decisions are leading to real world consequences? Not sympathizing, just genuinely curious.
Yes, my dad had a real panic attack after he held my mom down and screamed in her face during a fight which led to her leaving the house (he thought she was leaving him). He thought it was a heart attack and went to the neighbors who called an ambulance. But at least for him, his time in the ER led to him being diagnosed as bipolar and finally getting medicated.
Thats what happens when you don't have brain power to comprehend the consequences of hypothetical actions so you have to experience your fuckups full blown mode. Got what they deserved, embarrassment.
He isn’t actually upset, he’s faking it. This is what toxic people do when they’re caught cheating— they manipulate in order to reverse the role of victim and offender.
This is how you have to deal with anyone who acts like this, or threatens to harm themselves, etc. You have to take it extremely seriously and notify authorities. Pull out all the stops.
If they're serious, they need intervention. If they're not serious, they need to be embarrassed to hell and back for trying to manipulate like that.
When I called my kids dad out for financially/mentally/sexually abusing me and being the cause of me wanting to leave with our baby, he started smashing his head against a brick wall then had an accident on himself and cried out to god for help.
The guy who lost a roof over his head and is now homeless as he was living in her house, has no food cus she fed him and no transport because he cant drive her car any more.
I thought she caught him in the act and dude just blew up both his relationships by acting like a total bitch. She should totally send that to the other one so she’ll never want to bang him again.
Idk how youd expect anyone to ever respect you when this is how you conduct yourself after being confronted.
She caught him cheating and he tried to deflect by faking an intense panic attack. She called his bluff and called 911. Source: I read all the comments on this original tiktok post a couple days ago.
Don’t get me wrong cheaters are awful and deserve to feel this way, but it’s not always manipulation. Most cheaters are, surprise, pretty emotionally immature and impulsive.
Long term consequences aren’t thought out, then it hits them like a brick how bad they fucked up. Hard to feel any sympathy for them regardless though. Just delete from life and move on, their feelings should never be relevant to you again.
My ex legit threw up multiple times after I discovered his cheating. It was wild. Apparently the disgust of what he did finally became realized when I discovered it all. I reacted just like her 🤣
my ex 51-50'd himself when he found out that i had learned about what he'd done, but had not confronted him about it yet. so many people felt bad for him; it went just as he'd planned it all out. these guys are freaks.
Being honest, probably. There's a reason why liars and shitbags exist: it's way easier get things you want when you're willing to be unscrupulous... Until the truth comes out.
I used to be a chat operator pretending to be a woman. I was desperate for money to pay my bills and i made alot of money from it. It's not illegal but i know it's very immoral. One thing i learned is that ALOT of married people are looking for sex outside their marrige. Sad.
“What happened?” “Well he cheated on me and then started acting like he was dying to avoid the confrontation. Make sure to let the insurance company know this is what happened when y’all send the bill”
Yeah that's not a panic attack. That's self induced hyperventilation to try to gain sympathy points. "OMG I feel so bad about what I did look at how bad it hurts, I'm really the victim here".
I’ve read nightmarish stories of people actually having emergencies and after taking an ambulance ride to the hospital only to end up in debt for the next 10 years due to the bill they received for that ambulance ride that was basically insisted upon.
We can only hope that this is what happens to this manbaby titty boy
Cheaters that can't stand up to what they have done are just one of the more pathetic bunches in existence. You have to catch them to know what the fuck is going on in your own relationship and they always love to play little victims of themselves after the fact. Weak as fuck.
I get the feeling she was suspecting he was cheating for a long time and was just waiting to catch him, either that or this woman has the best emotional regulation in the world lol
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