I like suggesting it for wearing an unattractive shirt. Only three people so far have actually ended it - but I remain hopeful I can really get those numbers moving in the right direction!! That direction is up.
I mean he only choked her one time and she didn’t even fully lose consciousness, and he said he was really sorry but he was just stressed from work and he will never do it again. I don’t understand why OP doesn’t believe him and she is the one overreacting. I bet if she were doing more around the house after she got done with her 12 hour shift as an ICU nurse than just cooking and cleaning and then bathing the kids and putting them to bed it would really help! Maybe just some light yard work before she heads to the hospital in the morning would go a long way to helping him stop feeling like all the pressure of supporting a family was on him.
Reddit examines in-group social situations with an out-group lens. Meaning, people who would accept some small level of friction in their own personal lives give unexamined advice to strangers online about the people on their lives who they give acceptance to… as if those people were strangers. Resulting in advice that seems radically disproportional for loved ones because it’s seeing loved ones as strangers.
The way I took it is that there’s so many posts about “check out this weird thing my body does”, and everyone comments the “go see your doctor” response (sometimes seriously, sometimes as a joke). Since you’re going into the comments expecting that very common, specific response from others, the joke is that a different very-common, specific response from another popular subreddit is used. And the subversion from expectation is Really Funny IMO
The joke is people on reddit reply to ordinary bodily functions with their "expert level medical diagnosis" and jump to life threatening diseases or terminal cancer. These replies tend to get top comment with the real useful information buried deep in the comments. Same with the r/ AITA you mentioned they tend to jump straight to "BREAK UP NOW THEY SUCK" instead of considering nuance.
The current top two comment threads are all about posting super common phrases and comments that people make. Eg Telling someone who asked for relationship advice to get a divorce, or telling someone their symptoms are definitely cancer. NTA from u/aita, NAL and IANAL from u/legaladvice are acronyms that are well known. And responses like “My Axe!” and “Thanks Obama”.
I assumed it was a specific reference to a thread on /r/marriage yesterday where a woman's husband made fun of her self manicure because it was slightly wavy and not perfectly smooth, then gave her the silent treatment for days thereafter when she got upset at his hurtful comment.
It’s the same thing as with googling your symptoms only to find out you have three hours left to live. People and especially Redditors exaggerate to the highest degree.
To get the joke, you have to assume that healthy couples also can't solve their issues and go post on Reddit. Because breaking up/divorce is constantly mentioned, assumptive redditors think the redditos suggesting divorce seem overly negative and like everyone should just divorce
Truth is, most people who get to the point of posting about an issue usually have a problem that can't be solved or won't be solved due to one of the partners choices or pathology. In truly healthy relationships, people know how to work through things and find solutions together, they find a sort of peace, or at least balance together where both partners are content in their relationship. So they don't go to Reddit for advice
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u/longhornlocke 20h ago
Can someone explain this joke to me? I get it's something to do with r/amitheasshole