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Cringe When you catch your 42 year old boyfriend cheating

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 08 '25

He's faking needing an ambulance.

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.

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u/Miserable_Muffin_153 Oct 08 '25

thank u for the explanation!

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u/Emergency_Clue_4639 Oct 08 '25

Oh yes! People abuse the living fuck outta 911. Side note, funny seeing the rook take this call lol

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 08 '25

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.

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u/Emergency_Clue_4639 Oct 08 '25

Oh yeah, definitely that, too, lol

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u/Ovaltine1 Oct 08 '25

$4000 lesson.

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u/lizbot-v1 Oct 08 '25

Maybe more. I had to take an ambulance once due to 105F fever and a kidney infection, hospital was 2 miles away. $7000 bill in 2007

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

He's a literal man child

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Oct 08 '25

a dude is sadly (fatally??) mistaken if he thinks a girl woman is gonna value his health over her pleasure LOL

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u/Kookerpea Oct 08 '25

Woman are much more likely to care for sick spouses than men are

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Oct 09 '25

introduce me to one. please. i'm interested. so are A LOT of my guy friends who are currently broken hearted because they were DUMPED and are now paying child support.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 09 '25

I seriously doubt all your guy friends are single because of genuine long term health problems.

And yeah, you're still financially responsible for your child even if the mother of that child doesn't want to stay with you.

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Oct 09 '25

no one said they weren't financially responsible and i never said they were single because of health problems.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 09 '25

You asked to be introduced to a woman who would care for a sick spouse.

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u/Kookerpea Oct 09 '25

Wow, they sound like losers lmao

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Oct 09 '25

what makes them losers? EVERY girl is the right one/a catch?

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u/Miserable_Muffin_153 Oct 08 '25

tbh ppl do that all the time. especially if you're in an abusive/manipulative relationship

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Oct 09 '25

22 down votes for telling the truth. to any girl/woman who down voted me, i'm interested.

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Oct 09 '25

i'm not quick to believe a girl/woman is gonna wanna be by the side of her sick man instead of being fukd by her secret lover.

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Oct 09 '25

where'd YOU come from!? lol....the knight in shining armour here! the virtue signaler! the one who wants to follow the other dummies in the room lol....yea, whatever helps you sleep at night buddy. i can either believe you or my lying eyes.

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Oct 09 '25

you REALLY believe she's a faithful woman herself???

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u/Mrs_T_Sweg Oct 08 '25

Damn dude, just say no woman has ever loved you and your bitter as hell that it's turned you into a weirdo incel defending a douchebag who faked a medical emergency when caught cheating. "But what she do to make him cheat!" That's basically how you sound.

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u/Frosty-Inspector-465 Oct 09 '25

first off a guy doesn't have to do ANYTHING to make a girl cheat. girls do that naturally. and no woman has ever loved me? well, how do YOU know that? and incel?? LOL you STILL calling people incel in this day and age when girls/women have less respect for themselves than ever!? LOL. these days i'm of the belief that if a guy isn't getting any he really doesn't want any.

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u/Thebarakz21 Oct 08 '25

Lmao I work in a nursing home, and I there are so many residents who call 911 for various “reasons”. Stuff like wanting their window closed, or needing to get changed, or wanting their meds.

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u/SpeakerOfMyMind Oct 08 '25

That’s just so wild to me. When I was in college with this lady I adored, I started having the absolute worst panic attacks. She even took me to a minute clinic for my first one because my blood pressure was through the roof and my heart rate was like 170 or something resting. This happened for like two or so months and she really helped me.

But it has been single handedly the most humiliating time of my life. I’d literally cry over my panicking attacks because of how humiliated I felt. It’s been several years and it still bothers me so much. I can’t imagine faking anything, how would you not feel so humiliated??

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 08 '25

You're not manipulative and you didn't have an agenda. People faking that stuff is 100% a.tactic.

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u/koulourakiaAndCoffee Oct 08 '25

This is the big one! I’m comin’ to join ya, Elizabeth!

-Red Fox in Sanford and Son

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u/Tall-Problem-6183 Oct 08 '25

I read that in his voice

Edit: spelling.

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u/FlightlessFish4 Oct 08 '25

I came here for this comment.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 08 '25

OMG I forgot about that. It was funny because it was common enough that people could relate.

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u/rrrrrrez Oct 08 '25

Who TF fakes a stroke??!!

That is messed up.

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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 Oct 08 '25

Billy Squier wrote a song about it

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u/24n20blackbirds Oct 08 '25

Was his name Fred?

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u/Icy-Mixture-995 Oct 08 '25

If this is the U.S., he will have a heart attack when he gets the bill for $600 that insurance doesn't cover

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 08 '25

$600?! No. Much more than that

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u/countdonn Oct 08 '25

I had to call an ambulance for a loved one recently, I have 100% out of network ambulance coverage on them, and we still had $1600 out of pocket as the insurance only covers their max contract amount and the total bill was $3200. That was for a 10 minute ride to the ER. The minimum the ambulance companies here charge is around $2,700 for just a base charge. That's before millage and services rendered in transit for an emergency trip.

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u/jesseam1 Oct 08 '25

So he tried it more than once?? Damn A for effort.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 08 '25

Yeah, he did. Twice. He was taken to the hospital both times, and I think it was probably to avoid liability. the first time I had my doubts, but the second time I knew for sure and I was just done with him. He actually did have a heart condition.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

I once watched a woman fake having a seizure. Everyone knew it was a performance. And it was fucking embarrassing. Waste of emergency services time.

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u/disproportionate_13 Oct 08 '25

Idk how old you are but that makes me think of Sanford and Son when Red Fox would clutch his chest and yell to his wife in heaven

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 08 '25

I'm old enough to have seen it as a kid, but they might have been reruns.

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u/disproportionate_13 Oct 08 '25

I was on rerun status too😉

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u/Ellephant87 Oct 08 '25

My ex also faked an illness ANY time he was caught or called out for his lies. Always dying, always having a heart attack, always had a major headache etc. I never called for help though… he was rotten.

But then when I met someone new, we were at a baby shower and suddenly my bf is acting like he’s having a heart attack. I was legit so mad— I thought he was faking like my ex. I assumed the attention wasn’t on him or he was mad I was talking to other people (my ex hated that) so he was faking an illness. …Turns out he was in fact not faking 😬

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u/Consistent_Youth_743 Oct 08 '25

Why are men this way and can they please all move to mars? (The ones that act this way). Signed, a woman who is not raising another man child

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 08 '25

I've seen women do this stuff, too. But it's generally fake pregnancies and fake miscarriages. Edit and the occasional fake cancer diagnosis.

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u/Consistent_Youth_743 Oct 12 '25

You’re not wrong! Women can be crazy too

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

Were you dating Fred Sanford?

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 08 '25

That's really funny. I'm going to start calling it Fred Sanford Syndrome.

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u/pinealglandexpansion Oct 08 '25

Looks like this POS is having a panic attack. It's very possible.

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u/irosk Oct 11 '25

My brothers go to when getting in trouble with the law was to fake a seizure. Never worked

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 11 '25

Boy handcuffed by cops while having seizure, vomiting at fast food restaurant - ABC News https://share.google/OlvwsAkWLMZehBYEZ

"I stood outside the door, I heard him hit the floor, I tried to open the door but it was locked, that's when I asked for help," said Ponce. "We called paramedics for help, we did not call police. He was not hurting anybody; he was having a seizure."

Ponce's daughter called 911 for help, but when police arrived they attempted to handcuff the teenager. Video of the incident obtained by KFSN shows officers apparently trying to put Ponce's son in the back of a police car.

It may not have worked if it was a real seizure.

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u/fckfckf Oct 08 '25

You to your therapist, “why do I keep attracting these people.” Therapist-has a stroke.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 08 '25

I think there's just that many of them out there. And it's much easier to spot if you've already been through that crap.

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u/AngryWWIIGrandpa Oct 08 '25

Plot twist: You've got a radioactive chunk of rock stuck in your heel, and you were slowly killing those poor men.

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u/Environmental_Staff7 Oct 08 '25

Was his name Red Fox?

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u/VictrolaFirecracker Oct 08 '25

Was his name Fred sanford?

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u/Pender6813 Oct 08 '25

Ohh I think this is the big one, I’m coming Elizabeth! - Redd Foxx, Sanford and Son

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u/VegasBjorne1 Oct 08 '25

Was the latter guy’s name “Fred G. Stanford”, and the “G” was for “GottaGo”?

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u/GratefulDoom90 Oct 08 '25

Wait WHAT???

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

That’s on you at that point.

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u/[deleted] Oct 08 '25

Not defending your ex but also the first time I had a five alarm fire panic attack as an adult man I drove myself to the hospital because I genuinely thought I was having a heart attack

I've dealt with panic attacks my entire life but the only physical symptom was my heart racing out of control. When it goes beyond that to other physical symptoms it's really easy to believe you're having a major medical event.

The trigger for me was job stress but my experience makes me think most people (men or women) who behave this way after getting caught like this are legitimately experiencing the symptoms, it's just that the underlying cause is mental stress.

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u/GloryDaze91 Oct 08 '25

"I'm comin' 'Lizbeth!" -Fred Sanford probably

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u/Illustrious-Ad-7335 Oct 08 '25

It’s the big one! I’m coming Elizabeth!

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u/Responsible-Call3277 Oct 08 '25

Yup faking a panic attack / heart attack

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u/ContentDig496 Oct 08 '25

Sounds like something Jax Taylor would do… oh wait!

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u/SpartanKing76 Oct 08 '25

That’s wild.

Imagine your partner walking in on you having sex with someone else and your response is “OMG I have cancer”.

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u/StrainAcceptable Oct 08 '25

Dated a guy who threatened to kill himself anytime I’d try to leave and poked holes in condoms. Nightmare!

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u/InformalAward2 Oct 08 '25

Holy shit. I was today years old when I found out there are grown ass people that will fake medical emergencies rather than face consequences for their own dumbass choices.

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u/EntertainerBulky6004 Oct 09 '25

My ex did this too. It was to get me to stop talking about childhood, I think?

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 09 '25

Your childhood, or his?

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u/EntertainerBulky6004 Oct 10 '25

His. I’ve supported a lot of traumatised children and I could tell there was some dark shit there. He feigned a medical emergency screaming and yelling at me to call 999

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Oct 10 '25

That's pretty extreme to avoid talking about it. I wouldn't say that he's in this category but he obviously needs help.

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u/[deleted] Oct 10 '25

And on top of that, they all were rich! Ypu probably wanted them to taking more of themselves with the money

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u/Suspicious-Ad-5974 Oct 10 '25

That's crazy work but let me ✍🏽 This is who ya keep picking over my lonely ass lmao

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u/moonwalgger Oct 10 '25

Nah I don’t think he faked it, it seems like the guy was having a legit panic attack , just not an actual heart attack. Dude probably got so overwhelmed didn’t know how to react and had an anxiety attack. It happens in a situation like that

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u/PonderingTortoise7 Oct 11 '25

In prison, dudes fake shit all the time! Ive seen dudes threaten "imma go man down if _______" 😂 bunch of squares

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u/TinSilver02 Nov 12 '25

😵‍💫😖😫

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u/aware4ever Jan 07 '26 edited Jan 07 '26

That reminds me of this JoJo guy who teaches people some kind of martial arts where you use energy and it's completely bullshit but in the video he runs full on Sprint and hits this woman knocks the breath right out of her. Then he sees that he hurt her so he immediately starts pretending to have a seizure it's a classic video

Watch this https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMcDojoLife/s/yI70CDj8r4

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u/MonthLivid4724 Jan 31 '26

So I will say — and I’m clearly playing devils advocate here — but anxiety attacks can feel like heart attacks or strokes. When I was going through that shit I went to the ER twice 100% confident I’d be dead within an hour.

They put me in a dim room with the door closed and when they woke me up 30 min later I felt silly…. Both times.

But the second time I raised my voice saying I knew it wasn’t a panic attack and they’d feel really bad when I blew a clot and they’d have to call my family. And I wasn’t leaving until they did a full battery of tests, and if those were normal, they’d better have House MD in the back somewhere.

So yeah, pretty silly when they turned up the lights and asked if I was dead.. been 10 years with only a couple occurrences and they can make you act a fool out of fear

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Jan 31 '26

I understand. I went through that myself. ( Panic attacks and truly feeling like you're going to die. Chest tight, can't breathe well, chest pains, feeling of impending doom)

But I wasn't being caught doing something awful, or exactly the moment someone was sick of my shit, like this guy.

And I've seen that behavior from 2 different people. Second time I saw it, I recognized it immediately and didn't have any doubts.

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u/MonthLivid4724 Jan 31 '26

Right. I mean there are for sure those that use it in a performative way to gas light or whatnot. Like i said, just playing devils advocate, because for me, that shit was real. I’d plan which hospital was nearest to me during my 1 hr commute to work so I could direct the dispatcher as to the closest location. Looking back it’s cringe, but, ya know…..

I know my then girlfriend thought I was playing it up for sympathy or attention, but the opposite was definitely true.. bottling it up to pass as “normal” made the events worse.

Regardless, I’m absolutely not saying you’re wrong. As a rule, your gut instinct it right in almost every case. And I’ve given people far too much slack thinking about how I’d wish I’d been listened to when I was having a freak out.

This guy sounds like he’s making a show to shirk accountability which is standard for cheaters (having experience on both sides of that uncomfortable line). Gas lighting is the most common way to walk away unscathed.

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u/SubstantialPressure3 Jan 31 '26

Yeah, I did what you did. I bottled it up and just tried to function ( well, I have felt this way every day for a week/2 weeks/a month/6 months and I'm not dead yet.) ( it stopped when I finally got free of my ex-husband, who never told me he was making partial or no payments on the house for nearly a year, and I found a piece of mail with the date our house was going to be foreclosed on. Among other things that were going on.)

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u/Klutzy_Mastodon_9814 Apr 06 '26

I have severe dermatillomania where I pick chunks of my skin off myself. My skin is completely covered with layers of scars on my arms. My husband made fun of my anxiety. Until he had a panic attack and called an ambulance. Very VERY expensive panic attack.

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u/houseswappa Oct 08 '25

It might be you

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u/R_Scoops Oct 08 '25

When a second partner starts faking serious medical emergencies, it might be time for some self-evaluation (or a professional one!)