This is true. My husband got dumped by a girl who told him they couldn’t be involved any longer as she was “falling in love with him” and she didn’t want to. He said, fine, that seems fair. And then she got really, really angry with him and stopped speaking to him.

Time for some wisdom from Rik.

I’ve also never told anyone about because I thought I was nuts. This is like reading the period pants comment thread all over again.

Yes.

That is the show I had in mind when I wrote “offensive sitcom tropes”.

What the hell? That is awful.

Exactly.

So other people have this fear too? I try and stand with my back to a pillar or a wall when I take the train. For this very reason.

I was hoping there was someone else out there who found this sketch as terrible as I did. I have not watched much Amy Schumer and I spent the entirety of the sketch waiting for some enlightening punchline that would make it not seem like a rehash of the same awful and offensive sitcom tropes and it never happened.

Was the steroid one called “Benny and the ‘roids” ?

I forgot to mention, this was a girl he dated when they were 15. She insisted on maintaining a relationship with his family after they broke up and then they became friends again after a few years of her not speaking to him but still hanging out with his mother.

I had a similar experience! Insanely long rambley email out of nowhere from my husband’s ex about how awful he was.

When we got engaged, a good mutual friend both of my husband and his ex-girlfriend called him and said, “Look, the last time you started dating someone she went absolutely nuts and blamed us all for keeping it a secret from her...so please call her and tell her you are engaged for all of our sakes.” Up until that…

My exes were nothing but congratulatory. Two of them attended my wedding, one of those was played all the music! One of my husband’s exes however....wrote several extremely angry emails mostly about how damaging it was to his mother that he had gotten engaged and how he was not emotionally ready for the seriousness of…

My husband, as a child, once tasted fancy soap for that reason. He knew it was soap but thought it might taste good anyway.

With my husband, it was pyrocantha berries.

After my SIL was diagnosed with cat allergies, the doctor told my MIL that their cats should be gotten rid of. She told him, no they wouldn’t be doing that. She told the story to me and was just incredulous that the doctor thought that was an option.

She probably interrupted Matlock too.

It’s pretty delicious, actually. It has a distinctive flavour that is quite tart. It’s often partnered with strawberries.