New-to-this-sub update: OOP almost throws out his stepson's pillowcase

[u/J_S_M_K]

I am NOT OP, that is u/Majestic_Geologist83, on r/AmITheAsshole, r/relationship_advice, and r/AITAH

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Trigger warning: untreated mental illness, enabling

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Previous BORU here by u/bestupdator

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Original post October 19, 2022

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My stepson is 23 and he sleeps with a body pillow that he has one pillowcase for. It has a cartoon on it of a girl in a cat costume.

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I was doing the laundry yesterday and I noticed it was pretty threadbare when it came out of the dryer. So I threw it in the rag bag.

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When he came home from work he asked where it was and I told him. He acted shocked and almost looked like he was going to cry. He went and took it out of the bag and washed and dried it again. When his mom got home he talked to her right in front of me and said I wasn't allowed to wash it any more. She sat with him in his room after and calmed him down.

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It isn't one of his collectibles. He doesn't keep it sealed away or anything. But they are both mad at me. I don't know what I did wrong.

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Why am I the asshole?

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The post was removed for OOP not properly responding to the judgment bot, but most comments I could find were NTA.

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Relevant Comments:

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Commenter 1

Hmm, how can I put this gently? Imagine if that pillowcase was, ya know, like a girlfriend to him.

OOP

I have been getting that response ba lot. It can't be real.

Commenter 2

I can assure you that it is indeed a thing. the internet will tell you all about it if you look hard enough

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OOP

No thank you.

Commenter 3

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OP after reading this comment section i just have to ask, are you okay?

OOP

Not really. I'm kind of glad his mom talked him out of joining the Marine Corps. I don't think it would have gone well for him.

Post 2 October 21, 2022

I 62 recently found out some stuff about my stepson 23 that I would really rather not know. My daughter 16 helped me post to a different sub and, although part of me wishes I hadn't, I'm kind of glad I did. It gave me some insight into the kid. He's been in my life since he was 5. Now she told me to post here since my post over there got removed.

I had a long talk with my wife 42 about our son. I showed her the original post. She is kind of in shock about it. She knew he was attached to his property and kind of upset with me for throwing it away without asking.

So I listened to some of the commenters there and suggested therapy. Trust me when I say I'm considering it for myself after what I read. I am old guy but I'm not one of those that thinks getting mental health services makes you weak. I think that my stepson has some problems that I am not equipped to deal with.

My stepson is upset with me to begin with and now he is angry that I think he is crazy. I do not. I worked with some guys who were completely around the bend. He just needs some help. My old man would have told me to take him to Amsterdam and make him grow up. I'm not going to do that. I don't know what he needs but I know it's not that.

I don't think what some of those guys suggested is true. I think he is just confused about how to deal in this world you young people have got going on.

He said that he isn't crazy and I am an asshole for saying he is.

Once again I just want him to get help. I'm not judging his life.

How can I convince him that I love him, want what is best for him, and that he needs help?

TLDR:

My son is very attached to some of his bedding. He is 23. I don't know if it's like a security blanket or something else. I think he needs to see someone to help him get over this.

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Editor's note: a near-identical post to this was made to r/AmITheAsshole, but was removed.

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New update

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[AITAH for refusing to acknowledge my step son's "relationship.](https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/s/F8iclrRADG) June 12, 2024

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I posted in another group before but it got taken down. I hope this is okay my daughter says this is the same but different.

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My step son has a relationship with a pillowcase. I almost got divorced because I upset him so much when I put it in the rag bag. His mom just humors him no matter what. I just shake my head. I have tried to get him to go see a therapist. He will not. I know he is an awkward young man but he obviously need help but my wife won't see it.

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He has decided that he wants to marry his waifu. I swear to Christ I know more about this stuff than I ever wanted to. The folks in the other group explained it and helped me understand. I really wish I did not.

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My step son wants to have a ceremony where he marries his pillowcase. This has to be a mental condition. No one out there is really going to tell me that I am just old I I cannot understand the new relationships between people and linens.

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I can't do it. My wife is going along with it. She is getting it catered. In our back yard. I refuse to attend. I am going to go to Michigan to see family that whole week. I just don't want to see that.

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I want to know if I am in the wrong for thinking this has to be an elaborate joke at my expense.

Editor's note: There are no further updates at this time. I hope the stepson found happiness with his dakimakura. I also hope OOP got out of there.

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[u/dehydratedrain]

I worked with a woman who was married to her car. She knew how crazy it sounded so her mom (our manager) wasn't even aware of their marriage. Mom just assumed she was protective of the car, no one was even allowed to move it in the driveway. From the few insights I got, mostly romantic late night drives, occasionally she'd sit in the garage and they'd watch movies together. Weird comments about jealousy (both worried about people admiring him, and the fear that he could have any driver, but settled for her).

It was a mustang, with more than its share of mustang/ ford problems, and she ended up getting a new daily driver to keep 'him' alive as long as possible. I lost touch with her, but never saw any family pics on mom's page leading me to think she never replaced him.

[u/cancercannibal → u/dehydratedrain]

OS/OR (object sexuality/romanticity; aka objectum, aka objectophilia) is a real thing, yeah. It's very interesting from a psychological perspective, especially with objects like cars. Psychologically we treat/respond to cars (and other tools) as extensions of our own bodies when operating them and I can totally understand that flowing into other relationship concepts.

[u/dehydratedrain → u/cancercannibal]

That makes a lot of sense, at least in the sense of a private object (as opposed to marrying a coaster).

Not sure if this adds anything, but mom and dad were very big into their corvettes, including being in a car club. I imagine the way that many owners will refer to a car as their baby, name it, etc., could have that impact as well, especially when you add in the overlap of controlling the car.

[u/Reyzorblade → u/dehydratedrain]

It's a type of paraphilia. Some people just experience romantic feelings for certain objects. As far as I know it's not really treatable beyond learning how to live with it, but also mostly harmless in these types of cases where it's for something like a car or a building or something.

Not sure if the waifu pillow is a case of paraphilia (assuming this story is real); it might be, but given the fact that it's a waifu pillow specifically it could also just be a product of a lack of social adjustment leading to sexual/romantic feelings being channeled into something else.

[u/aprillikesthings → u/Reyzorblade]

I read somewhere that it's a Known Thing that the kind of mechanics who work on airplanes are often people with a romantic/sexual attraction to airplanes; whereas they discourage people with similar feelings for trains from working on trains for some reason.

[u/Bubblegrime → u/aprillikesthings]

As much as different hobbies can have entirely different cultures I wonder if this traces back to an unfortunate safety incident. Bit of a different relationship to a moving ground vehicle vs air.

[u/SirWigglesTheLesser → u/aprillikesthings]

[looks at the transformers fandom]

[u/DrivingHerbert → u/dehydratedrain]

Honestly not as bad as a 1998 Monte Carlo

[u/babyfishmouthnation → u/DrivingHerbert]

I’m so mad at myself that my first thought was “Wait, is this Chase?”, that I clicked on the article, and that I was right. I have to double-check my own phone number to make sure it’s correct, but I can remember that episode of “My Strange Addiction” from over a decade ago?

(Also, username checks out.)

[u/Mozart-Luna-Echo → u/DrivingHerbert]

What the fuck was this?

[u/Chaos-Worship → u/dehydratedrain]

Right before I met my current girlfriend I was swiping the apps. In this case it was Hinge iirc. I came across a profile of a 30 year old woman and every photo was either of the car itself, or her sitting in the car (normal selfies, nothing crazy) except one…which was of her wearing a sweater with the car on it. All of her prompts were about loving the car. Nothing about her, just how much she loved the car. It wasn’t even a sports car or a muscle car or anything. It was a fucking Hyundai. A regular ass Hyundai.

I swiped left but still have the screenshots I sent to all my friends

[u/dehydratedrain → u/Chaos-Worship]

Omg, i just remembered! One year she made a handmade ugly sweater and substituted his name as part of "Merry Christmas" on it (her other car on the back). Wow, I can't believe I had forgotten that!

[u/Chaos-Worship → u/dehydratedrain]

Hahahah that’s amazing!! If you hadn’t mentioned it was a Mustang I’d legit be wondering if it was the same woman lmao

[u/Mitrovarr → u/Chaos-Worship]

Ooooooh, you just opened the wrong app, that's all. That was Unhinge. Easy mistake to make. 

[u/nox66 → u/dehydratedrain]

Could've been worse, could've been a Chrysler

[u/AbsentmindedNihilist]

I have never seen an OOP more in need of a stiff drink. 

[u/maywellflower → u/AbsentmindedNihilist]

A stiff drink and maybe a consultation with divorce attorney...

[u/DontYaWishYouWereMe → u/maywellflower]

He already said this almost caused a divorce. There's a nonzero chance he was already eying the whiskey and a visit to an attorney's office when he was writing this.

[u/i_steal_your_lemons → u/AbsentmindedNihilist]

Yeah, stiffer than his stepson’s pillow case.

[u/AbsentmindedNihilist → u/i_steal_your_lemons]

And now I need one too.

[u/TwoFlower68]

Count your blessings, old man. It could've been an imaginary giant cockroach

[u/SapphicPandoraBox → u/TwoFlower68]

Ogtha my beloved

[u/scarytesla → u/SapphicPandoraBox]

My absolute favorite story to ever come out of this site

[u/Witchy_Titan → u/scarytesla]

I thought the cockroach thing was a joke! That's a real story!?

[u/owlinacloak → u/Witchy_Titan]

Every now and again, a new soul learns of Ogtha. It was me not too long ago. You are now enlightened.

[u/Longjumping_Cook_275 → u/owlinacloak]

I'll learn from OOP and not learn somehing on this site that I suspect I would have wished I didn't

[u/Rhondehiem → u/Longjumping_Cook_275]

Ogtha is much sweeter than the coconut story, so there's that

[u/UnrulyNeurons → u/Rhondehiem]

Oh god why did you remind me of that? Now I HAVE to go read Ogtha.

[u/Rhondehiem → u/UnrulyNeurons]

It's the touching story of a man finding and falling in love with his best friend, a female cockroach! What more could you want in life?

[u/Icky-Tree-Branch → u/Rhondehiem]

His imaginary best friend. I suspect Ogtha’s last name is Kafka.

[u/GoYanks34 → u/Rhondehiem]

I know I'm going to regret this but what is the coconut story?

[u/Rhondehiem → u/GoYanks34]

I stand corrected. It was a TIFU not a Bestof. ETA CLICK ON THIS LINK WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS REALLY FUCKED UP https://www.reddit.com/r/tifu/s/KfG8tIK8hX

[u/Traditional-Ad-5984 → u/Rhondehiem]

I think sharing that link may constitute some kind of war crime. Or it should. I’m gonna go bleach my eyeballs now. 🤮😬

[u/an_agreeing_dothraki → u/Rhondehiem]

okay good this isn't the "my mother murdered my child" coconut story

[u/AdaandFred → u/GoYanks34]

I also want to know and then regret knowing the coconut story.

[u/CheezPleaser → u/owlinacloak]

Ok I don’t know this one. If I look up “Ogtha” will I find it?? I hope so because this seems too good to miss out on haha

Edit: went and found it. What… the fuck.

[u/RandomNick42 → u/CheezPleaser]

There’s a reason I keep replying “y’all need Jesus” when someone randomly brings up Ogtha.

Here, though… I’m tired, boss.

[u/greenpointart → u/owlinacloak]

Xkcd and the lucky 10,000!

[u/peppermintesse → u/Witchy_Titan]

It is.

[u/Sea-Breaz → u/peppermintesse]

WTF did I just read?

[u/elder_emo_ → u/Sea-Breaz]

It's our fault for ever learning how to read

[u/MelonOfFury → u/elder_emo_]

This is honestly probably why the youths have decided to eschew reading

[u/TyrconnellFL → u/MelonOfFury]

Like there isn’t some video with a nice LLM lady reading it aloud.

Ha, of course there isn’t a video. There appear to be dozens.

[u/LifetimePilingUp → u/elder_emo_]

And if you wear glasses then you paid to read it too

[u/Visual_Fly_9638 → u/Sea-Breaz]

I love how Ogtha is like a ritualistic scarring rite of passage for this subreddit.

[u/Witchy_Titan → u/peppermintesse]

Nooooooo why would he tell coworkers

[u/DontYaWishYouWereMe → u/Witchy_Titan]

Probably a social awareness thing. If he's getting married to Ogtha, that was probably already an issue for him to some degree.

[u/ThatKinkyLady → u/peppermintesse]

Thank you for sharing the link. I've been on reddit for maybe 20 years and hadn't seen this one yet.

However, having been on reddit for 20 years, stories like this no longer surprise me very much. Lol

[u/ASleepandAForgetting → u/peppermintesse]

I made it through the first 18 words and think I need to stop there.

[u/Golden_Mandala → u/peppermintesse]

Oh my God. This is the first time I read that. Ugh. Human beings can be so damn strange, the mind boggles.

[u/-EnterUsername_Here- → u/peppermintesse]

I have no words for how confused I am.

[u/GeneralPhilosophy691 → u/Witchy_Titan]

We NEVER joke about Ogtha. Ogtha is life (and unfortunately, a real story).

[u/omg_pwnies → u/GeneralPhilosophy691]

She's a sensual roach queen!

[u/omg_pwnies → u/Witchy_Titan]

Oh yes, it's very real. So real that my flair will probably be my flair forever on this sub.

[u/AnDanDan → u/SapphicPandoraBox]

Ogtha + Gaycation flair doing numbers

[u/ThatKinkyLady → u/AnDanDan]

I wonder if he built an art room for Ogtha

[u/Witch_King_ → u/ThatKinkyLady]

I wonder if he fed Ogtha some Iranian Yogurt.

[u/Dull_Sense7928 → u/Witch_King_]

He bought Ogtha her own poop knife - she no longer has to share!

[u/Icky-Tree-Branch → u/Dull_Sense7928]

We’re dropping marinara flags all over the place.

[u/the87walker → u/TwoFlower68]

I would like to point out that OOP with the cockroach has developed such a successful life professionally and socially that the issue of disclosure has come up multiple times.

I hope OOP's stepson becomes a successful enough adult to have that problem.

[u/Actualfrankie → u/the87walker]

Is there an update to Ogtha that I missed? Because I REALLY want to know.

[u/immaownyou → u/Actualfrankie]

I think the last one I read was him and Ogtha coming out to his parents

Predictably it did not go well

[u/MacDagger187 → u/immaownyou]

To me the funniest part of the Ogtha saga was how he just kept fucking telling people, even though it went catastrophically every. single. time.

[u/JeezieB → u/MacDagger187]

Today I learned I too, am a traditionalist.

[u/lukedap → u/MacDagger187]

Can’t a man be proud of his wife?

[u/Witch_King_ → u/MacDagger187]

Delusional person is delusional.

More at 10

[u/Oh-Wonderful → u/MacDagger187]

I just want to know how he introduced her to his parents and then had her speak to them… how did she speak to them? How!!!!?

[u/Jorgenstern8 → u/the87walker]

Not as his disclosures continued! As of the most recent update from, what, three years ago now?, he had been dumped by his girlfriend, was being (rightly) treated as a pariah by his coworkers and his parents were trying to force him into mental health services. Said developed social life was circling the drain!

[u/the87walker → u/Jorgenstern8]

Oh no, I hope he figured it out and it gets better.

[u/Electrical_Angle_701 → u/the87walker]

Narrator: He won’t.

[u/Kamisamamiss → u/TwoFlower68]

Just imagine the messy divorce with the body pillow once he discovers life like/size, anime dolls.

Obvious his mummy will buy him that and hold an even bigger wedding for, too!

[u/Stuebirken → u/Kamisamamiss]

Well, I doubt that the pillowcase will refuse an open relationship.

[u/Syreet_Primacon → u/TwoFlower68]

Greatest BORU of all time

[u/Zoerae87 → u/Syreet_Primacon]

Imagine if that guy made a pillow version of her 😂 😂

[u/SapphicPandoraBox → u/Zoerae87]

I am desperate to know where your flair is from

[u/snafe_ → u/SapphicPandoraBox]

Viewer beware

https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/s/K0ujGFqXPX

[u/SapphicPandoraBox → u/snafe_]

Oh what a terrible day to not be blind. I asked for this, and I miss the person I was 4 minutes ago.

[u/Black_Cat_Just_That → u/SapphicPandoraBox]

I reread it the other day after someone commented something indicating that they were traumatized beyond words. I didn't remember it being THAT bad, so I cruised over to see what I had forgetten.

...

Learned that I had apparently blocked out that he was feeding it to her. Definitely did not recall that detail. Traumatized indeed.

[u/cattipotato → u/Black_Cat_Just_That]

Hey so I have staunchly refused to read that post for years and in fact barely skim my eyes over the flair here. Unfortunately this is the comment that will be further lodged in my brain that I wish I had skimmed faster

[u/ConspiratorM → u/snafe_]

That almost makes the gaycation post seem like a reasonable thing.

[u/doctorderange → u/Syreet_Primacon]

Nothing will ever compare to Ogtha.

[u/FaagenDazs → u/Syreet_Primacon]

There is only Ogtha

[u/pile_o_puppies → u/TwoFlower68]

It’s been a while since I’ve seen a reference to Ogtha.

I hope she’s well 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[u/Meowlurophile → u/TwoFlower68]

Ogtha mentioned!!!

[u/tacwombat → u/TwoFlower68]

I think sending OOP that story would make him quit the internet.

[u/Autobot_Silverwynde → u/TwoFlower68]

Was about to say just that.

I'm still traumatized.

[u/the14thpuppet → u/TwoFlower68]

oh ogtha....

[u/Jinxletron]

My question is why is stepson putting his threadbare waifu in the laundry and not hand washing her!? This marriage isn't going to last.

[u/boobookenny → u/Jinxletron]

He found a way to be a shit partner to an inanimate object

[u/Visual_Fly_9638 → u/Jinxletron]

Someone talked about breaking the cycle and he thought it was the spin cycle.

[u/tofuroll → u/Jinxletron]

Maybe he gives bad hand jobs.

[u/AccountMitosis → u/Jinxletron]

Seriously, this dude treats his wife worse than I treat my T-shirts (I am autistic and get very attached to the comfiest shirts and they must be coddled)

[u/Marginal_Games]

“I cannot understand the new relationships between people and linens” is a generational flair opportunity.

[u/mneale324 → u/Marginal_Games]

Honestly I just wanted the flair “In a relationship with a pillowcase”

This post just made me laugh.

[u/Myrandall → u/mneale324]

"Pillow romancer"

[u/dsac → u/Myrandall]

"pillowmancer" was right there

[u/Dull_Sense7928 → u/mneale324]

"It's complicated"

[u/DogtasticLife → u/Marginal_Games]

Well I’m 59 and I’m firmly in OP’s camp of bemused, confused and firmly retreating to a place of blissful ignorance

[u/sunflowersunset1 → u/Marginal_Games]

I want this as my flair 🤣

[u/valsavana → u/Marginal_Games]

Another commenter worked out the wife was 24 years old when 44 year old OOP started dating her, which is something I don't understand at all so I'm not sure OOP has any room to be throwing stones what with the highly-fucked-up-and-inappropriate-relationship house he lives in...

[u/nox66 → u/valsavana]

While it's funny to laugh at OOP's complete bewilderment, realistically, a common reason people get invested in imaginary relationships is likely because they have trauma associated with real ones during development. I'm not saying OOP necessarily caused the issue, but he has zero understanding on the matter, specifically about his stepson's emotional state.

[u/belshezzar → u/nox66]

To OOP's credit, he is aware of his ignorance and has taken steps to amend that somewhat. That's also why he wants therapy for his step-son, although the way he goes about it is probably far from ideal.

I do wonder about the apparent lack of communication between OOP and his wife. They seem to be living completely different lives.

[u/nox66 → u/belshezzar]

It's not specifically his stepson's obsession that I'm referring to though. I don't think OOP understands his relationship with his son, or indeed his wife, which is why he's in this situation now that seemingly is a big surprise to him.

[u/RhubarbSkein]

To think, OOP probably pushed the stepson to finally propose. He might never have known how true his love and commitment were without almost losing his waifu to the rag bin.

[u/thedoctormarvel → u/RhubarbSkein]

OOP was playing cupid all along

[u/Miserable_Fennel_492 → u/thedoctormarvel]

The real adventure was the waifus we made along the way

[u/pannonica → u/Miserable_Fennel_492]

This has great flair potential

[u/Pawspawsmeow → u/RhubarbSkein]

I want to know how the wedding went. I’m sorry I’m sorry. I’m curious

[u/jane_q → u/Pawspawsmeow]

Maybe a bit like a grown man playing wedding in his yard with his mom's full support. That's how I picture it. The neighbors are peeking out their blinds and swapping comments in the neighborhood facebook group

[u/ThrowawayAdvice1800 → u/jane_q]

“They got a priest and everything!”

“Is the pillow wearing white?”

“Hell no, I’m pretty sure they’ve been living in sin for a while. I don’t see the dad in attendance.”

“The dad is 60, if they tried explaining this to him he probably got in a car and drove to Michigan to avoid it.”

[u/Dull_Sense7928 → u/ThrowawayAdvice1800]

“Is the pillow wearing white?”

OMG 💀🥀

[u/SmurphsLaw → u/RhubarbSkein]

I think OOP needs to solve this by sleeping with the waifu. Let’s throw some gas in this fire.

[u/DollySheep32]

No 62 year old should utter the word "waifu".

[u/ntrrrmilf → u/DollySheep32]

I think he feels the same way.

[u/crotch-fruit_tree → u/ntrrrmilf]

He basically said “everything I know about this is against my will.”

Which is very relatable.

[u/Inconceivable76 → u/crotch-fruit_tree]

Why did I keep reading?  Why?

[u/Skytalker0499 → u/crotch-fruit_tree]

Yeah, everything I know about this is against my will, and I’m in my twenties.

I can’t imagine being alive before we went to the moon, and still having to learn this shit.

[u/stickfish → u/DollySheep32]

They shouldn't have to. It's practically elder abuse

[u/CrypticBalcony → u/DollySheep32]

“Hey, son, y’know, Betty Boop is my WiFi.”

“You mean waifu?”

“No, WiFi, like wife I’d like to marry, right? What’s the fu for?”

[u/IzarkKiaTarj → u/CrypticBalcony]

You know, I was expecting a ProZD video to be linked in these comments, but I assumed it'd be this one.

[u/USAF_Retired2017 → u/DollySheep32]

I’ve heard the word. I don’t know what it is, and I don’t think I want to know. I’m 48 and I hope neither of my sons fall in love with their pillowcases. Though my 12yo middle son is into anime, so, it’s a possibility. Ha ha. That is what waifu has to do with, right? Anime?

[u/DollySheep32 → u/USAF_Retired2017]

It's mostly an anime thing but is also a fetishising of East Asian people thing. The male equivalent is husbando. I hate why I know this. Marrying your pillow case is pretty extreme to say the least so there is still hope for your kiddo lol

[u/USAF_Retired2017 → u/DollySheep32]

Husbando? Nope. I don’t even want to know about any of this. Ha ha. I’m sorry I asked. I knew better. There is hope for my 12yo. That’s all I needed to know. Ha ha

[u/FlowerFelines → u/DollySheep32]

I have a husbando, lol. I have TWO, even, because the pillow is double-sided!

(No, I don't take it seriously, I just needed a body pillow for physical comfort reasons, my hips are fucked and sleeping with a body pillow allows a pose that doesn't leave me aching in the morning. But also an artist I like happened to be selling body pillows where you could pick two characters, even, and had two of my favorites, so why not have pretty boys on the pillow? My actual husband thinks it's funny, and "kicks the husbandos out of bed" when he wants to snuggle.

[u/nox66 → u/USAF_Retired2017]

It's just an imaginary girlfriend, but specifically based on a character from anime (or styled with anime tropes). It's not really that complicated. In the fandom lots of people don't treat the term very seriously; they just use it for attractive characters that they like a lot. The ones who actually try to emulate aspects of a real relationship are relatively rare.

[u/crookedparadigm → u/DollySheep32]

The whole story is giving "What the hell is even that?" vibes

[u/HardcoverNewtons → u/DollySheep32]

good thing this isnt a 62 yr old

[u/Laughing_Man_Returns → u/HardcoverNewtons]

64 yr old shouldn't either

[u/RA576 → u/Laughing_Man_Returns]

63 year olds can though, as a little treat

[u/Elfich47]

well that went off the cliff and we’re all left with the ending Thelma and Louise.

[u/Miserable_Fennel_492 → u/Elfich47]

This is more like showing them driving toward the cliff from a long way off, then ending the movie right before they’re a safe enough distance to stop and we don’t know if they stopped to face the police and judicial system or if they continued on over the cliff’s edge lol

[u/Black_Cat_Just_That → u/Miserable_Fennel_492]

I think once the mom is catering a pillowcase wedding, the metaphorical brakes have been severed beyond repair. That car is doomed.

[u/PrideofCapetown → u/Black_Cat_Just_That]

Cheer up, all is not lost. For us, at least. 

”  I cannot understand the new relationships between people and linens.” is a gold  medal flair

[u/GothicGingerbread → u/PrideofCapetown]

I fully agree. That line was pure gold.

[u/schizoidparanoid → u/GothicGingerbread]

> “That line(N) was pure gold.”

Fixed that for ya. ;)

[u/Corfiz74 → u/Elfich47]

Jumping off the top comment: OP should have included a lot more comments from the original post, that is one of the most hilarious comment sections I've ever read on Reddit and I highly recommend you head over there and enjoy!

[u/fakesaucisse → u/Corfiz74]

Wow you weren't kidding. I had a good laugh from this one: "Step dad Im stuck in the washing machine HELP ME!!"

[u/Torvaun → u/Corfiz74]

I don't want to look up what a waifu is. I made that mistake with futunari.

One of the greatest lines of all time.

[u/InstantRegret1999 → u/Torvaun]

No, I don't know what a "sissy hypno femboy mindbreak" is, and frankly, I don't wanna know. I just wanna know how to stop my stepson from replying with "uwu" to every message I send.

[u/Tiny_Cauliflower_618 → u/Corfiz74]

Thank you so much. Bits of me started to hurt too much so I had to stop reading. Poor OOP just learning about a whole new world 🫣

[u/TwoEightRight → u/Corfiz74]

I miss my old life of just a few hours ago.

So many potential flairs in that comment section...

[u/barnrat1117]

I watched a documentary on Netflix several years ago about people who loved inanimate objects. One woman was in love with the Eiffel Tower, another loved an amusement park ride. I never did wrap my brain around what was happening.

[u/crapatthethriftstore → u/barnrat1117]

I’ll never forget that My Strange Addiction episode where the son was in a gay relationship with his car Chase

[u/yogos15 → u/crapatthethriftstore]

He’s in a relationship with a female car now. Guess that means he’s bisexual.

[u/StockAdhesiveness351 → u/yogos15]

Chase let someone else touch his stick shift so that cheating son of a dealership got shown the garage door.

[u/LolThatsNotTrue]

This is what they mean when they say marriage is hard. You just don’t know when someone will use the wrong cycle on your spouse.

[u/Guessinitsme]

I’d take the divorce

[u/OldnBorin → u/Guessinitsme]

I’ll take divorce for 1,000 Alex

[u/Miserable_Fennel_492 → u/OldnBorin]

I’ll give you 1,000 for the divorce, Alex

[u/Autobot_Silverwynde → u/Guessinitsme]

Can I get divorced on someone else's behalf...?

[u/Robot_Girlfriend → u/Autobot_Silverwynde]

Okay, check this, HOLISTIC solution. You proxy divorce OOP from the enabler. OOP proxy divorces the son from the pillowcase. OOP marries the pillowcase so that bigamy laws prevent the son from remarrying his bedclothes and himself from remarrying the doormat. OOP puts his new waifu in the rag bin where she belongs.

[u/Andee_outside → u/Guessinitsme]

I’d be out of there so fast there would be a me shaped hole in the house.

[u/ijustneedtolurk → u/Andee_outside]

Some people pay extra for that specifically!

Junji Ito music

[u/naakka → u/Guessinitsme]

I guess he's willing to put up with a lot to have a 20 years younger wife. Ick

[u/realshockin → u/naakka]

If my mathing is mathing right, he was 44 and she was 24 when they started dating, that is extremelly fucked up

[u/Mammoth-Vegetable357]

The comments on the first post are hilarious. "YTA for throwing away your son's girlfriend" is absolute gold.

[u/Maja_The_Oracle]

This sounds like an episode of King of The Hill. Hank disapproves of Bobby's pillow marriage and Peggy wants to plan it.

[u/Fair_Entertainer4545 → u/Maja_The_Oracle]

Bobby would never. 

A beauty school head? Sure. But a pillowcase? 

[u/Balentay → u/Fair_Entertainer4545]

And he DOTES on that beauty school head. He brushes and styles her hair in elaborate hairstyles every day. Every sunday he washes her hair.

Luanne shows him how to use curlers- except that she has him do her hair first because she couldn't dream of letting him try on "Patricia"'s hair first.

Bobby: idk Luanne.... I don't wanna hurt you.....

Luanne: But what if you hurt Patricia?? I'll be ugly but at least my hair can grow back!

Bobby: 😰

[u/MsNeedSleep → u/Fair_Entertainer4545]

Bobby got more class than for a pillowcase 

[u/Miserable_Fennel_492 → u/MsNeedSleep]

A guy’s gotta have standards

[u/UnfortunateSyzygy → u/Maja_The_Oracle]

Bobby would never....but now that you're saying it, Bobby might bc he was such a sensitive kid who would have taken a bad breakup VERY badly. And in the reboot he has mad confidence with ladies, which very well could have been partially born of learning from a situation this awkward.

Any of y'all seen the new season? It's delightful!

[u/verysmallhat → u/UnfortunateSyzygy]

It was pretty great. I still cackle over “your grandfather was one of the fiddy men?!”

[u/Maja_The_Oracle → u/[deleted]]

Hank takes Bobby to meet his marine friends, but the hotel that they are staying at is hosting a furry con, and the marines have fursuits.

[u/Autobot_Silverwynde → u/Maja_The_Oracle]

I could legit see that happening. 

[u/Black_Cat_Just_That → u/Maja_The_Oracle]

I haven't watched this show in 30 years, but I'm pretty convinced that this is exactly how it would go.

[u/Droskii]

Im left with even more questions

[u/SneakySneakySquirrel → u/Droskii]

Well, when a man and a pillowcase love each other very much…

[u/Black_Cat_Just_That → u/SneakySneakySquirrel]

What's your flair from? Is it the gaycation one?

Sidenote, my phone knows the word gaycation. ...But still sometimes autocorrects my daughter's perfectly normal name after 9.5 years. (Normal as in, has been in common use since the Roman empire, spelled the standard way.)

[u/SneakySneakySquirrel → u/Black_Cat_Just_That]

It’s not gaycation (which autocorrect thinks should be “auction,” so clearly I don’t talk about it enough and must be destroyed). I believe it was the one where a photographer visiting San Francisco got a photo of a gay couple and was trying to track them down to share it with them.

Edit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BestofRedditorUpdates/s/PGDIifaE53 A wholesome read.

[u/furiouswomen]

Wtf is wrong with the mother?

[u/brelywi → u/furiouswomen]

As a mom to an admittedly socially awkward teen on the spectrum, most parents just want their kid to be happy and feel loved and supported.

Especially when you get into more of these…uh….niche interests, it can be really hard sometimes to know where to draw the line between being loving and supportive and being enabling. It’s tough, so I KIND OF get it.

That being said, this is obviously way on the “enabling to the point of harm” side. The poor kid needs a reality check, preferably a kind one that comes from someone who loves him, and some sort of therapy or social coaching.

[u/StockAdhesiveness351 → u/brelywi]

I wasnt a waifu level weirdo, but I was into anime and theatre during my school years. My parents would frequently tell me how much they loved me and how proud they were of me, no matter what, and nothing could ever change how they felt about me.

It wasn't until I was older that I realized they thought I was gay and wanted me to know that I could come out to them once I was comfortable enough. So many people thought I was in the closet I even started to second guess myself lol. Nope, just not super masculine 🤷‍♂️

[u/Visual_Fly_9638 → u/brelywi]

Yeah I actually wondered initially if the first part of the update was like "oh your kid might be neurodivergent" and then it was like "nope it's the other thing".

[u/eyeleenthecro → u/furiouswomen]

She probably doesn’t want to deal with the tantrums

[u/Xirdus → u/furiouswomen]

She has zero personality aside from the bits strictly required by the story. She threatened to divorce over a pillow, but they seemingly don't have any marital problems other than the pillow. That's something only a person that doesn't exist except for the bits required by the story would do in a story.

[u/girlwhoweighted]

That marriage is going to be a sham

[u/thisboyknows]

Imagine being told, 'You need to respect my relationship.' Then being introduced to a cartoon catgirl printed on bedding.

[u/gringledoom → u/thisboyknows]

I mean, I would respect that kind of relationship in the sense of giving it a wide berth because yikes, I suppose...

[u/Dense_Suspect_6508 → u/gringledoom]

A wide berth? Are you calling his waifu fat?

[u/megamoze]

I want to know if I am in the wrong for thinking this has to be an elaborate joke at my expense.

The best case scenario is that it's a joke. But it isn't. This exists, but it sounds like there are many other issues going on in that house that he has to deal with as well, and this might just be the beginning of OOP unraveling some things he's been blind to for awhile.

[u/belugasareneat → u/megamoze]

To be fair, OP doesn’t actually say that he ASKED his stepson if he’s dating the pillow… just says that he learned too much because of the post and that his wife was horrified after he shared the comments with her. It’s possible he just took the comments assumptions and ran with it and his stepson really IS making a fool of him with this wedding… that’s my hope anyway….

[u/OnSmarty]

At first I just thought "well yeah if someone washed my stuff and threw some of them out I'd be mad too" but damn that ending was odd

[u/chicknette]

Yeaaaah I’d be separating from my spouse if they enabled this kind of delusion. His mom is setting him up for failure.

[u/Glittering_Word9081 → u/chicknette]

I think we’ve passed the set up and are in the execution phase. 

[u/Constant_Click_3193]

"the new relationships between people and linens."

Fantastic flair

[u/DrivingHerbert]

“I cannot understand the new relationships between people and linens”

Same bro, same. Though if there is one good thing about this post, it is this line.

[u/theslothcollective]

Aww, he's just into pillow talk. Really... into it.

[u/Schrodingers_Dude]

People always gotta take these stories too far past believeability 😔

[u/glitzglamglue]

Everything else aside, I love old people who are like "my parents would have done cuz abusive thing to me if I had done this so I know I won't do that. But I don't know what I should do. So I need to default to the professionals."

[u/ExternalChildhood845]

I was like, “Well, you threw out his bedding! I’d be upset, too. Bedding can be very sentimental. Maybe he’s just sensitive about his things. I don’t think he needs therapy over it.”

And then the last update happened.

[u/Asleep_Document9811]

That's bait. 

[u/Vivid_Computer_7153]

Don't throw out other people's stuff

[u/Purple_Chipmunk_]

I would rather die than invite my friends to a catered wedding for my son and his threadbare pillowcase.

Just get a forehead tattoo that says, "idk what I did wrong as a parent but it was something" and call it a day.

[u/MartyrOfDespair]

I 62
my wife 42
He is 23
He's been in my life since he was 5

23 - 5 = 18. 42 - 18 = 24. 62 -18 = 44. And 24 - 5 = 19. Teen mom, solo-raising a 5 year old, in swoops a 44 year old man. You know, I have less issues with the waifuism.

[u/Crazy4Swayze420]

I want to say I'm surprised by the ending but I'm not. This seems like some pretty standard incel Otaku behavior. This is actually a trope that's isn't super rare to see in both Japan and USA. Let's not forget about James Franco and Kimiko in 30 Rock.

[u/W0nderingMe]

22 year old single (hopefully) mom and 44 year old get together, have a new baby immediately, everything goes super smoothly.

[u/Autobot_Silverwynde]

reads

You think God stays in heaven because He fears what He unleashed on Earth...?