Man Sparks Fury Online With 'Sick' Reaction to Girlfriend Fainting

A man's alarming response to learning his girlfriend suffered a minor health scare when she was home alone has drawn widespread condemnation on Reddit.

In a lengthy post shared to the "Am I The A**hole" subreddit, a 25-year-old man described his astonishing reaction after learning his 23-year-old girlfriend, Lydia, fainted in the shower.

It all started during a gathering at Lydia's apartment, which she shares with another woman. Lydia's roommate's boyfriend, Jeff, was also present for what was supposed to be just another Friday night of pizza and friendly chat.

However, things took a turn after the housemate made a passing joke about Lydia being "locked in and passed out" inside the bathroom.

Later that night, back at Lydia's room, she explained that earlier that day "she wasn't feeling good and ended up fainting in the shower."

As a result, "Jeff had to break down the door" to get her help. She hadn't mentioned it as "she already felt better" and didn't want him to be "worried about nothing."

However, the boyfriend said he ended up seeing "red" after she told him how after Jeff broke down the door her "roommate had to cover her with a towel so they could come to the rescue of her naked body." The thought that another man may have seen his girlfriend naked left the man incensed.

"I asked if Jeff had seen her naked and she said she couldn't be sure since she was unconscious but roommate said that he stood out of the bathroom until she was covered," he wrote. "I asked if Lydia thought it was fair to me not to know that another guy had seen her naked and she said he didn't actually see her naked and that it shouldn't matter since he was only helping."

At this point, the man began shouting. When his girlfriend told him to quiet down because Jeff and her housemate would hear, he told her he "didn't care" because another man had seen her naked and he "had a right to be mad."

Jeff entered the room soon after and stressed that he "never saw anything" but the man said he "didn't believe him." When the roommate tried to explain that they were "making sure the situation wasn't embarrassing" while taking care of Lydia, the angry boyfriend dismissed her opinions out of hand.

Jeff grew angry at this point and began shouting, telling the boyfriend to "respect his girlfriend and mine" and branded him "an a**hole who didn't deserve any kind of help." The boyfriend stormed off there and then, despite the fact Lydia "begged" him not to go.

However, in a further twist, Lydia was then admitted to hospital after feeling unwell again. Jeff and Lydia's roommate prohibited the boyfriend from seeing her telling him he "didn't deserve her."

Despite this, the boyfriend wrote that he still thinks he was "right" to react the way he did. "At this point I'm not mad at Lydia anymore," he said. "Just at Jeff."

Unfortunately, for the boyfriend, the internet was still mad at him over his actions. Very mad. EvilGreebo commented: "You don't f**ing own her body. You don't have a right to be mad. You're way out of line. Grow the f*** up."

Nolan358 wrote: "She probably had to be hospitalized from tripping over all the red flags you dropped. The roommate and her man are right, you don't deserve her. Until you grow up you don't deserve anybody." Dnjprod slammed the boyfriend for turning "a medical emergency into some sick sexual thing because of his insecurity. What a child."

Beingserial, meanwhile, noted that Lydia had hesitated to tell the boyfriend because she was probably "afraid to tell him" knowing what his reaction would be. "For anyone in a healthy relationship, it would be completely normal to mention to a partner that you had passed out and someone came to help you," they commented.

Schmern1 agreed that he sounded like a "dangerous guy" with funnyflowers1321 expressing hope that Lydia "doesn't let him back into her life."

"He is going to hurt her one day, this is such an obvious precursor to some serious assault level abuse," they said.

Unfortunately, the reality is that women in Lydia's specific age bracket are among the most common victims of intimate partner violence, which can take many forms including physical, verbal, emotional, economic and sexual abuse.

According to figures compiled by the National Domestic Violence Hotline, women aged 18 to 24 and 25 to 34 experience the highest rates of intimate partner violence.

Data also shows that most female victims of intimate partner violence were previously victimized by the same offender at rates of 77 percent among women aged 18 to 24, 76 percent for women aged 25 to 34.

Newsweek has contacted the original poster for comment.

This isn't the first time a partner's misdemeanors have come to the fore on social media. Earlier this month, a man drew the ire of the internet after ending a relationship because his girlfriend couldn't promise him she would maintain a healthy BMI.

On the flip side, a woman drew criticism after refusing to take the baby her husband conceived as part of an affair away with them on a family holiday.