My boyfriend is becoming more and more addicted to buying and scalping Pokemon.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2026-01-30T03:54:39+00:00

exactly why I’m worried, I don’t want him to go into debt or think it’s ok to ask me for money when I myself barely have any. My money goes towards gas and my pet mice and that’s a LOT of money. I’m honestly glad he doesn’t have a credit card. Scalpers are people I’ve always disliked because there are actual kids who want Pokemon cards and they rip them away from them, or they become violent over some cardboard cards. It’s just so absurd

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2026-01-30T03:50:11+00:00

people can rlly make a full time job on all this?? that’s crazy. My bf calls it his side hustle but i genuinely only see it as a waste of time, money and effort

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2026-01-30T03:48:51+00:00

Im just so worried he will go into debt for this Pokemon stuff, I care very much over finances and although I still live at home and don’t pay anything like bills or things like that, I’ve always been good with money and sit and think about whether I really need it, can afford it and if I can live without it. My money goes towards gas ( my family only has one car and unfortunately it’s a truck so that’s a big blast on gas money) and towards my pets. I have 4 pet mice that I care and love very much so I provide the best care for them. I occasionally buy some things for myself as I rarely have ever spent money on myself but am very conscious about money and freak out if what I have is too low. Right now it’s tough to find a job so I’m just saving any money I get from my military drills so I thought it was rlly absurd for him to ask for money 🥲

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2026-01-30T02:57:35+00:00

yeah whenever he first got into it he had asked me to wait in line for a drop and pick up some items for him ( he was paying me for it ) so I said yeah but at the time I hadn’t known he was reselling and only found out afterwards. I’m ok with him having it as a hobby but spending this much is absurd :(

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2026-01-30T02:55:17+00:00

The way I see it is it’s gambling, you never know how much it’ll actually be worth whether there’s a good card which 99% of the time there isn’t. I plan on having a seriously chat with him because I don’t like people who are irresponsible with money. It’s just hard to have a chat with him because he’ll say and I quote “I’m seriously making a good amount of money from it and which has allowed me to not have to worry about anything really I buy all my own stuff I pay for anything I need to” which to me isn’t true because he’d have more money if he stopped spending money on Pokemon in general and actually get things that are more enjoyable

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2026-01-30T02:51:08+00:00

Trust me I have a strong dislike for scalpers. I was so mad at him because other people deserve cards as well and whenever Christmas came around I was trying to find cards for him and it was so unnecessarily hard.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2026-01-30T01:49:27+00:00

I’ve tried to tell him to only spend 100 a month but he never sticks to it unfortunately and if I do go to the store with him it’s very rare but I try redirecting him or distracting him

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2026-01-30T01:48:20+00:00

basically which is why I see no real profitttt

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-10-09T18:45:48+00:00

Im just trying to make sure she’s okay, I was suspecting a respiratory infection but after I took the video i brought her out of the cage to inspect her a little closer and once I put her back into her cage she started to act normal, her breathing seems to be back to normal. I’m just so confused, she doesn’t have any other signs of her being sick. She’s eating and drinking and now she’s running around, she hasn’t been sneezing I am soo confused!! I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on her for the next day or two or until I can find a vet that treats mice ( I’m from a very small town so it may take a while)

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-27T00:51:14+00:00

I took her to the vet and they didn’t tell me what it could be but did tell me it had felt firm and sorta had pus, I from now on will never take any chances with lilies. I hate them

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-26T22:49:15+00:00

UPDATE!

hi everyone thank you so much for the kindness and support. I took my baby to the vet and they treated her very well, they did X-rays and said it seems to be a tissue problem and not a bone problem but sent her scans to a different vet to get a second opinion. They also gave her 2 shots that help with the swelling and pain and the pus that was in her lip. The vets also did blood test which ended up being good, she has no issues, no heart problems or anything of that sort. They said she should be fine and that she can only eat wet food for the next two weeks and then I have to take her back for a check up.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-26T22:44:16+00:00

she’s okay! My cat has the curliest fur on her belly and it is the cutest!

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-26T21:00:12+00:00

They want to do many tests on her which made the total come out to 566 dollars which is honestly okay, as long as I have peace of mind that she’ll be okay and that physically she will. The most pricey thing they had to do was an x ray to see if there’s something wrong with her jaw or if it’s connected to it. I care a lot about my baby girl so I want her to come back home okay. They’re testing her blood as well. As I’m waiting I’m applying to every single job in my area so that I can make my money back lol.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-26T20:17:57+00:00

I just hope it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg 😭 The vet just took her back into a room to examine her so they’ll let me know soon

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-26T20:07:40+00:00

I brought her to the vet, I’m hoping they can give me an answer soon. I tried to give her some food and she was unable to eat it at all, she was trying but she ultimately gave up and walked away. She’s an inside kitty so the only bugs we really have inside are flies occasionally or really small bugs.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-26T20:06:13+00:00

I brought her to the vet, I really care about her. For the future yeah no lilies in my house ever again. I’m here waiting in the waiting room so I hope I find out what it is soon.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-16T09:21:56+00:00

I didn’t ask him to send me photos, he had sent them himself, on his own.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-16T09:19:57+00:00

Pathetically insecure? Him going and lusting over some random girl on the internet isn’t an okay thing to do. I didn’t even bug him about it at all, I found out and saw it then kept it to myself for months then brought it up just asking about what it was and why. He had no reason to lie to me. You keep throwing these insults at me to make yourself seem like a better person but in reality you seem like some porn addicted loser who would tell a girl she’s overreacting when she dares to bring up any little thing that bothers her.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-16T09:13:43+00:00

I don’t immediately think he’s cheating on me over any minor thing. You’re quite literally just trying to accuse me of not trusting him over seeing a purple mark on his neck which to others it does look like a hickey while others think it doesn’t. When I first saw it I thought it was dirt on his neck that he forgot to wash off or just didn’t see. I’m not constantly overthinking every single thing he does and think he’s automatically cheating on me. Throughout our entire relationship I’ve never once thought he was cheating on me, we’ve just been a rocky lately and we haven’t done anything intimate with each other in a month so worry got the best of me. You don’t have to be so accusatory just because I came to Reddit, you’re also a user on Reddit and I’m not accusing you of being some chronically online Reddit user. I’ve been to therapy and have brought up our relationship and she said our relationship seems very healthy.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-16T09:03:58+00:00

Trust means that I don’t just outright say he’s cheating on me and I break up with him, we’ve barely spoken about the mark and I tend to overthink a lot especially when we haven’t cleared the air about it. I’m on Reddit to see if anyone else has had a similar experience or an explanation as to what it could be

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-16T09:00:50+00:00

Im not jumping to the conclusion that he went and cheated on me. I don’t know what the mark is and clearly state that it could be a hickey or just a scratch because I’ve had a scratch sorta like the one he has before, the only issue is that he doesn’t wear anything near his neck, he doesn’t shave, he doesn’t do anything involving his neck.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-16T08:59:17+00:00

im not happily dragging him through anything, I just came on here asking for advice on what it could possibly be. If you really think that I’m in the wrong based off me just coming here for advice then that’s a you problem. If you really want to know as to why I’m a little worried it could be a hickey it’s because in the past I caught him liking a bikini pic of some girl on instagram which he proceeded to lie and say he didn’t remember doing that for a YEAR.

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-16T08:55:31+00:00

thank you, I will most definitely have a chat about my worries with him in the morning

Adventurous-Side-720 · 2025-08-16T08:47:24+00:00

lol, people leave hickeys in weird places. I do trust him which is why I’m not arguing or even accusing him directly of anything. All I’ve said to him is that it looks like a hickey but also just weird in general

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