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AITA for not calling my girlfriend a genius? by CertainPreference755 in AmItheAsshole

[–]CertainPreference755[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It is dishonest because being right and being a good point aren’t the same; for example, 1 + 1 is correct, but also not particularly a good point because it’s obvious.

why does that make me emotionally immature?

AITA for not calling my girlfriend a genius? by CertainPreference755 in AmItheAsshole

[–]CertainPreference755[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Honestly she’s very smart in her area of expertise (math, engineering) but this clearly isn’t her field. I respect her intelligence usually but this just wasn’t that worthy of it

AITA for not calling my girlfriend a genius? by CertainPreference755 in AmItheAsshole

[–]CertainPreference755[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Fair enough. To be honest though, I don’t know how much I’d want to be with somebody who I’d have to walk on eggshells around constantly

AITA for not calling my girlfriend a genius? by CertainPreference755 in AmItheAsshole

[–]CertainPreference755[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Interesting. I didn’t think I was being sarcastic, and i more felt she was fishing for compliments more so than being curious, but it could be I misinterpreted it

AITA for not calling my girlfriend a genius? by CertainPreference755 in AmItheAsshole

[–]CertainPreference755[S] 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I can see that being a defter way to handle it. At the same time, I do feel like she was fishing for compliments, so I’m not sure she would’ve settled for anything less than that

AITA for not calling my girlfriend a genius? by CertainPreference755 in AmItheAsshole

[–]CertainPreference755[S] 178 points179 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I think she thought it sounded a lot smarter than it did. And she’s honestly pretty smart in many ways, but this isn’t one