The original post: /r/amitheasshole by /u/FlavMink on 2025-04-04 00:33:03.
My gf has had body issues the whole 5 years we have been together. I love her and remind her how beautiful she is constantly. She has dealt with an eating disorder before me, and I cook for her to make sure she eats stuff other than energy drinks, chips, and sugar.
As of late, she has been having trouble with acne. She might have like 2 pimples and think the world is over. I had tons of acne in high school, got made fun of, and got over it. She has been dealing with it due to the birth control pills she takes. I have told her multiple times that if she hates it, we can go back to condoms or switch pills. She just doesn't due to fear of other pills' side effects and/or "not wanting to waste the pills cause they'll throw them away"?
Today, she went to get this cream that's been helping her with the acne, and apparently, the company stopped making the cream. She's crying on the phone ,driving, talking to me about how she's having a panic attack, and wanting to scream and cry in the store after noticing it is not being made anymore. I first told her to pull over and not to drive if she's panicking like this. Then, I told her a realistic plan of trying other products that I could even buy for her so she could test them. I also told her about this beef tallow thing that she showed me a while back.
She wasn't happy and told me how she "fucking hates her skin and wanted to scream as hard as she can in the store". I told her how she has to find a way to calm down and that something like acne cream shouldn't throw her into a huge melt down by seeing 1 of 999999999999 different creams is gone. She yelled at me and hung up.
I can understand how much she hates having acne, but trying other creams and potentially finding a better one sounds so easy to me. She will maybe have 4 pimples for a few weeks and won't explode. Am I The Asshole for saying she shouldn't freak out over it?