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Inspired_2write's avatar

A person in haste wrote a note to his beloved misspelling a word and she crossed it out and corrected it and thus he left her,Why?

Asked by Inspired_2write (14486points) April 3rd, 2019

What is your perspective on this and why would most agree with the writer to leave this relationship?

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chyna's avatar

Depends on the word. If he misspelled her name, thus making it a different name, I can see why she left.

Inspired_2write's avatar

@chyna She did not leave, he did.

chyna's avatar

Ah, I read it too quickly. Disregard my answer please.

Inspired_2write's avatar

@chyna No problem , I have done this in the past as well, a common error.

elbanditoroso's avatar

What a hoot! I wonder if this is really true, or if this is some made-up sensitivity test. And of course there’s a ton of detail that we don’t have.

He left her because he saw that she was obsessive-compulsive and he didn’t want to be with such a detail-dependent, nervous kook.

His departure make sense.

Inspired_2write's avatar

By the way the misspelled word was written as “LUV” instead of “I Love You”.

zenvelo's avatar

Both are in the wrong, he doubly so.

He for shortchanging her deep affection with slang text-speak.
Her for overreacting and correcting it.
Him for being so thin-skinned when she expresses her feelings.

Inspired_2write's avatar

@zenvelo
And what was HER feelings, I did not state that? What? Her need to correct?
They were in a longtime relationship and HE was about to Propose to her.
This made him think more .
Question is Why?
What did she ignore?

Zaku's avatar

I don’t know either of these people, but I am certain the choice to leave the relationship was not literally only about the incident described.

All we have to go on are a few words from someone not even in the relationship, so all we can do is project our own ideas and feelings from our own experiences and imaginations into the situation.

If that’s what you’re asking about, then in my case, apart from mainly being massively certain that the situation is at least 10,000 times more complicated and not really about this incident, I would tend to project and imagine that:

* She may not have liked “LUV” as a form of “love”.

* She may also have felt that if someone loves someone clearly, they might tend to want to use the clearest form to express it rather than a bent version.

* She may have felt the correction was a playful, loving, and/or fun tease.

* Or who knows what she was thinking/intending – certainly not me, and probably not him.

* He probably wasn’t actually clear about his feelings about her and the relationship, as hinted both by his perhaps-subconscious use of the corrupted spelling “LUV”, and certainly by his change of commitment to the proposal reportedly merely due to this minor occasion.

* He may have had other indications that there were characteristics of the relationship and/or her behavior that would not work out for him and/or the relationship, and this just act just resonated in his feelings (which are no doubt rooted in his own psychological material), and so he became suddenly aware of that, and so his perspective shifted.

* In any case, if this event results in a change in his thinking about wanting to propose marriage, then he was ultimately correct to at least not want to get married. (Whether or not it also warranted leaving the relationship, again, I have no information with which to even speculate.)

KNOWITALL's avatar

I can overlook a lot of things, including spelling mistakes, so I think it’s pretty bizarre.

ucme's avatar

Bloody hell, they both must have been members here at some point surely ;-}

stanleybmanly's avatar

Agree? He’s a fool! Why should I agree?

josie's avatar

Too fussy.

LostInParadise's avatar

LUV is not love. I interpret the woman’s act as a confirmation of a feeling of genuine love. If the guy misinterprets this then he is a genuine jerk.

Suppose that he had written love and she replaced it with luv. Then he might be excused for feeling that he was not being taken seriously.

Inspired_2write's avatar

From link:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/friendship-20/201506/20-signs-your-partner-is-controlling

No matter how individually small a criticism seems, if it’s part of a constant dynamic within your relationship, it would be very tough to feel accepted, loved, or validated. If every little thing you do could use improvement in your partner’s eyes, then how are you being valued as a true equal, let alone loved unconditionally?
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This man left his partner of two years after realizing that she would not accept him nor value his feelings and how he expressed them.( misspelling , hearts or whatever).

He went on with his life and within a few years married a much better woman who accepted him and valued him and his loving messages no matter how it was expressed.

The woman married another and continued to correct everything about her husband until HE corrected it by divorcing her.

Patterns exist in families and controlling behavior is one that is a warning sign.

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Thank you for all your comments.

Inspired_2write's avatar

@elbanditoroso
You hit the nail on the head and had the insight to see the real problem .
Thank you for your views.

kritiper's avatar

He didn’t want a nit picker for a wife.

Pandora's avatar

People who are constantly correcting another person they are in a relationship with are sending the message that they believe they are better than you. Maybe he got the message and it was one correction too many. Some people use humor to avoid an uncomfortable situation and to get you to shut up, and some us spell corrections. Like you see on Facebook or twitter all the time.

seawulf575's avatar

I agree with @Pandora. It seems like this is a sign that she is a huge control freak. I understand when you read something and you see something misspelled and you think about it being misspelled. But with something like “Luv”, that is a bit over the top. And to correct it shows not only obsession with minute details but also a control aspect to the person.

Inspired_2write's avatar

Also she didn’t appreciate that He was telling her that he loved her!
The correction was more important to her than the message.

Inspired_2write's avatar

Thanks for all of your comments. Hope that this made us think about correcting others and shaming them.

Pazza's avatar

“last night, I was amazing shit in bed.”

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