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A woman discovers the secret behind her boyfriend’s favorite mug after pondering its mysterious origin for months: ‘An ex totally got it for him’
- A woman was devastated to think her boyfriend’s favorite mug was from an ex
- Emily, from Maine, spent months secretly upset about the origins of the mug.
- But everything changed when he received the same mug for Christmas 2022.
- Emily realized that the mug was a gift from her boyfriend’s stepdad all along.
A woman always thought her boyfriend’s favorite mug was a gift from his ex-girlfriend, so finally learning the truth was the best holiday present ever.
emilyfrom Maine, shared a video detailing her debilitating thought process in which she had convinced herself of the insidious origins of her boyfriend’s favorite mug, which turned out to be a gift from her stepfather.
‘My boyfriend always had this anthropology Mug with your initial on it,’ it began. “And he knew that an ex-girlfriend absolutely bought him that.”
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A woman [pictured] She always thought her boyfriend’s favorite mug was a gift from his ex-girlfriend, but knowing the truth was the biggest gift of all the past holidays.
The couple moved in together a few months ago and Emily had to deal with seeing the mug all over the house.
“The mug came with us when we moved into our new house, and I didn’t love it,” she confessed.
Emily was convinced that she didn’t want to confront her partner about the cup because she was worried about looking ‘crazy’.
“I’m not crazy, so I’m never going to say anything, I’m not going to say, ‘I don’t want your ex-girlfriend’s mug in my house.'”
Emily, from Maine, shared a video detailing her debilitating thought process where she convinced herself of the insidious origins of her boyfriend’s favorite mug, which turned out to be a gift from her stepfather.
But Emily didn’t have to live with the weight of her feelings for much longer.
“I went to his family’s house for Christmas this year, and his stepdad gave me a little box as a present.”
The ‘gift’ turned out to be the same Anthropologie mug with an ‘E’, Emily’s initial.
“It wasn’t from an ex-girlfriend, it’s from her stepdad,” he said with relief.
She added: ‘It’s so cute and I suddenly love this mug!’
Emily’s boyfriend’s stepdad bought her the same mug with her initial on it for Christmas this year
While most of Emily’s followers were happy for her, some of the self-proclaimed “overthinkers” pointed to other potentially unpleasant scenarios.
“This is how my brain works too,” wrote one woman. ‘Did his stepfather give his ex-girlfriend the same cup?’
“Plot twist: He had a feeling you knew it was from an ex, so he had his stepdad give you one so he could drink from his former lover’s gift mug without detection.”
While most of Emily’s followers were happy for her, some of the self-proclaimed “overthinkers” pointed to other potential unpleasant scenarios regarding the mug.
Many admitted that they would have “dealt” with the cup if they had been in a similar situation.
‘That mug would not have moved with us to the new house,’ said one woman. “It would have magically ended up in the donation pile.”
“I would have ‘accidentally’ dropped the cup years ago.
“You could have smashed the mug and put the shattered pieces in the dishwasher, and that way you have something else to blame for its disappearance.”