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GF Keeps Breaking Glass Cups Every Time She’s At SO’s Home, They Ban Her From Using Them
All of us can be clumsy from time to time. But some people lack grace way more often than others. In fact, for some, clumsiness is a daily occurrence that causes them problems, as they, for example, keep breaking delicate objects and kind of become a danger to people around them. Like today’s OP’s girlfriend, whose clumsiness with glass objects kept injuring her partner to the point that they banned her from using them.
More info: Reddit
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Some people are so clumsy that it can be dangerous to be around them
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This woman kept breaking glass objects, and her significant other kept getting injured by the shards, as she wouldn’t clean them up
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So, her partner decided to ban her from using glass cups, as they got very tired of constantly using gauze and tape for their wounds
The post’s author’s girlfriend had a problem with glass. To be more specific, she’s very clumsy and kept breaking various glass objects. Also, she didn’t clean the messes up, so the OP constantly got injured by the shards. During the week in which the post on Reddit was published, they got injured by glass shards four times and later needed to go to urgent care, as some shards were left in their foot.
One day, when the girlfriend asked for a soda, the post’s author poured it into a plastic cup instead of a glass cup. And, well, that angered the woman. She didn’t want to hear about her clumsiness with glass and insisted that her partner was making this way bigger of a deal than it was.
Later, the couple made up, and the woman promised to inform her significant other if she broke something. After the urgent care visit, she understood how she hurt the OP and why they were angry, which caused her to be more careful with glass.
So, a nice ending, right? Well, kind of. If you’re not counting the many people online worrying about some underlying neurological issue or other kinds of health problems that are causing the OP’s girlfriend to be so clumsy. There are many health issues that can cause a person to be clumsy. Some of them are:
- Stroke;
- Seizures;
- Brain tumor;
- Brain injury;
- Substance abuse.
Image credits: Tim Durand (not the actual photo)
Mental health problems, such as anxiety, can also be a cause of clumsiness. Usually, it’s not the symptom of anxiety but, rather, the result of it. If anxiety causes a person to have shaky or sweaty hands and distracted thinking, it’s quite normal for them to be clumsy. The problem with it starts when the same clumsiness shames the person and only adds to already existing anxiety and makes the mental health problem even worse.
Overcoming clumsiness depends on several different factors. If the cause for it is a more physical illness, such as brain damage or anything similar we already talked about, the first step is to figure out the underlying issue and treat it. With a treatment, the clumsiness might go away.
And if the cause is more related to mental health issues, the path of getting rid of it is, in a way, the same — identifying and dealing with it. For instance, if the cause is the already mentioned anxiety, things such as meditation, exercise, or therapy might help with it.
Circling back to the story, in the update and comments, the OP cleared the air by saying that their girlfriend didn’t have any underlying issues that caused her to break so many glass objects and that she’s been this way since childhood. Well, that ties up the nice ending to the story, right?
Internet folks worried that the problem was way more serious than simply a woman’s clumsiness, but they were reassured that nothing was wrong with her
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Donald 9 months ago
For real, if you can't drink out of adult glasses you can have a sippy cup.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 9 months ago (edited)
I’m 63, and have been clumsy for as long as I can remember. I had inner ear issues as a child, and know that it affected my balance (took dance lessons for years, which helped a lot but didn’t make it entirely go away). I don’t know if that’s also a factor in my clumsiness or not, but it’s the only thing that comes to mind. Once I was living on my own (at 18), and replacing glasses and plates was on my own dime, I realized I had to go the unbreakable route. I bought rock solid Pyrex bakeware, Correlle dinnerware, and unbreakable glasses and cups—-including a set of those brightly colored metal ones all our parents had when we were kids. They might dent if dropped, but at least they won’t break. Oddly enough my husband, who has known about my issues with glassware from the moment we met, is the only one who has broken one Correlle dish, and that was from putting it on a stove burner he forgot was still hot. For decades now, if I go to a restaurant, or someone’s home for dinner, or anywhere else where there’s eating and/or drinking, I have to be extra vigilant about not dropping glasses or plates. I know the risk is there, and try to mitigate it as much as possible. OP’s girlfriend needs to become a lot more self-aware, and start policing herself around glass, just like I did 45 years ago at 18, after having to spend my own money replacing glassware I broke.
Beachbum 9 months ago
You learned to be careful and responsible. I’ll bet you also cleaned up carefully when you did break something. No excuse fir not cleaning thoroughly except for lazy entitled behavior.
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jdtimid123 9 months ago
Work smarter not harder: she needs to get used to a less breakable set of dishes if she has a habit of breaking them, that gets expensive over time. She also needs to learn how to properly clean glass, because that can be dangerous. He should start wearing house shoes if he's getting glass in his foot on a regular basis. But mostly she sucks for being in denial. Of course getting shards of glass in your foot hurts, why would she not think he was in pain? And how has she avoided glass in her feet for so long?
Katherine Smith 9 months ago
She probably wears shoes or slippers in the house because she knows they're glad shards on the floor!
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Donald 9 months ago
For real, if you can't drink out of adult glasses you can have a sippy cup.
Load More Replies... Tabitha 9 months ago (edited)
I’m 63, and have been clumsy for as long as I can remember. I had inner ear issues as a child, and know that it affected my balance (took dance lessons for years, which helped a lot but didn’t make it entirely go away). I don’t know if that’s also a factor in my clumsiness or not, but it’s the only thing that comes to mind. Once I was living on my own (at 18), and replacing glasses and plates was on my own dime, I realized I had to go the unbreakable route. I bought rock solid Pyrex bakeware, Correlle dinnerware, and unbreakable glasses and cups—-including a set of those brightly colored metal ones all our parents had when we were kids. They might dent if dropped, but at least they won’t break. Oddly enough my husband, who has known about my issues with glassware from the moment we met, is the only one who has broken one Correlle dish, and that was from putting it on a stove burner he forgot was still hot. For decades now, if I go to a restaurant, or someone’s home for dinner, or anywhere else where there’s eating and/or drinking, I have to be extra vigilant about not dropping glasses or plates. I know the risk is there, and try to mitigate it as much as possible. OP’s girlfriend needs to become a lot more self-aware, and start policing herself around glass, just like I did 45 years ago at 18, after having to spend my own money replacing glassware I broke.
Beachbum 9 months ago
You learned to be careful and responsible. I’ll bet you also cleaned up carefully when you did break something. No excuse fir not cleaning thoroughly except for lazy entitled behavior.
Load More Replies... jdtimid123 9 months ago
Work smarter not harder: she needs to get used to a less breakable set of dishes if she has a habit of breaking them, that gets expensive over time. She also needs to learn how to properly clean glass, because that can be dangerous. He should start wearing house shoes if he's getting glass in his foot on a regular basis. But mostly she sucks for being in denial. Of course getting shards of glass in your foot hurts, why would she not think he was in pain? And how has she avoided glass in her feet for so long?
Katherine Smith 9 months ago
She probably wears shoes or slippers in the house because she knows they're glad shards on the floor!
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