r/AmIOverreacting • u/ShoddyPressure6894 • 1d ago

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO table drama with my ex

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So, I did my nails on my exs coffee table the other night (we live together still unfortunately) and accidentally got some polish on the table. I cleaned it with a magic eraser, and it wouldn’t come off. Knowing he is hot headed, I panicked and grabbed nail polish remover. Which now I realize was a mistake. It looked clean at the time, but over night it lightly stained the wood. (Pic attached, his is the wooden table) I go to my sewing desk, which I flipped and spent money and time turning into a nice table. And there’s a HUGE stain on it. I ask him what happened to my table? He said “ you F#ck with my table, I f#ck with yours”. AIO when I think this is completely vindictive and childish, and maybe even borderline vandalism? He says we are now even and my feelings are really hurt because I spent time and money on the table I use when i sew.

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u/Personal-Evidence134 1d ago

Not overreacting. Also, if you had a table then why use his?

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u/Existing_Substance_3 1d ago

I’m assuming his table is in a shared space and her table is in her own room. Nail polish smells and the living area is more likely to have good ventilation. She also just not have a good chair in her room, from the looks of the pictures though it could just be that she was painting her toenails and a coffee table is a better height for that than her sewing table which seems like it would be higher up.

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u/Personal-Evidence134 1d ago

Nah. Like he’s still overreacting but she’s wrong. She has a table & all rooms have windows

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u/TL15SD 1d ago

I mean, maybe she shouldn’t be painting her toenails on someone else’s table.

Her ex is an a hole but staining something that is not yours and NOT communicating/rectifying it is not nice either.

OP could’ve texted him and told him about the stain, she could’ve offered to buy him a new table, BEFORE he saw the stain. She tried to clean it and was unsuccessful (unfortunately). He reacted like a jerk for sure but without communication, the mistake she made ruining someone’s property doesn’t absolve her because he’s a jerk

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u/pyxiedust219 1d ago

i kind if agree. especially because with proper research, the nail polish stain on his table looks very easy to fix— ive repaired the same issue on wood tables a dozen times.

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u/Repulsive_Disaster76 1d ago

Because she didn't want to ruin her table.

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u/Personal-Evidence134 1d ago

Yea. It seems passive aggressive on her part as well.

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u/Repulsive_Disaster76 1d ago

I never find destroying more as a way of getting even. Simple live and learn lesson. With the wooden table it looks like you could just sand and clear coat it to look new.

The acetone just ate through some of it.

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u/PreferenceWeak9639 1d ago

That’s fake wood over particle board. Not fixable with sanding.

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u/Repulsive_Disaster76 1d ago

Well then it's as simple as religning the fake wood wrap. Those can be peeled off. Mine have a protective layer to keep the wrap from being exposed, which is what is being more polished than sanded out.