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Somebody is seeking relationship advice from the internet on how to cope with her boyfriend’s hilariously bizarre behaviour

David Harris. Updated July 27th, 2024

One of the most popular corners of Reddit is r/relationship_advice, a forum where people can ask fellow redditors for… well, relationship advice.

It’s basically a huge agony aunt column with millions of agony aunts and agony uncles piling in to offer solutions of varying degrees of helpfulness.

Most of the problems presented are pretty run-of-the-mill stuff which you would expect to find in your average Dear Deirdre column (is that still a thing?).

But this one, shared on Twitter/X by Orwell & Goode, is certainly unique and utterly hilarious.

A closer look…

r/relationship_advice u/ThrowRAlanternissues ⚫ 8h My [26F] Boyfriend [28M] is Obsessed with a Lantern He Found at a Flea Market and It getting weird. How do I approach this? Hello, So, my boyfriend (28M) and I (26F) recently went to a flea market, and he found this old-style lantern that he absolutely fell in love with. He bought it on the spot, and I thought it was a cute little vintage decoration for our apartment. But now, things have taken a strange turn. Ever since he got the lantern, he's become super attached to it. He keeps it by his bedside and even gets up in the middle of the night to walk around the apartment with it, pretending to be an old-timey watchman. He'll say things like "All is well!" or "The night is dark and full of terrors," and he really gets into character. At first, I thought it was kind of funny and endearing as he always had an eccentric style of humour, but now it's starting to annoy me. He does this almost every night, and it's disrupting our sleep. I've tried talking to him about it, but he just tells me that he takes his watchman duties very seriously and that it's important for our safety. This issue is, I genuinely cannot tell if he's joking. Has anyone else experienced something like this? How do I get him to tone it down without hurting his feelings or making him feel like he can't enjoy his quirky interests? Thanks for any advice! TL;DR: Boyfriend is obsessed with an old lantern he found at a flea market and now pretends to be a night watchman, which is disrupting our sleep. How do I address this?

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