AITA for assuming my girlfriend would nudge me awake for something we were doing together?

Me (34m) and my girlfriend (33f) have been together for three years. Things are mostly good, but we have been arguing more than usual lately and in particular we keep arguing about this one thing, and I don’t know if I’m just being defensive or if we’re actually just different people.

She’s really into fitness and racing. There was this big race in New Zealand she’s been hyped about for months. Re-release Registration opened super early in the morning for us here. We just moved to Thailand last month, but before that we were in the U.S. (east coast time), so she went through the trouble of figuring out time zones, what time we’d need to wake up after the move, sent calendar invites, talked to me about it, set alarms the night before, the whole deal. I will give her that she’s great with that stuff.

I told her I wanted to do the race too, but honestly I’m not as hardcore about this stuff as she is. When registration went live around 4:50am, she woke up but I slept through it. I struggle with waking up. She knows this. Tickets sold out crazy fast, like minutes.

She had her own ticket in her cart, but then went back to try to add me, and in that time everything sold out, so she didn’t get a ticket either. Neither of us got one.

She’s not full-on mad, though i can see thatnshes deflated but she says me not being awake proves I didn’t really want to do it, and if it mattered to me I would’ve been up with her. I told her that if she needed me up, she could’ve just woken me and I would’ve helped. I like running and she loves LOTR. From my side, I didn’t miss it on purpose, and I did say I wanted to do it.

I feel like she’s making a bigger deal out of this than it is and in a relationship you help each other out. If she needed me to wake her up for something important I would have, no problem. She was already awake, so why not just nudge me instead of assuming I’d wake myself up?

This has repeatedly happened where she just chooses not to wake me up for the gym etc, its gotten to the point where we just do our own thing because she just chooses not​​​​ to wake me up for things that she feels should be important to me. I feel like why wouldn’t you just wake me up? Im right there.

Especially if i had myncomputer already set up and ready to go? Its like she creates this block about waking me up in her mind and runs away with it and just refuses to wake me up.

I feel blamed, like my intentions are being questioned over something I didn’t mean to do. I just left and went for a run.

AITA for telling her she’s reading too much into this and she should have just woken me up? Or is she being unfair letting me sleep through important shared goals especially if she’s ready awake?

2 thoughts on “AITA for assuming my girlfriend would nudge me awake for something we were doing together?”
  1. YTA

    You have a history of not self managing your sleep schedule, your GF missed an opportunity to do something she really wanted to do because she went back to try and add you and then she missed out, and now you are trying to make it her responsibility for personally taking extra steps for waking you up?

    You can’t mean that dude, surely you are just putting this whole line of nonsense forward to see if it will stick?

  2. YTA

    She’s your girlfriend , not your mom. It’s not her job to wake you up for things. Do better, or she will find someone else who will.

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