A woman has caused Reddit users to fear she is being scammed by her long-term boyfriend after revealing his request for a loan.
The woman told her story on Reddit’s “r/AmItheA–hole” thread, where users seek out strangers’ opinions on whether or not they are in the wrong in a conflict in their lives.
The woman has been dating a single father for three months but hasn’t met his children yet as her boyfriend has insisted that it was too soon.
However, she has been sending expensive gifts to the children every weekend.
“My boyfriend assured me that he will tell them eventually where these gifts are coming from,” the woman wrote.
After a while, the woman didn’t hear from her boyfriend for a whole week until he reached out to her stating that one of his sons was in the hospital due to an injury.
The woman offered to visit his son but her boyfriend suggested that she send him gifts instead.
Later on, he called the woman again with a specific request in mind.
He asked her to lend him $5,000 for his son’s surgery.
“I have to say that I was caught off guard but he said that he felt so heavy making this request but had no one else willing to help but me,” the woman wrote.
As $5,000 is a lot of money, so she was understandably uncomfortable with the request.
Initially, her boyfriend understood but soon he started pressuring her, claiming the…
