Nursing Student Says Her Boyfriend Is Jealous of Her Male Patients: ‘He Ended Up Kicking Me Out of His House’

A nursing student turned to Reddit for advice after her boyfriend reacted badly to her treating male patients during training.

Posting on Reddit’s “Am I the A——?” forum, the woman explained that she’s now applying the skills she learned in her lab to real patients. “I am beginning to use the skills I practiced in lab on actual patients now,” she wrote. “When I told him I performed a catheter insertion on a male and told him the procedure, he proceeded to get extremely upset with me.”

According to her, the boyfriend made “hurtful jokes” and became increasingly angry.

His response caught her off guard. “I attempted to talk things out with him in the moment, but he ended up kicking me out of his house,” she said. “I did end up talking to him the following day, and he stated he didn’t like hearing about the stories at my job and to keep it among my classmates.”

The woman added that her boyfriend tried to justify his anger by comparing her duties to “if he had a job where he grabbed women’s breasts,” which she said made no sense. “They’re not even remotely the same in any circumstance,” she noted.

Wondering if she was wrong to share details of her clinical experiences, the nursing student asked the community, “Am I the a—— for sharing my experiences with my boyfriend?”

The majority of Reddit users sided firmly with her. One commenter wrote, “You’re not the a——, but he is. You might want to find someone who understands it’s your job. By which I mean find an adult, not an insecure and controlling little boy.”

Another added, “He sounds like a child. Break up with him if that’s how he reacts to you doing your literal job.”

A third commenter summed it up: “If he is that immature to think there is anything remotely sexy about anything you do as a nurse, then I think it’s time to give him the heave-ho.”