He thought it was a sweet, harmless routine: one episode of his son’s favorite cartoon every night so they could talk about it together the next morning.

But when he hopped out of bed mid-cuddle to keep the tradition, his hookup didn’t see it as adorable…she saw it as being ditched for cartoons.

Read on for the story.

AITAH for watching a cartoon instead of cuddling?

I am going through a divorce, which might make me automatically the AH. I have been hooking up with someone.

We aren’t official, but I thought we were headed towards it. She came over, and I made dinner. We had dinner. We had dessert. It was a wonderful evening.

We were cuddling and on the way to drifting off, when I remembered I forgot to watch my show. My son and I watch one episode of his favorite show every day, and in the morning during our breakfast phone call we talk about the show. It’s our thing.

I said “shoot, I forgot” and got out of bed.

Run!

She asked where I was going, and I said my son and I watch an episode of his favorite show every day.

I won’t lie. I kind of expected her to think that was cute. She didn’t. She couldn’t believe I was abandoning her in the middle of a postcoital cuddle.

I said she could come watch the show with me, and then we’ll go back to cuddling. She asked what show it was. I told her, and she was even more annoyed. She said “so you want me to watch cartoons with you? You’d rather watch cartoons than stay in bed with me?”

Wow.

I said no, and that it was just because of my son. I said it will take less than 30 minutes, and that she should relax in bed, and then I’ll give her a back massage.

She said no, got dressed and left. I asked her to stay and promised to make it up to her, but she gave me the bird.

It’s been a while since I was on the dating scene, but she’s overreacting, right? It’s not like I wanted to watch cartoons for my own amusement. It’s for my kid. It would have been less than 30 minutes. AITA just for that?

Now he’s wondering if this was wholesome parenting…or terrible timing.

Most people say NTA.

That she isn’t even worth his time.

And that even though the timing wasn’t great, she needs to grow up.

Turns out in this love triangle, the cartoon, and the kid, came first.

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