September 6, 2026 at 8:15 am

She Trusted Her Boyfriend With Her Most Valuable Possession—Then He Showed Her She’d Made a Terrible Mistake

by Liz Wiest

a woman's hand holding AirPods

Source: Pexels / Reddit

Love him, sure. But trust him with your most expensive possessions. Well, that’s a whole other story.

How would you handle your partner causing irreparable damage to your most important tech items? One girl recently shared a wild story about this on Reddit. Here’s what happened.

AITA for demanding my bf to buy me a new pair of Airpods

My boyfriend Matt was going to a party out of town and asked if he could borrow my AirPods for the train ride.

I was hesitant but I eventually agreed on one condition: he would bring them back just as they were.

I made it clear that he had to take very good care of them.

You’d think this would be the bare minimum.

I am a student so I wouldn’t be able to afford a new pair.

He pinky promised me he would bring them back safe.

After the party, Matt came home pretty drunk and handed me my AirPods back.

Not off to a strong start.

I immediately started using them, but as soon as I put one in my ear, something felt off.

My phone didn’t connect automatically, which I first assumed was because Matt had been using them all day.

But after trying to reconnect them, I realized they weren’t actually mine.

How does that even happen?

They were AirPods of the exact same model, but they belonged to someone else.

I got annoyed and told him these were not my headphones.

Thankfully, I was still able to track my real AirPods.

But she shouldn’t have had to.

Their location showed up at a random address near where the party had been, but not at the host’s house.

The next morning, Matt drove down to the address to get them and came back with my actual AirPods completely smashed and destroyed.

Apparently, the owner of the house had found them at the train station after they had been run over.

All of this sounds incredibly suspicious.

So, the replacement AirPods he had given me belonged to his friend Jason.

According to both of them, I could just keep Jason’s pair because Jason already owed Matt money anyway.

The thing is: yes, these AirPods technically work fine, but they are not mine.

This boyfriend sounds like a real keeper…

I also can’t get the “Play Sound” feature for the case to work on this pair, which is something I used literally every day with my own AirPods.

What also bothers me is that I only agreed to borrow Matt my AirPods because he promised he would return my actual pair safely.

I don’t really feel like it should now become my responsibility to accept some random replacement just because he and his friend decided it evens things out between them.

At least she is starting to read the writing on the wall.

He also got slightly upset when I brough up the idea of him just buying me a new pair.

He says ’he tried’ to fix the situtation, but I personally don’t think giving someone elses used headphones is enough, after you didn’t take enough good care of something that didn’t belong to you.

He also told me that I should give him a break, cause he has a lot going on….

As does everyone.

He does think my reaction is valid, but hasn’t really done much to really make it seem like he is genuinely sorry.

If I was him, I would’ve bought a new pair immediately, no question.

So AITA for wanting to demand Matt to buy me a new pair of Airpods?

Well, this case seems pretty open and shut. Let’s see if the Reddit jury felt the same.

The comments were pretty flabbergasted by this one.
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Not to mention disgusted by the boyfriend’s actions.
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One person reiterated an important reminder.
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If you enjoyed this story, check out this post about a man who offered to buy his parents a house with his lottery winnings, only to find out they think they deserve half of all his winnings.

Another shared a classic saying.
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And someone else got conspiratorial.
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The saxophones are getting louder for someone here…

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