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Input: I (26M) recently got a bit upset after a conversation with my parents. It wasn’t much of a big deal, they just left me feeling slightly undervalued and a bit down.

When my girlfriend (25F) and I got home she could tell that I was upset and tried to comfort me. I realised that this feeling about my parents wasn’t particularly meaningful, and I would get over it after sleeping on it, but my girlfriend then got upset that she wasn’t able to successfully comfort me enough to stop me from being grumpy.

We end up getting into a minor argument because she had exhausted her efforts to try and cheer me up but I remain to be in a generally melancholic mood. My argument is that I feel I just need time to get over it and be cheery again, I can’t simply snap out of feeling a bit down. I suppose she might feel either like she is failing in what she might see as her role as my girlfriend to cheer me up, or perhaps she feels unappreciated herself by me and got frustrated. But I don’t think I can just decide to start being cheerful and forget about being upset with my parents. And I don’t want to just effectively lie to her and pretend that yes I am now all better even when I don’t feel it myself.

I can understand why she’d be frustrated, but AITA for not being able to just cheer up?


not cheering up