I Fear We're Not Reacting Enough | Reading Reddit Stories

**Shayne Topp** (0:00)
Hello, and welcome to Reddit Stories. I'm Shayne, and today's theme is overreacting.
Am I overreacting? I don't know. I'm joined by two people who, frankly, do give us some of the best reactions on this show.

**Courtney Miller** (0:14)
What? What? How could you?

**Shayne Topp** (0:18)
Courtney Narosha here.

**Courtney Miller** (0:24)
Those are some of the great reactions.

**Shayne Topp** (0:25)
We're gonna be seeing more of that.

**Courtney Miller** (0:26)
Yeah, you are. Yeah, you are.

**Shayne Topp** (0:28)
What do you think the chances are of something giving you the type of reaction where you literally get up off the couch and run around? We have a lot more room now.

**Arasha** (0:37)
We do. We do.

**Shayne Topp** (0:38)
To run around.

**Arasha** (0:38)
We do have more space. This couch is a little bit bigger. I can just roll around and just start just going crazy moshing.

**Courtney Miller** (0:45)
The poof went tight.

**Shayne Topp** (0:46)
You cannot throw that poof at me.

**Arasha** (0:48)
Well, okay. Well, challenge accepted.

**Courtney Miller** (0:50)
Yeah.

**Shayne Topp** (0:50)
Okay. Well, I have a pillow now.

**Arasha** (0:52)
Oh, cool. Good luck. Good luck.

**Courtney Miller** (0:54)
So you're gonna, like, fend it off? If I throw poof, you'll return the pillow?

**Shayne Topp** (0:57)
I will block with pillow, throw pillow.

**Courtney Miller** (1:00)
Okay. Stay tuned.

**Arasha** (1:01)
This is our first time on the Reddit set. How is this chair for you?

**Shayne Topp** (1:05)
It's nice. It's comfortable.

**Arasha** (1:06)
Hell yeah.

**Shayne Topp** (1:07)
I feel like it's the Martin Scorsese thing now, where I'm like, like, I'm fully locked in.

**Courtney Miller** (1:13)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

**Arasha** (1:13)
Nice, nice.

**Courtney Miller** (1:15)
Nice.

**Arasha** (1:15)
Yeah, I'm excited for the stories today. I feel like the reactions, like, it can be either so bad that I can't even move and I go inside my body.

**Courtney Miller** (1:23)
Yeah.

**Arasha** (1:24)
Or I need to frolic out of anger.

**Courtney Miller** (1:27)
Or just throughout the story, just being like, what?

**Arasha** (1:30)
Huh?

**Shayne Topp** (1:30)
I know.

**Arasha** (1:31)
Huh?

**Courtney Miller** (1:32)
Throughout.

**Arasha** (1:32)
He said, what? There, you can use that at any point in the video.

**Courtney Miller** (1:38)
Yeah, let's just, like, backwater a few reactions up at the top, okay?

**Arasha** (1:41)
Let's go for it. Let's do it here. He said, what?

**Courtney Miller** (1:45)
Wait, can I hear that again?

**Shayne Topp** (1:47)
Okay, um...

**Arasha** (1:50)
For real?
Shayne, why would you say that horrible word? Okay, I got one.

**Courtney Miller** (1:56)
I got one.

**Shayne Topp** (1:57)
Okay.

**Courtney Miller** (1:58)
Please, please have an update.

**Shayne Topp** (2:00)
These are good. You're ready.

**Courtney Miller** (2:03)
Yeah, and if you put those only at the beginning, it'll be really embarrassing.

**Arasha** (2:06)
I told you that.

**Shayne Topp** (2:07)
Well, we'll switch those around.

**Courtney Miller** (2:09)
Yeah, yeah, no, they got our back.

**Shayne Topp** (2:10)
All right, our first story comes from Am I Overreacting, posted in January of this year, 2026 Am I overreacting if I end my relationship because my boyfriend kisses and tells me he loves me before leaving for work in the morning?
Wait, what? I thought that sentence was going different places. He said what? Then it ended up being super sweet.

**Courtney Miller** (2:32)
Yeah, let's get that one more time.

**Shayne Topp** (2:34)
Am I overreacting if I end my relationship because my boyfriend kisses and tells me he loves me before leaving for work in the morning?

**Courtney Miller** (2:42)
You want to end it because of that?

**Shayne Topp** (2:45)
All right. I hate that my boyfriend loves me.

**Courtney Miller** (2:47)
Yeah. No, he's a monster.

**Shayne Topp** (2:50)
All right.
My boyfriend, who's 39, and I, a 30-year-old woman, have different work schedules. Most days of the week, boyfriend has to be out of the house by 7 AM. As a grad student, I am often up late working, but try to sleep in so I still get at least eight hours of sleep. Fortunately, my partner and I have separate bedrooms, so in theory, this should be perfectly manageable. But despite repeatedly asking him not to, he always comes into my room to kiss me and tell me he loves me before he leaves, which wakes me up every time. I have an aura ring, so I am also able to see that this often takes place when I am in deep sleep, which in addition to lost sleep hours leaves me incredibly groggy throughout the day. I know it's sweet, but I've suggested if he wants to be cute to please leave a note or a nice text, I can wake up to. I remind him not to wake me up in the morning, the night before and will even tape notes to my door that say, please don't wake me up and he still does anyway.