{"id":6373,"date":"2026-01-05T15:10:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/?p=6373"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:10:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:10:37","slug":"he-stole-my-monster-so-i-gave-him-a-piece-of-my-mind-eight-years-later-were-still-sharing-everything-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/?p=6373","title":{"rendered":"He stole my monster, so I gave him a piece of my mind. Eight years later, we\u2019re still sharing everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00a0met online in\u00a0a\u00a0video game. He\u00a0kill-stole my\u00a0monster, and\u00a0I gave him a\u00a0piece of\u00a0my\u00a0mind. Started talking and realized we\u00a0had a\u00a0lot in\u00a0common.<br \/>\nWe\u00a0ended up\u00a0racking up\u00a0telephone bills to\u00a0talk to\u00a0each other every day. We\u00a0both worked 50-hour weeks and went to\u00a0school full-time, but always made time for one another. We\u2019d skype and email and text constantly.<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wl-nowiveseeneverything.cf.tsp.li\/resize\/728x\/jpg\/01d\/87d\/05383355b3a2839e6b3ba09524.jpg\" \/><\/strong><br \/>\nMet him in\u00a0person as\u00a0friends a\u00a0few years down the road. Spent a\u00a0weekend together where\u00a0I toured him through my\u00a0city. I\u00a0took him into the art room of\u00a0my\u00a0university to\u00a0show him my\u00a0work, and we\u00a0kissed. He\u00a0ended up\u00a0spending the night with\u00a0me, and we\u00a0fell asleep late in\u00a0each other\u2019s arms while watching\u00a0<i>Garden State<\/i>.<br \/>\nWe\u00a0decided to\u00a0move in\u00a0together after that, since his design internship ended. When we\u00a0moved all of\u00a0our stuff together, the only thing we\u00a0ended up\u00a0with 2\u00a0copies\u00a0of, was\u00a0<i>Garden State<\/i>. We\u2019ve lived together for 8\u00a0years now.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wl-nowiveseeneverything.cf.tsp.li\/resize\/728x\/jpg\/b83\/5b8\/e8ab9750b89452219980b753e6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u00a0met online in\u00a0a\u00a0video game. He\u00a0kill-stole my\u00a0monster, and\u00a0I gave him a\u00a0piece of\u00a0my\u00a0mind. Started talking and realized we\u00a0had a\u00a0lot in\u00a0common. We\u00a0ended up\u00a0racking up\u00a0telephone bills to\u00a0talk to\u00a0each other every day. We\u00a0both worked 50-hour &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-inspiration","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6378,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6373\/revisions\/6378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}