Young banker lectures GF on LBO during sex

From r/AmItheAsshole

My(23F) boyfriend (24M) works for a bank. He does stuff like financial modeling all day. I don’t really understand it despite a some basic accounting concepts.

Anyway I work for a midsized company that is going to be taken over by some private equity firm. My company is public, and so is the acquiring private equity company. I mentioned this to my boyfriend as a passing point of interest and told him that I hope it didn’t have a huge effect on me.

After that, my boyfriend, who’s working from home, said that he’d look into it. And holy shit. He will not stop talking about it now. He took all of my companies public financial statements and created this but Microsoft Excel model about the probability of the deal working out. At first, I was pretty interested. He taught me something like what a “leveraged buy out” is.

That was a week ago. I’m dead serious when I say he won’t stop talking about it. He talks about it all the time, constantly updating me with new information about how the deal may fall through, what the private equity company might do to cut costs, who might lose their jobs, how much profit the private equity company could make, how his and his friend’s interviews went at that private equity company (and how he didn’t get the job), the current interest rate climates, “J Pow and the fed,” how the private equity company may benefit from waiting to privatize my company, etc...

It’s literally all he talks about now. We were having sex this evening when we[sic] (while pretty tipsy) was talking about the whole “waiting to privatize” thing. I was literally having sex with him during this. Eventually I just had enough and yelled at him to shut up about it.

He seemed really hurt and didn’t say much after that. He went back to his apartment, and, after not answering some of my texts, said I was being really harsh and that he wants some alone time. He’s not answering my messages now.

Was I actually overstepping by yelling at him to stop? I guess maybe I could have asked more nicely, but this was literally during sex.

Update: apparently somebody posted this on a finance website that my bf goes on a lot and he saw it.

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That's pretty funny but it 100% didn't happen.

Pure finance bro fan fiction. Probably written by someone on this website.

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