My girlfriend and I are in an LDR, and we use MSN a great deal to stay in touch every day. One evening, I told her that I’ve recently started watching the TV series ‘Lost’, and unknowingly unleashed a flood of hatred my way. She hates the programme - just like she hates Harry Potter - and no matter what my entreaties were, she ended up annoyed with me.

It didn’t matter that she has only ever watched five minutes of it. It doesn’t matter that it’s quite enjoyable. It didn’t matter that it was just a TV show. The reason she hated it so much is that it was overhyped, and wanted to take a hammer to any screen playing it. It even didn’t matter that it was me watching it, not her, and that I said I wouldn’t talk to her about it if it got her so irate. It was utterly irrational; and what’s more, even after I won the argument about it shouldn’t having to matter whether or not she liked it, she decided to be annoyed at me for this.

In the end, she even had the audacity to say that we no longer had any decent conversation any more, which was the straw that broke yours truly’s back. Some background information; when I tell her about my day, she seems to find some niggles in it; I am almost constantly tired when I come back from work, and want to sleep (she’s a first year student, and currently enjoying a half-term break). When I try to make conversation, she’s all MEH (she’s almost always in a bad mood), what’s more, I lead a fulfilled life and am generally happy, but she makes me feel like utter crap by essentially being jealous about my having a good day.

Part of the problem is that she has Asperger’s syndrome, and thus says what she means, often to great detriment. Other couples live in bliss, sustained by little white lies that avert full-blown war, happily living their lives and letting little niggles pass, because, seriously now people, why get hot and bothered about something so small? People shouldn’t get irrational and angry and hate their partner about a TV show, gorramit.

So, I hate my moody girlfriend.