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Busting my balls 

An exclamation used, when the user is pissed off at a character in a Video Game.
Busting my balls by Bik Valbordo December 23, 2007

Busting My Balls 

An often vital practice relating to relationship-maintenance. Relationship counselors broadly refer to this as preserving “healthy vulnerability,” or tletting down your guard, being completely honest,in order to demonstrate loyalty, love, trust, and willingness to self-sacrifice for a friend who might not immediately appreciate such risk, interpreting it instead as intrusiveness and abuse at first.

Theory: A constant background level of nagging can insure that when you do “lose your shit,” you will be around supportive friends who are willing to change your emotional diaper. The insult-trading practice of “Playing the dozens” use to serve a similar purpose in the Black community until it fell out of fashion due to its historically-repugnant origins in slavery (devaluation/objectification when slaves were bundled by the dozen). It's a social means to avoid the emptiness of “I’m fine” when checking in with a friend who may be too full of grit to want to burden others with personal problems. This is also why in New York City, “F*ck you!” and “F*ck you too!” have respectively come to replace “Hello my friend! Are you truly okay?” and “Why yes I am. Thank you for caring so sincerely and deeply!”
Busting My Balls:

Tony and Vincenzo were busting each other's balls until Vincenzo broke down and admitted he he had to put down his 25-year old retriever, Zeus, today. We should bring him some Stromboli and get blotto with him later.
Busting My Balls by metadrool November 10, 2021

basting my balls 

Bothering one with random, inconsequential nonsense, such as e-mails full of shit you don't care about or text messages that drive you insane with insane blabber.
I've been trying to dump my on-line boyfriend for months, but he keeps basting my balls via e-mail with stupid bullshit I don't find cute anymore.
basting my balls by SlimShadee October 9, 2014

bustin my balls 

To betray on a previously agreed deal
The wise guy is bustin my balls each time he turns his back like that
bustin my balls by nck331 June 1, 2009