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Fiance slept with a prostitute

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Adviceneededrewedding · 20/07/2025 13:02

Don’t know what to do or think.

Last night my fiance told me slept with a prostitute a couple of weeks ago after a work night out.

Basically, went out for work drinks and ended up getting paralytic, a work friend said to him I’ve got someone I want you to meet it’s a good business lead etc. They turn up at the house and partner is confused because there’s only girls there and there is a bed in the room. Work friend starts negotiating prices and partner then realises it’s a brothel. Said he started freaking out saying wtf are you doing this isn’t right etc. Work friend/ prostitues say to him this is normal everyone does it and he says they convince him to do it. He said the girl took his trousers down put on condom and they had sex for 30 seconds then he said no I can’t do this and ran out of the house and made his way home.

Broke down crying to me about this last night saying he’s so sorry and he can’t believe he’s done this and he’s never once been in a situation where he’s been close to cheating so can’t believe he was stupid enough to let himself get into this mess.

I’m in shock tbh I would never have expected this from him he is usually a really genuine moral person with really strong family/ relationship values. He said he will never do anything like this again and will not ever get himself in a state like that again.

Dont know what to do, we’re supposed to be getting married in 6 months. Other than this he has never done anything cheating wise etc he absolutely hates cheating. Am I being really naive to forgive him? I love him and I don’t want to throw away our relationship over a stupid drunken mistake if he will genuinely never do it again. I also can’t look at him and can’t imagine ever having sex with him again.

need some other opinions don’t want to tell anyone in my personal life.

OP posts:
Ohnobackagain · 20/07/2025 15:11

Helianthusinbloom · 20/07/2025 13:06

Wow that’s certainly a good story from him but likely not true. He’s avoiding all responsibility and just accidentally managed to get aroused, put a condom on and start to have sex with someone that wasn’t you.
Don’t marry this man. If you do, you’re showing him that you’ll accept infidelity and it’s a green light to do this again. How can you ever trust him?
Call off the wedding and make sure people know why it wasn’t your decision.

This @Adviceneededrewedding

MyLittleNest · 20/07/2025 15:11

Most men go through their entire lives without sleeping with a prostitute.

He didn't just sleep with a prostitute; he cheated on you.

He may regret it, or he may just feel guilty. I am sure some part of him does love you but...love is not always enough.

You know what will happen if you marry this man. Be happy it happened before the wedding so you don't have to go through the legal hell of a divorce.

Aria2015 · 20/07/2025 15:11

Sadly I think what's likely happened is that he slept with a prostitute, felt guilty and ashamed about it, then created a story that allowed him to confess, but make it sound like it was a 30-second mistake that he put a stop to.

The story is designed to make you feel as you do, to reason that it's not worth throwing away a long-term relationship for a 30-second mistake. But it wasn't just a 30 minute mistake was it? Even if it’s true that he was taken to a place he didn't know was a brothel (which you'd have to wonder why, guys who obviously think nothing of sleeping with prostitutes would be so shy about telling him where they were going beforehand?), there would have been plenty of time and opportunity to walk out as soon as he realised where he was. But for his story to be true, he'd have had to find out he was in a brothel, stick around long enough to be allocated a girl, been excited enough at the prospect of sleeping with them for them to then have pulled down his trousers, put on a condom and start having sex. That wasn't a 30-second mistake. That was a sequence of events that he allowed to unfold.

Don't marry him. Don't look at it as throwing away a good relationship, think of it as a painful event that allows you to be free to meet a man who truly deserves you. One that would never do something like this to you.

Foreverm0re · 20/07/2025 15:10

Nachoinseachthu · 20/07/2025 14:33

There seems to be consensus here but think I disagree. I’ve read of alcohol destroying so many good relationships.

If the genders were reversed, it would be considered that your fiancé was raped, being too drunk to properly consent.

And he told you about it. Is he under threat of blackmail, or doing the right thing by telling you?

Shares of grey, I think.

EDIT: Or… has he realised he’s got an STI, and is telling you the most sanitised version possible? Get tested, anyway.

Edited

Oh come off it. He wasn’t black out drunk. He was sober enough to realise where they were and converse with his mates that it is all “normal”. He let her put a condom on him and have sex with him (for 30 seconds apparently). He was aware what was happening the whole time.

Praying4Peace · 20/07/2025 15:10

At least he was honest with you and he seems deeply regretful.
Lots to consider

MaryGreenhill · 20/07/2025 15:10

You do realise a condom will not fit a flaccid penis @Adviceneededrewedding

Ooothatsagoodone · 20/07/2025 15:08

He is only telling you the basic betrayal as he doesn't want anyone else to tell you. He could have said to his 'mate' No, I'm going home

BestZebbie · 20/07/2025 15:07

user1473878824 · 20/07/2025 15:01

I bet you have to put loads of effort to even get him to do the bins but one bad man and a mean lady can convince him to get hard and have sex even when he absolutely doesn’t want to at all ever.

This!

Calliopespa · 20/07/2025 15:06

What do you mean you don't know what to do?

It would be time to sell my bargepole, because I wouldn't be touching him with one.

WhereYouLeftIt · 20/07/2025 15:06

"Work friend/ prostitues say to him this is normal everyone does it and he says they convince him to do it."
Convince? How could they possibly convince someone "with really strong family/ relationship values" that this is "normal"? Paralytic or not, having been taken there under false pretences I really don't see how he can have been 'convinced'.

I'm more inclined to think he decided to take the opportunity presented to him.

I'm also questioning the timing of his confession. This happened "a couple of weeks ago after a work night out". So why wait until now to tell you? I wonder if his work colleague is about to drop him in it.

user1473878824 · 20/07/2025 15:05

Do you really want to sit there in your wedding dress knowing he fucked someone else, and not only that, visited a prostitute after getting down on one knee? And probably a load of his mates in the room knowing about it too while he stands there and does his meaningless speech about how much he loves you?

leave and don’t look back. You deserve better than this - everyone deserves better than this, it’s not even bare minimum.

makingthecut · 20/07/2025 15:04

@Adviceneededrewedding do you really and truly believe that this man was taken there against his will and forced into a situation where a sex worker sexually assaulted him? Because that’s the only way this story makes any sense. If that’s true then he deserves support and sympathy and he should consider taking action.

I think it’s entirely possible he got a minute in to having sex and freaked out and left but in that scenario he still willingly got that far and is now feeling guilty.
Frankly that would be too late for me because he still did it.

It’s not even that he cheated which I might be willing to forgive but that he willingly had sex with a sex worker and has no idea whether she has been exploited, coerced or even trafficked.

Is it possible that this is going to come out somehow and he’s laying the ground to prepare you for it?

GeorgeMichaelsCat · 20/07/2025 15:03

I don't believe his version of events. It paints him in the best light while letting him confess his guilty conscience.

Morry15 · 20/07/2025 15:02

I'll echo the other posters....he's only told you as he is getting ahead of the game by telling you first in case it comes out.

I'd be more annoyed that he thinks I'd believe such a load of crap in the first place. It's all 'poor me'. He has taken zero responsibility for his actions.

It's not the first time and it won't be the last. You'll always have it in the back of your mind and your spidey senses will be screaming at you when he's out.

Cut your loses and live a beautiful and peaceful like. Men like this will only drag you down to the gutter with them.

Fuck him and his fuckin friend.

user1473878824 · 20/07/2025 15:01

I bet you have to put loads of effort to even get him to do the bins but one bad man and a mean lady can convince him to get hard and have sex even when he absolutely doesn’t want to at all ever.

Londonrach1 · 20/07/2025 15:01

Ex fiance and he not told you the full story

Outside9 · 20/07/2025 14:58

Charabanc · 20/07/2025 14:56

Oh, he did. No man admits stuff like this until he's about to be found out somehow.

Possibly, but that's the bit missing from OP

Charabanc · 20/07/2025 14:56

Outside9 · 20/07/2025 14:55

Tbf I suppose he didn't need to tell you

Oh, he did. No man admits stuff like this until he's about to be found out somehow.

Outside9 · 20/07/2025 14:55

Tbf I suppose he didn't need to tell you

Cucy · 20/07/2025 14:53

If this is true then you’re the most gullible person I’ve ever heard of.

None of that happened.

He by himself, decided to visit a prostitute, found one, visited her and had sex with her, with no other person involved.

I would actually be more pissed off with the lies that he’s told acting like I’m stupid, than the actual act itself.

L0bstersLass · 20/07/2025 14:50

My husband says your fella is lying:
"If you're that pissed that you don't know where you're being taken, then there's no way you could get it up enough for someone to put a condom on it.
If he could get it up, he wasn't that pissed."

I say ditch him now to preserve your dignity and stop you spending your life worrying every time he goes out with his "friends".

TwistedWonder · 20/07/2025 14:49

Oh come on OP you don’t believe this fairy story do you?

Your fiancé is a lying cheating piece of shit scumbag who pays to use women’s bodies for his own selfish gratification. Men like him are repulsive.

But as others say I suspect you’ll ignore your gut and all advice, marry the prick and be back on a couple of years when he turns out to be a serial cheat.

GreenTraybake · 20/07/2025 14:48

Was it hard before she even removed his trousers or how did she put a condom on him? What a ridiculous story 😂😂

Umhalu · 20/07/2025 14:48

Please please please dont go ahead with this. You wouldnt have fallen in love with the man he's just told you about. That's who he is. Not who you think he is.

diddl · 20/07/2025 14:47

everyone does it and he says they convince him to do it.🙄

Dont know what to do,🙄🙄