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Boyfriend going on holiday with another woman

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ThePriceOfSugar · 20/12/2019 02:46

I've been with my boyfriend 10 months. Everything has been fine up to now.

He asked if I wanted to go on holiday with him to a rural part of the country for hiking and sightseeing. I grew up there, have done the hiking exhaustively, and have no desire or extra money to go. I declined. He said he would go with a friend. He has 3 good male friends and lots of colleagues. I said fine.

That was a month ago. Today he mentioned that he has arranged an itinerary and booked leave to go with a "colleague" (who lives in a different country) who will be over here when he wants to go. This colleague is a woman he's met once before while he was at a conference overseas. They met in a club after hours. His friends joked with him that she was really into him. She invited him to present at her workplace in October, which he did. I thought nothing of it.

I'm shocked and angry that he booked the holiday with her. It's just the two of them, multiple overnight stays. He says she is just a colleague and he has done nothing wrong since I declined the trip and said he can go "with anyone". Obviously I didn't mean this arrangement. He claims he has "no one else" to ask and wants to share costs.

The hypocrisy of it hits me hard too because he always assumes all my male friends and colleagues want to have sex with me.

Am I being unreasonable? Isn't it normal to have this kind of boundary in a relationship?

OP posts:
PeppermintPatty10 · 20/12/2019 11:31

OP, you’re brilliant for taking action and for seeing through the gaslighting! Hope the move to your parents’ goes smoothly. You deserve better!

beautifulstranger101 · 20/12/2019 11:50

Stay strong, OP. You did the right thing. You dont need to put up with crap like that, there ARE decent men out there and I hope in the new year you'll find a good one!

KaptenKrusty · 20/12/2019 12:09

If you trusted him then this wouldn't matter - so obviously there are problems in your relationship and you have issues with trust!

He can go away with whoever he wants - I think you are being controlling - you didn't want to go on the trip

GiveHerHellFromUs · 20/12/2019 12:10

@KaptenKrusty come back to us when your DP decides to go on holiday with a woman he met in a nightclub who all his friends think fancy him

HavelockVetinari · 20/12/2019 12:13

Well done for seeing through him and sending him on his way. Now whatever you do, DONT TAKE HIM BACK! If he's happy to gaslight you, say nasty things his friends have supposedly said, and go on bloody holiday with a colleague he's met once who by all accounts is into him then he's not relationship material.

YappityYapYap · 20/12/2019 12:23

Yanbu at all, what a weird thing to do

AlrightyyThen · 20/12/2019 12:29

Stear clear OP and watch yourself get proved right when he gets into a relationship with this woman (which he would say you pushed him into anyway). Let her be welcome to him

ThePriceOfSugar · 20/12/2019 12:39

Once more, thank you so much for the warm messages. The most frightening thing about this is how powerful gaslighting is. It's late night where I am so I'm signing off--grateful that I have lots of voices telling me I'm not crazy. My thanks.

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flirtygirl · 20/12/2019 14:40

moresexplease and dontdisturb read like the same enlightened woman who doesn't mind their boyfriend going away with a woman that he met in a nightclub and who fancies him and whom he spent two weeks in another country with. They are sooooo enlightened and sooooo woke that the op is now the one in the wrong and the op is being controlling. Wow slow clap for moresexplease and dontdisturb

flirtygirl · 20/12/2019 14:43

Op you have done the right thing and there were some red flags, so now that he has shown his true colours, this has likely saved you years of grief.

Good luck and hope you still manage to have a good holiday season.

Be kind to yourself and do things that build you up, so that you can see the next muppet coming, however well they disguise themselves. Take care.

ODFOkaren · 20/12/2019 15:24

Good OP. Now block his number so he can’t t try to crawl back if she doesn’t want to shag him.

I hope he trips over on his bloody hike abs splits his scrotum.

ODFOkaren · 20/12/2019 15:24

And have a lovey Christmas with your parents x

EKGEMS · 20/12/2019 17:24

Dontdisturbmenow Change your name you are beyond disturbed already posting such a shitty response-you are literally the only person on this thread gaslighting this poor OP with your fucked up advice

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