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Girlfriend meeting guy...

136 replies

freddofroggo · 24/05/2019 16:34

Hi. I wondered what people think of this situation.

I've been with my girlfriend for about 2.5 years. Recently, she told me about this guy. About 5 years ago they started liking each other's photos on instagram, and then started direct messaging. This was before I had met her. He lived in a different country and they never met.

Recently while out walking, she mentioned that he was coming over and she was going to show him around for the weekend. I thought that was a bit odd. She says they've been direct messaging pretty much all the time, but she never mentioned him.

Recently, my girlfriend and I had an argument where she broke up with me. She had some things at my house that she wanted back so I said I'd take them to work and she could pick them up or send someone. She said someone would be coming to collect them. I asked who and she said it was this guy when he was over. She also said "we've never flirted or did anything but now I'm single I can't say that won't change."

I did what I think most people, if being honest, would do and checked instagram. It wasn't hard to work out who it was. He's "liked" almost all her recent photos, and before that just a scattering.

Anyhow - she's now asking if we can talk. I love her and don't want to split up.

While I wouldn't dream of asking her not to meet up with this guy, this doesn't really sit happily with me. They're meeting up next week at some point while I'm away.

I'm wondering if I'm wrong to feel concerned about this.

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Bambooshoot · 24/05/2019 20:37

Sounds to me like she manufactured an argument to be able to sleep with this guy while you were "on a break" - he (possibly being a normal person and concerned about not getting hurt himself) asked when she split up with her last ex, and when told "five minutes ago" she said something along he lines of, oh but its all ok, he was awful, to show how over him I am you can pick up my stuff from his house (or even worse she spun a line about being scared of you getting over-emotional/difficult if she was there, blah blah whatever) - otherwise her asking him to do it is just plain weird.

Then once he has gone and she's had her fun she can draw you back in with a clean conscience - after all, she didn't cheat, did she?

What was the argument about?

WhiteDust · 24/05/2019 20:38

Flirting whilst having a boyfriend www.mumsnet.com/Talk/relationships/3592895-Flirting-whilst-having-a-boyfriend

freddofroggo · 24/05/2019 20:47

No - I'm pretty sure that's not it.

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beenwhereyouare · 24/05/2019 20:52

Op, if your girlfriend posted flirting whilst having a boyfriend, she did so a couple of days ago. The circumstances are a little different, but she said 2.5 years with the boyfriend. It read to me as though she's just looking for people to say it was ok. If so, she was disappointed as the majority said it would be cheating.

Someone who loves you would never treat you this way.

MissConductUS · 24/05/2019 20:57

Sounds to me like she manufactured an argument to be able to sleep with this guy while you were "on a break"

Exactly. She knows Mr Instagram isn't a long term prospect, so she wants to rig it so that she can have a one off with him while you wait for her to return to you.

This is really grim. It also means that as soon as she meets someone she considers a step up from you she'll bin you in a heartbeat so that she can trade up.

Really, she's broken up with you. Thank providence and move on.

YetAnotherUser · 24/05/2019 21:02

She assures me he's just a friend and that I shouldn't give her an ultimatum of not seeing him.

Of course she would say that. She wants to have her cake and eat it too.

Epona1 · 24/05/2019 21:22

I think she’s done you a huge favour by dumping you - again.

If it’s all totally innocent with this guy, then why is she being deceitful about it and why is she getting her knickers in a twist when you pull her up on it?

forumdonkey · 24/05/2019 21:36

I've been with my BF two years and his feelings come before any other man in my life, never mind one I'd never met IRL. If I was soooo desperate to meet this online stranger I'd take my BF with me.

If she loved you and cared about you she wouldn't have handled how she has. She'd have been open about him and you'd have been invited too - after all, it's so innocent.

My advice is dump her and find someone who treats you with respect. You're the back up mate and you're a mug

BogglesGoggles · 24/05/2019 21:41

See all I got out of that is that she’s not your girlfriend. Probably best to leave it at that.

freddofroggo · 24/05/2019 21:58

@forumdonkey The issue with inviting me is that apparently when I suggested someone come get her stuff from me after work, she asked him. So now it would be awkward.

I'm not the back-up. He's only here for two weeks. I do actually trust her and don't think anything would happen. But I still find it odd - it doesn't sit well with me. If nothing else, I think it's leading him on at best.

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StarLine · 24/05/2019 22:10

Well it's rather convenient timing to keep breaking up with you around the time he is visiting, isn't it? And she's already said she can't promise anything if you are broken up. So what, exactly, leads you to trust her?

AnyFucker · 24/05/2019 22:29

Op, you sound rather naive

freddofroggo · 24/05/2019 22:45

I guess I have the experience of having known her for 2.5 years and I don't think she's a cheat.

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AnyFucker · 24/05/2019 22:47

That would make you wrong

BummyKnocker · 24/05/2019 22:52

Do you read these boards? People married years and years with kids cheat and every time the partner says they could never have seen them as a cheat. 2.5 yrs is nothing, she is mugging you off. Wake up.

freddofroggo · 24/05/2019 23:14

I have two children with a previous partner. We were together for 8.5 years. She cheated and I sensed it almost immediately. I'm not naive to these things.

I don't believe my gf has cheated.

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Closetbeanmuncher · 24/05/2019 23:26

It seems like op wants us all to say this is totally normal and nothing to worry about.

Its blindingly obvious whats going on here op you just dont want to accept it. She's broken up with you so she can have sex with this guy, then come back to you after the two weeks.....are you seriously telling us you dont see that???

Concrete sledge Confused

Closetbeanmuncher · 24/05/2019 23:30

No shes not a cheat just meets strange men from the internet.... all sounds perfectly normal to meBlush

freddofroggo · 24/05/2019 23:34

Maybe I've not been clear - she broke up (as she often does during arguments) but is now trying to sort this out prior to meeting this guy, not after.

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leomama81 · 24/05/2019 23:39

Since she broke up with you this evening? And she is already trying to sort it out, again? Breaking up with you during arguments is also not a good thing at all.

That doesn't really seem very plausible about it being too awkward for you to come now, she could easily tell him that you are now back on happily so great you will be meeting! Unless she's told him things that are impossible to/she doesn't want to go back on.

overdrive · 24/05/2019 23:42

she broke up (as she often does during arguments)

And why on Earth do you repeatedly accept such manipulative behaviour??

Be an example to your kids and get some self respect.

SkinnyPete · 24/05/2019 23:42

You're a lost cause pal. You are on a direct route to getting seriously fucked over in life unless you wake up. I'd recommend going no contact and spend a minimum of 12 months finding out who you are and doing the shit you want to, and getting some self respect. And then think about relationships.

forumdonkey · 24/05/2019 23:43

So she breaks up with you if you have an argument? That's not a fucked up relationship at all.

It's a good job that you've had an argument while he's visiting other wise she might have cheated on you. Like you've said, you're not naive and she's not a cheat so when she's shagging him for a fortnight it'll be okay because you 'were on a break'

Btw sending her online stranger to collect her things isn't weird at all

RiversDisguise · 25/05/2019 02:41

She's not a pleasant person.

She's been sexting him for years and now wants to fuck him and somehow keep the moral high ground in her own fucked up head.

There are plenty of decent women out there who won't break up with you every time you dare to disagree. What a manipulative baggage.

End her abusive shit now and don't let her pick back up with you when she's had her long-awaited liaison.

RantyAnty · 25/05/2019 04:44

OP you may love her but her actions towards you aren't very loving.

She seems manipulative and abusive.

She is following a cheater's script.

Have you actually read their conversations before?

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