My partner kissed my best friend

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My now ex best friend isn't a nice person, she uses and manipulates people and is very self-centred. She has no understanding of mental health and wants to be the centre of attention.

My partner is the kindest person I know, he's loving and caring and thoughtful, he's been my rock the last year an 3 months, kept me alive, supported me even tho I have 2 children and i truly see a future with him.

About 3 years ago, he used to like my ex best, she responded with that by taking him out and getting off with lads in front of him, keeping him at arms length enough to make him feel shit and use him when it suited her. They half slept together once, that's it, nothing happened and they stopped talking after she got him cast out of the friends group.

Fast forward to now, we've been together happily for ages, it was love at first sight.

I found out this morning, because he told me, that they kissed on a night out early into our relationship. He wanted to tell me but she begged him to stay quiet saying it would ruin my friendship with her and that I would try to do something stupid (my mental health is bad). She got other people that new ya to say the same to him.

This morning he told me because she was trying to use it against him, telling me he chats shit and another person made all these claims about him cheating. I believe he hasn't done all this, he's always at work or with me and If you could see our love you'd know how devoted we are, but, what do I do about this?

I'm upset, she's out of my life, I've had enough of her she's toxic and I should've walked away a long time ago. I need to talk to him today, I feel betrayed and lied to and none of this is okay, it hurts so much. However, there is a part of me that believes this was a mistake, that what we have far out weighs this event and that we could get through this, but like I say, it hurts.

I don't want to be a mug, or a doormat, he's never treated me like one but it's how this has made me feel. This morning I cried, now I'm slightly numb but thinking calmly, rationally, where do I go from here. Does he deserve a second chance? Am I a fool.

I hope you can seek out and find some new healthy friendships, too!

The world looks like a whole different place when you have a friend on your side that you can relate to and trust.

But I’d rather have none than the kind that would betray me.

i've met women like your ex-friend - and they are dangerous.
I've seen women like that force themsleves onto guys knowing that
if he physically pushes them away they can accuse him of assault and people will naturally believe her over him.

i know of one time where the woman waited until the guy was drunk (we all know what the law says about 'consent' to sex when you're under the influence of alcohol and that protection applies to men too)
, took him back to hers, had sex.....and then accused him of rape 2 weeks later because he didn't want anything to do with her.

Men do this kind of shit and so do women - it's just that women have a bigger chance of being believed based on word of mouth than men do, and your ex-friend exploited this.

i won't forget the one time i walked into a bedroom to wait until the bathroom was clear - and saw a guy FROZEN to the spot, looking terrified and panicked but unable to move or say anything....and a young woman forcing herself on him, she was handling his crotch and trying to kiss him.
i was shocked. i remember looking at him, he locked eyes with me and i FELT his terror.
She realised someone was in the room, turned round laughing and i'm glad to say her laugh died right there when she saw my expression.
The only thing i could say in the moment was "what the fuck? this is someone's bedroom - get out!"

That was the extent of my action which was a lifesaver for him no doubt.
He left asap and i didn't get a chance to talk to him or anything.

I know what it feels like as a woman to be sexually assaulted and to be so frozen with fear/panic, one half of you wanting to get away and the other half telling you it's 'safer' to just let the attacker do it cos you can't physically get away.
i remember that paralysis of thought and action very well.
i imagine it's the same for a lot of males too given they too are human beings.

OP, only you know what kind of guy your partner really is and what your gut instinct says about him.
Believe in your Self and do what feels right for YOU.

Block her. Forgive him after a grown up talk. Make a new life so he isn't all you have.