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I don’t know what to believe

39 replies

Whoopsadaisy1 · 30/03/2020 00:52

My fiancé and I have been together for three years and are getting married next year. I love him dearly and believe he loves me. We’ve gone through a couple of rocky patches in the first couple of years but have been pretty happy for the last, hence getting engaged and planning our wedding.

One of the reasons we hit a rocky patch was because I found out he had slept with someone else roughly five months into our relationship, something he denied until one of his best friends drunkenly told me and he finally admitted it to sleeping with her four or five times. It upset me a lot but we moved on.

A couple of days ago, he’d had a few drinks (so he was tipsy but not blind drunk), we where chatting about the future and I said how far we’d come since the woman (I was being nice and positive) and his attitude changed. When I asked what’s wrong, he said that he’d made a mistake, that it was the beginning of our relationship...he then carried on with “I’d just got into sales, I was doing a lot of stupid things. You’re not going to like this but I was sleeping with a lot of women then, I was a different person” I was slightly gobsmacked at the fact that he’d got into his sales job around six to seven months into our relationship. We argued and I went to bed. When I asked him the next day how many people he’d slept with, he said just the one I knew about. When I asked why he’d said what he did, he said he was drunk and that it was rubbish...

I don’t know what to believe, I know it was ages ago but I feel hurt and don’t know what to do

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Crazybunnylady123 · 30/03/2020 09:06

No point marrying him I’m afraid, sorry! Get rid of him and spend sometime on you.

ChuckleBuckles · 30/03/2020 09:12

OP you deserve so much better than this. Do you really want to go into married life with him knowing what he is capable of in the good times, when life is exciting and fun. What do you think he will do when life get tough?

notsuremate · 30/03/2020 09:13

Oh my god! He cheated on you multiple times. You say it was a long time ago?!? What? No it wasn’t. A couple of years. That’s not long! Plus so what. It doesn’t matter how long ago it was! He cheated and lied. You need to know because he put your health at risk. Did he even use protection. This is so disgusting I don’t even know what else to say. I would have kicked him out at the first one but definitely now! This relationship is over. Have more respect for yourself!

smiften · 30/03/2020 09:20

Why would he have made that up? That's not what drink does.

Didntwanttochangemyname · 30/03/2020 09:24

What do you love about him? Really? What is it that he brings to your life that you don't think anyone else could? I'm not being facetious, it's a genuine question.

userabcname · 30/03/2020 09:26

Do not marry him. Leave him. Raise your standards significantly.

BananaPlant · 30/03/2020 09:30

I would be getting an STI test.

You’ve only been with him for 3 years and in almost a third of that time he’s been cheating on you. He’s a liar as well as a cheat.

AgentJohnson · 30/03/2020 17:06

So when he’s drunk he’s either cheating or being honest about cheating.

If you don’t want to be married to a liar and a cheat, then don’t marry this lying cheat. His relationship with the truth isn’t a strong one and you will drive yourself crazy trying to encourage a better relationship between them.

anotherdisaster · 30/03/2020 17:33

Oh god do not marry this man. He was cheating on you when you should have been in the honeymoon period of your relationship. What's he gonna be like after a few years of marriage and he gets 'bored'?

mumto2teenagers · 30/03/2020 17:40

I would suspect that what he said when drunk was the truth and he is now trying to back track.

If he cheated on you in the first few months of the relationship, then I would not be able to trust him.

Dandarabilla · 30/03/2020 17:43

Jesus Christ, do not marry this shitty asshole!

Windmillwhirl · 30/03/2020 18:22

Does the amount of times matter? He cheated on you and he has kept this from you for years. Please don't marry him.

Windyatthebeach · 30/03/2020 18:25

I did marry a man who slept with his ex in our early days..
Haunted me our whole relationship..

HollowTalk · 30/03/2020 18:36

Oh god, a clear case of 'leave him now or bitterly regret it for years and years until you do leave him.'

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