Long story short, I've been seeing someone for around 8 months. We've known each other for a lot longer though so the relationship has developed fairly quickly.
Over the summer I started having some doubts and suspicions and looked at his phone one night to find he'd been messaging another woman, arranging to meet for sex. I kicked him out and was absolutely gutted.
We ended up talking again and he told me that he'd have never actually met her. That it was some sort of ego boost, he was drunk at the time (which he was), and that it was a stupid mistake that would never happen again.
I gave things another go. That was 3 months ago.
But I just have such niggling doubts now and I just can't shake that gut feeling that he will still be doing the same.
I looked at his phone again a couple of night ago (which I hate myself for, I know its wrong), but there were pretty much no messages at all in his Instagram inbox - not even casual replies to stories or anything, which makes me think he's regularly deleting messages. His search history is cleared too.
However, in his Instagram messenger search bar there was a womans name, who it looks like he added a week or so ago. But there are no actual messages. Surely if her name appears in the messenger search bar then he has been chatting to her and deleting messages.
I dont know whether to bring it up, although with no hard evidence he could easily gaslight me and ive nothing to back up my doubts.
I could message the woman in question, although I dont know how honest someone would be in that situation?
We're due to go on holiday in 3 weeks and I just don't know what to do at all, but I feel so insecure and anxious all the time.
Any thoughts please?
I never thought I'd be mid 30s with children, screwing over some guy. This is not how I usually am, its awful.