So I know this really isn’t such a big deal, and I know that I shouldn’t be such a suspicious person, but I can’t help it. So enough of the disclaimer, and onto the story.
My boyfriend, Eric, is amazing to me. We’ve been together just over a year now, and I’ve loved (pretty much) every moment of it. Back when we first went out, he had just broken up with this girl a few months back, who he was still partially in love with. I used to have MAJOR trust issues with him over it, because he still maintained contact with her, and went to junior prom with her when my dad wouldn’t let me. (Her name is Allison, for future reference.) Anyway, I got over my issues with him when he dramatically proved that he was over her and truly only loved me.
So fast forward to present day, and he still talks to Allison, but I’m okay with it, because she’s in a long term relationship too. She has issues every now and then, and Eric is known for his great listening skills and advice, so they converse over MSN messenger every now and then. But no worries, right?
Well, thats what I thought until Wednesday night. I called him, as I do every night, and when he answered he asked me to hold on a second while he finished up his conversation on his cell phone and the multiple conversations on IM. (He knows that I don’t like it when he talks to other people when he’s talking to me, so he was being sweet.) He sets down the phone, and I hear muffled talking as he talks to whomever is on the cell phone. He’s talking weirdly sweet and cutsie, not how he would talk to one of his guy friends, but not how he talks to me either. It’s hard to explain, but it wasn’t romantic necessarily, just softer and sweeter than he would a normal friend. Make sense?
Well, anyway, I can’t really understand what he’s saying, but I did pick up on the words “Saturday” and “see you then” and I know I heard him say the sentence “Well, I could ride my bike. *laughter* Well, I would hate for your mom to come all the way out to pick me up.” So, I was a bit curious, and starting to be a little nervous, because, after all, Allison lives all the way on the other side of town from him, about 10 miles away.
So then, his voice gets louder as he leans closer to the landline to pick it up, where I’m waiting, and the murmuring of his voice becomes clear. I distinctly hear him say “Okay, yeah, I’ll see you then, bye now Allison!” and he says her name all sweet and cutsie (he pronounced it All-ee-sohn), and picks up the phone I’m on. I ask him who he was talking to, conversationally, and he replies, just as conversationally back “Oh, just a friend of mine.” which is how he usually replies to that question when its a friend of his from his old high school that I don’t know.
So, anyway, it’s been two days, and he hasn’t mentioned his plans with Allison to me yet. I don’t think he’s cheating on me with her, that’s not even a concern of mine. I just don’t know if I’m allowed to bring it up to him. Would that seem overly suspicious? What do you think is going on?
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I only know what you wrote. You made it sound like he cares for and enjoys “All-ee-sohn” and then you said “I got over my issues with him when he dramatically proved that he was over her and truly only loved me.”
He will always be friends with allison. Think about it. I cant say if he is right or wrong, only that if he is going to be your man, Allison will be a part of your life.
i agree with raymond as well hun… you are not over the fact that your b/f still has feelings for his ex. you need to work on that as well. Ask him if you want to, but if you TRUELY are “OVER” he and allison, then it wouldn’t bother you that he’s going to see her… right?
kmichelle wrote: Anyway, I got over my issues with him when he dramatically proved that he was over her and truly only loved me.
So fast forward to present day, and he still talks to Allison, but I’m okay with it, because she’s in a long term relationship too.
This is disproved by the fact that you’re on here worried about him.
As for confronting him, do what you feel is necessary. Let me copy and paste something I wrote earlier today.
Råymond wrote: Love is three parts.
One part forgiveness, one part acceptance, and one part trust.
If you say something that offends him and he loves you, he’ll forgive you. Don’t worry about censoring yourself to him. :)
LET IT GO girl. i say it is your problem with trust…and if you try to ban his friendship with her then you are a)operating in fear b)in distrust and c)neither is good for you or any relationship so its better you change then he even agree to not see her. you have a problem with trust - work on it. joyce meyer dot org has lots of resources (she’s christian though so if you’re not into GOd, may not be for you, but VEry useful even if you’re not into God).
I’d say focus on thinking about the positive/how he is with you and leave it alone.
whatever is meant to be will unfold anyway - you being paranoid/feeling he has to disclose everything will only make him feel trapped.
maybe later you will want to have a conversation with him that you have a problem with trust re this girl still…can he help you with that, just so its in the open. secrets are the worst, espec. if working on something. dont worry girl. like you said, he’s good to you.
I don’t know… It doesn’t seem to myself like I don’t trust him with her. I don’t think that he’s going to cheat on me with her, I really don’t even consider it a possibility.
Am I really that untrustful just to think it’s suspicious that he avoided telling me who he was talking to?
I really need to know what I should do. A guy would help…
So I know this really isn’t such a big deal, and I know that I shouldn’t be such a suspicious person, but I can’t help it. So enough of the disclaimer, and onto the story.
My boyfriend, Eric, is amazing to me. We’ve been together just over a year now, and I’ve loved (pretty much) every moment of it. Back when we first went out, he had just broken up with this girl a few months back, who he was still partially in love with. I used to have MAJOR trust issues with him over it, because he still maintained contact with her, and went to junior prom with her when my dad wouldn’t let me. (Her name is Allison, for future reference.) Anyway, I got over my issues with him when he dramatically proved that he was over her and truly only loved me.
So fast forward to present day, and he still talks to Allison, but I’m okay with it, because she’s in a long term relationship too. She has issues every now and then, and Eric is known for his great listening skills and advice, so they converse over MSN messenger every now and then. But no worries, right?
Well, thats what I thought until Wednesday night. I called him, as I do every night, and when he answered he asked me to hold on a second while he finished up his conversation on his cell phone and the multiple conversations on IM. (He knows that I don’t like it when he talks to other people when he’s talking to me, so he was being sweet.) He sets down the phone, and I hear muffled talking as he talks to whomever is on the cell phone. He’s talking weirdly sweet and cutsie, not how he would talk to one of his guy friends, but not how he talks to me either. It’s hard to explain, but it wasn’t romantic necessarily, just softer and sweeter than he would a normal friend. Make sense?
Well, anyway, I can’t really understand what he’s saying, but I did pick up on the words “Saturday” and “see you then” and I know I heard him say the sentence “Well, I could ride my bike. *laughter* Well, I would hate for your mom to come all the way out to pick me up.” So, I was a bit curious, and starting to be a little nervous, because, after all, Allison lives all the way on the other side of town from him, about 10 miles away.
So then, his voice gets louder as he leans closer to the landline to pick it up, where I’m waiting, and the murmuring of his voice becomes clear. I distinctly hear him say “Okay, yeah, I’ll see you then, bye now Allison!” and he says her name all sweet and cutsie (he pronounced it All-ee-sohn), and picks up the phone I’m on. I ask him who he was talking to, conversationally, and he replies, just as conversationally back “Oh, just a friend of mine.” which is how he usually replies to that question when its a friend of mine from his old high school that I don’t know.
So, anyway, it’s been two days, and he hasn’t mentioned his plans with Allison to me yet. I don’t think he’s cheating on me with her, that’s not even a concern of mine. I just don’t know if I’m allowed to bring it up to him. Would that seem overly suspicious? What do you think is going on?
Listen closely
I am a dude
Believe my words, woman
He is cheating on you. [
He probably has been from the beginning.
This isn’t to make you feel bad, but i swear it’s 90% likely to be true.
sdv wrote: listen closelyi am a dudebelieve my words, womanhe is cheating on you. [he probably has been from the beginning. this isn’t to make you feel bad, but i swear it’s 90% likely to be true.
Don’t listen to him. the only way he knows is if he’s your boyfriend or allison.
I’m a male also.
it did, but that’s a different situation for the most part.
But do you understand what I’m asking? Not if I have trust issues, not if he’s cheating on me, but if it means anything at all that he didn’t tell me he was on the phone with her when I called. So does it, to you, being a male?
The only thing that it could mean to me is that maybe he’s not comfortable telling you some things. If he likes you as much as you’ve insinuated that he likes you, maybe you’ve given him a reason to hide some things?
That’s why I linked the post that I linked. That’s what I was hoping you’d take away from it.
He knows that I don’t like her, but he also knows that I trust him with her now.
Thats the only reason I could think of that he didn’t tell me, that he remembers the issues I had way back when. *sigh*
I just don’t want to seem like an overbearing, suspicious girlfriend if I have nothing to worry about.
kmichelle you need to listen to Raymond and talk to your bf about what you heard. Be open and upfront, but calm and non confrontational. Get it all out in the open.
Things like this will fester until they become BIG problems if they’re not nipped in the bud.
You are allowed to bring her name up you heard him say it and you are his girlfriend , it may be innocent , but if so why did he not tell you he was talking to her , don’t be the one who keeps her mouth shut and then finds out in the end he wants her or is seeing you both . I wish you luck and please shout me and let me know how you make out , I hope it’s innocent , you sound like you’re in love and I wouldn’t want to see you get hurt ……………RON.
BTW, Goodfella, I just spent tonight with him, and in conversation, I mentioned that it’s probably be alright if I spent some time with him tomorrow before this church function we have (we don’t get to see each other that often, so he usually takes advantage of any opportunity he gets) and he just said that he had plans. I asked what he was doing and he told me that he was going to a friends house and was going to be dropped off from this friends house directly at the church.
So I gave him a golden opportunity to mention it to me, and he didn’t. This was before I read your advice, too.
So, I’ll be at church earlier than him tomorrow because I’m supposed to be, and I’ll just make sure that I see who drops him off, and confront him about it then.
Sound okay?
that sounds like a plan.
I think he is hiding it from you because this is exactly what he doesn’t want to happen. He loves you. He does not want to give you a reason to worry. Just act like nothing happened or tell him what you heard and that you don’t care if he hangs with her. Don’t give him reasons to hide things.
Hmm this is suspicious. Maybe he does think that you don’t trust him with hr. Otherwise he would tell you he’s going to see her. I think you guys have trust issues with each other (no offense) but you definitely need to ask him about it and just be honest and say you heard what he said on the phone. Let him know that you don’t think he’s cheating but that you don’t understand why he lied. Why would he hide it if he knew you trusted him?
kmichelle I think we all want to know how it went, and if “she” dropped him off.
It is getting to sound very suspicious :(
I’ll be keeping my fingers crossed for you.
So, here’s the deal:
Allison’s mom DID drop him off, though I didn’t see it like I meant to. (He admitted it after I confronted him.)
After he got there, I just couldn’t look at him, I was so upset. So naturally, he noticed, but he just chalked it up to the fact that he was 30 minutes late to the function. (Yeah, and he was late too!)
So when I went into a room to do something, he came in after me to help, and I just looked at him and glared and asked sweetly “Did you have fun with Allison?”
He looked dumbfounded, and it went downhill from there.
Somehting else: he was COVERED in blue and green paint, because he was helping her paint her room, apparently, with these two other girls who are my frenemies. (Not to sound dramatic, but thats really the only way to put it. We pretend to be friends, when they not-so-secretly hate me behind my back.) And everyone at the painting party knew that he was there without my knowledge, because, of course, I would get sooo jealous if I knew, right? Ha-f********-ha. How funnnny.
He admitted that he was there, he admitted that he hid it from me, and he said it was because he was trying to spare my feelings by doing it.
But I didn’t break up with him, and I’m not planning to, though I am still really mad.
And so, the end of a saga. =)