Three weeks ago, this 27-year-old woman got engaged to her 27-year-old fiancé Eric. They have been dating for a year and a half, and prior to them entering a relationship, she knows Eric was dating his friend Jane.
Apparently, Eric and Jane’s relationship ended terribly, but the two managed to move on and remain friends despite the breakup.
She honestly has no idea why Eric and Jane broke up because she never questioned Eric about it.
By the time she started seeing Eric, Jane moved to Paris, so she has only met Jane through video calls and not in real life.
“She is really important to him,” she explained. “They do talk once or twice a month over text or video chat, and I know that they have a lot in common (I don’t know Jane’s situation, but Eric’s parents were abusive, and I’ve pieced together that Jane’s were as well).”
“I’ve never gotten the impression that either one wants to go back to how it was, and he’s never given me a reason to be insecure. Until now.”
“He asked me to marry him three weeks ago, and I said yes. I was really excited to marry him. But then suddenly a few days ago, he announced that he needed to go visit family. Which was weird because he cut his family off several years ago.”
Eric has said to her that he never wants to see his family again in his life, so this instantly confused her.
Eric insisted there was some kind of a dire emergency, and then he left. Eric did call her several times to say his mom was experiencing some problems with her health, but she wasn’t suspicious; she just believed Eric.
She didn’t think he would ever lie about his whereabouts or what was going on. Eric has always been quite sensitive when it comes to discussing his family, so she didn’t want to press him or question him. She just gave him space to be there for his mom.
Two days ago, Jane strangely reached out to her to ask if Eric was alright. She replied back to Jane, saying that Eric was visiting with his family, and she figured he had to be stressed because of that, so if he wasn’t getting back to her, that would be why.
“She then informed me that he is in Paris with her and snuck a photo of him in her apartment,” she said.
She absolutely freaked out but didn’t reply back to Jane. She had no idea that Eric hopped a plane, and flew 12 hours to Paris to see Jane behind her back.
After calming herself down, she did get back to Jane, who promised she had no clue Eric was coming until he showed up in Paris.
Jane also has done nothing wrong, and she doesn’t think anything physical has happened between them since Eric got there.
Jane was able to prove to her that she was unaware of Eric’s travel plans, and Jane asked her if Eric was ok since he was not filling her in on anything.
After all of this went down, she went to go stay with a friend of hers and left her engagement ring behind.
“I talked to Jane yesterday,” she continued. “She was really angry. She put it together pretty quickly I didn’t know he was there after I told her he was with family.”
“And she provided proof that she didn’t know he was coming. I haven’t talked to Eric yet; he hasn’t even called, and I don’t know when he’s coming back.”
She’s going to spend the next few days thinking things over before perhaps trying to speak to Eric.
What do you think she should do, break up with Eric over this?
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