She Found Out Her Boyfriend Was Cheating With Her Best Friend And That They’d Apparently Fallen In Love, So She Cut Them Both Out Of Her Life
This 23-year-old woman and her boyfriend Jake, who’s 25, have been together for three years now.
“We’ve had our ups and downs, like any couple, but I truly believed he was the one,” she said.
However, that was until she found out that her best friend, Emily, who’s 24, and Jake, had completely betrayed her.
For some context, she and Emily have been friends since they met in college, and they viewed each other as sisters. That’s why she never expected what happened last weekend at her boyfriend’s birthday party.
She’d actually planned the party – which was a surprise for Jake – and Emily was obviously on the guest list. Her friend even helped her plan some of the event arrangements.
On the day of the celebration, everything seemed to be going well, too. Then, she noticed something odd going on with Jake and Emily.
They were interacting pretty strangely – whispering to each other, sharing “secretive” glances, and they even started holding hands when no one else was looking.
At first, she thought she might just be paranoid and tried to leave what she saw alone. She couldn’t shake her bad gut feeling, though, and wound up doing something she was not very proud of.
More specifically, while Jake was asleep later that night, she decided to snoop through his phone. This led her to find hundreds of text messages between Jake and Emily, some of which were blatantly romantic while others made it seem like they’d been hooking up behind her back for months!
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“I was devastated. I couldn’t believe the two people I trusted most in the world could do this to me,” she recalled.
So, the following day, she ended up confronting Jake, and he didn’t even deny cheating on her. Rather, he actually just tried to justify his actions by saying he and Emily had simply fallen in love with each other and didn’t know how to tell her that.
She proceeded to kick Jake out of her apartment after he said that, and she also called Emily – revealing how she knew about everything. Emily apparently began crying and apologizing, saying that she never intended for her to get hurt.
“But her tears meant nothing to me. I told her our friendship was over and that I never wanted to see her again,” she explained.
Ever since cutting off both Jake and Emily, their mutual friends haven’t stopped texting her. They keep accusing her of overreacting, saying that “love is complicated,” and urging her to forgive Jake and Emily.
“They say that I’m being cruel by cutting both Jake and Emily out of my life completely. But I feel like what they did is unforgivable,” she vented.
Still, in the wake of all this drama, she can’t help but wonder if breaking up with Jake and ending her friendship with Emily was justified or not.
How would you feel if your boyfriend and best friend betrayed you like this? Would you be able to remain friendly with them after that?
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