If you caught your partner sharing a bed with a coworker on a work trip, would you buy their excuse that the rooms were too pricey, so they had to share one?
This 21-year-old girl has a 24-year-old boyfriend, and they have been together for two years. Her boyfriend has a job as a sales engineer and went on a work trip along with a couple of his coworkers recently.
Her boyfriend was excited about the trip, which happened over a long weekend. She’s having a bit of a rough time, so she asked her boyfriend to call her every single night while he was gone.
He promised to do that, but as soon as he went away, he said he couldn’t call her every night. On the first evening of her boyfriend’s trip, she called him, but he didn’t pick up.
He texted her to say he was at a conference and was getting back to the hotel room super late.
“I don’t work in business, but I feel like it’s not exactly normal for conferences to run until midnight? Anyway, I chose to trust him,” she explained.
“The second night came, and I hadn’t heard from him at all. I called him twice, and the second time, the phone only rang briefly before going to voicemail (implying that he manually hung up).”
“By this point, I was pretty fed up, so I sent him a paragraph saying if he doesn’t call me, then we’re breaking up (extreme, but it’s incredibly out of character for him to be so bad at communicating).”
Her boyfriend finally picked up the phone. She demanded to FaceTime him, but he said no. She once more threatened to dump him, so he did as she asked.
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He was in his hotel room, and she could see a double bed all made up neatly in the background. Her boyfriend appeared to be panicking, and he seemed to want her to hang up.
She spoke to him for 20 minutes, and he calmed down. She felt less stressed out, too, and thought that perhaps he wasn’t trying to hide something.
Before they hung up, he said he would call her the following night. Well, he did, and she said she wanted to FaceTime him. He was on his way back to the hotel room and opened the door.
“Everything seems normal at first, but then I notice in his glasses, the reflection. There’s a….woman in his bed. Asleep. I genuinely cannot believe what I’m seeing,” she continued.
“He’s never shown any signs of infidelity before. I ask him what’s going on, and he says plainly, ‘Well, the room was too expensive, so we decided to share and split it.'”
Oh, and the woman in her boyfriend’s bed definitely seemed concerned. She said she was married and that her husband knew about them sharing a room.
This woman showed her messages between her and her husband, proving he knew about the arrangement. Her boyfriend and his coworker seemed innocent.
However, she knows better than what her boyfriend said. It was a work trip, so he did not have to pay for that room, nor was he forced by his company to share it with his female coworker.
She’s left wondering what to do and what to believe.
Well, it sounds to me like he’s totally cheating on her, because it’s not normal to sleep in the same bed as your married coworker unless there’s an affair going on!
She is completely underreacting here, and she needs to dump her boyfriend over this one.
What advice do you have for her?
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