This guy had a girlfriend back in high school that he was with for 3 years. He says that things between them were good.
They got along well, and they spent a lot of time together without encountering a lot of problems. Even though their relationship worked, he just could not imagine spending the rest of his life with her.
There was nothing exactly “wrong” with his girlfriend; it was simply that he couldn’t envision staying with her for the long run, and he couldn’t figure out why he felt like that.
Well, he wound up cheating on her 3 different times with 3 different girls. The guilt did not hit him until months after he did this.
“Our relationship continued on like normal like we were a perfect couple,” he explained. “Fast forward a couple of months, and I was leaving for college, and we had discussed separating because neither one of us wanted to do long distance…”
He was ultimately the one to call things off, and it came down to several things. The first thing was that he couldn’t picture spending his entire life with her.
The second one was that he did not want to be in a long-distance relationship. And then the third thing was that he had cheated on her three times.
He knew in his heart that this girl really did deserve to find a guy who would be faithful, but he never felt compelled to own up to what he did.
“The guilt of leaving her and hurting her hurt me for a long time and still does to this day,” he said.
“She learned I got a Tinder account after we broke up, which is also a [bad] thing, and that destroyed her even more. I don’t know why I did what I did I should have never cheated on someone who did nothing wrong.”
He can’t really say if he would have changed his mind and felt differently about her if he had not decided to cut things off.
Although it has been quite a long time since the end of that relationship, he knows that she has moved on and found someone new.
That someone new happens to be one of his old friends, and he’s happy that his old girlfriend is going for this guy, as he’s truly a good person.
He knows it was wrong of him to never tell his old girlfriend that he cheated, but he’s happy she managed to move on and put him behind her.
As for him, I suppose you could say that he has moved on, but he has not since entered a committed relationship at all.
“I’ve mostly kept to myself I’ve done my share of hookup culture, but I’ve avoided pursuing a relationship of any kind for obvious reasons,” he continued.
“I never want to hurt someone again like that, and it’s easier to just keep to myself. I’ve been bettering myself in college and getting involved and making a positive difference as much as I can, and focusing on my grades. I just don’t know why I would do something like this and put someone through this who never did me wrong. I just needed to get this off my chest.”
What advice would you give him?
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