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kayjax

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boyfriend doing drugs & cheating with ex girfriend
Posted: 06-01-07 17:01pm

My boyfriend and I have been dating for almost 5 months now. i'm 22 and he is 24. We started off having a pretty great relationship but eventually trust became a major concern in it.
First off a little background info.

When we first started dating i knew he dabbled in a little drug use but didn't find out how much until about a month in. He was a regular user of cocaine and ketamine. I told him that it bothered me to be around him when he was under the influence of drugs and asked him not to do them around me and he agreed.
At first he seemed to be clean whenever I saw him, but then it turned into him hiding the fact he was doing drugs by going into another room, doing a line, then returning like nothing had happened. But of course my gut told me otherwise and he eventually fessed up.
I proceeded to tell him that since obviously I was getting more and more upset with the drug use that we couldn't continue the relationship unless he quit completely.
He relented and told me he would choose me over the drugs.
He slipped up once and did a bump of ketamine while we were out with some friends one evening and I lost it.
I broke down crying telling him how much he hurt me and how I couldn't continue because the trust was now gone. He told me it wouldn't happen again and we ended up staying together.
Since then he has been clean and much happier as have I.
But then the calls started.
His ex girlfriend whom he had dated 3 years prior to us dating would be calling him at 2,3,4 in the morning. We would both be sleeping but I would wake up whenever these calls would come in and noticed the display saying her name.
I was extremely upset by this and told him so. He stated I was over reacting and that he was not cheating on me.
I know he;s not cheating but his ex calling him at ludacris times isn't acceptable. He told me if I didn't like it to call her and tell her. Since then the calls have stopped and I didn't have to resort to calling her which I'm glad.

(a side note.. two of my previous long-term relationships ended with me being cheated on. Both of my partners cheated on me with their ex girlfriends)

Then today he finished work early and when he arrived at my place I asked him how his day went etc. He went to get a shower and while in the shower I got the sudden urge to look at his phone. I know that was wrong of me and I shouldn't have done it. But in his messages it showed he'd been texting someone who was just listed as "M"

I copied the number into my phone and called it hiding my number. A woman answered and immediately I hung up and started crying.

When he came out of the shower I confronted him asking him who "M" was and why he didn't mention anything about her.

He said I shouldn't have been snooping etc and told me it was an old friend and sister of one of his friends who called him up while he was at work so he met her for lunch.

I told him he should have told me about this and asked why he didnt tell me. He said "I wasn't sure if your reaction would be worse than it is now"

Of course it wouldn't be. The fact he was withholding information about seeing some girl I don't know while on his lunch, rather than seeing me isn't acceptable. When I asked him about his day he should have mentioned it then, should he not?
We're both at our breaking point now.

He know's I don't trust him.. but I cant immediately trust him again with how much he's lied to me in the past... trust has to be earned. He even said "I don't know if I want this anymore"

I love him to death and I want to make this work more than anything. I need help, opinions, advice.. anything. I know me snooping wasn't right.. but was my reaction uncalled for?
Should I have reacted differently?
How can I learn to trust him again?

Please please help... I don't know what to do and I have no one else to turn to for advice since I moved last year and have no close friends here yet.
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Llewellyn

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Posted: 06-01-07 17:30pm

While you technically should not snoop, I can't entirely blame you for doing so. I mean, the man really does lie and hide things from you. It's not a sign of a good relationship when one person is lying, and the other feels the need to snoop because they know something is being hidden from them. I only had one relationship where I was in that situation (he was lying, I knew it, and started snooping), and it was actually an extremely abusive relationship.

Honestly, five months is a very short relationship, and that is a heck of a lot of garbage to go on in not even five shorts months. It sounds like this relationship was never a strong one.

I would probably get out of the relationship if I were you. You can't trust each other, neither of you are sure about the relationship, neither of you are very happy, and it does not sound like something that is going to resolve itself any time soon. You can't just "learn to trust him again" when he has lied to you ever since he met you. Maybe I am wrong, but it sounds like this relationship is, and always was, doomed.
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DPantelones

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Re: Please Help.. =[
Posted: 06-04-07 16:51pm

kayjax wrote:
How can I learn to trust him again?


If you're like me, and I like to consider myself normal, you never will be able to trust this guy again. Try to be objective with yourself and look at things you've suspected from the past with this loser...and that's what cheaters are, losers, whether they had a physical or emotional affair, in my opinion!

Good luck
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aszalajka

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Posted: 06-14-07 15:18pm

For starters i think your dating my ex! you bf sounds just like him. Personally i think you should get rid of him. if u dont trust him now, i personally believe you wont be able to again. ill stay with a clif note verison of what happened to me, i dated a guy for 3 years. in that three years it was lie after lie. lied to me about having a job, lied to me about drugs and lied about a lot more. i put up with it for 3 years. i tried to be understanding and caring and trying to stand by him. i loved him so much and i suspected the drug use and i just wanted to help him. finally i broke it off i was devestated. he called me a few months later asking to stay with my on house arrest, against my better judgement i let him. finally i got sick of him making a mess all day long eating all my food and smoking cigs all day long while i was out hard at work. i told him he needed to leave. he left. the next day i wake up to my car gone. he snooped in MY apartment took my spare key and took any change i had laying around. and this ass told me he loved me!!! now im dating a terrific guy who may not be Mr perfect but hes good to me and provides for me, and i love him to death for who he is. Girl, you can do better than being with a lier who could possibly be cheating on you. yes you shouldnt have snooped but if he gives u good reason to, its only human nature. i went three years TRYIN and TRYIN to believe in someone and trust him and i couldnt. my new bf his ex just sent him a birthday card, yes i was a lil pissed but i know and trust that he isnt nor will ever go back to her. i told him it upset me but he doesnt have control over who sends him mail or what not. but personally save yourself now, before you waste to much time with this guy. just the drug thing alone. if it was pot, i would let that go, well me personally anyways, but when u start with herione and coke, thats a whole other world that you dont need to witness or be a part of. im sure your better than all that. so you should be with someone who is better too!
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