What would you consider cheating??

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My boyfriend of 6 years this march, provided a shock for me this weekend. I found a message on his phone sent to a 'calum' saying 'hi honey, shouldn't be so spineless should i xxx' That was in his sent box.

When i confronted him , as he was sitting next to me he quickly took the phone off me and deleted it and said he sent it to me. I obviosly got ****** off, and walked out the room he then told me it was his pal Sally who i have never heard of, and they have been talking for a while. And that it started with flirting and for the mobile records it was a lot for 3 weeks.

He had a £90 phone bill which he said was due to the fact that he had been contacting someone in his work re work who worked on a boat, so like a fool i believed him , if i had checked the phone bill in more detail i woul have seen the txts started as soon as he left the house and calls untill he came into the house at night, late night calls when i havent been there which he must have started. looking at the records it was quite intence for 3 weeks then calmed down. He told me to begin with it was flirting then he decided to stop the flirting she spat the dummy although she has a fiance. He said dont be like that and that he would still talk to her on email.

He doesnt consider it cheating but as far as im conserned it is as he did it behind my back, it hurt, it's lying which he obviously did to me. He has said that he is going to stop talking to her, he said its a relief because he was getting bored talking to her about the same stuff.

I would like some advise - would you call that cheating. There was a lot of txt message and calls to her mobile and office and she lives 700 miles away.

She said she could understand my reaction and that her fiance would dump her if he found out as he has been cheated on but in her opinion it wasn't cheating.... and that he should decide himself if he wants to talk to her (ie me not order him not to talk to her - which i havent done it was his choice)

So its happened over 3 months - handy thing telephone records , i tursted him cause he said he wouldn't cheat on me but i find this a form of cheating...
he says its not, it was just a bit of fun....so he says but cant really rememeber everything that was said. jsut chit chat and filting.

would you call this cheating??
 
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i have been talking to him about it, its the fact that they both dont consider it cheating, yet she has said in the same sentence that her fiance would dump her beacue he has been cheated on but it is not cheating in her opinion. He doesnt consider it cheating, i only went through his records when he told me the truth if i had done that in the first place i woul have seen how many calls and the times they were taking place.

He was distance towards me during that time, he spent more talking to her than we both spent on each other at christmas as we dont have that much money. He said she spat the dummy when he ended the flirting.

He is sorry so he keeps saying but also says it wasnt cheating, but if someone is lying behind your back, etc then i find it is. I have loadsof what if's which he hates, ie, is the only reason u couldnt sleep with her because she was 700 miles away, he says maybe thats why he did it cause she was 700 miles away....

I am talking to him a lot, it just hurts when someone you trust does that to you....

My question is would you consider it cheating....
 
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well i dont know what was said in the text messages and the 30 min phone calls or picture messages..

she got all stroppy when he tried to stop it and is ****** off cause he is not going to talk to her anymore, so why cant i be ****** off, i would have been fine if they were just friends but they way it came about wasn't on. I don't know what was said in the messages, i dont think that helped our relationship, but hopefully if we can overcome it, it will help make us stronger.
 
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his pal had been texting him about going out i was just looking to see what he said and found it by accident, i had all his phone bill records i just didnt look at them hard enough and believed his story about work.

its the mental hurt.
 
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we had a tricky patch as christmas, found out there that she told him he should maybe leave me and see if he missed me, which he said was one of the worst things he could have done, so yes i agree someone to talk to, but the flirting didnt help. As i said i wouldnt have minded the someone to talk to it was the flirting and the amount and frequency of calls that annoyed me. I can look back and see a lot of it was to do with her.

He does that and then says that he has also been talking to her about proposing to me... its mucked up...
 
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Kronologic said:
I personally disagree with this. You are allowed to make your own friendships and firendships with different people have different limits.

You can have friendships with the other sex who are just as close as your same sex friendships. Whi is it wrong to have opposite sex friends? Why is it wrong to spend time with them developing your friendship. Can you not have strong friendships with the opposite sex and have a partner at the same time? I must have missed that memo.

Its fine to feal guilty about spending less time with your partner if you have made a strong relationship with someone and are not able to include your partner in the relationship. But if you know you are just freinds then whats the problem? Just make a concious effort to spend more quality time with your partner and explain to your friend that you are doing things with your partner than night and want to be uninterupted ;)

I cant agree with people that want their relationships to be so exclusive that they put that relationship before other friendships. That imo is not healthy for anyone.


I wouldnt have minded the friends it was the flirting and the taking all f'in day that messed me up.
 
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he said it was a mistake and that he couldnt tell me about her because of how it started even though they were friends now as he knew it would upset me.

and we are working with our relationship, guess he got his 7 year itch a year earlier...
 
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