Have you ever had to deal with your partner wanting to do something with a friend of the opposite gender, which made you uncomfortable?
One man is feeling stressed out after his girlfriend informed him she’d be camping for two nights alone with her longtime male friend.
He’s 28 and has been dating his 26-year-old girlfriend for seven months. So far, they’ve had a really great relationship and haven’t gotten into any major arguments.
However, he recently learned something about his girlfriend that has made him very uncomfortable, and he’s unsure what to do.
The other night, his girlfriend told him she planned a two-night camping trip in Colorado with her guy friend, whom she’s known longer than him. He was not invited.
When they first started dating, she went on a solo trip with this friend, and although he had some worries about it, he didn’t say anything because they weren’t exclusive yet. But now that they are, he can’t help but feel uncomfortable, especially because he was cheated on under similar circumstances during his last relationship.
“With that said, I know that she is not [one of] those women and doesn’t deserve to be treated as such just because someone else did something unkind to me,” he said.
“When she told me about the trip, I didn’t react externally, but I immediately felt tormented inside. In my view, it is simply inappropriate to put yourself in a compromising situation like that when you’re in a relationship.”
He’s also upset because he mentioned wanting to plan a camping trip with her over the last few weeks, having no idea she had been planning a trip without him all along.
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His girlfriend has sworn to him that her relationship with this guy friend is purely platonic and has promised him that nothing has nor will happen between them. Although he trusts her a lot, there’s still a part of him that worries she’ll cheat on him.
Now, he’s unsure what to do about the situation, as he wants the situation to change but doesn’t want to be a controlling partner.
“Intentions aside, it’s tearing me up inside,” he explained.
“I cannot be with a woman who thinks it’s okay to go camping with another man without me; I would never even entertain the idea of doing the same. So right now, my options are to say nothing and accept it or have a conversation with her about boundaries, which will likely result in the end of the relationship.”
How should he approach this situation with his girlfriend?
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