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Tue 14 Jun, 2016 09:47 am
My bf works with this girl (I'll call her "K") and I've had a bad feeling about her since she started working with him. He always told me that she was dull but he still talks about her daily to me. She asked him at work if she were his favourite colleague and told him to add her on FB. He told her he doesn't add colleagues on FB and laughed off the other question. I asked him if she knew he had a girlfriend and he said no. I suggested that maybe he should mention it because it sounded like she was flirting. At this point I’d relaxed. If she didn’t know he had a girlfriend I couldn’t be mad at her for flirting with him. A few days after this he casually dropped into the conversation that he had a girlfriend, because he too started to get a feeling that "K" liked him. My bf works with other girls (one especially pretty one) and I’ve never worried about the other girls and still don’t.
One day she asked to see a picture of me, he showed one to her and she apparently sulked the rest of the day because she thought I was "quite pretty" and she was surprised. Since then, she's "joked" to my bf that she wants to get rid of me, that she has a shrine for him and that the thought of him naked is a nice one. He's told me that she rolls her eyes and doesn't like it when he mentions me.
During all this, I got two friend requests on fb from male colleagues. I accepted as I knew them and they instantly started messaging me. I was next to my bf at the time and he was looking at my phone with me. He said he wasn’t comfortable with it. Immediately after he said that, one of them started flirting and asking me to go out for drinks. I told them that it wasn’t appropriate because they knew I was in a serious relationship (we are practically living together now).
About a week ago we were on the bus from work and he got a text from "K". I honestly didn't mean to look, but he opened it right next to me and I was facing that way. I saw that he initiated the conversation, included wink faces and encouraged the conversation to continue. I didn’t want to mention anything on the bus so when we got back to my house I told him that him initiating texts her made me uncomfortable. Because we both know she likes him and he knows how I feel about it and how he felt when it was the other way around. I felt he disrespected my feelings on the subject and it would encourage "K" to carry on the flirting and texting. It resulted in an argument between us, and I started crying. He calmed down and told me that he doesn’t even want to be her friend or socialise with her and promised he wouldn’t do it outside of work when it wasn’t work related.
Since then he has initiated texts with her twice, with a different excuse each time.
I feel so horrible for confronting him over it. I guess I just need advice. Am I in the wrong? What should I do if it continues?
When he got upset about your FB'ing male colleagues, did you get rid of them on FB?
The reason I ask is to be sure you're not just playing head games. If you're both equally committed to being exclusive, then you should both be able to expect the same rules to apply.
@snood,
I did. I blocked them and they didn't speak to me at work again. I didn't know they'd even try flirting because they hadn't in work.
@PixiePann,
Well, if you cut off social contact with male colleagues, it only seems fair that he should willingly cut off social ties with his female colleague. If he is still trying to contact her on the sly, I'd say you have a legitimate beef.
For me, a partner doing this to me would be a deal breaker. But I guess everyone has to make their own decisions about where to draw their boundaries.
@snood,
But he used to say he was scared of losing me because "guys like him don't usually get with girls like me" and he felt he wasn't good enough because he sees himself as a "chubby emo kid" and I got really upset about it because to me he's who I want to be with
I just don't know if I'm overreacting over things or not.
@PixiePann,
May I ask how old you are? You don't have to say if you don't want to.
@snood,
I'm 24. He's 22. But I've not had a relationship before because I was happy by myself.
@PixiePann,
I'm not generally one who gives advice, and this is just one opinion from a guy who's been around the block a couple of times. But if your boyfriend knows that it hurts you, and he's promised to cut off the flirting but
still keeps it up secretly...
You might want to give some thought to cutting him loose. Is holding on to him worth giving up your self respect?
@snood,
snood wrote:
I'm not generally one who gives advice, . . .
Maybe you should do it more often.
@roger,
Why, thank you roger. Nice of you to say...