Getting cheated on has changed me as a person
Hello everyone, i am a 23M and my ex is 22F. about 2 months ago i found out she had cheated on me with somebody from work. the cheating happened last year from feb-july. A quick back story is she tried to lie and say this guy was making “rumours” about her at work, she told me everything and it just didnt add up at all. i would constantly be in my head about it, id ask her she would lie, tell me im being paranoid etc.
it got so bad i eventually decided to text the guys ex girlfriend as she knew the details what went on. she told me exactly what had happened and my body went into complete shock, even though i had that gut feeling it really did sink in when she told me. the guy and her both told me details where she had apparently said i had assulted her, i have never assulted her. there was also parts that didnt add up such as she apparently had an abortion last march at the hospital. i knew she was at the hospital but not for that, whether that was true or not i dont know but he said it wasnt his child. then i had found out she got fed up of this guy half way through they were talking and decided to flirt with another guy at work. he didnt show her attention so she went back to this other guy, he then was trying to flirt with another girl at work, she told the girl how he is talking to loads of girls at once etc.
when the girlfriend found out about her and him, my girlfriend had gotten so angry, the girls had a conversation together one day about it all and my girlfriend had actually reported him and got him fired from work, she said she wanted to “ruin his life”
I eventually told my girlfriend i know about it all, she got very defensive and told me she doesnt know what im talking about. i told her i have proof and she still denied it and told me she didnt do nothing. a few days later she admitted it but told me it was nothing , that she didnt like him and said she just likes to play guys because she finds it fun. she told me she was sorry etc, but i wasnt giving into her so she switched the whole thing around onto me and basically said she didn’t technically cheated because apparently she thought we wasnt together, we was together . then said if i was a better boyfriend maybe she wouldnt of cheated.
these words have honestly took a toll on my emotions, over the past 2 weeks ive noticed how ive become very drained, depressed, not wanting to do anything, every day tasks are a struggle sometimes . i dont even have an identity anymore everything i once loved isn’t interesting to me and in my head im replaying everything, thinking what i couldve done better or for her not to cheat. i feel guilty that she probably felt she had to cheat something like that.