Am I losing my mind or is this a pattern of disrespect? Need a reality check on my relationship.
I’ve been with my girlfriend since late 2022, but I feel like I’ve been living through a "humiliation ritual" from the start.
I’m at the point where I feel like I’m paying a premium price, both emotionally and mentally, for a version of her that everyone else seemed to get for free. I need to know if what I’m experiencing is even remotely normal.
When we first became exclusive, she admitted to keeping dating apps like Tinder, Hinge, and Boo active as a backup plan. She claimed she "wasn't sure" about my intentions, but the kicker is that she apparently never felt the need to keep a safety net with any of her previous flings.
It feels like a total double standard. Her history is full of these overlaps too. While she was with her ex, Lucas, she was still seeing a former hookup named Alec. Then she started things with her cousin Miguel in the summer of 2020 while she was still involved with Lucas through September. The timelines clearly don't work and she obviously cheated, yet she constantly plays the "poor victim" card about her past.
The inconsistencies just keep piling up. Recently, in 2026, she went to Portugal and stayed at her grandma’s house. She told me she "had" to sleep in the same bed where she and Miguel used to have sex because her grandma (the grandma didn't know) told her to and she "couldn't" say no.
She can be incredibly tough and defy me on things that would actually do her good, but she couldn't stand up for our relationship for one night on a couch?
It’s the same thing with her social media and the "random" people she knows. I caught her still following Lucas on Instagram and she claimed she just forgot he was there, yet she’d flee the station if we ran into him.
She even recognized a random hotel receptionist because he was "from uni," but then immediately pivoted to "I thought he was your friend" the second I called out the inconsistency.
Then there is the "Spanish guy" on her blocked list (that i discovered after a solo vacation she took to Spain in 2023). All of his friends blocked me the second I mentioned her name, and she still hasn't given me a straight explanation for that.
The part that really scares me is that she risked my health. Early on, she told me "don't worry I have no symptoms" to avoid using protection, despite having unprotected sex with random people from Tinder less than four months prior without being tested.
I’ve endured what feels like hundreds of instances of micro-cheating, from her calling celebrities "daddy" to her deleting her entire Instagram history the second I got access to her account because she "knew I'd react badly." It just reeks of guilt.
I am living in a situation where she offered herself for free to everyone else, but I am the one enduring the lack of empathy and the constant "trickle-truth."
Are these just "messy" mistakes, or am I staying in a situation that is fundamentally broken? I honestly don't know what to believe anymore.