AITA for ending a long term relationship after repeated betrayals and having the other person's family tell everyone it was actually about something completely unrelated
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over the past two years there have been repeated incidents of dishonesty that crossed lines id communicated very clearly. not one mistake. a pattern. each time i raised it i was told it wouldnt happen again and it happened again
i finally ended things about a month ago
her family has since been telling people in our shared social circle that the reason i ended it was something else entirely. like something that has nothing to do with the actual reason. theyve picked a narrative that makes me look bad and theyre running with it pretty aggressively. i think they either genuinely believe it or theyre choosing it because its easier than acknowledging what actually happened
ive been getting messages from mutual friends asking me about this other reason.
i dont want to air everything publicly because it involves things that are private and would embarrass her. but staying quiet is letting a false narrative about me take hold
i just ended a relationship because i was repeatedly lied to and betrayed. that should be enough of a reason on its own without having to defend myself against a story that was invented to replace it
AITA for ending it, and am i wrong for not correcting the record more aggressively?
TLDR: ended a long term relationship after repeated betrayals. her family is telling everyone it was about something unrelated that makes me look bad. ive been defending myself privately but not publicly. wondering if i should correct the record more forcefully or just let it go