A man has decided to dump his girlfriend after she went on a camping trip that he was ‘uncomfortable with’ – because there was one innocent element of the holiday that he didn’t like
One holiday is all it takes to make someone lose trust in their partner.
Relationships are full of ups and downs – and the best romances aren’t the ones that don’t have any problems, they’re the ones that can maturely navigate those tough moments to become stronger. But one man has said he’s unable to move on from his girlfriend’s indiscretion toward him, so he’s calling it quits.
What did she do to make him end their relationship? She went on a camping trip with her volleyball team that happened to include two blokes who weren’t her partner. The 27-year-old man explained he felt “uncomfortable” with her holiday plans, but his girlfriend, 22, went anyway and left him “jealous and frustrated”.
In a post on Reddit, the man, from the US, said he and his girlfriend have a long-distance relationship because she moved out of state when they first got together. He has been planning on moving out to live with her in the future, but currently, the pair only see each other every couple of months.
Recently, the man’s girlfriend has made friends playing volleyball at the park, and two of those friends are other guys. One man in particular – a 24-year-old man who was given the name ‘Mike’ to protect his identity – has become close with the woman, and her boyfriend is livid about it.
He wrote: “There’s this one particular guy Mike who wants to be her mentor for the job she does. He’s legit, however, when I first met him, he was almost caught off guard that she had a boyfriend. Something about how he said ‘oh cool’ when she introduced us. I don’t know, their interaction together was weird. I never wanted to be that kind of boyfriend, so I shelved it in my mind and moved on.”
The camping trip, however, set off alarm bells in the man’s head as he didn’t want his girlfriend to be alone with Mike. And even though she assured him there would be another woman with them, he wasn’t happy – and has now ended their relationship over it.
He added: “She told me that she’s going camping with some volleyball people. Two guys and her – one of them is Mike. She could see it on my face that I was uncomfortable with it but we got distracted with something else and didn’t talk about it. She came back a few days later and told me she convinced one of her girlfriends to come with her. It’s not about the camp, I’m just not liking this Mike guy. I can tell her that, but I can’t tell her what to do or not to do.”
The man admitted he feels “jealous and frustrated” over the issue because he can’t be there with her. He also said he feels unhappy that the men on the trip “paid for everything” including events like jet skiing and paddle boarding.
Commenters on the post were split. While some said the woman was being “disrespectful” by not listening to her boyfriend’s concerns, others believed he was overreacting.
One person said: “I am a guy and I know I wouldn’t pay for another girl unless they were family, I was dating them, or I thought I had a chance. So she is seeing him or leading him on. Either way, I wouldn’t be tolerating it. Very disrespectful to you.”
But another asked: “Have you tried being an adult and talking to her about it or was asking a bunch of strangers on the internet who know absolutely nothing about the two of you your way of figuring things out?” And a third posted: “I think it’s weird to not tell her straight up that you’re uncomfortable with this trip and then break up with her because she went.”
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