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Girlfriend... OR Best Friend

Simple, my girlfriend used to be my best friend. My ex-girlfriend was my best friend before that. My current girlfriend was cheated on by her ex by people she thought were friends. I also made the mistake of not totally finishing with another girl for a week after I first got with my girlfriend, although my girlfriend did know.

Now she has trust issues. She says she can't trust me in close friendships. My best friend now happens to be a girl. No attraction, just someone I can talk to for hours, besides my girlfriend.

My girlfriend wants to go on a break, but I dont see how that will help anything, its constantly leading to arguments, and she says she doesnt want to be a suspicious girlfriend, what do i do? I feel like im being made to choose! And my girlfriend would never say so, but i am. Oh and it doesnt help that a mutual friend has decided I'm in love with my best friend, from a conversation where I said I could talk to [best friend] all day probably!
Reply 1
go with your friend. if your girlfriend cant trust you to be around girls, well, i wouldnt stick around.
If your girlfriend can't trust you then i'd question why she is with you.
Reply 3
Rock Fan
If your girlfriend can't trust you then i'd question why she is with you.


Apparently with random people she trust me 100%, but with close friends, far less so
Reply 4
Stay with your friend, Girlfriend has some issues to work out. What does she expect, you never to be friendly with another girlever again?
djjz13
Apparently with random people she trust me 100%, but with close friends, far less so


Then she has trust issues, if she won't let you have some close friends then I would tell her either she puts up with it or clears off.
Reply 6
Megatronix
Stay with your friend, Girlfriend has some issues to work out. What does she expect, you never to be friendly with another girlever again?


Thats what I said, she's being ridiculous! Just because I have done the best friend => girlfriend transition before does not make it a certainty now! Its even worse in that she does happen to flirt with randomers "but I'm out, im Drunk thats me, I cant help it, i just flirt" she says. Its nothing crazy, and I can totally deal with it, but the hypocrisy is galling.
Reply 7
Dump her. Dump her. Dump her.
Agree with Pro.
I think you're all being a bit harsh. I mean, obviously she has trust issues, and is not really justified in telling him not to hang round with female friends - but given the cheating on his previous girlfriend, and the fact that several of the girls he's close to are exs - I can see why she might feel a bit paranoid. OP, if you want to stay with your girlfriend, try and reassure her that you don't have feelings for any of these female friends, and maybe try not to be in 'intimate' situations with them, staying at their house alone etc. Meet her half-way, as it were, she shouldn't stop you being friends with people, but you have to take her feelings into account too.
Reply 10
I'm trying to come halfway, say I'll tone it down (I do live close to my best friend, and eat dinner there quite often), but then she gets mildly irate about not wanting me to have to change my relationships with single friends. This is impossible.