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My bf cheated on me while drunk. I love him but I don’t know what to do

My bf is on a trip to a country in Europe for a month. He was with his guy friends eating out. He went out the night before to a club without telling me, he apologized and promised not to club anymore. After he came home from eating out he drank alcohol, where apparently his friends later influenced him to go clubbing. I woke up to find a video a girl dancing on him while he had his hands on her waist on one of his guy friends insta story. I texted him it was over but he kept spamming with calls and texts for two days straight. He was apologizing so much and even cried. He kept begging my friends and his friends to make me talk to him. He comes back from his trip in a few days and I told him we’ll talk face to face. He was never an alcohol guy so this was all a shock. What do I do.
Respect and trust are one time issue and one time use. Once it is gone, it is gone. You should cut it off unless you want to risk this happening again. There is no point in being with somebody you can not trust, do better.
Original post by Anonymous
My bf is on a trip to a country in Europe for a month. He was with his guy friends eating out. He went out the night before to a club without telling me, he apologized and promised not to club anymore. After he came home from eating out he drank alcohol, where apparently his friends later influenced him to go clubbing. I woke up to find a video a girl dancing on him while he had his hands on her waist on one of his guy friends insta story. I texted him it was over but he kept spamming with calls and texts for two days straight. He was apologizing so much and even cried. He kept begging my friends and his friends to make me talk to him. He comes back from his trip in a few days and I told him we’ll talk face to face. He was never an alcohol guy so this was all a shock. What do I do.

Being drunk isn't an excuse, he broke a promise of not going clubbing and then he went all the way to cheat on you. He's realised what he's lost after doing all the wrong things - his guilt isn't your problem and you've done the right thing to break up with him. It's silly that his friends are trying to talk to you about it, when they can't even respect the choices and boundaries you and your ex had, them posting it all over the socials knowing your ex was dating you was awful too - it wasn't one mistake, it was many and you deserve to have better after the way they all hurt you.
Before I begin, I want to make it absolutely clear that I am in no way whatsoever defending him for what he has done but have you even given him a chance to talk to you in order to explain, most likely not, however you also need to consider the fact that there are always 2 sides to everything.

You said that he went clubbing, most likely influenced by his mates so having said that, the question I have for you is how do you know that his mates hadn't influenced him to let the girl dance all over him ?.

I have read things like this so many times since I started reading the agony columns in the newspapers 41 years ago at age 10 and the number of times I have seen stories like this is ridiculous, yet the general reply is always the same in that the person writing in has been in the same position as you but low and behold the person accused of infidelity has not or was not given a chance to put their side accross and before anybody disses me and says why should the OP even bother to hear him out ( which would be a valid question ), dont bother because just as an example, say if the situation was the other way round and the guy was the 1 being cheated on and broke things off, you'd all be saying come on give her a chance to explain, very valid point, so bearing that in mind, would there be any problem with the OP at the very least allowing the now ex boyfriend to explain his actions ?.

I'm not a drinker but I have heard many times from former friends of mine how much easier it is to essentially let your guard down which in turn leads to highly inappropriate actions and the number of times I ended up helping my former friends pick up the pieces, let's just say that I lost count after around 2,000 times over the last 35 years since I was 16 so respectfully, I know what I am talking about, from experience.
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Original post by MDB512024
Before I begin, I want to make it absolutely clear that I am in no way whatsoever defending him for what he has done but have you even given him a chance to talk to you in order to explain, most likely not, however you also need to consider the fact that there are always 2 sides to everything.
You said that he went clubbing, most likely influenced by his mates so having said that, the question I have for you is how do you know that his mates hadn't influenced him to let the girl dance all over him ?.
I have read things like this so many times since I started reading the agony columns in the newspapers 41 years ago at age 10 and the number of times I have seen stories like this is ridiculous, yet the general reply is always the same in that the person writing in has been in the same position as you but low and behold the person accused of infidelity has not or was not given a chance to put their side accross and before anybody disses me and says why should the OP even bother to hear him out ( which would be a valid question ), dont bother because just as an example, say if the situation was the other way round and the guy was the 1 being cheated on and broke things off, you'd all be saying come on give her a chance to explain, very valid point, so bearing that in mind, would there be any problem with the OP at the very least allowing the now ex boyfriend to explain his actions ?.
I'm not a drinker but I have heard many times from former friends of mine how much easier it is to essentially let your guard down which in turn leads to highly inappropriate actions and the number of times I ended up helping my former friends pick up the pieces, let's just say that I lost count after around 2,000 times over the last 35 years since I was 16 so respectfully, I know what I am talking about, from experience.

I’ve been drunk and gone clubbing without my partner a good few times whilst being in a relationship, even being surrounded by attractive people and being chatted up I still manage to keep loyal even on the verge of being blackout and foolishly drunk. Being under the influence is no excuse, any desire expressed is something that was already something he wanted to do sober.
Original post by Anonymous
My bf is on a trip to a country in Europe for a month. He was with his guy friends eating out. He went out the night before to a club without telling me, he apologized and promised not to club anymore. After he came home from eating out he drank alcohol, where apparently his friends later influenced him to go clubbing. I woke up to find a video a girl dancing on him while he had his hands on her waist on one of his guy friends insta story. I texted him it was over but he kept spamming with calls and texts for two days straight. He was apologizing so much and even cried. He kept begging my friends and his friends to make me talk to him. He comes back from his trip in a few days and I told him we’ll talk face to face. He was never an alcohol guy so this was all a shock. What do I do.
breakup, simply as that. This will eat you up and poison your relationship. You deserve someone loyal and with willpower and being drunk is no excuse this is a desire he also has sober he just didn’t have the inhibition to not do it drunk.

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