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Would this upset you? (situationship)

I am female. I have 1 housemate, male and we have 2 dogs and share a car. We have been friends for a couple of years, living together for 8 months and hooking up for about 4 months. When we're getting together, he sleeps in my bedroom (I have a double bed and he doesn't), but otherwise we have our own bedrooms where we sleep and study. We have talked about a relationship but it's not the right time for either of us.
I don't celebrate Christmas and his family live abroad, so we are both staying in our house over the holidays. Yesterday we spent most of the day together and he was really affectionate, kissing my neck and hugging me a lot. He also slapped my butt a couple of times during the day. We have sex a couple of times per week and we had already discussed that he would make sure to buy condoms before the shops closed for Christmas. I had assumed we would have sex last night.
We took our dogs for a walk in the afternoon, and when we got back there was a woman I don't know sitting on a bench in the park opposite our house. He's known her for ages and they speak the same native language, so he went over to say hi. I followed. They started talking in their langauge and he did not introduce us. I went inside the house because I was cold, and they followed about 30 minutes later. They stayed in the kitchen speaking their language, so I went to my room and watched a movie.
When I went out to the kitchen for a snack, her bag was still on the couch but she wasn't there. They had gone to his room. He came out of his room a little while later, while I was in the kitchen. I asked what was going on. He said it was entirely chance that she was outside our house. She didn't even know he lived there (possibly true, we only moved here 3 months ago). He told me she was drunk and could not go back to her house because she rents a room in a family's home and they don't drink. She wants to sleep over at our house and she is already asleep in his bed. Our sofa folds out into a bed btw, and he only has a single bed which is uncomfortable to share. I asked if he wanted to sleep in my bed so that she could sleep in his and he said no, he was going to share with her because they have been friends for a long time, just like he and I have been friends for a long time. I was upset but trying to hide it. I can't remember exactly what either of us said, but he "accused" me of wanting a relationship. I was trying to explain why I was upset by his actions and as I was saying something like "we had sex 2 days ago," she came out of his room. She heard this and was upset and left. He is now angry with me and not speaking to me.
I'm now totally confused. I'm upset that he spent the day flirting with me and then planned to sleep with another woman (in my house!). I think that's a horrible way to treat someone. I don't want a relationship with him ever and I don't want a relationship with anyone right now. But we are friends and I feel like he used me. He thinks I'm being unreasonable and expecting too much. Am I being crazy for being upset about this?

Reply 1

How would you have felt if he had had sex with you last week and then told you he had sex a couple of days later with a woman you didn't meet? Would you have been upset by that?

Reply 2

You say that it's not the right time for either of you to be in a relationship.
And yet you live in the same home, have 2 dogs, share a car, sleep together, have sex, spend Christmas Day with each other.

You are in a closer relationship than a few married couples that I know.

Your "husband" wants an open relationship. And seems to consider himself as in an open relationship.

If you don't want a relationship with him ever, you should stop living together, stop sharing a car, give full responsibility for the dogs to 1 of you, stop spending Bank Holidays together, stop having sex with him.

Don't listen to his gaslighting. You do what's best for you. And you do what you want.

Reply 3

You don't want a relationship but you've got too used to him being available and now acting possessive.

I'm not seeing anything there about them being romantic, and even they did... he's single. You start sleeping with your housemate you need to accept it'll get awkward.

Reply 4

He sort of disrespected your friends with benefits arrangements. I can understand you being fed up. This said it’s sort of a risk with this casual relationship

Reply 5

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by ageshallnot
How would you have felt if he had had sex with you last week and then told you he had sex a couple of days later with a woman you didn't meet? Would you have been upset by that?

I think it would be different if it was not in my house, and not after he'd spent the day flirting with me.

Reply 6

There are lots of other details I did not include in the OP because it was already really long. But they make it more obvious why we won't work together. He has a 2 year old son with his ex. She dropped out and lives in her hometown with her parents and their son. He hardly visits, but he is attached enough that he will stay local to her until their son grows up. I want to travel and then settle down in Edinburgh, neither of which he could do now. The casual arrangement was working ok until now, but it seems like we had different ideas about what it meant.

Reply 7

Original post
by BeeFor2025
I am female. I have 1 housemate, male and we have 2 dogs and share a car. We have been friends for a couple of years, living together for 8 months and hooking up for about 4 months. When we're getting together, he sleeps in my bedroom (I have a double bed and he doesn't), but otherwise we have our own bedrooms where we sleep and study. We have talked about a relationship but it's not the right time for either of us.
I don't celebrate Christmas and his family live abroad, so we are both staying in our house over the holidays. Yesterday we spent most of the day together and he was really affectionate, kissing my neck and hugging me a lot. He also slapped my butt a couple of times during the day. We have sex a couple of times per week and we had already discussed that he would make sure to buy condoms before the shops closed for Christmas. I had assumed we would have sex last night.
We took our dogs for a walk in the afternoon, and when we got back there was a woman I don't know sitting on a bench in the park opposite our house. He's known her for ages and they speak the same native language, so he went over to say hi. I followed. They started talking in their langauge and he did not introduce us. I went inside the house because I was cold, and they followed about 30 minutes later. They stayed in the kitchen speaking their language, so I went to my room and watched a movie.
When I went out to the kitchen for a snack, her bag was still on the couch but she wasn't there. They had gone to his room. He came out of his room a little while later, while I was in the kitchen. I asked what was going on. He said it was entirely chance that she was outside our house. She didn't even know he lived there (possibly true, we only moved here 3 months ago). He told me she was drunk and could not go back to her house because she rents a room in a family's home and they don't drink. She wants to sleep over at our house and she is already asleep in his bed. Our sofa folds out into a bed btw, and he only has a single bed which is uncomfortable to share. I asked if he wanted to sleep in my bed so that she could sleep in his and he said no, he was going to share with her because they have been friends for a long time, just like he and I have been friends for a long time. I was upset but trying to hide it. I can't remember exactly what either of us said, but he "accused" me of wanting a relationship. I was trying to explain why I was upset by his actions and as I was saying something like "we had sex 2 days ago," she came out of his room. She heard this and was upset and left. He is now angry with me and not speaking to me.
I'm now totally confused. I'm upset that he spent the day flirting with me and then planned to sleep with another woman (in my house!). I think that's a horrible way to treat someone. I don't want a relationship with him ever and I don't want a relationship with anyone right now. But we are friends and I feel like he used me. He thinks I'm being unreasonable and expecting too much. Am I being crazy for being upset about this?

It would upset me because I get attached, it seems like you’re attached too.

Technically you’re not a couple so him sleeping with someone else isn’t entirely wrong however- the way you behave is relationshipy so it’s awkward. Sleeping with someone you live with and not moving the relationship to an official is tricky.

If you want the house share to continue maybe you should stop sleeping together to stop further feelings developing (for your own sake). Men find it easier to have causal sex and not get attached so that’s probably why he’s not sure why you’re upset etc.

Reply 8

Well, things like this should be discussed prior in an open relationship... let's be fair, you are more like in an open relationship than situationship. Unless it was discussed he is free to sleep with other women in his house (it is his place just as much as it is yours).
It is upsetting, but not wrong. He is that type of person that sleeps with women outside of a relationship, he is not a relationship material and it is just the way he is, you probably already knew it. You have all the rights to be upset, but it was something predictable and he did nothing wrong, both of you already knew it could happen and you still agreed to that. Just discuss what you should do next and find a solution.
He has the right to be angry with you because you shouldn't have talked about these things when the other woman is in the house. I'm not blaming you, you have the right to be emotional about these things, but still know to react better next time it could happen.

Open relationships often have complications like this... be aware of it.

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