So here’s the scoop, over reading week I went on a road trip with my girlfriend and another couple. Before we left, I was feeling a little apprehensive because I had never met either of these individuals before. Because they were high school chums with my girlfriend, I gave them the benefit of the doubt and we hit the road.
My first impression of the couple was a really good one. As the girls slept in the back of the car, the boys rode upfront talking music, movies, and video games. It didn’t take us long to realize that we had a lot in common. Throughout our multiple-hour road trip, the conversation evolved from superficial common likes and dislikes to everything from political viewpoints, robots, and time travel. It was clear that this new acquaintance and I were going to get along like peas and carrots.
After we spent the first two days of our four-day trip together, my girlfriend dropped a bomb on me (metaphorically speaking of course). She confided in me that her friend, who seemed nice enough, had been cheating on her boyfriend for some time now. This put me in a very awkward situation, now I was forced to carry the weight of knowing that my new friend’s girlfriend was being unfaithful to him and getting a little something-something on the side, if you know what I mean.
It was not as though I have known this fellow for a long time, or that I even know him all that well. But he seemed to be a genuinely nice and caring boyfriend, certainly not someone who deserves to be cheated on. I hate to be cliché, and I definitely don’t want to go all Matrix on you, but in this case, ignorance would have been bliss. I just felt like I didn’t know either of these individuals well enough to be privy to their most intimate secrets.
Now I know what you are thinking, ‘You just met this guy and his relationship is none of your business.’ But I almost broke when he told me that he was considering marrying this girl. I was torn because I really liked this guy and although I only met him a few days ago, I felt like we really bonded during our long drive together. So, I spent the rest of our trip with this information eating at my conscience.
Knowing that this nice guy’s girlfriend was cheating on him was a difficult for me to handle. Which begs the question, should I have told a guy I just met that his girlfriend is cheating on him?