#17 in 2023

Another lousy relationship
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned my Polish friend Kinga. She has been in a long term relationship with a guy from Texas. They met online. She travelled to the US. He travelled to Poland. And they decided to have a long distance relationship. That was three years
ago. They video-call daily and visit one another multiple times per year.
But a few months ago he asked for an open relationship. In all honesty, that immediately rang alarm bells in my head. It made me suspicious because it was so out of the blue. I didn’t say anything at the time. I mean a suspicion is just a suspicion right? I had no evidence to support my overriding sense that he was probably already sleeping around. If i was to put a number on it, I’d say I was about 90% sure he was cheating.
Anyway, they chatted about having an open relationship for a few weeks without coming to any definite decision.
He called her today and said the guilt was too much for him to carry. He confessed to sleeping with one of her friends when he was last in Poland. Not once. But twice. Twice. Twice! (Which probably many many times.)
Why did he do have to do that? Why not just say you want to break up and just move on? Why say he couldn’t handle the guilt anymore and tell her absolutely everything?
Why hurt her like that? To me, that’s just evil. He didn’t just stab her in the heart, he twisted the knife too.
Relationships. I’m not sure what’s going on right now but they’re not holding up. Not at all.

Last updated April 24, 2023