am i beeing a friend should i tell him or should i talk to her

United States
December 14, 2008 7:04am CST
i have a friend, i have known him from very young in-fact i was his best man at his weeding. my friend got married early this year to a lady that he meet while he was in college. i have known her for about a year and some months now. and i have evidence that she is seeing another guy that works for the same company as my friend. what should i do, should i tell him or should i talk to her. i know he really loves her and this will kill him if i tell him. but if i talk to her and she stops seeing this other guy am i being a friend to him. help me mylotters
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• Philippines
14 Dec 08
wow, this is something new to me.. well, do what is right and what would clear your conscience.. i guess, you'd better go and talk to the girl and confirm if there is really going on.. tell her about your observations. and if she confess, then you should guide and help her to confess to her husband, if your observation is not true, then i guess you owe them an apologies.. thanks..
• United States
14 Dec 08
thakns guys i like both answers i was thinking to confront her first in hopes that she would confess but i like what you say jingdau.. once i get her to confess and change i cant just push it under the rug i should guide and encourage her to tell him as well
@Rexdoron (345)
• Malaysia
15 Dec 08
i agree with you, both these answers seems clearly logical to do. It is not something new to me, as it had happened to one of my friend. He did almost the same way like what jingbautista and tlaquan suggested to you. give it a try, and let us know the update! :)
• United States
15 Dec 08
I do not think it would be wrong to tell her that you know and that it makes you uncomfortable but I am not sure you should force her to tell him or tell him yourself. You need to keep in mind that this is not a TV show or some Hollywood movie. If he finds out it is probably going to hurt bad so the question is - is it really in his best interest to know. I think if it was me I would tell her that I know and that it makes me uncomfortable but I would not threaten to tell him if she does not. I would probably tell her that she needs to keep her private affairs private and leave it at that. Obviously it is unfortunate that your friend is involved with a cheater but as a friend you should also let him deal with certain things on his own. At the most I might talk to him about his relationship and how he feels about it but I would not tell him that she is cheating.
• United States
15 Dec 08
thanks for your comment but i am now wondering what if later on like 2 weeks to a month the truth comes out and he finds out that i had know about it then what ?
@tlb0822 (1410)
• United States
15 Dec 08
I would talk to her about it first. I would let her know that I knew what was going on, and that I hated to see my good friend being taken advantage of and wronged in that way. I would tell that either she told him about or that I would. I mean when that is a good friend of yours, you should have their back. I mean yes it might hurt him to find out, but it will hurt him even worse if he found out that you knew and didn't tell him about it. He would feel that you weren't there for him, and that you decieved him just as much as she did for letting it continue to go on behind his back. If she didn't tell him, I would go over when she wasn't home, and tell him flat out what you knew. I hope that helps.:)
15 Dec 08
You should talk to her first and tell her that she needs to tell your friend, it will be better for him if he hears it from her. If she fails to tell your friend then she is leaving you with no choice but to tell your friend.
@rizzu87 (860)
• Malaysia
14 Dec 08
I think you should talk to her wife first so that she takes this as a warning. I think if you will tell this to your friend it will do nothing except there will be fight between them. If you notice again that she is meeting that other person you should tell your friend and after that its their matter. He will deal it with his wife.
@Corunum (33)
• Canada
14 Dec 08
you are in a very tight spot you will have to choose what you think will be best just remember a heart break is very hard to heal.
• India
14 Dec 08
talk to her man.Get to know what she thnks about this relationship. Such a relation could not be allowed to go on.Some way or the other the problem has to be solved. Talk to her if she reacts positively and is willing to ;ive her life with her husband then everything is fine. Else you will have to talk to him,ie. the other friend whom she is seeing. Being a friend will prbably be able to understand u.
• India
14 Dec 08
well this is a very tough sitauation! it depends on wht u shud do first of all u shud talk to the wife adn tell her taht she needs to stop seein the other man bcuz its just bad adnd then whn she doesnt stop tell ehr tht u will tell him the next time and if she does it the third time.. u need to tell ur friend hope i helped happy lotting and have a nice day!
@tlaquan (177)
• United States
14 Dec 08
Iwould say that you should talk to her first and let her know that you know about it and if she does nothing abot it tell her that you are left with no choice but to tell you friend about it but you have to give her time to tell me i know for a fact that sometimes when you tell people things like that they gey mad at you like tou had something to do with it and i know that you would not want to hurt your friend by telling him this but sometimes you have to put that aside and tell them the deal