By angiemac4444
@angemac23 (2003)
Canada
January 4, 2011 11:12am CST
My computer crashed a few months ago and in order to back up all the information I had to on the computer I had to log into my now ex-boyfriends profile on the computer to back up his stuff too. He left his facebook open and I saw emails he had sent to a girl he was obviously interested in while me and him were living together and involved in a relationship. A few years ago, he started acting weird and hanging out at the bar where this girl works. He removed our relationship status from facebook and told me I was not allowed to hang out in the bar where she works becuase it was a place he went to hang out with the guys. I confronted him about her and the fact that I thought he was having an affair with her....my intuition was telling this and I could not shake the thoguht. He, of course, denied it and told me I was psycho, untrusting and every other name under the sun and convinced me there was absolutely nothing going on between them. We had many large fights over this issue to the point where I could not even look at him in the eye because my gut was telling I was right. Now two and a half years later, I happen upon this email that proves that I was right all along. I told him I knew about the email and he said I was in the wrong for reading his email even though he left it open!!! I feel I had a right to know he was involved with this girl becuase that was two and a half years ago that he first developed an interest in her and I feel like those years have been taken from me and I wasted all that time with someone who wanted to be with someone else. I also think cheating is wrong in all capacities!! If you develop an interest in someone else adn want to cheat, you should tell the person you are with so that they can get on with their lives and not have their time wasted. The law seems to protect these people and the ones who happen upon this infromation get charged and even jailed at times!!!! This makes no sense to me......a person takes years from me and wastes my time and I could be charged!!! The laws need to change.....there should be laws that protect peopel who get cheated on and there should be jail time for people who cheat and ruin other people's lives. Because of this incident, I have had to go have STD tests done to make sure he did not give me anything...this should not be.....no one has the right to step out on me behind my back and potentially make me sick.....these peopel deserve jail time!!! What does everyone else think?? Am I in the wrong for reading that email that was already open and on his desktop or is he in the wrong for taking up with another girl and not telling me for over 2 years?
1 response
@dragon54u (31634)
• United States
4 Jan 11
According to my moral compass, it's wrong to read someone's email without their permission. But I've been where you were and I was completely fooled, too. I invested 19 years in that relationship and what was done was wrong, wrong, wrong. Those types of men don't have the guts to tell us to our face that they want out, they try to drive us away and sneak around behind our backs. We are lucky to be rid of them, believe me.
Forget about it, Angemac. Count yourself lucky that you got out when you did and learn a lesson from it. Find out why you were attracted to that type of man and do what you can to change yourself so you can avoid it in the future and gravitate towards a healthier relationship. I myself have not been able to find that reason so I've sworn off men completely and I'm happier for it. You're young, so work on it.
Forgive them both and move on. Forgiveness is more liberating than you would think. It cleanses the soul and frees the heart. Good luck!