just caught my bf lying about where he stayed at a trip abroad (stayed at a girl’s house). confronted him about it and he kept strong on his lie (essentially saying he stayed at a guy’s house instead of the girl’s). the messages with the girl didn’t show anything suspicious, only “thanks for hosting me” - but why would he lie about it?

I’ve been off work and going through a hard period for a while, he’s being supportive but blaming everything he does wrong on me and gaslighting 😔

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update: he broke up with me :) saying we both want different things and it’s not going to work out. I essentially want to build a life together while he wants to have a weekend relationship. So, just like that, it’s over :)

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I’m sorry.
The same thing happened to me as well.
They cheated, then got furious when we confronted with them, then declared that the relationship was over.
They are trashes.
Throw their belongings, dump them like you throw a trash. Look ahead. Never look back.

Oh I’m so sorry. We were giving him the benefit of the doubt but sounds like he is just a jerk, he probably was cheating.

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If there was no need to lie they would not lie. I would not continue to argue about this, but start shoring up your resources both emotional AND financial to live independently

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Who is the girl, how did he meet her? Maybe it was nothing and he didn’t say cause he knew you would be mad. Did he go there with friends? More details please.

that’s the thing, I wouldn’t 🤷🏼‍♀️ I don’t think there’s something there but why the lie? they did their master’s together, but that’s all I know because he didn’t tell me anything. he kept throwing a guy’s name on it and saying he stayed at his house. he went there on his own. the timeline was also very unfortunate as on friday I was made redundant and I have no other source of income. I’m an immigrant and if I don’t find anything I’ll have to go back home which means staying away from him. he still took the flight and went, and now he’s lying about it

It's possible nothing suspicious was going on and he just thought saying a guy would be better to prevent you from worrying or thinking about other things. Is that a good idea in any way at all? No. But maybe he convinced himself it was better. If nothing did happen, he might be sticking to a lie because then being caught in what he might think is an innocent lie, he thinks you'll never believe that there was nothing more to it. None of his actions so far are good or right, but I could imagine someone talking themselves into this situation.

If nothing happened, and you really wouldn't have cared if he stayed with her, have you specifically stated that staying with her doesn't matter to you, you don't think he cheated or anything, it's just the lie that bothers you? You just want to understand why he didn't feel you could handle the truth, work out any trust issues, etc etc.

Again, he may be sticking to it just because once he says yes, it was a woman, that the next words out of your mouth will be accusations of cheating and other things.

And just to make it clear, this whole thing is on him, he's in the wrong, not taking his side, not supporting him in any way.

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