Male-female friendships can be as erratic as that final piece of pizza—it may seem delicious until you realize someone has already eaten it. You can feel it: two best friends snuggling together while watching scary movies and swapping giggles while you’re stuck holding the popcorn. They might be great buddies one moment and then be exchanging heart emojis the next.
However, things quickly get frightening when someone is disguising their emotions like a ghost at a Halloween costume party. Our Redditor was caught in a romantic triangle with her boyfriend and his closest friend, and that’s exactly what happened to her.
When best friends share more than just popcorn, they might end up with a side of heartbreak
One woman learned this the hard way when her boyfriend admitted to having feelings for one of his best friends
The man invited his best friend to a costume party at work, instead of his girlfriend, and they wore a couple costume
The woman asked the man why he didn’t invite her, and he just replied that it was a tradition he had with his friends that he wouldn’t change for her
The woman posted an update saying she broke up with her boyfriend
The man admitted that he was actually in love with his best friend, leaving the woman heartbroken
The protagonist of our story is a twenty-three-year-old woman who believed she was contentedly dating her boyfriend, Mike (not his real name, but it will do for the time being), who is closer to his pals than peanut butter and jelly. Vivian, Mike’s best friend, coincidentally shares his almost obsessive fascination with Halloween. Safe enough, isn’t it? Well, not so quickly.
The hitch is that Mike always brings a friend along for the annual Halloween party at his job. Naturally, Vivian was this year’s VIP choice. Without even mentioning asking the original poster, who is actually his girlfriend, if she would like to go, they began organizing their “couples” costume two months in advance.
You would assume that when she mentioned it, he would offer to
Does this constitute emotional cheating, then? According to some, it’s worse than outright cheating. And to be honest, I believe they have a point. Sharing aspirations, worries, and goals with a “friend” rather than a romantic partner is more than just bonding; it’s creating a link that threatens to destroy the romantic relationship.
According to experts, emotional adultery is a betrayal that may be equally as traumatic as physical cheating, if not more so. This type of cheating, which frequently entails confiding in someone else, depending on them for emotional support, or giving them priority over your significant other, can make it difficult to distinguish between friendship and romance.
Don’t get me wrong, though; genuine connections are crucial, but there’s
Netizens say that the boyfriend is a jerk for dating the woman while he was actually in love with someone else
