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August 4, 2018 at 6:53 pm #220343FreyParticipant
My boyfriend and I have always had a pretty great relationship until recently. I never had a reason to snoop through his phone, and now I do. I don’t want advice on much, just how to confront him without letting him know that I snooped. He would most likely use the fact that I invaded his privacy to make me look like the bad guy. I want to make this as easy as possible, because I do love him a lot but I can’t be with someone who will lie to me. How do I do this?
So, over a month ago my boyfriend of a year messaged me while he was high. He never smoked before, and I definitely know this. He promised me a few days before that he would always tell me if he were to ever smoke or have his hands on weed at all. He broke the promise barely 3 days later. I got over it, we got over it. It was a one time thing, he promised me that and lived up to it for a bit. I had to use his facebook for something and I stumbled upon his messages with a man. He was asking him for weed and all that nice stuff for a few weeks. We went on break for a bit after I told him about this. I wanted to break up with him but we decided to just do a break, to get our heads straight. He promised me again that he learned his lesson and that he would never do something like this ever. Can you guess what happened? After some time after the break, he’s been hanging out with his best friend a lot, who is well known for doing things like acid and weed as well as dealing it. I was concerned but he constantly reassured me that they weren’t doing anything like that. I believed him. I truly did. That may have been stupid on my end but he’s truly amazing outside of this. I snooped through his phone after some weird things have been happening. He’s shown much enthusiasm to anything that has to do with weed and keeps his phone to himself as well as disappears at random times. I snooped and only looked at his messages with his best friend. My boyfriend has smoked, every time they hung out, and now he’s interested in selling weed and buying it. He’s been constantly promising that he doesn’t do this stuff, but it’s obviously not true. I don’t know how to confront him about this without letting him know I snooped. Should I just be straight forward and tell him that I did? I want to make this as easiest as it can be, because my feelings are so strong for him and he’s helped me so much with everything and has never done anything wrong, disregarding everything I just mentioned. I don’t want to be involved with someone who smokes. I don’t care who smokes, but I do care if I’m with a person who does. I simply don’t want to be involved. I told him that and he understood. Now he’s trying to become a dealer and I’m just not okay with this at all.
August 4, 2018 at 8:40 pm #220351MarkParticipantFrey,
Just tell him you know that he smokes and you have drawn a clear line that you do not want to be with anyone who smokes.
It does not matter how you know, that’s not the point. The point is that he made a decision to smoke and you made a decision not to be with a person who does. Period.
Then walk away. This is not up for debate, a conversation, or an argument. He can try to argue but if you do not engage with him then he has nothing to argue against or to blame. If you start trying to explain how you found out or justify then it will miss the point of your preference of not being with a person who smokes.
Mark
August 5, 2018 at 4:44 am #220369AnonymousGuestDear Frey:
“how to confront him without letting him know that I snooped?”
My answer, say to him something like this: I love you very much and have been happy for a long time. But then you smoke weed and I don’t want a boyfriend who smokes weed. Even worse, I found out lately that you are moving toward selling it. I really don’t want a boyfriend who smokes weed or one who smokes and sells weed. This is breaking my heart because I don’t want to break up with you but then I may have to. I don’t know what to do.
Then listen to what he says: if he goes straight to: I didn’t smoke/buy weed and I never considered selling weed, where did you get this idea?
Well, you know the answer, but don’t answer him, don’t tell him you snooped. Tell him: I do not want to tell you how I found out. I am protecting my source of information. I don’t know what to do, I love you so much and yet, I can’t have a boyfriend who smokes weed, and then on top of it, one who intends on selling it.
Then listen to what he says. If he persists: what is your source of information? Repeat: I am protecting my source of information. I don’t know what to do. My heart is breaking.
If he persists, like a broken record, repeat yourself as well, like a broken record. Don’t answer him, don’t let him know that the source of information that you are protecting is you. If you tell him it is you… you will no longer protect your source.
If he does not attend in his responses to you to your heart breaking, to you not knowing what to do, hurting because the boyfriend you love does these things, then you have your answer: his focus is weed, not you and your feelings.
anita
August 6, 2018 at 8:10 am #220459InkyParticipantHi Frey,
Tell him that it is, and has been, obvious that he is still using. And then I agree to tell him that “a little bird told me you are intending on selling it”. If he tries to derail the issue (who told you? how do you know? etc.) say that “it’s bad enough that I would break up with you over using in the first place. But selling I cannot abide”. Then walk out.
Yes, walk out! He will follow, argue.. and then give up. HE knows he’s using and intending on selling (the Truth). And now he knows YOU know he’s using and intending on selling.
Tell him that you will contact him a year later. Not to get back together, but to reset at Level 0. Sometimes people need little hurts to get their live straight. Let yourself be The Little Hurt that he needs.
Best,
Inky
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