Expert: Don - 7/26/2007

Question
I have been dating my boyfriend for 3 years..and I recently found out that he cheated on me a year ago while he was a party with his cousin. He told me that he had been drinking and it all happened so fast and doesn't really remember about what happened that night or why he did it, but he does remember putting a condom on. When he realized what he was doing was wrong he stopped and left the party. He claims that he doesn't even remember how she looks like. I don't even know if that's possible, could you forget how someone looked like just because you were drunk? I don't consider myself a naive person, but our relationship has been good until now. I know it will take me a while to trust him again, but I'm constantly thinking about what he did and it makes me so angry. What I really want to know is whether or not I should believe it was really a mistake. The only positive thing that I can say is that he confessed to me, which makes me wonder if he is really sorry about what he did.

Answer
If a person did drink an extreme amount of alcohol, it's definitely possibly for them to blackout and forget what a person looks like.

I'm pretty sure he believes it was really a mistake because he could have never told you about it, but obviously his guilt was so strong that he needed to get it off his chest.

Give him another chance.