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Question I have been with my boyfriend for a year and a half and nothing could be more perfect despite the fact we live four states away. We had little fights that we resolved within minutes, the normal stuff. I so wish this could be one of those times.
He gave me the password to his e-mail account because he was at work and needed information that he had received in his e-mail and needed at that second. So I logged in and read off the info. and we hung up. Well this e-mail happened to be in the 'deleted' folder. And in the next e-mail was an attachment named after his son, a picture. Well I opened it because I know he never deletes any of his sons pictures, and besides that I like his son very much and love to see him. When I opened it, it was several pictures of him and his ex-wife in...I dont think I have to explain that one..They have been divorced for two years now. Why would he have those still? and why did he disguise the name unless he meant to keep them? I don't know what to think. And then after seeing that I checked other e-mails but only after seeing that. There were e-mails to a woman I know that liked him as well but he always told me that he didn't like her at all, and once he told me she showed up at his work (airport). To surprise him, he laughed and said he had no idea she was coming and that she was stalkerish. But then there was an email to her that said "you have to have sex with me when you pass through *city*"...There were more pictures of him and other women. When I confronted him he said they were old, and were taken WAY before we ever met. And the dates check out/borderline dates of before we met. So I dont know how long these "relationships" carried over into when he met me. I just keep catching more lies and lies. I don't know if i'm overreacting or not. Please help me. I don't want to waste another year if my rose-colored glasses are blurrying my vision.
Answer the deal is, guys will lie to cover up interest in other women, and when you're MILES away, that interest comes easily; though you made an effort to justify it, you were wrong to invade his privacy; so, your choices are to accept the reality that you'll never really know what he's doin apart from you, and to stop fretting about it, or confine your romantic interests to those closer to home that you can hopefully more easily trust..
