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So IDK if this is the right subreddit for this; but this happened a while ago to a guy I eventually became good friends with. I (20m at the time) was originally friends with his girlfriend (19) long before they started dating; however I became very close to both of them in the time they dated. I ended up spending a lot of time with either one or both of them together, within the 3 year timespan their relationship lasted. He (24) knew he never had to worry about his girlfriend being alone with me because i’m gay; but because of this unique position I found myself in (where I eventually became equally close to both parties) I had the unique opportunity to witness both sides of the story when all the bullshit unraveled.

So when the girl (we’ll call her Alexis) started sneaking around behind her boyfriend’s (we’ll call him Mark) back, this sort of behavior wasn’t anything new to her. I’ve known this girl since we were children, as she grew up several houses away; and therefore I had many opportunities to see how she behaved in her relationships. This long established history however, was also why I didn’t involve myself when she began cheating. I hadn’t yet become very close to Mark (I probably only knew him for a few months) but because Alexis knew I could keep my mouth shut, she pretty much told me EVERYTHING. Oftentimes I even got to be there to see it happen for myself.. I don’t necessarily mean that I was in the same room watching another dude take her to poundtown (although that did happen too on a few occasions.) I instead would usually be in the same building or right outside, knowing what she was inside doing. Knowing that the only reason she dragged me along with her to some random place, was so that she could meet one of her side pieces (and she had quite a few) most of which I also got to know fairly well, even becoming really close with two of them. As far as i’m aware, Alexis’s infidelity began with one of the two guys that I also became close friends with. It began innocently enough when he started hanging out more frequently with Alexis and I, while Mark was away at work (he worked odd hours) or resting during the day. When Mark learned about the other guy spending so much time with us, Alexis presented him to Mark as her sister’s friend that she also developed a friendship with. How they met was the truth; but he was a lot more than just a friend to her.. and over time he was far from the only new “friend” to come into her life.

Mark really didn’t seem to start questioning things until his girlfriend’s behavior became A LOT more suspicious. She’d suddenly spend large gaps of time away from him, giving him any excuse she pulled out of her ass in that moment. At times, she even had the audacity to tell him the most blatantly obvious lies I’ve ever heard.. And for the longest time I would repeatedly find myself baffled by Marks refusal to take the bullshit she was selling him, as anything other than the absolute truth. Her behavior did eventually create some tension between them, resulting in frequent fights (many of which I also was there to see.) Some of these fights even became really intense at times. Mark however, still wanted to make the relationship work with her; despite the growing severity of their conflicts. Even Alexis pulling a knife on him one evening while the 3 of us were socializing in his kitchen, was not enough to convince him to leave. He later told me that that had not been the first time she attempted to stab him; so I guess he was pretty much used to it by that point..

To make things worst, Alexis had a habit of accusing Mark of cheating on her; despite knowing/admitting to me, that she was fully aware of how committed to her he actually was..and she accused him of cheating over the most meaningless things too. Mark so much as looking in another woman’s direction for longer than she was okay with was reason enough for her to accuse him. She made him stop talking to any female friends he had before they met, he couldn’t like any photos posted by other women on social media, and she wasn’t okay with him even speaking directly to women other than her (even innocently.) Obviously there were times she made exceptions for him talking to women; but those exceptions only came for interactions he could not avoid (like when he’s talking to a cashier/ restaurant server.) And even in the few circumstances she permitted it, if their conversations sounded just a little too friendly for her, she would lose it. In the best case scenarios she’d begin pointless arguments, and during the worst scenarios.. she would full on start swinging on him the very moment the three of us were alone again. Frequently she used these unnecessary conflicts as a guise, giving her “legitimate” reason to avoid him for periods of time; so that she would be able to cheat without arousing her boyfriend’s suspicion.

As mentioned earlier she had many guys she regularly saw. I’m not sure of an exact number(I know of at least 7) I won’t detail the drama that occurred in our interactions with any of them (this post would become an entire novel if I tried to) but instead will skip to the last few months of their relationship, when her inability to stay loyal resulted in a pregnancy she was seriously panicked to learn about. She had very few clues as to who the actual father might be, and all this was happening just a couple months after Mark unexpectedly walked into undeniable proof of Alexis’s actions during the middle of her graduation ceremony. Her younger sister unintentionally told him, and it really broke him. Him and I started to become much closer friends after this happened. We became such close friends, that I finally had to ask Alexis to stop telling me about her sexual conquests. I was beginning to feel guilty for the staggering amount of information I withheld from Mark. There were just so many things fucked up about their relationship. She could cheat but was entitled to his loyalty. Some of the guys she was sleeping with were the same guys Mark considered to be his closest friends in high school. My guilt increased tenfold when I fell on hard times and became homeless, only for Mark to open his door to me, after Alexis asked if he could help me out. It was actually his parents home; but only Mark and his brother in-law lived there. He had to sneak me around the brother in law though, because his parents (as well as the sister who had married the brother in-law) were particularly racist (i’m also black) and homophobic people; so I definitely knew I really wasn’t suppose to be there. I just didn’t have other options available at the time. So I bet you can imagine just how shitty I felt about myself to have him taking such a big risk for me, while I happened to have an extensive library of knowledge about Alexis’s misdeeds; both before AND after her graduation ceremony, where Mark only learned about 2 of them.

I also knew it was still happening, even after I told Alexis not to tell me anything anymore. While she agreed that she would stop telling me, she instead found ways to indirectly tell me, or make it so obvious that I had no doubts about what she was up to. What kept me from ever saying anything was just how much longer i had known Alexis for. She had become almost like a sister to me, and at that time had always treated me well. She didn’t display any of the same toxic behaviors in her friendships, that she shamelessly demonstrated in her relationships (that has since changed, or I wouldn’t even be writing this.) But as I became closer friends with Mark, being pretty much her only confidant was becoming an increasingly difficult role to take on. The burden of carrying a compounding list of all her betrayals, was just becoming more than I was able to bear. I thought I made that clear to her when I requested to be left in the dark on certain things; so just imagine my surprise on the day she learned of her pregnancy, when she told me that I HAD to tell Mark that the baby was his; because she knew he would actually listen me.

You see she didn’t just want Mark to be the father.. She NEEDED it to be him; because he was hands down the best candidate out of everyone that she was sleeping with. Yeah Mark lived in his parents home; but it was by choice not necessity. He had a stable job/income, and he was still trying to make things work with her, even AFTER he found out that she had cheated on him multiple times with multiple guys. But above all else, what really appealed to her was the fact that Marks family had money. All the other potential fathers had some major issues Mark didn’t, ultimately preventing her from believing they’d be suitable fathers for her baby. They were either equally as unfaithful as she was, broke, on heroin, a few were felons, one was underage, along with many other things she wasn’t looking for in a father to her child. She really expected me to lie to his face about something that would have changed his entire life. I couldn’t believe how far she was willing to take her deception; and her and I ended up getting into a heated argument.

When I did finally talk to Mark, I didn’t actually tell him anything I knew he didn’t already know (I could have; but I was still very conflicted over the entire situation.) What I did tell him was to only sign the birth certificate AFTER they preformed a DNA test; advice he seemed unsure of at the time, but later became very grateful to have taken as the baby really wasn’t his (big surpise lol.) Their relationship eventually ended, Mark moved states, and him and I fell out of contact for several years. I’ve talked to him since (this all occurred about 10 years ago) and he seems like he’s doing a lot better. He repeatedly has thanked me for the solid advice I gave him that evening; because I guess his ex came really close to actually manipulating him into signing 18 years of his life away. l honestly felt I at least owed him that since he helped me in my time of need; and because I knew the ugly truth about his ex the entire time.. He was always aware of the fact that i probably knew far more than I was letting on; but he also understood the uncomfortable position I was in back then, and fortunately never held it against me after everything came out.

I just bought 2 refurbished Mac books out of my first paycheck one for me and one for my girlfriend who is an artist and only has a phone to do art on (my girlfriend does furry art commissions) and when my grandma figured out that I had 2 Mac books she requested that I should give my 10 year old cousin one of them and brought up the fact that she "really really wants one" i refused and we got into a argument and she said "since she's never met my girlfriend and she isn't part of the family she doesn't deserve it and said since my cousin designs clothes (she's designs clothes on a Roblox game) that she deserves it more then my girlfriend (who's entire livelihood is through her art) my cousin already has a laptop a iPad and a phone and my girlfriend doesn't have anything except her phone which barely works am i the only one that thinks it's crazy to give a 10 year old a laptop which is that expensive and powerful for Roblox

So I 30f and my sister 26f have had our biggest fight ever. A little backstory my sister is married and has 2 daughters she was pregnant with my nephew until yesterday when he was born, and this happened back in October our mom had just had a laparoscopic hernia surgery and she decided that instead of coming back home after her surgery she went to stay with her parents our grandparents. Our parents have been divorced for 28 years.

So when my sister came by to check on our mom she was already in a bad mood because my Brother-in-law hadn’t finished installing her new flooring (Seriously who waits till their last trimester of pregnancy to get new flooring done. That should’ve been done in the very beginning of her pregnancy). My youngest niece E 2 years old wanted to see my Miniature Dachshund Duke 5, so my niece and I were in the computer room looking out the back window at Duke trying to lick E's hand through the glass. She was giggling away at what Duke was doing then E said I potty so I called my sister who is still complaining about her new flooring not being done I said “Your child needs you”. My sister snapped at me that I know E is my child and I heard her say she potted. I’m geez just trying to help and I walked away now for everyone in the comments that are going to say well why didn’t I offer to change my youngest niece's dipper it’s because of my sister's paranoia. So I walked away and was getting settled in the back bedroom to stay for the night when my papa came in and says I need to talk to you in the living room, please. So my papa wanted to know why I was constantly going on about my mom should’ve come back home after her hernia surgery which was done as an outpatient it’s because my mom had already made her decision to come home after her surgery but my grandparents convinced my mom to do the exact opposite of what she wanted. So I’m sitting there explaining why to my papa when my sister comes storming into the living room saying “I’m tired of the lies and manipulation from her (aimed at me)”, and I said up and said you want to go I’m not above hitting you like we used to as kids and I’ll call you out on your bs. Then I looked down and realized what I had just said and done right in front of E trying to get her mom's attention and my meme (my mom's mother) is trying to get my sister and me to stop I turned to my meme and said back off 3 times till I broke down and said mom get your crap we’re going home now. That’s when my papa lost his temper on me yelling to sit down and threatening to punch me in the nose, and then he threatened the worst thing you can say to an high functioning autistic adult “Do you want me to commit you to the state hospital in Wichita Falls, Tx”. I said no sir. My papa told me well then stay in the back bedroom until dinner time and just cool off.

At dinner, my meme just kept going on until I snapped at her and hid in the bathroom crying still shaking. I did eventually quit crying to be able to finish my dinner, and I did go for a 2-and-a-half-hour walk just to clear my head and I talked with a friend on the phone. I don’t have my driver's license otherwise I’d have gone back home I stayed the night at my grandparent's house because my papa asked me to just for the night. The next morning my mom and I were back home sleeping in our bed.

As for my sister, she’s turned this whole thing into a mess she called our uncle M 54 (our mom's brother and his daughter to try and get them on her side and ostracized me even more. Didn’t work because I texted my uncle before her and he said not to take sides and leave me and his daughter out of whatever is happening between my sister and me).

So since 10/23/24, I’ve only seen my sister 1 other time and that was the week before Thanksgiving I was out at my grandparent's house helping my papa who’s 83 with some outside projects when my sister came by the look on her face when she saw me there was like shocked. I told her I was not going another round with her and I knew how it was going to end for me. My sister was like okay I didn’t come here to fight Meme need to talk to and boy howdy did they talk more like arguing with each other my sister blamed what happened in October squarely on our meme and then she started blaming me for everything as well. After about 15 minutes of arguing my sister left crying and I said “Your drink” She said thank you and I love you. Of course, I said love you back. But the worst part was seeing my meme crying and shaking I made her check her blood pressure and blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes. Her blood pressure was high by 2 numbers and she was having a blood sugar low drank some orange juice and ate some lunch. She explained that now not only I 30f and my sister 26f have had our biggest fight ever. A little backstory my sister is married and has 2 daughters she was pregnant with my nephew until yesterday when he was born, and this happened back in October our mom had just had a laparoscopic hernia surgery and she decided that instead of coming back home after her surgery she went to stay with her parents our grandparents. Our parents have been divorced for 28 years.

So when my sister came by to check on our mom she was already in a bad mood because my Brother-in-law hadn’t finished installing her new flooring (Seriously who waits till their last trimester of pregnancy to get new flooring done. That should’ve been done in the very beginning of her pregnancy). My youngest niece E 2 years old wanted to see my Miniature Dachshund Duke 5, so my niece and I were in the computer room looking out the back window at Duke trying to lick E's hand through the glass. She was giggling away at what Duke was doing then E said I potty so I called my sister who is still complaining about her new flooring not being done I said “Your child needs you”. My sister snapped at me that I know E is my child and I heard her say she potted. I’m geez just trying to help and I walked away now for everyone in the comments that are going to say well why didn’t I offer to change my youngest niece's dipper it’s because of my sister's paranoia. So I walked away and was getting settled in the back bedroom to stay for the night when my papa came in and says I need to talk to you in the living room, please. So my papa wanted to know why I was constantly going on about my mom should’ve come back home after her hernia surgery which was done as an outpatient it’s because my mom had already made her decision to come home after her surgery but my grandparents convinced my mom to do the exact opposite of what she wanted. So I’m sitting there explaining why to my papa when my sister comes storming into the living room saying “I’m tired of the lies and manipulation from her (aimed at me)”, and I said up and said you want to go I’m not above hitting you like we used to as kids and I’ll call you out on your bs. Then I looked down and realized what I had just said and done right in front of E trying to get her mom's attention and my meme (my mom's mother) is trying to get W and me to stop I turned to my meme and said back off 3 times till I broke down and said mom get your crap we’re going home now. That’s when my papa lost his temper on me yelling to sit down and threatening to punch me in the nose, and then he threatened the worst thing you can say to an high functioning autistic adult “Do you want me to commit you to the state hospital in Wichita Falls, Tx”. I said no sir. My papa told me well then stay in the back bedroom until dinner time and just cool off.

At dinner, my meme just kept going on until I snapped at her and hid in the bathroom crying still shaking. I did eventually quit crying to be able to finish my dinner, and I did go for a 2-and-a-half-hour walk just to clear my head and I talked with a friend on the phone. I don’t have my driver's license otherwise I’d have gone back home I stayed the night at my grandparent's house because my papa asked me to just for the night. The next morning my mom and I were back home sleeping in our bed.

As for my sister, she’s turned this whole thing into a mess she called our uncle M 54 (our mom's brother and his daughter to try and get them on her side and ostracized me even more. Didn’t work because I texted my uncle before her and he said not to take sides and leave me and his daughter out of whatever is happening between my sister and me).

So since 10/23/24, I’ve only seen my sister 1 other time and that was the week before Thanksgiving I was out at my grandparent's house helping my papa who’s 83 with some outside projects when my sister came by the look on her face when she saw me there was like shocked. I told her I was not going another round with her and I knew how it was going to end for me. My sister was like okay I didn’t come here to fight Meme need to talk to and boy howdy did they talk more like arguing with each other my sister blamed what happened in October squarely on our meme and then she started blaming me for everything as well. After about 15 minutes of arguing my sister left crying and I said “Your drink” She said thank you and I love you. Of course, I said love you back. But the worst part was seeing my meme crying and shaking I made her check her blood pressure and blood sugar levels for type 2 diabetes. Her blood pressure was high by 2 numbers and she was having a blood sugar low drank some orange juice and ate some lunch. She explained that now not only is my sister still mad at me she’s now blaming everything that has happened in her life on our meme.

So yeah my sister hasn’t even let me meet my nephew who was just born on 12/20/24 so am I the entitled bitch or is my sister