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Metro’s agony aunt Em Clarkson is here to solve all your problems.
This week, she’s giving solid advice on being suspicious about a boyfriend’s female friend, and mending old family wounds.
Read on for this week’s reader conundrums and Em’s guidance.
My boyfriend/long term situationship has gone to Paris this weekend with a few of his friends, two couples and one single female friend (so in my mind, a couple’s holiday with another woman).
I let him know a few times the whole thing was making me uncomfortable and ‘jokingly’ asked if he could take me along to test the water. He wouldn’t.
I’ve now seen on Instagram in every photo of the trip he is stood right next to the female friend. I don’t know if I’m reading too much into the whole thing, but I feel awful and anxious, and a big mess and I haven’t heard from him since he’s been away. Any advice on how to handle this?
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Regardless of what is or isn’t happening on this trip, your feelings are valid, and his reaction to them is (to my mind) a much bigger problem than the woman he is with.
There are lots of worlds in which you really do have nothing to worry about with her.
For a start, it’s unlikely that he would be so blatant as to cheat on you in front of his friends, least of all while he knows that you know where he is and who he is with.
It’s natural that the two of them would gravitate towards each other in pictures etc as they are the only two without a partner on the trip, and they’ve probably cultivated a friendship because of that.
And that really is probably all that it is; contrary to the confusing messaging of When Harry Met Sally, men and women CAN just be friends. Just because they are ‘a man’ and ‘a woman’ together, does not mean that an affair is inevitable, and I really want to stress that, at its core, their dynamic within the group is not an …read more
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