Her Best Friend’s Boyfriend Won’t Stop Flirting With Her, But She’s Afraid To Speak Up About It And Potentially Ruin Their Friendship
Love triangles are one of the toughest situations to get stuck in. But they’re even worse when they involve your best friend.
This 24-year-old woman has recently found herself in a similar, uncomfortable situation with her best friend and her best friend’s boyfriend, and she is at a loss about how to handle it.
For some context, she and her best friend Sarah, who is 25, have been close for years. Sarah has also been in a relationship with her 26-year-old boyfriend, Mike, for about one year now.
But, while everything had been fine between the three of them in the past, she recently noticed how Mike began acting kind of inappropriately toward her.
All of a sudden, he started to send her flirty text messages and compliment her in ways that simply made her uncomfortable.
“And he has even made some suggestive comments when Sarah isn’t around,” she revealed.
Still, in the beginning, she wrote off her own concerns and thought she could just be overreacting or reading too much into the situation.
Since then, though, Mike’s strange behavior has only become more forward and obvious – and she’s starting to feel extremely uncomfortable.
“But I haven’t told Sarah about it because I’m afraid it will hurt her and potentially ruin our friendship,” she revealed.
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On the one hand, she really doesn’t want to stick her nose into their relationship and come between Sarah and Mike. Yet, on the other hand, she genuinely has no clue how to deal with Mike flirting with her anymore.
In the meantime, she has tried to keep her distance from Mike and make sure that their interactions are as few as possible. However, it’s getting more and more difficult to avoid the inevitable, and she doesn’t know what to do.
“I’m torn because I don’t want to be the cause of any drama, but I also feel guilty for not telling Sarah what’s been happening,” she vented.
Now, she can’t help but wonder if she should come clean about Mike’s behavior. She’s also unsure if not telling Sarah about Mike’s flirting already makes her a real jerk.
Do you think she needs to come clean to her friend as soon as possible? Will it only get worse if she continues keeping quiet about Mike’s advances?
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