Katharina Buczek
It can be hard to know where your loyalty lies when your best friend is in a relationship with your sibling. Is blood always thicker than water, or could unforgivable actions cause you to choose your friend over family?
That’s the unfortunate situation this 26-year-old woman has found herself in. Her brother, who’s 29, is actually married to her best friend.
But she recently found out her brother has been cheating on her bestie, and she’s been grappling with a whirlwind of emotions ever since.
She only discovered his infidelity the other day when she saw one of her friends from college had posted a story on Snapchat. In the photo, she could tell her brother was lying in bed next to that friend.
“His tattoo was a dead giveaway, and I felt sick to my stomach,” she recalled.
She immediately confronted her brother, too, and he came clean about having an affair, which had apparently been going on for two months. He also begged her not to tell his wife, her best friend, because he claimed he still loved her and “could fix things.”
“But to be honest, I couldn’t keep that kind of secret,” she admitted.
She realizes that her brother has been there for her throughout their childhood. He stepped up and supported her when their mom began to struggle.
Nonetheless, while she truly valued their sibling bond, she couldn’t let her best friend just get blindsided like that.
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