I think she'd thought about it and was telling me to tease me but there was a hint of "what would we do in that situation?" which was her general thought process about my friend going forwards.
I agree with honesty being valued above all else but I try not to place rules on anything because there are nearly always exceptions. So with honesty, there's the issue of when do you tell someone? At the first opportunity? What if they're not in the right place to deal with what you're telling them?ppisbest5 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 15, 2025 2:22 amYou've twice mentioned now that you wouldn't want to fight her in a divorce cause she's very cunning as as we've seen, manipulative. I would also like to bring back the whole practically cheating on you and then blackmailing your friend thing where she basically kept lying to you and releasing the truth very little by little up untill you were bound and being fucked/pegged in the ass. I don't know how you got past that but to me personally those lies and manipulation would be an instant deal breaker since I value honestly over pretty much everything. (that incident pretty much solidified my opinion of your girlfriend as not a keeper. I hope you're not offended by this)
For some things, like telling someone that someone else has died for example, it would be a matter of sitting them down, making sure they're not in the middle of something, calm them down etc. You're only giving them the best chance of handling that news.
In the case that "I've cheated with your best friend", there's a lot of scope for things to go badly. I could've broken up with her, could've shut down communicating with her, who knows what. Yes, she manipulated the situation, made me annoyed at him until I was over it and then admitted that it was her when she could be more confident I was ok with it. I thought about it a lot at the time and I figured what was important were her reasons for manipulating it and intentions going forward. She manipulated it because she wanted to minimise the damage to our relationship. She always said there was more to the story than what she told me but she kind of put in on hold while I dealt with it in my head and while we were opening up to each other about our secrets and such. She then waited until she thought I was ready and I had the full context of where she was at to tell me what really happened. One might call that devious, deceitful and/or cunning but another might see that her priority was keeping the relationship good and together. I think had she not told me there was more to the story, I would sway more to deceitful but knowing there was more always made me doubt what she had told me, I knew something had happened between them and maybe I was dealing with the worst possible situation in my head and then when she told me the truth, it was nowhere near as bad as I was prepared for.
Usually the biggest risks have the biggest rewards...