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I was recently checking my email on my boyfriend’s computer and some porn sites came up in the address window. I know that all guys look at porn, so I wasn’t concerned, even though my boyfriend told me he doesn’t look at it. I just assumed he didn’t want to hurt my feelings, even though I have told him on numerous occasions that I’m totally fine with him looking at it, and would even watch it with him if he wanted me to.
Anyway, I was curious as to what he was looking at, so I started just going through and looking for different links that could potentially be porn. From there, I got quite the surprise. There was sites related to meeting people in our area for casual sex and I saw that “someone” had searched for prostitutes in our area as well. Also, a telltale sign that it was him, is that he’s latino and is far more comfortable in Spanish, and some searches in google for prostitution and porn were in Spanish.
Of course I confronted him about this and woke him up at 4 in the morning because I felt I was completely justified. He was all pissed off at the beginning and said it wasn’t him and he wanted to go back to sleep. I was pissed so I didn’t let him and forced him to have this conversaton with me. We ended up talking for 4 more hours, and he was in tears at the end trying to tell me that he loves and that it wasn’t him. I of course am dead sure that it was him and now I don’t know what to do. During our talk he was trying to tell me that his brother was using his computer so it could have been him, but a counter poiint to that is that we moved from California a couple months ago, and his brother was using the computer then, but the sites are all in Saint Louis, where we live now. It’s not at all disconcerting to me that he looks at porn, although he says he doesn’t, but it bother me EXTREMELY me that prostitution was searched for in our area and that on craigslist adult gigs were also looked at.
I don’t really know what to think at this point (I found all this stuff 2 days ago), because up until now he has shown me a great deal of commitment and I had used his computer a lot before and there weren’t any porn sites at all. In terms of commitment, I go to school in Saint Louis was home on summer vacaton in California when we met. When I was supposed to go back to school he didn’t want to be away from me, so he came along, leaving friends, work, and everything else behind. He is the sweetest boyfriend I’ve ever had in terms of doing the little things for me. It just doesn’t make sense to me that it was him, but all the evidence supports the fact that it was. I definitely need help because I’ve been a complete wreck since I found all that. Since I don’t know anything about porn and if it is possible that he was looking at one site and then some weird link connected him to a singles site I don’t want to break up with him and end the best relationship I’ve ever been in.
I don’t know the authors name because I just found this site 10 minutes ago, but I would like for the author of “What every woman should know about internet porn” to give me some feedback because he seems to know about porn sites and how they work.
Thank you so much for your time and advice.
2 Responses to Boyfriend possibly cheating?
Tony
July 23rd, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Jeez yes of course he is!
Bypass all your rationalisations and go with your gut and whats your gut telling you. Not me, whats it telling you now?
Abby
August 21st, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Your story mirrors my own. Almost verbatim, except the latino thing. Even the 4am wake up! You are not alone.
I want to let you know that ever since I had that same discovery, a short while ago, I have not been able to really recover within the relationship. I feel very distrustful and anxious, all the time.
BUT the truth is, it could go either way. I’ve been doing a lot of research on what kind of hacking porn sites can do, as they try to entice you into procuring a prostitute: and let me tell you, it is extensive. Once you sign on and pay any kind of fee, and they have your email address, you sign away all of your privacy. They can do anything with your information.
That said, men are difficult. They are wired so completely differently than us women. I think, for most alpha males, it seems the greatest challenge is to decide if they would prefer a real intimate relationship in which they are loved than chasing tail. Not because they are shallow, but because they are programmed differently. It is a great struggle. Not for all men, of course.
And for me, it’s so difficult to not take that personally. But somehow we have to conjure up a larger world/human view and understand that this is not a battle we can win, as it has nothing to do with us. Not to say we should let anyone cheat. Because that is shit. But we have to understand their struggle with compassion and greater understanding that they will EVER credit us for.
These are my thoughts. Scattered, though they may be. I’m a little all over the place. Apologies