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Input: I was starting as a freshman in high school, basically fresh out of middle school and I had no idea how relationships worked or anything like that. However, being a dumb and curious freshman, I decided I should jump right into dating. I started talking with this one girl enough to the point where we started dating. 

I didn’t tell my parents about this, because I was unsure of how they would react to me having a girlfriend. I didn’t want to date a girl then have to break up with her a day later because my parents said no. At no point did I think it was a good idea to ask my parents before we started dating for some reason. This ended unfortunately in my demise as my parents eventually found out and forced me to break up with her. 

This left us pretty depressed since we really felt a connection with each other we never experienced with someone else. Anyways I got my phone and most of my privileges taken away for a good amount of time for lying to my parents. I was also not allowed to speak to this girl until I was pretty much over her and had no romantic feelings for her. Of course, being dumb teens who didn’t know better, we decided to proceed to lie again and get back together once I regained my privileges. We pretty much made a promise to each other to get back together later on. This promise was later broken. 

Fast forward to the point where I am completely unrestricted, I hit her up to see if we could catch up on the time we were away from each other. From inspection of her social media profiles, she had a date written all over her bios with a heart next to it. A date that was only weeks after we first broke up. I confront her about this and she responds with,  “he helped me through tough times” and “no one could replace you, but...” that type of stuff. She had found a boyfriend during the time I was stripped of my privileges. I was mildly infuriated about this since we made a promise to each other, but we carried on and continued to be friends. My thought process was that you can’t expect feelings for someone to remain after you don’t interact with them for a while, so I got over it not too long after.

Fast forward a couple months or so, my parents decide I should be able to have a girlfriend as long as I don’t hide anything from them and I still prioritize school. I was a little upset since they could have said this months before and it would have saved me from tears. At this point my ex girlfriend was still dating another guy, so I didn’t try to get back with her. Some time later, I start dating another girl, one that my parents liked. We kept our relationship pretty lowkey to avoid drama and stuff like that, but our parents knew and were fine with it. 

Days later, and I mean DAYS later, I find out that my ex had broken up with her boyfriend because she had cheated on him (cheating at age 15, I know). She then approached me for what at first glance seemed like support and comfort. I delivered on this, considering I didn’t want to be a shitty person and we were still pretty cool with each other. I didn’t exactly agree with her cheating, but I supported her regardless as she seemed like she understood the mistake she made and didn’t want to repeat it. As we continue to talk, she brings up that old promise we made to each other a while back that she had broken. She had wanted to get back with me once again. Please keep in mind that this was the same day she broke up with someone because she cheated on them. I declined and explained to her that I had been in a relationship already. She then went on rambling about “but we made a promise to each other” and “you should’ve told me you were in a relationship”. She seemed to have forgotten the fact that she had broken the promise first. We go back and forth, and it ends with her calling me an asshole and me calling her a whore. 

Days after that, all of her friends started giving me dirty looks and started going up to me to call me a dickhead. My food at lunch was spat in because she was friends with a student cafeteria worker. I was constantly harassed when I was by myself to the point where I had to make sure I had a friend by me at all times. I didn’t want to approach the staff because at the end of the day I wanted to avoid drama, and I thought that it would eventually go away over time. Also I called her a whore still so that could’ve gotten me in trouble as well lmao. 

I don’t know. I feel like I was sort of an ass to her, because at the end of the day she was a really nice and caring person who made a some mistakes, albeit some really stupid ones but mistakes that I had thought she might have learned from. I also hurt her pretty bad when the first break up happened, and she probably feels like shit considering I’m happy with another girl and she is left lonely. I never got to hear her side of the story but I’d think that her friends are supporting her for a reason. What do you think reddit?

dating someone else after promising to come back to a girl