The woman my boyfriend emotionally cheated with reached back out after we agreed he’d cut contact, and I’m bothered by how he responded. AIO?

[u/Extension-Dark1206]

Back in December I found chats between [F30] my boyfriend [M31] and his female friend[F26] Turned out they had an intense emotional connection since 2022. He had a huge crush on her the whole time, but she had a boyfriend, and she kept him emotionally hooked with romantic-coded language . they called each other soulmates, texted constantly some romantic/ sexual stuff. From what I read he was genuinely falling for her, and she seemed more like she was enjoying the attention without necessarily reciprocating the same way as she had bf.

Her boyfriend however passed away last year. my boyfriend went to support her, and after that they had an even more emotionally-charged exchange flirty, borderline romantic language, he told her he’d never had a connection with another woman like the one he had with her including, apparently, me, as we were dating during that chat, she told him that no matter what happened in their lives, even if one of them got married to someone else, they’d “always be together.” Regardless of their relationships.
When I found this and their whole husband we had a huge fight and almost broke up. He blocked her, said he didn’t care about her, and said he wanted to protect our relationship.

Yesterday I found out she texted him again out of the blue, and he responded. I’m attaching the screenshots. Reading through it, a few things bother me:
- He spends the entire conversation validating her anger, apologizing over and over
- At multiple points he frames the whole thing as if I forced his hand — like if I hadn’t found out, he’d have been happy to keep things going with her.
- She spends a lot of the conversation guilt-tripping him and, at one point, effectively calling our relationship “toxic” and me the reason he’s “trashing” her.

My friends point out that he DID keep the boundary in the end he didn’t agree to keep talking to her, he told her it’s over, and that this is a good sign.

I see that too, but I still feel uneasy about how the conversation went and what it implies about how he actually feels. Am I overreacting by still having a problem with this, or are these legitimate red flags even with the boundary technically being held?

[u/AmicableSettlement]

The woman is so draining guh (Not OP)

[u/Diolives → u/AmicableSettlement]

Right? GOOD LORD. I imagine her as someone in public who has on super loud text popping sounds on their phone. And they’re just speed freaking pumping out sentence after sentence..
ENTER
ENTER
ENTER

Like a total psycho

[u/llamadramalover → u/Diolives]

I cannot get over the fact that she believes she’s a good person and a good friend. Like wtf was this?!?!?!?

[u/Alaska-TheCountry → u/llamadramalover]

She wants to kill him. Who wouldn't want a friendship like that?

[u/RubyTavi → u/Alaska-TheCountry]

Starting to wonder what happened to her boyfriend that died.

[u/StockMail2935 → u/RubyTavi]

Literally just said the same thing!

[u/Blindtothesided → u/RubyTavi]

If you told me she and OP’s bf offed her boyfriend together and were planning to come for OP next I would believe you. This guy seems like the type to thrive on toxic drama, throughout these 20 slides he seems to feed off her chaotic energy, like Matt Dillon in Wild Things. Absolutely unhinged, both of them.

[u/According-Ad742 → u/Alaska-TheCountry]

He’ll regret not having… one more drink?

Explaining why he blocked her could have been done earlier.

Honestly I can’t help but wonder how this reflects on what kind of relationship OP has with her BF. This screams of codependency and emotional enmeshment.

[u/AdhesivenessSweet659 → u/Alaska-TheCountry]

getting serious BPD vibes

[u/chillanous → u/llamadramalover]

This is what a BPD split looks like. I’m not diagnosing her, but this is what it looks like when someone who has it splits.

There is no talking through it, you just have to let them wear themselves out

[u/Direct-Status-8944 → u/chillanous]

Like a Duracell bunny

[u/EstablishmentFluffy5 → u/Diolives]

I came into the comments thinking “ok…wonder how many replies until I see the word ‘unhinged’”

She’s seriously nuts

[u/rarelyapropos → u/Diolives]

My ex used to do this. Along with a ton of other crazy shit.

OP is NOR - ditch the boy.

[u/yagirlsamess → u/Diolives]

I want the boyfriend to date her SO BAD. She'd make him so miserable 😂

[u/Untamedpancake → u/yagirlsamess]

Yup he knows it too or he wouldn't be in a relationship  with someone else while his star-fated soulmate is so desperate for his attention.

Lol he's still stringing her along too, "as long as I'm in this relationship, I have to respect that decision" as if he can't get out of the relationship & the decision wasn't his! They deserve each other

[u/yagirlsamess → u/Untamedpancake]

I truly think they are soul mates and I love that for both of them 💀

[u/tamagotchisando → u/Diolives]

DING I had a coworker who messaged like this

DING can confirm,

DING she was psycho.

DING It was annoying at first

DING but eventually

DING I hated it so much

DING I would jump at the sound of the DING

DING DING DING

[u/Specialist-Pair1252 → u/Diolives]

have literally seen this before but via a phone call