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People Are Revealing The Biggest Relationship Betrayal They Have Ever Experienced

"My boyfriend's reaction to the code being said aloud caught my attention, and something inside of me told me to write it down."

Note: This post discusses abuse. 

Being betrayed by a romantic partner is one of the worst feelings to experience. Whether it involves a partner cheating, withholding information about money, or abandoning their loved one during a very difficult time, it means the trust was violated in some way — which can be hard to bounce back from.

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Since this unfortunately happens a lot in romantic relationships, I asked the BuzzFeed Community: "What is the biggest relationship betrayal you have ever experienced?" and people provided incredibly vulnerable answers. Here's what they had to say below:

1. "After being in a relationship with this guy for six years and living together for five during the pandemic, he let his friend move into our house without asking me or even telling me. After years of disrespectful actions on his part, this was the last straw, and I broke up with him. When I asked him why he would let someone move into the home that we shared without asking or telling me, his response was, 'Because I knew that you'd say no.' Wow."

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—kpeckham9

2. "After an argument one night, my girlfriend of two years went to her best friend's house and had a threesome with him and his partner. No coming back from that! Goodbye!"

—Emma, 30, Norwich

3. "I started seeing someone, and he asked me to be his girlfriend pretty early into dating, but I figured, why not, because we had been seeing each other very frequently and talking all day. There were some red flags, but when I brought them to his attention, he would always have a believable answer or just brushed it off. (Background: I had a boyfriend who previously did me dirty, so I wasn't sure if I was just being anxious or not). Fast-forward a couple of months, and things were going well, but I still felt something was up, and I had no proof or really anything to go off of besides a feeling. Then, one day, his mom had to come over because she needed help with her iPad, and she said the code out loud. My boyfriend's reaction to the code being said aloud caught my attention, and something inside of me told me to write that code down. The day went on, and we all hung out and had a good day."