Me (21 F) with my boyfriend (23 M) of 7 years- He wants to stay friends with a guy who tried to take advantage of me while we were drunk.

My boyfriend is hurt by it all on a personal level, but he seems to be totally content with letting it all blow over.

I suppose the big issue is that I think it's weird that my boyfriend would want to be friends with the guy after what he did to me (and him, but he doesn't seem as upset by that). He knows about all of my anxiety issues and I explained exactly how it all made me feel and he really sympathizes with me and is angry at his friend for objectifying me. But when he brought up my feelings to his friend, the guy didn't care about me at all. This guy used to be my friend and now doesn't care about being friends with me at all or about even just about my feelings.

I just can't help but to feel like if the roles were reversed, I would drop the friend for hurting my boyfriend like that and putting him in such an awkward situation (and not really being apologetic about it at all). Like if someone is disrespectful to my boyfriend and doesn't care about him as a person, then I don't really want to associate with them.

I am also concerned about this guy hurting my boyfriend again in the future since he seems very selfish but my boyfriend doesn't seem worried about it so I guess that is just me being protective of him.

Also, I do want to make it clear that I don't feel threatened or like this guy was being predatory. At the time, I remember being kind of scared but I think that was mostly the alcohol because he wasn't threatening me or anything. I've made all of this clear to my bf as well.

Does that answer your question? It's very late here so I'm pretty tired and I think I'm not doing a good job of explaining things.

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