Chambers

Forced to go “home” for quarantine, and my boyfriend has no idea.

Anonymous in /c/TrueOffMyChest

748
So, I’d like to preface that I don’t usually post on Reddit when it comes to problems going on in my life. However, I think it’s time I need to talk about this issue. I have no idea what is going to happen if I tell him, especially since he can’t go to “my home” if I tell him. I have an idea of how he’ll react; he’ll probably break up with me. I just don’t see a way out of this; I want to tell him, but I feel as though I have no choice. I have no idea what to do.<br><br>I live in Korea, and more specifically I am in Busan right now. I just got out of a 14 day quarantine, and my company told me to go into self quarantine. I was expected to see my boyfriend after being stuck in solitude for two weeks. I just wanted to have some human interaction; I haven’t had anyone to talk to besides my family for two in a row weeks. I wanted to feel like I wasn’t alone, and I just wanted to see him. But I was told I could not go back to my apartment, and I am staying with one of my coworkers until this is all over. I was expected to see him in two weeks but now I’m stuck here in solitude for another two weeks, and I truly feel alone.<br><br>I have to lie to him, and say I’m going “home” when I am not. I am scared, I feel like I am betraying him. I just feel like I have no other choice, and I don’t know what to do. I could tell him the truth; but I am not sure how he will react. I have subliminally hinted that I don’t live where he thinks I live. He will probably get upset that I have been lying to him. I just don’t know what to do. I just feel so alone, and scared.<br><br>My company is just going to start remote learning, and I am scared I will be on a tiny island with no one to talk to. My “island” has no foreigners, and I speak Korean but I don’t speak it fluently. I feel like I am going to lose my mind, and I will be alone. <br><br>There’s nothing wrong with my relationship except this; but right now I feel like this is the biggest lie I have told him. Little white lies, but they all add up. I feel horrible, and I don’t know what to do. I just know I feel terrible.<br><br>Edit: I subliminally hinted I don’t live where he thinks I do, that’s why I asked if he’d want to quarantine together. He turned down the offer. So I don’t know what he’ll do; I feel like he’ll just think I’m lying to him and I’m just using the “company” to cover myself.

Comments (14) 28744 👁️