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My (31F) friend (29F) just told me something that I really don't know how to react to

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My friend Lorie and I have been friends for several years. We've never been the *closest* of friends, but we live in the same city and our kids know each other from school. We've gone out for drinks a few times, gone away on a few friend-cations, and get together for playdates sometimes. I really like Lorie a lot even if we aren't extremely close, and I do consider her a good friend. Lorie is recently divorced, and I am happily married.<br><br>Yesterday, I met up with Lorie for lunch and she had a bit of a smile on her face. I asked her what was going on and she said that she had something a little awkward that she needed to discuss. She told me that last week, she met someone that she's interested in. That isn't the awkward part. The awkward part was that a few days before she met him, she made a post on tiktok. She said that she saw a tiktok video that was all over, about women making lists of their "hall passes" - names of men that are just so hot that if you ever got the chance, you would definitely have an affair with them. It was obviously a joke, but Lorie decided to play along and made a video with that list. It was just a joke. She never expected anything to come of it.<br><br>So she met this new guy. He lives in her city, but she met him out of town. She said that their personalities really clicked, they had a good time together, and she's interested in getting to know him more. She wanted him to get to know *her,* and not jump straight into dating just because of looks, so she didn't really tell him much about herself right away. <br><br>That's when it got weird... Lorie swipe right on the guy on a dating app after meeting him. She told him that she wanted to follow him on tiktok to help get to know him more. When she went onto his profile, she saw that one of her videos was on his account, and it was the one that she had posted of her affair list. His face was one of the names on the list. She felt extremely weird, but decided to play it cool and not say anything about it. She decided to give it a few days to see how things were going before deciding what to do. A few days went by, and the guy asked her out on a few more dates. She agreed and they've now had a few more dates, and she still hadn't said anything about the tiktok video. <br><br>Lorie felt she needed to tell him at some point because it was so embarrassing, and she wanted to know if he saw the video and recognized her, or if he had a reaction to it. She finally told him about it during their last date together. She said that she's never been more embarrassed and mortified, and she really didn't know how he was going to react. To her relief, he laughed and thought it was really funny. He told her that he had not seen the video, and that one of his friends had posted it for him. Lorie said that they both had a good laugh about it, and she could tell that he was sincere. I can't lie.... this really made me laugh when she explained it to me.<br><br>The problem that Lorie is now facing is that her husband saw the video that she posted of her "hall passes" and recognized several of the names on the list as being names of men that she had met while they were married. She said that when they first got divorced, her Ex asked her about one of the names in particular and if she had ever hooked up with him while they were together, and she had lied and said no. She said that the hurt look in her ex's eyes when he asked her broke her heart because she knew that she had hurt him so badly. <br><br>I feel really bad that Lorie is going through this. I know that she didn't cheat on her ex, but the timing of this tiktok post really sucks and I don't know how to react to it. The situation is just really awkward and I don't want to make her feel worse, because it was obvious that she was already embarrassed about the whole thing. I don't even know if this is something that I should discuss with my husband. <br><br>Any thoughts?

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