My girlfriend left me for another girl, but its not fully over.
So two weeks ago I was asleep in my bed, until I got a phone call that woke me up saying "I've kissed her". "Her" referring to her best friend who two weeks previous to that confessed she had feelings for my girlfriend and agreed not to act upon it. A week later, we have split up and now I am lost while she spends everyday with this girl.
Background information:
Me and my girlfriend have been going out for 2 years, we worked together, lived together 6 days of the week.
Everyone saw us as the perfect couple. We were even secretly engaged to one another. (because we didn't want to look like idiots getting engaged so quickly. My choice and she agreed). I loved her and she loved me. We even went to america with each other for a trip to Florida in July, it was the best time we ever had.
This September she returned to university and I started. Distancing ourself from 5 minutes away to 2 hours away and now at 5 hours away from each other, but we would still Skype every night, talk all day. It was until she actually started talking to this girl.
This girl is reckless, and before this year at uni my girlfriend used to make fun of her, make fun of her being lesbian (from a traditional background). Even before the year my girlfriend knew her but didn't speak to her.
My girlfriend, a proud nerd, spent most of her time doing work, watching television and talking to me. We were happy.
Since she has been at university she drinks a lot. She delayed doing work for socialising. This may sound like normal university behaviour but it wasn't for her. She lived life via plans. For example ,when going to Disney she planned what ride to do at what times so we could get everything done. I understand that is over the top but it is one of the things I love about her. She thinks.
As soon as I found out about her kissing this other girl my instant reaction was "Distance yourself from her for a while" which made sense because she was coming home for a week due to half term. Instead she didn't.
She kept texting and talking to her about how she wants to be back at uni. I couldn't go home because I have a work load to do at university but as soon as we split up I got the first train possible which meant I arrived home at 1am Thursday night. From here I went to her house, knowing she was asleep and left a message in her garden saying "I love you" reckless thing for me to do but I thought "Lets try being romantic".
We spoke a little about why we broke up, she said she had seen this coming from August, because we had become comfortable and worked, ate, watched TV, slept, woke up, showered, ate, worked. I only ever saw this as growing up and becoming an adult.
This was also because I worked 5 days a week over the summer. I worked so we could have trips to london, to the cinema, to theme parks (Our nerdy habit, we worked at one) Worked with her 3 of those days. In that time she was fired from the job and I risked my own job trying to find evidence that she was innocent.
The weekend after she kissed the girl she was meant to come to my uni to organise a trip to paris for the week over Christmas, just the two of us. I feel I was left at the peak of our relationship with no signs.
Since then I went to watch a fireworks display with her so we could talk and I promised it to her when she got fired that I would take her to it. We rely a lot on promises. Here I stood a couple of minutes with my arm around her before she thought to take it off. I kissed her, she kissed back. Then 30 minutes later she said she can't be friends at all or see me at all.
When we kissed, there was/is something there. A week later communication has almost all gone, there has been the normal "Do you think we will ever get back together?" and "Do you have feelings for me and her?" with she replied all with no comment. I then said I will respect her choice and not force her to answer but all I want to do is talk to her. But I know for a fact that she sees this as a Hannah Montana situation, if she could live two different lives it would be perfect.
The reason I feel so bad that it is this girl is not a sexuality thing, I for one have already experienced a girl leaving me for another girl and am Bi sexual myself. But from what I know from my girlfriend is that this isn't what she wants out of life. She wants to go into advertising because I want to go into the Media industry, she wants a normal family, children. That is all she wants.
Stuff I feel this girl cannot provide for her. Well not in the "normal" sense because I have seen how people act with children from two mother families.
On the other hand I also feel this girl is harming my girlfriend, she is sacrificing her education and health for her. A girl who normally has her work done 3 weeks early is now battling a deadline. My girlfriend was also an ex cutter before going out with me and while going out with me she hadn't done it, not even once. When I saw her last, I saw marks, lots.
This girl is also a cutter, and now I feel she sees it acceptable, that its now an OK thing. I understand why she cuts, but I do not agree with it and as I have said I am there for her if she relapses.
The sad thing is we had around 40 mutual friends, she removed them. Ones who supported her in her appeal at work. Ones who preferred her over me. Gone. Its as if she is on self destruct at the moment.
I really feel that this is just a phase for my girlfriend and that soon she will be over it (by soon I mean Christmas), this is because being a musical fan she seems to be referencing the Musical R.E.N.T a lot on how she feels. That as if life is a film and she is not hurting anyone with her actions. I'm not just scared about my feelings for her never vanishing but also her body and mental health. What do I do next?
P.s. She is my first and only love. Only proper serious relationship that latest more than 2 months...