What Would YOU Do: Stuck in the Middle

May 5, 2008     Posted in Other Stories

confused.jpgI have found myself in quite the sticky situation.


By CC Staff

A lot of us twentysomethings can probably understand the situation I’m about to recall. Due to the copious amounts of liquor that most of us consume during college and there after (when we’re finally legal), we often up the next morning with regrets I.E. Did I really say that? Did I really kiss him? Where is my bra? …etc.

Luckily, I wasn’t the one who woke up with regrets.

What do you do when you’re best friends with a couple — the girl and the guy are equally close to you — and one of them, oh, I don’t know, makes out with another person while you’re out together?!

Naturally, this put me in a bad situation. So, instead of running to their significant other, I texted a fourth party who is equally close with the two of us and asked her what. do. I. do?! The fourth party then inexplicably decided to go and tell “the significant other.”

Now, I told my good friend (who did the making out with a stranger) that if she didn’t tell her boy the next day, I would. She agreed and said she would tell him…unfortunately the news got to him before she could. Being that him and I are good friends, he called me the next morning to confirm the situation and I couldn’t lie when I received his phone call.  The truth is, I would have wanted him to do the same for me and I would have told her, had he been the one to mess up. She would have expected that from me and been devastated had I kept that information from her, had she found out later that I knew.

So tell me, if you’re best friends with a couple and you’re stuck in the middle of knowing information that could potentially really hurt your friends, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

Keep it to yourself? Take the “Girl Power” role and stick with the girl? Or tell them the truth?

4 Comments on "What Would YOU Do: Stuck in the Middle"

  1. emily says:
    Mon, 5th May 20081:01 pm 

    i would try not to pick sides and stay friends with both of them, but the one who did the cheating was in the wrong so most likely i would side with the non-cheater.

  2. Janers says:
    Mon, 5th May 20081:11 pm 

    Well, I wouldn't have involved ANOTHER party.

    As soon as I read that, I though uh oh~ big mistake…this isn't going to go well.

    I would have kept it to myself, for the time being, been patient, given her a chance to tell him, and then checked up on it to make sure she did.

    What was she doing anyway? Are they in an open relationship? If so, then it isn't your business (and no was wrong done, unless she was hurtful or dishonest of course).

    If they are not, talk to her about it.

    Was it a joke or romantic, brief, lengthy?

    I need details to say what I would do.

    Good luck with it all.

  3. Chelsea Talks Smack says:
    Mon, 5th May 20081:47 pm 

    Oh no, not an open relationship AT ALL. It was a guy shes bene "talking to" for a couple months, that she's genuinely attracted to and acts all giddy talking about him and the BF had no idea about the guy….the gf/bf are both best friends of mine, i've lived with her and actually met HER through HIM. SO. I asked a friend, who currently lives with BOTH of them what to do….AND I was drunk so I should have kept it to myself, but she knew we were all OUT with this guy that shes been "talking to" SO. she was already asking how the evening was going….and I told her what happened.

    and it wasn't brief.

  4. poopy says:
    Sat, 7th Jun 200810:44 pm 

    samee problemm hunniee

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