# Why did you fuck that guy on holiday? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555 "2005-06-16T15:45:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/1 "2005-06-16T15:45:12Z")
To my ex-girlfriend… We go on holiday together a scant three weeks after officially breaking up. We still live together, and have even had sex a couple of times since we decided like adults that our relationship just didn’t have legs and it was time to move on. You say you still like spending time with me. When we broke up I asked you if you wanted me to still go to Thailand with you and our large group of friends that we’d planned months before, and you said ‘of course I do, I still want to do many things with you.’ I took you at your word. So we’re in Thailand, and I split off from the main group with a smaller group to do some scuba diving. I am gone from the larger group for a sum total of one night. During that time, you hooked up with and shagged another single male member of the group, then carried on fucking him for another 3 nights. When I confronted you about this, you said ‘it was for my own good’ and ‘I need to get my head around the fact that we’ve broken up.’ Then you say ‘I am not flaunting this in front of you’. Your excuse of ‘I am on holiday and want to have fun’ also rings sort of hollow. Well, seeing you hanging off the arm of another man and making out in front of all of our shared friends isn’t exactly like you’re fucking hiding it, is it? And you actually wonder why all of our / my friends are giving you the cold shoulder? You actually wonder why, you callous bitch? Could it be that I introduced you to most of them? Could it be that they know that I am not the one behaving like a dog in heat? After he leaves the group, you then cling back onto me, and we do all the touristy shit in Bangkok just like we’re still dating. We get back home, and you then say that you want to try again with our relationship. Thanks for the great fuck, but sorry, baby. It’s a matter of trust. I could trust you when you’d leave for days at a time to party with your friends, because I was confident you weren’t fucking anyone else. Now anytime I leave your side for more than 2 hours, I am going to assume that you’re fucking someone else. So try elsewhere, baby. I am not buying. And in the meantime, go fucking sort yourself out. There’s only so long in your life that you can keep blaming things on your fucked up family life before people just walk away and leave you alone to deal with the consequences of your own fucking actions. And just by the bye, my days of helping you deal with vicious hangovers and getting sick repeatedly as the result of 2-day parties every single weekend are fucking over. ---
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/2 "2005-06-16T15:49:00Z")
You wouldn’t happen to have your ex’s contact info handy, would you? ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/3 "2005-06-16T15:49:05Z")
Good boy, now just stick to it and you’ll be ok. She sounds like a real piece of work… Sam ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/4 "2005-06-16T15:50:07Z")
> [@Greathouse](#): > > You wouldn’t happen to have your ex’s contact info handy, would you? Classy, you are. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/5 "2005-06-16T15:50:29Z")
Good for you, and for Og’s sake don’t fuck her again. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/6 "2005-06-16T15:50:47Z")
I’m sorry, but it’s partly your fault going on the trip with your ex and expecting her to, what, act like your girlfriend? Still, this part: > [@GomiBoy](#): > > After he leaves the group, you then cling back onto me, and we do all the touristy shit in Bangkok just like we’re still dating. We get back home, and you then say that you want to try again with our relationship. Thanks for the great fuck, but sorry, baby. It’s a matter of trust. I could trust you when you’d leave for days at a time to party with your friends, because I was confident you weren’t fucking anyone else. Now anytime I leave your side for more than 2 hours, I am going to assume that you’re fucking someone else. So try elsewhere, baby. I am not buying. Nope. She can’t have it both ways. Either she sleeps with whomever she wants, and is not your girlfriend, or she wants to restart the relationship. Sleeping around in front of you is not the answer. ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/7 "2005-06-16T15:51:33Z")
> [@GaWd](#): > > Good boy, now just stick to it and you’ll be ok. She sounds like a real piece of work… > > Sam She sure is. I can admit it wasn’t great for me trying to break it off before she did this, but now that she has it’s making it a hell of a lot easier to close down this shithouse relationship and recognize her for what she is - a user. ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/8 "2005-06-16T15:55:58Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > I’m sorry, but it’s partly your fault going on the trip with your ex and expecting her to, what, act like your girlfriend? Seeing as how we still live together and sleep in the same bed, I expected a little bit of common courtesy and her to not fuck the first guy she found, and especially to not fuck someone from within the fairly tight group of friends who were all travelling together. It’s not like I could avoid the situation for the remaining 10 days of holiday, after all… I’ll take some blame, because I shouldn’t have gone on the holiday (or she shouldn’t have) but this is all her, all the time. ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/9 "2005-06-16T15:56:06Z")
Sounds like a messy break up. Messy break ups happen quite often. Usually in the course of “still trying to be friends”. I don’t blame her for doing what she did, and I don’t blame you for being pissed about it. Hell, in the long run you’ll realize that it’s good that she did it. That way you knew better than hooking back up with her again. Congratulations on your good luck. End it. End it now. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/10 "2005-06-16T15:57:44Z")
> [@GomiBoy](#): > > Seeing as how we still live together and sleep in the same bed Wonderful idea. ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/11 "2005-06-16T15:58:06Z")
> [@NurseCarmen](#): > > Congratulations on your good luck. End it. End it now. Oh, it’s definitely over. And I would have been long gone if it wasn’t that all my money is tied up in our shared flat. 1st of July, I have my own place and I am fucking gone… ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/12 "2005-06-16T15:59:04Z")
> [@GomiBoy](#): > > To my ex-girlfriend… > We go on holiday together a scant three weeks after officially breaking up. We still live together, and have even had sex a couple of times since we decided like adults that our relationship just didn’t have legs and it was time to move on. Before you can move on, one of you is going to have to **move out**. You both need space. Finding another SO while you are living with the ex is near impossible. Sorry for your pain, but creating some distance between each other is the only way to ever move on. ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/13 "2005-06-16T15:59:19Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Wonderful idea. Only because of financial constraints; all of my money is tied up in the flat that I have been paying for and we’ve been living in; I had to free some of that up so I could leave. It takes time to do that… Believe me, not by choice… ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/14 "2005-06-16T15:59:48Z")
> [@GomiBoy](#): > > Then you say ‘I am not flaunting this in front of you’… > > Well, seeing you hanging off the arm of another man and making out in front of all of our shared friends isn’t exactly like you’re fucking hiding it, is it? Actually, that’s kind of the _definition_ of flaunting it. Fire the explosive bolts and get clear. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/15 "2005-06-16T16:00:26Z")
> [@GomiBoy](#): > > Only because of financial constraints; all of my money is tied up in the flat that I have been paying for and we’ve been living in; I had to free some of that up so I could leave. It takes time to do that… > > Believe me, not by choice… I understand, and I’m not flaming you… but often in order to really get distance former couples really need, well, distance. Sleep on the couch, do whatever you can, but sleeping with your ex is a bad way to create distance. /$.02 ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/16 "2005-06-16T16:02:12Z")
> [@John Carter of Mars](#): > > Before you can move on, one of you is going to have to **move out**. You both need space. Finding another SO while you are living with the ex is near impossible. > > Sorry for your pain, but creating some distance between each other is the only way to ever move on. Should have said in the OP - I am moving out into my own flat on the 1st of July; we had this planned before we ever left for Thailand. So it wasn’t just that she shagged someone else, she didn’t have the courtesy to wait 3 whole weeks before I was out of the picture and she could fuck herself blue. She had to do it where it was impossible for it not be be in my face… ---
**Author:** ![Stonebow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Stonebow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stonebow)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/17 "2005-06-16T16:05:47Z")
> [@GomiBoy](#): > > To my ex-girlfriend… > > We go on holiday together a scant three weeks after officially breaking up… I lost you after this. sorry. Best of luck moving on. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/18 "2005-06-16T16:08:10Z")
**GomiBoy** , you need to be like zee ee-po. But as long as you are for scuba, that’s all that matters. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/19 "2005-06-16T16:22:20Z")
What do you care what she does? She’s not your girlfriend anymore. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2005, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555/20 "2005-06-16T16:27:46Z")
Sounds like you’ve grasped the reality of the situation but that your penis is still having a hard time letting go. Sit down with him tonite when the sun has set and things have finally quieted down and have a serious, heart to penis talk. Explain why this girl is no good, why she’ll only cause heartache and penisache for you both and I think he’ll understand that in the long run it’s decidedly for the best for you both. You guys need to hang around together for awhile, get to know each other again, and before you know it someone else will come along, you’ll both stand up and take notice and love can begin anew. Warmest wishes, lieu [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-you-fuck-that-guy-on-holiday/308555.md?page=2)