Eomer said:
But from what you"re saying, this guy isn"t one of those. He"s a former workplace friend, and it sounds like it wouldn"t be a huge loss if you never saw him again. I think in that case, I"d back off. You"re not close enough to stick your nose in to his marriage. He may well just end up resenting you for it. Hell that could happen with one of your "boys" too, but manliness requires you risk it. But again in this case considering that you"re not very close with the guy, and the bitch might come after you in one way or another, I"d stay out of it.
Shitty situation, to be sure.
This is correct and is definitely part of my dilemma. I worked with him and we got along well, but he"s not someone I hang out with regularly or even see anymore now that we aren"t working together. My only contact with him is IMing. That said, I still hate holding info that could wake this guy up and get him out of a bad situation. Yet I agree with you that he may just end up more miserable and resent me for even bringing it up. Hell, he may even be totally illogical and somehow partially blame me for her trying to cheat, even though I never gave the bitch a second glance.
mattsb84 said:
What do the messages say? Why does she even have your cell #? If I were in this situation, I tell him she"s a lying whore and here"s the proof. He"ll either say "Ok", not care and continue to get cheated on (which sure as shit he will), or he"ll go into a frenzy and come to his senses and get rid of her and move on.
My number was in her phone because of a period he went without a cell and used hers if he needed to get up with people. It was just left in there after he got his own back and she later used it to contact me one night. The messages are just what you"d expect, she was asking me what I was doing and if I was alone, asked if she could come over, you know the drill.
At first I just tried to keep things friendly. It went something like:
"Haha. I don"t think Ken would appreciate that."
"What he doesn"t know wont hurt him."
"Sorry, I wouldn"t do that to Ken."
"Come on. I"m bored and horny. Take me for a ride and we"ll do it in your car."
"I"ve got enough ladies to worry about as is."
"But I can"t have fun because I"m married?"
And I stopped responding at that point. She sent a few more like "Am I coming or not?" as if she didn"t get the fucking point. I actually haven"t talked to her at all since then. I just ignored any texts she sent after that night.
Anyway...
To give you guys an update on the situation, I was actually leaning towards telling him today when we were talking on IM, but he immediately launched into a new development.
He told me he walked by her PC this morning and saw a chat thing flashing. She was gone so he decided to sit down and see who it was. It was some guy he had never heard of. He decided to act like he was her and talk with the dude, although he didn"t want to give himself away so he didn"t outright ask for information. Eventually the guy said something like, "I may be looking to get into a little trouble tomorrow." Kenny responded with "Where?" because he thought that was the safest response without giving himself away. The guy said, "I guess my place as usual if that"s cool, doesn"t matter."
At that point he said he just shut it off and has been stewing over it. I think he should"ve pressed a bit more for info, but oh well. Anyway, he"s currently planning on telling her about the chat as soon as gets home today (humorously enough she"s probably out somewhere cheating right now...where the fuck to unemployed white trash chicks go all day anyway?) and he wont let me talk him out of going that route.
All the same, I feel like this might be a bad time to drop the text thing on him. There"s no way I can do it without him telling her. As much as he doesn"t want this to be true, if it is he"s going to rub it in her face. That"s just how he is. So as someone said earlier, I can"t tell him without name dropping occurring later. She is going to know I said something if I do. I"m willing to man up and take any potential retaliation I guess if it really means the best for Kenny, but at this point I"m not convinced. It"s almost like the dude wants to wallow in this drama.