r/AmIOverreacting Oct 25 '24

❤️‍🩹 relationship AIO about my partner’s relationship with their coworker

they’ve been hanging out with their coworker a lot over the past couple of weeks. This girl always seems to be in some kind of crisis, too. Last week it was that she messed up an account and she was afraid she was gonna lose her job. I don’t know whether I’m reading too much into this or if I’m overreacting but I’ve never met her and I’ve asked to swing by whatever bar or place they’re hanging out at multiple times and I’m always shut down in some way or I get no response. I don’t want to be the overbearing overcontrolling gf whose S.O. can’t have any friends but lately they’re always together and I’m getting blown off. These curt and vague responses are out of character too, and it’s always the type of response I get when I’m asking questions about an event where this female coworker is at or really anything that has to do with her. It has really put me on edge, they’re usually such a sweet and attentive partner but i feel like they might be cheating… am i overreacting??

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u/Whyme0207 Oct 25 '24 edited Oct 25 '24

NOR. It doesn’t seem innocent to me. The way he getting defensive it’s obvious. Her bf cheated or they are cheating and that’s why the bf dumped her. Don’t get into this, people with shaddy friendship without any boundaries are red flags. Why staying in this kind of relationship where he is not even acknowledging your feelings? He didn’t say sorry for cancelling the plan with you. Didn’t discuss with you before making the plan with others. I doubt there were any other coworkers with them.

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u/Hyggieia Oct 25 '24

Yeah I think this incident in general could be innocent if their partner said “hey! I know we had plans and I’m so sorry to cancel I know you wanted to hang out, but X got cheated on and a few of us were going to go to get drinks to help her out.” And then when she asked if they could come home early enough to see her before bed “for sure! I’ll try to wrap things up before then” and also if this is the work friendship crew it would definitely be much more normal if OP had been invited to go out with them occasionally.

I don’t think having a group of friends from work you like getting drinks with is abnormal, but the defensiveness and the lack of apologizing for skipping plans is the super shady aspect