📝 AITA - Should we breakup or can this be fixed???

By Naive_Contest9824 • Score: 1 • April 13, 2025 1:26 PM


I am in a fairly new relationship (25F and 23F) of about 7 weeks and everything (at least most things) has been good. We seem to align in many aspects and do have a few differences as we’re from totally different backgrounds (inter-racial). We’ve fought a couple of times and the last time was about me lying to her, I made a call close to her and she heard all the content of the call but she asked me about it, I lied. We were okay and went about our day, have good sex and later that evening, we were talking and I told her I wanted to come clean about something and wish we can start on a clean slate (before I said this, she told(assured) me that I don’t have to keep anything from her and if I ever find myself lying about something and realize it, I should apologise for it and all will be okay which made me fall for her a little more and thought this was someone who’ll be there no matter what) and told her that I lied earlier, she spiralled so badly and we’ve been fighting for 2 days. I’ve apologised for lying and told her it’ll never happen again as she made me feel I could trust her with anything so I didn’t have any reason to lie to her anymore but now she can’t let it go, she thinks I’m this horrible liar and she said she’s not sure she can trust me again, I hate to fight as it drains me emotionally and I can barely focus on anything and when she’s upset, she’s like a different person, she doesn’t care about me and can be rude. It kinda feels like the childhood memory of when your mom is leaving the house and asks you to go put on your shoes and go with them but when you get back they’re gone. She made me to trust her and come clean if I ever realised I lied and she’ll forgive it but then this happened. This is my question, I know I done fucked up when I lied and I take full responsibility and would do anything to fix us if only she’ll want to fix things but she said she doesn’t know and needs time w/o giving a specific time frame (Ik I’ll drift away if she stays upset for too long) aven after I’ve asked a million times for a time frame. Should I save her the stress and just break up with her or should I give her the infinite space she’s asking for?

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