I messed up my relationship
hello, I just want to see if anybody has been in my same position or have any advice for me not to feel like such a shitty person. Have you guys ever lied kind of for no reason? I started involving myself with my best friend and we had came to to the conclusion that we were gonna be endgame, and we had been friends for a really long time that just happened to end up being lovers and I was kind of doing my own thing before we had both agreed we were in this relationship, turns out I had chlamydia for months without knowing and I was sick all the time, I blamed it on him and his ex girlfriend, (She also was texting me telling me they were still hooking up a few weeks prior) So I genuinely thought it couldn’t have been me so I involved more people (his ex) than i should have but anyways, I kind of lied on the timeline where I was messing around when he had gave me multiple opportunities to tell him the truth till this day we’re not talking anymore and we’re not friends anymore, but I just feel really guilty and I’m just asking myself hard questions. Why did I lie when I wasn’t even involved with him and he was with his girlfriend at that time? Now he thinks I cheated during the time we were dating because when I had hooked up with the guy who gave me chlamydia, I had tested too early and it came back negative so months after turns out i was sick all the time because I ended up positive after all. I feel like everything kind of backfired on me and I know I shouldn’t have lied, but in the moment of finding out I reacted and blanked out of my end i was drunk and i genuinely forgot i was on BS and when i sat back and thought I was just scared of losing someone and backtracking my timeline of what i said that it couldn’t have been me because I wasn’t sleeping with anyone now because I did a small white lie It just bit me in the ass. I lost someone I really cared about and I’m really grieving them a lot and it sucks. I lost a friend of six years and yeah, he told me I’m an evil person because I’ve been around his daughter and that I have a big lesson to learn and I get caught up in my lies… I don’t know I just feel really guilty about it. He’s now with his girlfriend again, But yeah he thinks I was disloyal and dishonest, which dishonest yes but to an extent like I keep telling myself, I can walk away knowing that I did my best, even though I suck at communicating and I never cheated, but it sucks that he just has this altered perception of me he told me he doesn’t even know who i am and that I don’t think can ever be fixed, he completely blocked me out of his life changed his number, moved, new job and cut off the friend group like I’m just baffled. but in the end of the day I’m trying my best to move forward and really work on communication. I think I just get scared when I’m confronted and I really didn’t know how to handle the situation, I laugh in awkward moments and I also didn’t want him to really know my past. I’ve been going through a lot and with grief and I feel like I was on BS just kind of having “fun” and escaping… I guess I just didn’t also want him to think of me a certain way just because he had already had stuff to say about my body count and I would joke about being outside & i got really defensive when he jokingly said he went through my phone at night and I have nothing to hide but I’ve never been through someone’s phone so I don’t expect someone to go through mine because nobody have never went through mine and i have never deleted anything.. I just think going through phones is like a disaster waiting to happen you’re gonna get upset about something whether it’s from years ago and if he would have just asked, I would have said okay but he was trying to ragebait me too but I just handled this relationship all wrong but I also think I just saw him as being such a close friend that I felt I can joke. I don’t really know but I feel like looking back if I would have just told him yeah I slept with someone a week before we got involved. We would’ve been able to work it out or something. I ruined something so beautiful it he was there for me in the darkest times of my life with grief and we both knew what it was like to lose a mom. How do I move on knowing I had it so good ):