are you serious? you are going to sit there and ask me not to be mean? listen. i wasn't the one who cheated. i am not the one trying to cover it up. i am not the one contimplating cheating on someone AGAIN. i am not the one playing games with other peoples heads giving false scenarios. you can site there and ask me not to be mean? ok well, first of all, i wasn't being mean. i was being blunt. i read people like you a mile away and brutal bluntness is the only way to get through to your type. if being honest is mean, then i guess i am mean. listen. EVERYONE here gave you the same advice. TELL YOUR BOYFRIEND. there is no other option. will it be easy? nope! but i figure you to be someone who has always tried to take the easy way out in life. this is why you are contimplating sleeping with someone else again. that's a lot easier than seeing the pain in your boyfriends eyes when you tell him. having sex with your ex when your drunk is easier than being responsible. fact is, this isn't about you anymore. this isn't about what YOU should do. it's now about your current boyfriend and what HE deserves. let me tell you what he DOESN'T deserve. first off, he doesn't deserve you. he deserves honesty. he deserves love. he deserves to be treated fairly. you aren't giving him ANY of that by cheating on him and lying about it. what's WORSE is that if you weren't being blackmailed, you'd be happy even though you are cheating on him, lying to him and keeping things from him. you are the type of person who would feel relieved. why? because you like taking the easy way out so you don't have to stand up to the consequences of your actions. am i being mean when i say i care more about what happens to your boyfriend than you? you wish you were a guy because guys are good liars? listen to yourself. you are literally saying you want to lie. you're coming straight out and telling the world you want to lie. you want to cheat and keep things from this guy. i have a feeling you don't quite understand how you think and what comes out of your mouth so am i being mean when i feel i have to repeat what you said? your boyfriend got cheated on by his ex. it devastated him and he was willing to go back out there and trust someone else. that someone else was you....who did what? cheated on him! ofcourse your gonna break his heart. ofcourse he's not going to want anything to do with you for a while. does this mean you shouldn't tell him? OFCOURSE NOT. this isn't about you and how bad you will feel or about how bad he will feel. this is about honesty and truth and to allow him to know this part of you rather than keep it a secret. if you don't tell him, you're just gonna hurt him again. personally, i don't want that to happen. your friend now gives advice that you should cheat on your boyfriend again? what kind of people do you hang around? cheat on him and blackmail him like you were raped or something? get an innocent man thrown in jail? all you're doing is compounding lies. your creating more lies to cover up the old ones. how the heck is this supposed to help the situation? eventually, you will be surounding yourself with so many lies, there will be a time when it all comes crushing down on your head. not only that, you might even get used to it so much, it's all you know how to do. no listen....and listen carefully. my intention is not to be mean. my intention is to get you to see yourself. it's not pretty, but there is a solution and it starts by doing something very hard. you HAVE to be honerable and honest with your boyfriend. you have to. i am not saying this because i want to hurt you....and it will hurt you. it will hurt him too. but you have to allow HIM to make his own choices. by keeping things from him, you are caging him and not allowing him to make choices based on the truths he knows. trying to save him and protect him from the hurt is out of the question. you probably feel it's with good intentions you are thinking how you are. that you don't want to hurt him when in reality, all you're thinking about is yourself. you don't want to hurt YOURSELF. you whole thought process is a selfish one. not ONE THING did i hear out of your mouth was about your boyfriend. it has all been about you and what you can do to hide who you are. believe me, you don't want to compound lies. it may seem like the easy way out and in a way it is, but in the future, all those lies WILL come back to you and you will be worse off than you would have been if you were honest from the start. now you have to be honest with your guy. there is no other good option. how do you deal with your ex? go down to the police station and tell them what is going on. if he is stalking you and you don't want him around, they can help you get a restraining order or an ex parte since he is an ex. what that will do is prevent him from contacting you and anyone you know. if he does, he goes to jail. it's as simple as that. but you STILL have to be honest with your boyfriend. and don't play games with him by giving him scenarios. he doesn't deserve that either. your testing the waters for YOU. not for him. again, SELFISH. you OWE IT TO HIM to be honest. do it for HIM. NOT for YOU. you get me? he deserves that much if was willing to put trust in you and be with you. he does NOT deserve dishonesty or hidden truths. listen, i feel for you, i really do. i am trying my best to give you the best advice. i gaurantee it will be better advice than any of your friends will offer you. and you really have to wonder who your real friends are missy. i don't even know you but i am giving you some no nonsense, straight up advice. no game playing, no lies, just some straight up advice. i know you've got your own problems. ok. maybe you can talk about them in another thread, but you need to be honest with your boyfriend now. it's not only the respectable thing to do, but the honorable thing to do. it will build your character and you need that right now too. don't live like this missy because over time it will be easier and easier until you wake up one day and you don't even know who you are. also, my advice is to break it off with your boyfriend and not enter in to another relationship for a while. if you're gonna hurt people in a relationship, then you're not ready to be in one. be single for a while. you sound needy and being selfish doesn't play well in a relationship when a relationship is about SHARING. you get me? there's time for all of that. get to know yourself and what type of person you want to be because until you know and until you can practice it, how on earth are you ever going to be able to share yourself fully with someone else? be true to yourself FIRST....then you can be true to those you say you love. and listen, you made some mad mistakes but that doesn't mean you are a mad person. we all make mistakes. it's up for us to FACE our mistakes head on so we can learn from them so they don't happen again. we don't learn from our mistakes by covering them up. when we can learn from our mistakes, it makes us better people. believe me.....no.....it's not easy. life ain't easy. life is supposed to be hard sometimes because life is a test. look at life as a game in some senses. you wont win this game of life by lies and deciet. trust me. now do the right thing. tell your boyfriend. NOT because you are beling blackmailed, but because it's the right thing to do. and go to the cops or tell someone in your life that can help you with this guy like your parents or a teacher who can be supportive. also, if your gonna sit there and tell me you would have never commited that act you did if it had not been for you drinking, then what that tells me is you will commit more stupid acts when you drink again. you went clubbing? where were your friends who are suppose to protect you if you're being stupid? you better get some new friends. yea, they may be fun to hang with, but they aren't your friends lastly, your life is a jerry springer show. STOP IT! i admire your openess in this thread....now be open with your boyfriend and let us know how it goes. i'll be more compassionate with you when you start doing the right thing.