/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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>early 2015 at a local con, make a new friend who is active duty
>Lives in same city and after getting to know him joins my group to travel to cons
>Is a cool guy to hang with, he in turn appreciates it because he has no friends or family in town
>My veteran military family is friendly towards him and welcomed him over from time to time to alleviate his lack of family here.

>In late 2016, he confessed to me and my boyfriend that he is in love with me
>Boyfriend and I are irate but the 3 of us agree to work through it since I've dealt with similar situations before.
>2017 seemed okay aside from my bf noting his increasing amount of complaints about how lonely he is and how he can't find a girlfriend. He's still a cool friend so we helped him out where we could. Family extends invitations through me to him to watch major football games on tv and Christmas dinner, we still traveled to cons together as a group of 4 or 5 people, and all was otherwise good.

>2018. I didn't want to celebrate my birthday. Due to how busy I was, I just wanted to go out and have dinner with my boyfriend alone.
>Friend wants to come over to give me a birthday present. Thinking he was just stopping by for a moment, I okay it. The present he brought me was poorly chosen, and he was knowledgeable that the subject of the gift was problematic for me. Internally I was angry and flabbergasted on how to handle receiving the gift; it would have been thousands of times better to have received nothing. My boyfriend had to be the one to tell him to leave after he overstayed his welcome.
>Unbeknownst to me at the time, my mom feeling bad about how I was acting on the situation decided to give him her phone number.
>A month after my birthday I calmed down and took to talking with him about the situation, apologizing for my behavior
>He confesses he's been talking to my mom almost every day since then.
>She was talking shit about me and about embarrassing things from when I was in high school.
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