Woman pretended to not understand boyfriend's language for 3 yrs — until he spilled his secret in French

Relationships thrive on open communication, and honesty is essential to building trust. When this trust is broken, it often leads to difficult and painful situations. One young woman took a risk in her relationship by pretending not to know her French-speaking boyfriend’s native language. The 18-year-old, known as u/False_Quiet526 on Reddit, recently shared how this secret ultimately revealed her 19-year-old boyfriend’s infidelity, changing everything between them.

"This all started when we first met 3 years ago. I was new at our high school and he introduced me to his friend group, which had mostly French speakers," the girlfriend started her post. Even though she knew the language, but never shared it with him due to her insecurity. "I've never been confident in my French speaking due to insecurity about my accent. I can understand the language perfectly, but I was too embarrassed to let them know," she admitted in her post.

out she understood French, fearing they’d ask her to speak it with them. Thankfully, her boyfriend would always speak to her in English and encouraged his friends to do the same. "He always made sure his friends did the same, and it went on for so long that I just didn't have the heart to tell him that I could understand them anyway," she added. Soon, the high school romantics enrolled in the same university for higher studies.

The couple soon began living together, renting a house off-campus. But trouble began when her boyfriend started coming home very late. The woman convinced herself that he might be occupied with college-related work. But the other night, she overheard him talking on the phone to one of his French friends. "He was speaking about how he'd hooked up with three different girls at the same time. This left me completely baffled," she shared.

Feeling betrayed, she confronted her boyfriend. But instead of apologizing, he became angry, accusing her of lying about not knowing French. "I tried to come up with an excuse, saying I managed to pick up the language after all the time we've been together," she wrote, adding that her boyfriend stopped believing her after the incident. "He said he can't trust me anymore and moved out of the house," the woman added. The angry partner accused of cheating is now staying with his friends, leaving his girlfriend confused about whether she is also at fault for not letting him know about her being well-versed in French. As the "heartbroken" girlfriend now seeks opinions from the online community, she also expresses her feelings of guilt for hiding the fact from him.

People in the comments are not happy with how the boyfriend treated her. u/BungCrosby suggested, “He’s in a doubly compromised position. Not only was he cheating on you, but he was openly flaunting it in front of you in a language he didn’t realize you understood.” Adding to it, u/FriedLipstick remarked, “Yes, and now he is placing the blame on her. He has even succeeded in creating confusion, leading the girlfriend to believe she is at fault, resulting in conversations about her supposed ‘fault.’ The truth is that he is engaging in victim-blaming.”