Dear Therapist: My Roommate Is Cheating on Her Boyfriend With Me
She wants to have a casual relationship with me while staying with him and I’m afraid to leave her.
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Dear Therapist,
I’m a 21-year-old college student and I’m currently having an affair with my roommate. I have known her for three and a half years and we do almost everything together. She began dating her boyfriend shortly before we met, and they are still together.
Our relationship started last May, when she confessed her feelings for me and I admitted that I had feelings for her as well. Despite knowing that she had a boyfriend, I allowed our relationship to develop during summer break. When we returned to school, her boyfriend came to stay for a few nights, discovered
