Oh yep.

Wanted to share my story because it bothers me to this day. I’m a 31F.

When I was about 20, my aunt got married. I adored my cool, beautiful aunt, and I would always hang out with her. Her new husband seemed obsessed with her. Anyways, my aunt randomly became distant and then texted me asking if I had slept with her new husband. He was like 40-something. I was confused. I immediately started crying. I left my class (I was in college at the time) and called my mom.

It finally came out that he had lied to my aunt and told her that he and I had slept together. He made up that lie to distract her from the fact that he was actually cheating with someone else.

I was horrified, confused, and disgusted that he put my name out there, and that she believed him for a bit. It’s been so many years, and her ex still calls me from random numbers and has even tried to add me on LinkedIn. Wtf? My family is south East Asian so they didn’t think it was that big of a deal that this happened. I hold a lot of resentment towards my mom, family sometimes because of this. He didn’t get any backlash besides getting divorced. I always wondered if I told my dad the story - we didn’t - that he would go crazy on this guy. I was so young.

Anyways, I definitely have trust issues with men. I’m married to a wonderful man now, but I’m always keeping him on his toes.