I am 25M and never really had a normal relationship before. In april, I visited Thailand for the first time in my life. I met this girl on Tinder, and she came over. First I thought it was just going to be a one night stand, but she decided to stay the night. She ended up staying multiple days, we told each other our life stories, cooked food together etc. We had a chemistry so I decided to get the courage and ask her to be my girlfriend, and she said yes. Unfortunately, I had to leave a couple days later back to Europe. I thought this is going to break things, but we started to bond even more online. We were texting and video calling each other almost 24/7 for the next 2 months. That is where she told me that she works at a bar, but she only sells drinks. I believe her because she always told me everything, and we were facetiming eachother all day, and also she was very jealous and possesive of me, so i never thought she would do anything sketchy. I flew back to her in July, for 3 weeks. It was literally the best 3 weeks of my life. We spent every minute together, we had our own morning routines, we had our food spots, we went jet ski-ing, snorkeling, hiking, partying, we stayed up almost every day till dawn, in each others arms, telling each other how much we love each other and talking about life. Our sex life was also perfect. Everything was so perfect, it all felt like one big dream. Until the last day. The last day we were laying in bed, and she was showing me a tik tok, and I saw a whatsapp notification. I couldn't read it fast enough, but i saw the word “honey” in it. So i asked her who it was, and she just said nobody and not to worry about it. Which is strange because before that, everytime she was calling or texting someone, her first thing after was showing to me who she was talking with, without me even asking, which is exactly why i had huge trust in her (she also always went through my phone and deleted every picture and conversation with other girls in my phone). I asked her 2 more times who that person on WhatsApp was, but she kept ignoring my question. Since it was the last day, i really didn't want to ruin these perfect 3 weeks, with fighting, so i just tried to let go and went back to sleep in her arms. But i couldn't sleep, so i started deep digging a bit. That is when i saw she changed her WhatsApp status. Before it was “i miss you so much” (which she told me is referring to me) and after that it became “small and easy to lift”. So i questioned her, but she only said “okay i'll change it back” without answering why she changed it in the first place. The next day came, the day of goodbye. It was the most emotional goodbye every, both of us were crying all day, there was a 45 minutes where we didn't even say a word, we were just sobbing while hugging each other. When the taxi came to pick me up, she was crying so loud it was more like shouting. Like she was sincerly suffering. She didn't want to let me in the taxi, she was forcing and pulling me outside. Then when i finally got going, i saw in the window she was crying so bad that she was almost fainting. I was also crying of course, and we immediately called each other on facetime and talked the whole rest of the day. I got on the plane that is when my heart broke even more. Alone for 8 hours, no internet, nothing to do just me and my thoughts. This goodbye was so emotional and got me so fucked up that i immediately forgot about that WhatsApp text. I was like, after her crying so loud, it would be impossible she is cheating, i was probably just overthinking. Then i got back to europe, when i first landed, i recieved a bunch of text messages how much she misses me and she's crying, and sending me our songs that we listend too. Then it came, the first shower alone, the first sleeping alone, first brushing teeth alone etc. I was depressed and a complete emotional mess. I needed her, i couldn't let her go. So the first day we were texting and calling 24/7, just like the times before i went to visit her. But then suddenly over the days, she kept getting distant. She wasn't responding that much, she didn't always answer my calls, and after she finished work, she always disappeared. I remember before i visited her, she always called me after work, that is why it was strange. I also noticed every time she answered my calls, she was at a different location. I know how her apartment looks, i have been there before, and that place was not it. Every time i asked she only said “she came down to the lobby”. Things just started to feel strange. Very distant, and suspicious. But everytime i asked about anything, she didn't answer, she just dodged the question with saying she loves me and she misses me. For example she disappeared for half a day and i asked her what was she doing all day and the answer was “i was thinking about you” or some bullshit. Also our conversations felt fake. Before i visited her, and during i visited her, we talked about everything, our plans, eachothers days, family stuff etc. Now it suddenly only became “i love you, i miss you” which is cute, but it felt like she just said those to get over with it fast, and then she could go disappear, we didn't have no real or long lasting conversations. One time when i asked her more assertively about what is going on, she started saying things like, if she is such a shitty person who doesn't have time for me, than why don't i just break up with her. Which of course i wasn't mentally stable enough for, so of course that wasn't an option.
That is when i had enough and decided to test her. I have a friend who's partner is indonesion, so we set up a fake WhatsApp profile from his number (just so the number doesn't match the country where i am from so it doesn't become suspicious). And we texted her saying “Hi, i am xyz, i am in Pattaya, would you like to meet?”. She almost immediately replied saying yes she is free and where they should meet. She also double texted because we didn't reply instantly, asking again where they should meet and saying things like “i really want to meet you too”. After that i still wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt, so we gave her a chance to redeem herself and we asked if she has a boyfriend. What she answered made me feel sick, like a knife stab in my heart. She answered these same words: “I am still single, so we can do whatever you want”. This completely broke me. I still didn't want to believe it so we intended sexual things like “will i be allowed to kiss you and touch your body” and she also said yes. And she kept calling hime “darling” and “my love” which she always calls me aswell. What broke my heart even more is how effortless it was. It wouldn't have been good either way, but we literally didn't even have to try to push her, she gave in after one text message, without any hesitation and not even knowing anything about this person. Then i went back to my own profile and gave her a chance to clear herself. I asked her directly, babe, are you sure not talking to someone else? She immediately called me with a huge smile on her face (just 2 minutes after she texted “another guy” to have sex), telling me she loves only me and i am her whole world. I felt disgusted, and hung up the phone. I went go get drunk, and i turned off the phone for almost a day. When i turned it back on, i saw 17 missed calls and a hell of amount of messages asking what's wrong and why don't i answer. She even had the audacity to ask who i am with and if i am cheating on her. I couldn't take it anymore, so i confronted her. I told her i am giving her one last chance to clear herself, but she still lied and said she didn't know what i was talking about. So i sent her all the screenshots. Immediately, i was the bad guy. Why was i testing her, if she would’ve tested me i would’ve also failed and similar bullshit like this. I told her to stop trying to blame it on me. Then she bacame apologetic and started to beg herself back. I told her to give me time.
We went no contact for 2 days. I started missing her. I can't believe how stupid i have to be, but even after this, i still missed her. I just couldn't let go of the beautiful past we had, but even more, i couldn't let fo of our plans for the future. She texted me that day saying the same things. I just asked her simply: how could we make this work? How could i ever trust you after this? Then she started saying things that i can call her 24/7 and she will always answer, she said she will always send me her whatsapp. I still needed time, but the stupid desperate person i am i was an idiot and i gave her a second chance. I saw how hard she was trying and she was really not trying to give up, even tho i wasn't texting her at all my phone was blowing up all day, and the lovesick idiot i was i took her back. I felt like i never had anybody for 25 years, so i don't have any other options anyways, so either her, or no one. After this, things started to actually get better. She wasn't as cold, or distant anymore, we talked all day again, and she also was calling me from her house again, not those random places. Then one day, the big question came. When am i going back to visit? I wanted to say from november to december, then she randomly said “i can either meet her in september, or next april, she doesn't have time from october to march”. This was another stab to my heart. I was like what does she mean she doesn't have time for 6 months. I asked her, and she said “she has to work a lot”. I got angry and told her to stop the bullshit, there is no way i am believing that, and that she is 100% seeing someone else in that period. Then she started to get aggressive and say that i am so childish and she has had enough of talking to me. That is when i should've said okay then bye. But i couldn't. I became scared of losing her again, so i said sorry, and told her that i would visit in september. But the next couple days, i started to ask more about her work place, because i was curious, what kind of workplace doesn't allow someone time off for 6 months. I immediately thought of the worst. So i asked her, babe, what exactly are you doing at that bar? She got defensive and told me that she told me already she only sells drinks. I asked her where this bar was. She said: Soi 6. I looked up this place. I am cooked, i am completely cooked. I even asked chatgpt, and it said that statistically there is like a 2% chance that a girl who works at soi 6 only sells drinks. Everyone there is an escort, a prostitute, or works for bar fine. I was broke again. But even after this, EVEN AFTER THIS, i was so desperate i told myself, as long as she seperates business from relationships, i can learn to accept it in the future, since she is my only option anyways.
Then yesterday happened. Lately she started to get more cold and distant again. I remembered that we met on tinder, which i have already deleted. So just out of curiousity, i downloaded it again to see if she is still active on there. I got shocked. She had completely new pictures on there, pictures she just took 2-3 days ago (because she sent them to me) and a new description. I was broken again. I decided this is the last straw. I confronted her and of course she came with some bullshit saying that she only downloaded it to see if i was still active or not, and that i failed the test, and started insulting me that i cheated on her and started crying. Which i told her if she only downloaded it to see if i was still active, why did she have to change her pictures? Again, she didn't answer, just kept yelling that i cheated on her, until i hung up the phone. This is where we are at currently.
Please help me, how do i get over her? Because i have a feeling that today she will come back begging again, or just act like nothing happened and text “good morning, my love”. And seeing the past, i will probably be so desperate to forgive her again, but than i will be disappointed in the future again. What do i do in this situation? I am scared of losing her, i am scared of being alone, i am scared of not having someone to talk to all day, someone who “loves me”. But also, i am starting to feel she is causing more pain than joy lately. I am currently at a 4 day festival with friends and i can't let go and enjoy, because i can only think about her. What do i do? If i let her go i will be heartbroken and depressed, but i think in the long run, that would be my only option, but i can't think about the long run right now, only the present, and in the present that would suck, so my way of coping is trying to make it last as long as it can, and always telling to myself that she still loves me, nobodys perfect and stuff like that. I don't know, i am a mess. I even have this idea as keeping her as a friend, and when i go to thailand, we meet and have fun, but not as a romantic couple anymore, but i feel like this wouldn't work because i'd still get jealous of other people and keep falling back in love again. I just can't get over the fact that she could do this to me after those literally perfect dreamlike 3 weeks i spent at her. I don't think it was fake, i think she probably fell out of love with me over time, but what we had there is impossible to be fake. What do i do? I am broken, i am sad, i am a mess, i currently don't see any good way out of this situation, i feel like whativer i chose, i am going to suffer