I (33f) have been receiving anonymous messages claiming my (32m) bf is cheating on me, with screenshots. He is denying it and swears they must all be fake...

I have been dating my boyfriend since the end of last summer, and this May while I was on vacation, I received an anonymous instagram message claiming to be from a friend of his, telling me that my boyfriend was cheating on me and talking to multiple other women, especially when I am out of town. I’ve gone on vacation twice without him since we started dating, and the message claimed he acted inappropriately with other women both of those times.

We have had our problems and rocky periods in our relationship, but I thought we were in a good place when I left for vacation. I confronted him about the message when I got back and it revealed some issues in our relationship, but he has adamantly denied cheating. We broke up because I was having trouble trusting him and believing what he was telling me. We decided to start working on our relationship in the middle of June, but I have continued to receive sporadic instagram messages from random accounts with cheating accusations. This is really embarrassing as at this point our friends and families know all about the situation.

Most recently I received an instagram message from another random account of a 24 year old girl, this one had screenshots of texts and direct messages all to this one girl. He is denying that he had those conversations and is claiming the screenshots must be faked. I want to believe him, but this all seems like too much and the texts and dm do sound like his texting style and nothing about them looks fake. It seems like the simplest answer is that they are real.

my boyfriend has a history of cheating in his past relationships, and it is the reason why his last two relationships before me ended, as well as why his first serious and longest relationship ended.

My friends and family all think I shouldn’t remain in the relationship, and they thought I could do better before I even received these messages. The general consensus from people in my life is that when there is smoke, there is fire. I am having issues trusting him after all of this and have been cheated on in past relationships, but I really do care about him and want to work on our relationship. I don’t want to end this if the messages were fake and someone is just messing with me/us. I will also admit a large part of me doesn’t want to give up on another relationship at my age.

I also feel like deep down I may be trying just so this random stranger doesn’t get what they want, which is a dumb reason to stay with someone.

I need an outside perspective. Should I keep trying or accept that there is probably something behind all of these messages?

Sorry in advance for the weird formatting or grammar mistakes, I am on mobile and also quite emotional.

TLDR: receiving ongoing messages claiming my boyfriend is cheating on me, with screenshots of instagram dms and iMessage conversations. He denies it and I don’t know what to do

Submitted July 12, 2019 at 01:33PM by Throwawayaccountyeg https://ift.tt/2xKd7N5