I made a mistake and I feel awful about it. I want to tell my gf but i’m terrified she will break up with me over it. Please help and give me some advice I really want this to work.

So I (19M) have been dating my gf (20F) for about 8 months now. We are both in college and I am visiting for summer break. We were on each others phones scrolling through instagram when I when I went to check a message she sent me from my phone to hers which I was using. When I opened my message I saw all of the other messages and I did something bad. I scrolled all the way down to her messages to her ex and now I am laying in bed feeling awful because I broke her trust. We have never set a boundary for this kind of thing but I still feel really bad about this. I am visiting at her house right now and leave in the morning. I want to confess and apologize for what I did in the morning because I don’t want to do it over call. I have decided to go to therapy when I get back home because of some issues that led to me doing this. I really want it to work with this girl and I really want to do anything I can to make things right. Any advice on my position? Should I wait to tell her or do it in the morning?

TL;DR I snooped through gf’s phone with no reasonable suspicion I just got really anxious and did it almost without thinking. Wasn’t looking for anything when I did it either. Now I feel bad and want to apologize.

Submitted June 07, 2022 at 11:15PM by WeebDestroyer34 https://ift.tt/ik5eyf1