It seems dilemmas are a bit popular this week so here's mine. My SO has been hanging with a new gf for a bit. They eventually got me to start tagging along. On our first face to face I had the feeling of "knowing" her from somewhere, non bcd or the like, just familiar. Well some time has passed and we hang out more and more as a trio. No biggie except various commonalities keep working their way into conversations. Abbreviations, popular hotels and common locations etc. I have been good at playing dumb but slipped a time or two but covered quickly.
All has been a bit passivly suspicious until recently.
We are in the process of our trio going on a trip so been meeting more and more, still the three of us. No detail but the last two "probes" had set off the internal silent alarms. I've looked all over my common stomping grounds and came up empty so eased back.
Finished booking the trip and had dinner out. While at dinner the convo gravitated back toward men she has met online "men out there are crafty", "like guys lie about there locations and age", "some guys have awesome spouses and wild side lives"...I'm thinking are these just generalizations or fairly accurate shots across the bow? So i offer back some placated advice about privacy and people being people and move the topic along toward the trip. The next minute trips the red alert alarm.
She goes to show me a excursion item she wants to do on the trip except the page is pulled up to the main page of an old haunt. She then takes the phone back and says maybe she has to login. Heart rate on the increase but staying calm. Secretly she closes the tab to reveal a true trip excursion site and hands to the SO. Panic begining to manifest internally but instant relief as I see the non incriminating excursions page.
Later after she has head home I login to the forgotten site and yeah we chatted briefly in the past. Nothing further than a few gtky type questions and pg13 banter. The hitch tough is my pic there is not overtly clear but enough that I'm pretty sure she at minimum strongly suspects its me...time to cover more tracks and stat!
My pic has been modified now and enough details are vague or flat bogus. Im thinking I might be in the clear until I get a message about the fun times were going to have when we set a date...cool.. until the next line reads to the tune of keep a clean nose to stay out of trouble.
So now im stratching my head thinking wtf???
Is she getting off on some cat and mouse game?
Is she wanting the arrangement?
Is she putting me on notice? $$
Is it a lure?
So now what should I do, take the bait and maybe satisfy a growing itch?
Or
Stay with the tried and true Dylan line; "it ain't me babe"
Or
Come clean and play to the mutual privacy benefits of discretion which if works outs me 110% but could nip the games.
Knowing the week to come and her passion for the drink and the "talk a lot sniffles" it feels like a mine field on the horizon.