AITAH for beating up my “friend” I caught sleeping with my gf of 3.5y?
The user describes finding his girlfriend engaged in s*xual activity with his best friend of ten years. This event, which he compares to a common movie scene, occurred over the past weekend.
Upon discovering the situation, the user physically attacked his friend, causing a nosebleed. He also verbally confronted his now ex-girlfriend.
The user is now left questioning the appropriateness of his violent reaction, specifically because his friend did not fight back.
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The original poster (OP) is dealing with the severe emotional fallout of discovering in***elity, resulting in an immediate and violent physical response toward the partner's betrayer.
The central conflict lies between the understandable impulse for retaliation following a major betrayal and the ethical concern regarding the physical a*sault on someone who offered no resistance.
Given the physical attack on an unresisting party, is the OP an a*shole for a*saulting his friend, even though the friend's actions were the initial cause of the conflict? Or does the extreme betrayal negate responsibility for the resulting physical aggression?
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