I (24F) broke my boyfriends (24M) trust and I can’t stop thinking about it

We have been dating almost a year. The long story short is that my boyfriend doesn’t like me doing certain things like going to clubs, or going to festivals, we’ve talked and bars are okay. He’s had terrible experiences in past relationships with a girl that would end up at other guys places when she went out to clubs and she’d get very drunk and make some terrible decisions.

So I went out with two friends on a girls night out and I told them my boyfriend isn’t comfortable with me going to one of the places on this strip because it’s kinda like a club (bars on the sides and huge dance floor) we went to another place and then they really wanted to hop there and I fell into peer pressure because they were questioning a lot why my boyfriend was “not letting me” do certain things. I feel terrible because he told me he didn’t want me there and I told him I wouldn’t go, but I gave in and we all agreed we can go to check out what it’s like inside and leave if the vibe wasn’t right.

We have both of our locations on for each other all the time. and he saw I was there and well, he blew up when I came back and I was hurt that he compared me to his ex even though I texted him the whole time and I admitted that yes I was there through text and came back sober. I don’t know what she was like but I only really go out once every 3 months or something, I can’t even imagine how much you’d have drink to not know what you are doing and even when I go out,
I have been called out by some other friends as too careful i.e: not really wanting to talk to anyone outside the group im out with and shutting down convos.

He said he forgave me, but obviously I went against saying I wouldn’t go there so I lied. I can’t stop thinking about it, I feel like crap for lying and I know I did something awful. My best friend, and multiple other friends are questioning why he doesn’t let me do certain things however, like once I mentioned I hope these two friends find someone tonight so then he didn’t want me going, we thought of planning trying out a festival in my group and I invited him he shut that down quickly too. He says it’s because of his ex and the “culture” at those events.

The guilt of losing his trust is terrible, and I could never imagine cheating on him. But that night my friends drilling into the topic of him not letting me do things got to me. Are these boundaries unreasonable?

Posted Sep 8, 2025, 1:51 PM UTC

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