We were staying at this villa for a weekend getaway so me and my girlfriend, my brother and his girlfriend and our cousin with his partner. First night we’re all drinking, playing board games, doing random dares and challenges for laughs. My brother and his gf lost and as a challenge I told them to swap phones. Everyone kinda laughed nervously and they went with it. My brother went quiet and he started scrolling and then suddenly he just stands up and walks out. The rest of us were confused and his girlfriend starts getting flustered asking for her phone back. Turns out she had been cheating. Not even subtle like she was full on sexting someone saved as “work” and it wasn’t even from that long ago (2 weeks ago) She packed her bags and left the villa that night. Now my brother won’t talk to me. He says I “set him up” and ruined his weekend. I get why he’s hurt, but I didn’t know any of that was going on like I thought it was just a dumb game. Now everything’s awkward and part of me feels guilty even though I didn’t do anything wrong. I just wanted to have some fun. Now I feel like I accidentally blew up a relationship and possibly damaged my own with him too and I just don’t know what to do
I challenged my brother to do a phone swap thing while playing a board game and he found out that his girlfriend was cheating on him
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His logic makes no sense, how would you have known? Even if you did “set that up”, he should be grateful for exposing this.
What do your parents say about this?
Edit: Also how old are both of you, and his girlfriend? You should NOT feel bad about playing a game with the intention of having fun and exposing someone else’s behavior. If your brother decides to stay mad or upset, that’s on him.
give him time. you actually saved him (indirectly) so dont feel bad. im sure he’ll thank you down the road
Hey ignore everything you brother says right now. He’s hurt and humiliated. Give him a little room.
You did him an unintentional favor. Give him time and space to process it.
bro tbh u did him a favor 💀 like yeah it ruined the weekend but it saved him YEARS of wasting time on a snake lol he’ll thank u someday trust
Take a step back and think about this. There’s no way you broke up a relationship! Your bro’s gf is the one who did this.
If your bro is blaming you, I get that as a quick reaction on his part, because he learned something terrible. But don’t let this linger too long. Once he calms down, he needs to realize you did nothing wrong, and if he doesn’t, you need to tell him to stop blaming the messenger. He dodged a bullet, and he actually should be thanking you.
OP, your brother is angry and is looking for a target. Let him be angry.
He’s afraid of losing his girl, so he’s afraid of being angry with her.
Let him know you love him and are there for him. He’ll eventually wake up and redirect his anger to where it belongs.
I don’t think you intentionally did anything wrong. But I hate games where you try and embarrass people.