Girlfriend is cheating and i am okay with it?
I've been in a relationship for 6 years now, since high school. She was my best friend in middle - high school and still is to this day. We share similar hobbies, we both like the outdoors and often go biking together. We both like to paint, and sometimes paint together as well. We've sold artwork together, we've collaborated on many projects, and we seem to compliment each other almost perfectly. We've always been honest with each other as well and almost never fight (except over the last chocolate chip cookie!).
Last week I found out that she slept with someone else, a work colleague at a company party. She told me, after I continued asked why she looked so troubled over the last week. She broke down in tears and bawled for nearly an hour, apologizing profusely and begging for my forgiveness.
The problem though, or rather no problem, is that I don't really mind. I have no feeling of hatred to anyone, it doesn't bother me. I "know" that it "should", but what I don't understand is why it doesn't.
The way I see it, she's her own person, and I care about who she is and her pursuit of what makes her happy. People change, people fall out of infatuation/love, people have desires, it's not as if it magically goes one on one when you decide to pair off. If she wants to be with that person, or just sleep with him for a day, then okay. I told her this, but all it seems to have done is confuse her more. She is staying with her sister now, away from me, until the situation (herself) calms itself out.
I don't know, I harbor no resentment to her or the guy she slept with. I've even gone to her workplace and talked to him, but everyone seems to be extremely surprised that I'm as calm as I am. Some even speculate I'm cheating myself and that I don't care about her, but neither is true.
Is this normal? Should I be angry? Because I am not, but no one believes me.
-Adam