Faith Bistline, a nurse from Las Vegas, was excited because she was going to celebrate her 30th birthday in Costa Rica with her boyfriend.
But three weeks before leaving on the trip, at the end of August, he received a message from an unknown woman through the social network Facebook: "Is he your boyfriend?" She asked him, referring to a photo he had published with his partner. , with whom he had been in a relationship for a year and a half.
"Because he has been dating my friend for 10 months," the woman added, according to The Washington Post.
Bistline sent the message to her boyfriend, who read it but did not reply.
Shortly after she was contacted by Emely Ortiz, 22, who after introducing herself told her that she had been in a relationship (which he believed was exclusive) with the same man for almost a year.
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"I just want to know how long you guys have been together," he told her, "did he ever tell you about me or did you have no clue [of my existence]?"
"I had no idea," replied Bistline, "this is driving me a little crazy, we've been together for almost a year and a half, I'm trying to give him a chance to explain himself but he hasn't answered me yet."
The two women and the man, a 33-year-old doctor whose name was not revealed by the newspaper, work in the health sector and live in Las Vegas.
Ortiz is a medical assistant at the clinic where he did his residency.
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The man also stopped responding to Ortiz, but the two women continued to write to each other, exchanged photos to certify that they had the same boyfriend, and even told each other where they left their toothbrush in their bathroom when they stayed over at his house, or how he even got to know their families.
They both broke off their relationship with him.
"He played with us," Ortiz said.
"I'm sorry I did this to you," one wrote. "I'm sorry I did this to you," the other replied. And after consoling each other, they decided to turn the page. But Bistline told Ortiz about her trip to Costa Rica, that he had already paid. And he decided to invite her. "I didn't want to go alone," she told the aforementioned newspaper, "I thought it would probably help both of us to make a trip like that. We deserve it."
"We need a vacation after this," Ortiz told her after agreeing to her proposal to travel to Costa Rica together, which at first had made her think Bistline was a little crazy.
Before the trip, the two women met the man by surprise.
Bistline planned the meeting, but instead of going by herself, she took Ortiz with her.
"She started giggling awkwardly," she recounted Bistline.
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When they confronted him, the man admitted that he exchanged toothbrushes when they each visited his apartment.
The two women spent four days visiting jungles and waterfalls, healing their feelings.
After the trip, they are still friends.
“Friendship is what will carry you through it all,” Bistline said.
“You always have to listen to your intuition,” added Ortiz.
