bagatelle

That's how they cleverly make it look like. They focus on the mistake, the woman did in the relationship, making it look like large enough, more clearly pointing out this gives them justification to lie and lead on the woman.

We don't know though, how these five years was for the couple. Apparently not good enough, since the woman was tempted to spend her time with another man.

The guy himself probably wouldn't have taken this to the radio, if he had done something similar himself, but did he give signs of not being that interested: maybe he just was negligent about their relationship, not working on it, thinking this will do.

Surely, the woman feels guilt, she knows she did wrong to her boyfriend. Marriages and proposals should be outlawed, they make people crazy, imagining popping that one question in romantic setting will make things somehow different. They weren't obviously levelling enough.

The guy might regret later, when he gets over his hurt feelings. They had to deal with the issue. In some cultures (or some other era) the man might have given a beating to the other guy courting his fiance, but the modern wimps make someone else deal with it on air! How brave...

My friend in youth was engaged to a man and they had also been together for five years. The bf caught her in the act with their mutual friend, drinking was involved. The bf would have accepted this and continued the relationship, but the girl wanted to leave, because she thought, the whole situation was not fair.

25 years later she has not yet settled down, has teenage daughter of one relationship, that lasted longer than numerous others - and she did have plenty. The guy started dating another, married quite soon, since the new gf got pregnant, but years after he was not yet happy and kept calling to my friend, told her he often still wakes up calling her name.

Maybe they shouldn't have stayed together either, but this is to show, how differently some men take things.

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