So this problem has been bothering me for quite a while now, and I don’t know how to work it out. So it started with me befriending this guy, Mark. We’ve been friends for a long time but kind of recently, we’ve gotten a lot closer despite his girlfriend’s dismay. I do not have any feelings for him, but sometimes he would be very open with his attraction to me but I would cut him off then and there, but we’d still be friends afterwards. However, his girlfriend misinterpreted the situation and then forbade him to talk to me (even to look at me) and she began to tweet really mean things about me, and spread all these nasty AND UNTRUE rumors. Now the people who I thought were my “friends” started to look at me different, they are viewing me as a home wrecker or a bitch.
I have done nothing in retaliation because I don’t know what to do. I’ve talked to other people about this and some advise me to confront the girlfriend and get this straightened out, but I feel like I’m too scared to. Another person advised me to leave it be because the girlfriend would just make a fuss of it, and she would look like the bad guy. I haven’t talked to Mark in three weeks now, he won’t even look in my direction. Now there are people acting really distant to me and trying to avoid me, and I expect that they have been hearing all the lies that have been going around. I understand why the girlfriend is mad but I feel as though I did nothing technically wrong, but I still feel guilty and bad and in general just horrible. I don’t know what to do. I feel more sad than mad about this situation.