Hello I have a few questions to ask. Ok for one, I'd like to give you some background information. I met this girl randomly at a boston pizza and we exchanged phone numbers. Withing 4 months we are madly in love and living together. Everything seemed fine until one day I started to notice she was being a little secretive about the people she was texting. I started getting this feeling of suspicion and it just kinda lingered in the back of my mind. A couple days later I woke up at 7:36am (I took the day off work) to her phone being texted (she sleeps with it under her pillow and she was in the kitchen) so I looked at it, and I feel really guilty for doing so but there was one single word on her iphone screen, "Sex?" I noticed that the name was her ex boyfriends name and was shaken up quite a bit. My heart was racing so I brought it to her and asked her what it was. She just said it was a mistake, and that he meant to send it to someone else. I wanted to believe it so badly but Im not absolutely retarded.
I broke up with her and she begged me not to. She cried and said she never cheated on me. It was very convincing and since then we have slowly been on the mend. My problem is that she STILL talks to her ex boyfriend now, and claims that he is just a friend. I have started to convince myself that this relationship isn't going to work. What should I do? If I break up with her it will be awkward because we are in this year long contract at an apartment, if we don't break up I risk having my heart broken. How should I solve this dilemma?