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XaNaX
I <3 global warming

Registered: Jun 2004
Location: 1000 Miles too far North
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| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
ok but then if that's the case, then i want to know why it's worth it to him to keep her around rather than just say ah fuck it, since he's got this great new girl he is supposedly nuts about. why would he even create this whole situation?
they don't have kids together and from what i gather, they aren't like big family friends or anything. she's just a regular ol' ex gf whom he was nothing but disfunctional with and it's only been 8 months since they broke up and she is already like living with another bf. seems to me like he was rebound or something and she just jumped into the first thing after my guy broke up with her.
if i was friends with an ex and i had this great new guy i was dating, the LAST fucking thing on earth i would do is be like 'hey i want you to meet my ex bf, he is a great guy, you have nothing to worry about!"
new boyfriend > old boyfriend...i dont care what the circumstances are. i'm starting something new with the new guy, not my ex.
it's mostly just about what his priorities are and about respect. not about me thinking there is something going on. that's all.
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Exactly. Your boyfriend needs to decide what is more important to him, his friendship with this girl or his relationship with you. That should be a pretty clear and easy choice, or at least it would be for me.
I'm not saying he has to never speak to her again, but to expect a relatively new girlfriend to hang out and be friends with his most recent ex is a little crazy. If it were me I would tell her that I'm not saying that we aren't friends anymore, but I have a new girlfriend who I really like and so that we have the best possible chance at working out we need to chill out hanging out for a little bit until our relationship is more established. If this girl is really just his friend and doesn't have feelings for him then she should understand.
Time fixes all of these issues if you don't force them. I wouldn't care to hang out with a girl's ex if I had been with her for a year, but I'm not gonna be buddies with her ex three months after they broke up. As long as he is respectful (no talking about fucking her and shit like that) and their relationship has been over long enough to know its really over, then I don't really care.
The issue isn't yours Jamie, it's his. He needs to get his priorities straight.
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Sep-03-2008 14:00
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Andryuha
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
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I don't know about being friends, but I've never burned any bridges with my exs.
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Sep-03-2008 14:20
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Swamper
Webmonstah

Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Toronto, Canada
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| quote: | Originally posted by XaNaX
Exactly. Your boyfriend needs to decide what is more important to him, his friendship with this girl or his relationship with you. That should be a pretty clear and easy choice, or at least it would be for me.
The issue isn't yours Jamie, it's his. He needs to get his priorities straight. |
Tricky situation. Ultimately he needs to understand that if he wants to build something with you he needs to make sure boundaries are enforced with her that are comfortable with you. Where it gets difficult is him knowing what those boundaries are without having you dictate/giving out ultimatums in the heat of the moment. You have to trust him and he has to feel that you do as well -- if not, all the insecurity red flags come up and it will just make the situation worse.
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
ALL of my jealousy has to do with her, not him. does that make any sense? i know for a fact he would never cheat on me or anything like that, but it just bothers me that SHE may possibly have ulterior motives and that i'll never really know what's going through her head or what her intentions are for having ties to him still. |
If you know for a fact he'd never cheat then you should just see this as an opportunity to re-affirm that your relationship is safe. Both of you will encounter situations like this in the future (where one can stray) and you can't keep ppl on a leash - it takes two to tango and if your bf fools around on you with his ex then your issues are with your bf, not her.
| quote: | Originally posted by Slylee
i had 4 marlins/mets tickets and none of my friends could go and i asked him if any of his friends would go with us. he was like "yea but uhh..i dunno if u will want to go with them"...of course i was like "what do u mean". then he explained it was his ex and her bf and how he is still friends with them, bla bla bla. i was so filled with rage when i heard this, but i remained calm, yet distant the rest of the night. |
What I don't understand here is doesn't he have other friends that would be interested in the tix? Why would the ex-gf/her bf come up first? It's even more strange if this was the first you heard of him still being friends with the ex-gf.
| quote: | Originally posted by squirrelly
Jamie, haven't you only been with this guy like a month or two? Why the big deal? Most people don't even know that the person they're dating is the one they want to spend the rest of their life with until much later. Go with the flow and have fun. If he's still bff with her after a year, THEN be like "ok, now that we're very serious and exclusive, this is bothering me." |
This isn't fair to him since he could then say, after a year, "why is it a problem for you now but it wasn't prior to this? What changed?" - etc.
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