Originally posted by Red Brigade
Barbi, I'm sure you don't want my advice, but if I was your boyfriend and I knew about this, I'd probably just leave. As far as the two of you agreeing on a little jealously being healthy for a relationship, all I can say is that two people can agree and both be wrong. A little jealousy is fine if you know how to deal with it and control it. It is obvious that you don't. You despair over it and create dilemmas with it. I'm not going to say that love is or should be simple. But it hardly needs to be made even more complicated than it already is. When you have a man that you look forward to being with, do just that: look forward. Quit obsessing over the past. If I were a psychiatrist, I'd say it's quite possible that you fear you won't be as good as his previous partners. Then I'd say that he obviously doesn't care given that he isn't even making any moves on you. If he's willing to wait for marriage with you, then sex can't be all that important to him. So quit worrying so much. You come off as neurotic; don't be Woody Allen.
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