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Why am I so insanely jealous of....?

My boyfriend's ex?

They were together for 8 years, basically, and almost immediately upon their breakup, he and I got together. I think it may be that I just know too much, like how he had gotten her pregnant, bought her a ring, a really nice guitar. In December (14 months into our relationship) I helped him dispose of her crap, and crap of "theirs" such as photo albums, stray pictures, little love letters and trinkets and stupid little gifts she had given him. I feel kind of insubordinate, and I think it's because I feel like I know too much about their relationship (I have known my boyfriend for 7 years); or perhaps I even know just enough to be jealous, or don't know enough to be repulsed. I don't feel like he wants her back, but I feel like I need to live up to her standard and I feel pressured by him to do so. He and I have a rather significant age difference (5 years) and they were only a year apart so I've gone so far as to letting mySELF go... I cut my hair like hers, bought clothes like hers, and even developed a demeanor I imagine she would have. I feel ridiculous but I can't help it because I love my boyfriend a lot and I don't want to lose him, so I guess I'm trying to be what I feel like he wants. I don't know what to do and I feel like I'm losing my mind. Advice? Gentle criticism? Anything that doesn't suggest I remove him from my life maybe?

Update:

She actually left him, by leaving the country... she lied to him and led him on and I felt like I was the rebound girl because it was all so soon, but he and I have history together, even when he was still with her. It's complex but that's the gist.

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    This is the reason why so many women lose their relationships: Because they worry or think to much about their boyfriend/husband's past. Heres the thing, hes moving on with his life, he trowing out the old and beginning with the new. Who cares how long they were together? Thats done and over with. You have ex's and maybe you were with them longer to but guess what? Their in the past, your not worrying about them anymore and hes not worried about his. If you really love this guy like you clam then you won't let something ridiculous like this end it. And being like her isn't gonna make him happier, thats the reason why he left, something about her or their relationship didn't click and thats why their over.

    And girl, no offense but you do sound a little crazy. Dressing and acting like another girl to live up to her standards? Theres something wrong with that.

  • 1 decade ago

    Don't do what you think he wants. He should want you for the way you are. I can't say for sure how to handle the situation because I have not seen his side. You have nothing to live up to. You can't look at a relationship like a competition. Do what you like to do. Look how you like to look. Live how you like to live. Encourage him to do the same. If you can live like that and he can live like that, and you still have feeling for each other, I promise you will have a very healthy relationship. You should approach him and tell him how you feel. Is he aware that you feel this way? If not I would let him know. If he loves you he probably will tell you to stop acting the way you are. If he doesn't then I can't imagine he really loves you.

  • 1 decade ago

    ok, i wud say that you sound nuts, exept for the fact that i am exactly where you are with my bf and his ex fiance!! I know you love him, i love my bf so so much and we have been together 7 yrs! but i honestly think we would be happier if we just moved on and got with someone who loved us for us. We are who we are and that makes us special and we dont need to try and be someone else to make someone love us, because in the end, we will not be happy and we will have lived a lie and wasted so much time we can never get back, im still with my bf, but i am not going to be for long, noone should have to be completely something they are not to be loved, find someone who loves you for you, the real you

  • 1 decade ago

    first, get back to being yourself. I'm sure it was you that he liked when you first started dating not his ex and if he liked everything about his ex in the first place he'd probably still be with her so why the transformation? yeah it does sound like he told you too much info but it could be because he felt comfortable enough with you to discuss anything. and your age differences aren't that off. UNLESS you're a minor then I'd say your problem would be immaturity. if that isn't the case then I would regain your self esteem and reclaim who you are after all it was you he chose to be with not a clone of his ex.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Well, he broke up with her because I assume he eventually disliked her right? (I dont know the story so Im just assuming) I know how your feeling, and alot of people get that when their rumaging through the past of another bf or gf, you catch those pictures and moments that they kept and they look like their having a fun time so you kindof have a feeling that you need to live up to their standards.

    But he broke up with her because he liked you right? So why make yourself the image of the one he broke up with? He should love you because your you, not because you resemble the past girlfriend he used to have. It may seem like he's pushing you to be like her, but perhaps he's just use to her attitude alittle more than yours. If it's really bothering you maybe you should talk to him about it, it seems like after looking through the stuff of his past girlfriend got to you alittle bit. But since its the past, it really shouldn't matter that much anymore.

    Good-Luck!~

    Source(s): my brain.
  • 1 decade ago

    Hate to be the bearer of bad news..but you are the rebound. You need only to be who you are and remember that if that isn't good enough for him than too bad. Trust me on this one though, she was no better than you are, only the memory paints her in a better light.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Sounds very shielding of you and must be exhibiting he cares or in keeping with threat an obsession with you. I dont propose to sound unfavourable, yet thats what it sounds opt to me. i think of you will desire to easily watch it, and in case you regulate into frightened together with his behavviour, for sure its nt stable and something desires to be executed. Merry yuletide xxx

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