Two years ago, I began a relationship with a wonderful man, a little older than me. From the beginning I had a feeling that something was wrong. After celebrating our first anniversary, something inside me told me to look up the phone. I did and he agreed.
There, I saw something that bothered me. One of his ex-girlfriends wrote to him every day and he had them back. They were sending heart emoji to each other, photos and voice messages lasting 5 minutes. Something like this happened every day throughout the year we were together.
They seem to have had a passionate but slightly problematic connection. They had been together for 2 years, but she fled to live in another country. When I asked him he told me they would split anyway. I didn't feel respected, and I thought that between them all was only theoretically over.
When I asked him he would tell me they were talking because they were good friends. I hardly believed it. He was convinced that this would hurt neither me nor our relationship. One day, he told me that they were not written more often and that did not make any difference to him.
It's been a year and things are going well between us. There are moments in which I doubt it. He travels a lot and since they have the same profession I'm afraid of going to the same places. I can't stop imagining their meeting all the emotion, if not more. Am I exaggerating?
Note: This story is adapted from The Guardian.
