The Guy That She Was First In Love With Is Getting Married, And She Hopes He Doesn’t Get His Happily Ever After
A 27-year-old woman met the first love of her life when she was back in high school. She dated her then-boyfriend from the time she was 18 until she turned 21.
When they graduated high school and went to college, they kept seeing one another, though their relationship was from a distance, and it was, well, a rollercoaster.
There were some highlights to them being together, and she appreciated that she could talk to him for hours on end and that he understood her sense of humor.
“He was really intense and would talk about our future and wanting to marry me and have kids,” she explained.
“The bad was that he was easily upset, clingy, kind of a bully, and just a weird guy in some ways. Another problem we had was his female best friend, who he wouldn’t really let me meet because he thought I was jealous and wouldn’t get along with her.”
He promised to her again and again that there wasn’t a thing going on between him and his best female friend, yet he occasionally lied about spending time with her alone.
She genuinely began to believe that she was acting inappropriate for thinking there was something more going on between them, and her boyfriend really made her feel bad about it.
The end of their relationship came about not because of his female friend though; she was the one who ended things after her boyfriend spoke to her in a pretty scary manner.
A couple of months after their breakup, he started dating his female best friend, and they stayed together for 2 years.
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Her ex and his new woman split up for about a year or so, but they got right back with one another 3 years ago and are currently engaged.
“They both work in tech and have high-paying jobs as well, and seem to have a happy life with each other,” she said.
She understands that her ex and his best friend turned fiancée should be the last thing on her mind, but she can’t stop thinking about them and being hurt by their relationship.
She can’t bring herself to wish him and her the best, because she’s hoping that her ex doesn’t get his happily ever after.
“But I feel sort of bitter that he seems to have transformed into this great, successful adult, after everything he put me through, gaslighting me into believing I was jealous for suspecting something going on between him and this other woman,” she continued.
“Maybe it’s because I’m still single and not making a ton of money in my own life, but it just seems unfair that everything gets to work out for them?”
“Part of me deep down is rooting for them to divorce and be unhappy, and I know that’s a really ugly thing on my end.”
She’s wondering how she can handle her feelings of jealousy and what she can do to overcome this.
Do you have any words of wisdom for her?
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