My fiance’ and I are getting married in three months, and I have always thought that he has been straight with me about the women in his past. He’s slept with four women, me being the fourth. His first was his highschool girlfriend when he was seventeen, he then went out with a make-up artist he grew up with who was a total ***** and cheated on him, then a girl who was a couple of years older than him, and then there was the girl he met online that he never slept with. Those were his relationships before me, but he’s dated more than that. I will not deny that sometimes I have problems with his past, mainly because I was a virgin until we started dating, but I work to control it because our present and future are all that matters…
I moved to his state (five hours away from my hometown) to live with him in January, and two days later on our anniversary we received in the mail a notebook from the ex he met online. She had WRITTEN A BOOK called “Addicted to Love” and it was about her life, and how her relationship with her brother screwed her up (she gave him a BJ when they were kids, and he did oral to her, but now she considers it sexual abuse. I don’t know her well enough to know either way), and then all about her short relationship with my fiance complete with all of their messages back and forth to each other. She was letting him see it before she tried to publish it.
I’m a writer, so my fiance had me read it to see if it was actually publishable, and I told him the legalities, which got her to remove the messages. He told me that they had met online, chatted back and forth, and he had gone to visit her in her state (the next one over from his home-state) once. He told me that it hadn’t gone that well, that she was controlling (tried to tell him what to wear, etc), had dodged his kiss, and that she hadn’t told her mom they were dating so he ended up spending more time with a friend who was going to college there than her.
She broke up with him a couple times because of her controlling nature, and he had really thought he found the one in this flaming psycho, so he had always put it back together. Then when his dad got stationed in SC near his Marine brother, he decided a fresh start was what he needed, so he started to pull away. She showed up at his family’s house uninvited with her best friend. He told me that it had been weird, because he had already broken up with her, and she had bags with her like she thought she would be going with them.
After all he had told me about her, I thought okay, it’s just another one of her psycho moments. In her book, I found out that they had hung out at the going away party, watched a movie with his friends with his head resting in her lap (oh yeah, he’s totally freaked out), and that she had stayed the night in his room with him. He had told me she had stayed just because it was too late tp send her home. I had bought it at the time, but now I realize that if he really hadn’t wanted here there, he would have sent her away as soon as she showed up. Then there was her very vivid description of what they did while in bed (no sex), and how the next morning his friends had all-but congratulated him thinking that he had nailed her.
She had left, and soon after he was in SC their relationship totally fell apart for good. A couple of months later he met me, we had a storybook romance, and it’s simply been incredible. Neither of us had any doubts. Then while I was packing some things since we are now moving to a new place, I found a letter from her mixed up in some papers (he and I burned the others shortly after the book arrived). It was in her book, but I hadn’t read the whole thing. I did then. She talked about how she had wished things had worked out, that she would always love him, and that she had had bags packed ready to move down there to live with him.
The first time I had read that part, I had been buying into the whole she’s psycho, he didn’t want her to come thing. He told me even that the difference between me and his ex was that he had wanted me to move in with him, but he had never wanted her to. This seemed fishy now, so I point blank asked him if he had ever asked her to move in with him. He told me this time “I don’t remember. Maybe.”
WTF!? I confronted him about all the holes in his story, not in a angry-confrontational way, and he accused me of being obssessed with her and that all that mattered was that she was in his past. He acted like he was done with her by the time he moved, but now he may have asked her to move with him when before he told me that she was so psycho and had thought she was going with him without ever asking? He is excited to be marrying me, but he’s also glad because he’s felt guilty about us living together without being married, so he must not have been planning on just living with the chick…
Am I being paranoid
and obsessive like he says or is there really something fishy going on? Their relationship (not counting the multiple break-ups) lasted from December ‘08 (officially January ‘09) to July of ‘09.
He thinks I have become insecure since we set the date, and maybe I have but lately with his job related stress it seems that his affections aren’t as constant as they were before. He says that no matter how well or much he expresses it he loves me and I am the only one he wants to wake up to in the morning and so on.