I think I might be being ridiculous and need the woman of mumsnet to help me give my head a wobble!
My DH works in an industry where there is opportunity for development but he needs further qualifications, so he’s doing a university day release type course. Last year was obviously mostly home study due to covid but this year he’s on campus more often. He’s made a group of friends studying the same thing - all good.
Over the past few weeks though he’s been mentioning one woman in particular who is on his course (probably not relevant but it’s a stereotypically male industry and she’s the only woman in his class.) Nothing massive but things like “oh X came with us for lunch today,” or “Was chatting to X about this today.”
He’s very open about it all, we use others phones regularly, share a laptop, use each other’s iPad, and there’s been no communication between them beyond uni. I think he’s probably just made a female friend studying the same thing and I shouldn’t overthink it anymore than if he was mentioning a male classmate. But I keep seeing “mention-itis” in the affair threads and now I’m paranoid, which is unlike me as I’m not jealous at all usually!
DH has other female friends who I like very much but from childhood so people he’s known forever, not friends he’s made as an adult. This shouldn’t make a difference though so I’m not sure why it is in my head! Any tips for letting this one go and not worrying?
(For the record I have never had a reason to mistrust DH and I don’t think he’s doing anything wrong!)