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Need advice to get over the fact that my girlfriend got an ex boyfriend

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user1482142985 · 19/12/2016 10:25

Hi, sorry for my bad english in advance.

I’m with my girlfriend since 6 month, we know each other since we are in middle school. After that she go in another school and in an other high school in the same town.

We are now both 20 years old, we started to speak together after all these years via facebook and we date some days after, she told me that she had 1 boyfriend during her last year of high school and it lasted 6 month, she lost her virginity with him and i appreciate a lot her honesty.

Now we love each other a lot, I see all my futur with her and for no reason i can break up, that’s the same for her.
At first the fact that she was no more virgin didn’t bother me at all ( I do not care if a girl is a virgin or non virgin ).

But the problem is that 3 month after we started this relationship i really fell in love with her and started thinking about her doing her first time with her ex boyfriend and a lot of more bad things. I was thinking that it’ll go outside my head with time ( i tried to no give matter to it ), but the fact is that the days passed and i was thinking more and more about it, i kept everything for me after 1 month of struggle i’ve decided to tell her what was going on.

I told her that i was thinking about all this and that it was bothered me since 1 month.
She answered me that she regret to have done her first time and to have be with him and that she is very sad about it, she didn’t know why she did this ( I think it’s because like a lot of people now she wanted to lose her virginity as soon as possible,specially at 20 years old and i understand this ).

It was during her last year in high school and he was in her class, she told me this is the thing that she regret the most in her life and if she could go back in times she would only change this, she told me that she was just attached to him and that she saw him only during class, that she slept only around 10 times with him and after 6 month he left her she said that she didn’t think about him one time since she is with me, that he is an and that she have forgot him with no difficulty ( I’m aware that i’m young, that it’s all my problem and that it’s all in my mind, and certainly not her problem ).

She said that she discovered the real love with me and that she love me more than everythings.
After this conversation i didn’t speak again about it with her because i don’t want, some days after, i spoke with her mom about this ( i know her since 10 years ) and she told me that my girlfriend wanted to see me and date me for years and that she was speaking about me everytimes, that i was in her mind everytime and that she never thought being with me one day.

The last thing i regret the most is that i come 6 months to late because she wouldn’t met this guy.( and i know that 100% of people in this world regret things in their life and that the majority would preserve himself/herself for the love of their life ).
I’m aware that there are a lot of worst thing in this world and i do my best everydays to get over it but i can’t and it’s hurting me everytime i think about it, and trust me i think a lot about this. I feel like i’m blocked because i can’t leave her but i can’t go back in time to change that, the only thing i can do is to accept it but i don’t even know if it’s possible
Is there any people who had nearly the same problem ?

How can i work on myself to accept this and stop hurting me with these thoughts ?

Thank to everybody who have read this and who try to help me and sorry again for this bad english.

OP posts:
AnyFucker · 19/12/2016 11:17

We've got a live one 'ere

AyeAmarok · 19/12/2016 11:20

Are you worried that you're shit in bed and you'd rather she had no experience of good sex to compare you to?

raisedbyguineapigs · 19/12/2016 11:21

Are you worried she might be comparing him to you? If she really was the love of your life, it wouldn't bother you. Chances are you are not the loves of each others' lives, and you will be the second man she slept with, who she'll tell someone else about, and hopefully he won't care.

hellsbellsmelons · 19/12/2016 11:22

We do indeed AF!
Is it school holidays already?

TeenyW123 · 19/12/2016 11:23

I think you should seek counselling. You are the weird one, not your gf.

KatelovesJames · 19/12/2016 11:24

My exh lost his virginity to me and hated that I wasn't his first. Who cares? You may have met her six months after losing her virginity but what guarantees she would have liked you then?? It took me 15 years to get with DP, meeting earlier wouldn't have guaranteed anything.

KatelovesJames · 19/12/2016 11:25

Meant to add that she's with YOU. Wants to be with you. Get over it.

00100001 · 19/12/2016 11:26

I fail to see why you think you were "6 months too late"

too late for what?????? Confused

myoriginal3 · 19/12/2016 11:27

PMSL Anyfucker Grin

Bananabreadordead · 19/12/2016 11:28

Oooh dear.

You're right OP, end the relationship now, she deserves so much better.

HTH

myoriginal3 · 19/12/2016 11:28

Too late to be the first to 'break her in' 001001

Purplebluebird · 19/12/2016 11:28

No no no, this is so wrong. Get over it, she clearly wants to be with you despite your lack of respect for her decisions about her sex life before she met you. It is none of your business, and I am getting very grumpy about your attitude to be honest. If you want a virgin, you are better off looking at someone who is of the same culture as you (whether it's arabic or christian or whatever), BUT you'd be in the wrong there because you're not a virgin either now...

KatharinaRosalie · 19/12/2016 11:29

Are you from a diffrent culture? Where women are expected to be virgins before they marry? Because I'm pretty sure in Western Europe nowadays most people really don't wait to have sex until they have found the 'love of their life'.

Branleuse · 19/12/2016 11:32

Many people never find the love of their life, so no point waiting if you dont want to

VeryBitchyRestingFace · 19/12/2016 11:36

If virginity is important to you, OP, why on earth are you sleeping with her? Never mind what she got up to before. It would appear you are sleeping with someone before marriage.

You should have waited until you put a ring on it. Tut tut.

StarryIllusion · 19/12/2016 11:44

You sound very young and I think you are romanticising the idea of losing one's virginity. For women, the first time is normally pretty crap anyway. It hurts and you're awkward and embarrassed and it's even worse if you actually like the guy, imo. You need to just stop thinking about it because if you don't then she will start resenting you, quite rightly too, this would do my head in if my DP was so obsessed about it. You're probably hurting her feelings by keep going on about it. She isn't used bloody goods ffs. If it helps, think of it as you are her first time with someone she loves but you need to get over it. You say yourself that virginity doesn't matter.

Goingtobeawesome · 19/12/2016 11:45

If you truly love her, rather than want to own her, then break up with her so she can meet a mature man who doesn't see her as damaged goods. Fucks sake what is wrong with some people.

hutchblue · 19/12/2016 11:50

This reply has been withdrawn

The OP has privacy concerns and so we've agreed to take this down.

Maudlinmaud · 19/12/2016 11:53

Xmas Grin haha. That is all.

MyWineTime · 19/12/2016 12:57

i just think that it's very regrettable that i came 6 month too late because she would never know this guy and I can't stop thinking about it.
Oh seriously get over yourself!
She had sex before because she was free to do so, a grown woman and she wanted to.
Did you "preserve" yourself for her? Or did you just not have the opportunity before now?
This relationship is doomed because you do not have the emotional maturity to have a grown up relationship.

Lancelottie · 19/12/2016 13:03

Hey ho.

I had a brief discussion with teenage DS and DD yesterday as the topic of US 'chastity rings' had come up. DD was asking what I thought about waiting for marriage, and I told them I couldn't think of anything much more rash than committing to a partner for life before finding out if you were sexually compatible.

DD nodded sagely.

DS turned bright red and blurted 'Compatible? You mean, like, there are different industry standard fittings?'

0dfod · 19/12/2016 13:17

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

sammylady37 · 19/12/2016 13:19

You spoke to her mother about this???

gamerchick · 19/12/2016 13:21

DS turned bright red and blurted 'Compatible? You mean, like, there are different industry standard fittings?

Aw bless his heart

TheNaze73 · 19/12/2016 13:27

Have the school's broken up locally? Xmas Biscuit