My boyfriend wants to ask my ex in person if he still loves me, opinions?
My current boyfriend "Jesse" wants to ask my ex "joe" if he still loves me. I told him we are just friends (which we are) but Joe still writes "pretty" on my pictures or what not, he is very nice and a good hearted person. This upset my current, now he is hell bent on going up to joe in person with me and asking him if he still loves me. Hoping to clear the air I guess for himself? I think this is pointless, stupid, and embarrassing. I don't even see or hang out with my Joe, we are only friends on Facebook and maybe to say hi how are you doing? Not hang out or anything.
My boyfriend Jesse sees my defensiveness as suspicious, but I am only trying to stand my ground and avoid any conflict that isn't necessary. I don't want to make joe feel like a dummy, and I don't believe we have any business going to his house and asking him that. My current is also very controlling and manipulative, I feel if I let him get his way on this one he will take it as a sign he is back in control and can take back control of my actions and my life. He keeps telling me how I am not acting the way he thought I would, and its bothering him even further, instead of just dropping it the subject all together, he just pushes harder.
What do I do? Is this right? Jesse said his friends think it totally makes sense to them but I am sorry I just don't think it is right! I also would have no interest in talking to his ex PERIOD, never mind asking if they were "just friends?" I also believe she has no good reason to tell me the truth, even if they were more than just friends. I am very different than him this way, I am also less controlling than he is and I have less of a need to "know more", I also feel like I trust him enough not to act that way because I know better, I also feel like acting that way would only diminish my sense of self worth.
It also doesn't help that Joe is still someone I loved after I met Jesse, and at the beginning of our relationship I was still speaking to Joe(not cheating, just in touch with and cared about) it made my current very angry at the time, he carried it out through our relationship, making me tell him my every move, avoid going out anywhere, made me feel sexually unattractive because he didn't want me for awhile but never broke up with me, and also became just plain mean to me, in spite also started talking to his ex, amongst many many other things... until we broke up six months down the road. I went back with Joe. And jesse went his separate way.
About two months of that and me and joe broke up because he is an alocoholic and I'm not strong enough to deal with it like I thought I could, we are just too different ( I rarely drink)
Jesse and I got back together and things are going good. Except this.
Jesse also wants to know every little detail, from who I see at work (exes, if anyone hits on mevor even compliments me, touches me( or hugs)) I live in a small town where running into your ex is very likely, so it makes me feel akward when I have to tell him these things, especially when to me they are so mundane!! I do not want these people back and I do not let them touch me.
What do I do or tell him to calm his nerves but also drawing the line at the same time?
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