Jealousy has no place in a relationship

Don’t let it hurt you and take up your energy

As a graduate student at Colorado State University, I went out with a charming man. He was different than the engineers I normally dated.

I really liked him, and we kept going out, gradually getting closer.

About 2 months into the relationship, he mentioned he was going on a ski trip with a female friend. They had planned the trip months before he met me…. He looked at me nervously when he told me, like he expected me to explode.

“Are you going to be sleeping in the same bed?” I asked.

“No, we’re not sharing a hotel room,” he said.

“Have fun then.”

That was it. He looked relieved. Our relationship progressed, and some time later he proposed. We later got divorced, but that is a different story for a different article.

The reason I’m relating this story… I am going to be going to Hungary in a few weeks. I’ve never been and I’m really excited. I am going with a male friend. We have no romantic attraction, but we genuinely like each other as people.

We made our travel reservations back in December. Then in late June he met a woman... After they’d been dating for two weeks, he mentioned he was going to Budapest. With me. She threw…