Should I be worried about his ex?
So my boyfriend and I where dating for six months. We where not really communicating well and it seemed like he didn’t want to open up to me at all, when I confronted him about it, and told him it seemed like he wasn’t ready for a relationship, he said yes I guess I’m not ready for one. At that point I knew I had to break it off.
The next day I asked if we could meet up to talk about it, and we agreed that we would date, to get to know eachother better, but very slow and I guess not a relationship? I’m confused honestly but I love this guy and I want to compromise.
He said the reason why he is hesitant to open up is pretty much because he got his heart broken by a girl, they where pretty serious and even looking at marriage, it ended a year ago when she cheated on him. He said his fears are because of that, and since he rushed that relationship he’s trying to be extremely careful with his next one.
I told him that I could handle someone who wants to get over past scars, we all have those, but what I couldn’t handle is if he still is in love with the girl. He said that apart of him will always love that person, but he also knows 100% that he is never going to be with her again.
I don’t know why that hurt me so much to hear that, but it really did. I want to ask him for space, but he told me that would be a bad idea because we need to work on issues and not run from them. Do you think I’m being irrational for being worried about the feelings for his ex?

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