The Ex II

He always speaks so fondly of his Ex. They meet up pretty often, and I’m really uncomfortable with it, but I’m not exactly in a position to interfere. I think she’s still into him. He told me recently that they’d been hanging out, watching a movie, and they’d kissed, and he could have slept with her if he’d wanted, but he didn’t because he knew it would hurt me. It’s all so disheartening—the way he talks about her so brightly, with such warmth in his voice, and how he’s always comparing me to her. He’s already told her everything, including how I’d given him chlamydia, but he guards all her secrets fiercely. I think he still feels bad about the way their relationship ended, back when she was still in high school. After her family found out that he had two kids, they didn’t want her to have anything to do with him, and they tried to come between them. Complete fucking Romeo and Juliet bullshit. Sometimes I try to get him to trash her—but it’s like he thinks she’s some sort of saint, and he’ll concede only that she’s had her problems, she’s sensitive, and she’s never given him an STI.