My girlfriend 24F is working closely with someone she used to have feelings for, and I 24M don’t know if I’m overreacting?
I (24M) and my girlfriend (24F) have been together for about a year and a half. She’s currently working on a project that means a lot to her and has been one of her biggest goals for a long time. The issue is that she’s working on it with someone she used to have feelings for and even confessed those feelings to in the past (let’s call him J).
She decided to work with him shortly before we officially started dating. When we got together, she asked me if I was okay with the situation, and I told her I was ok, because by that point a lot of time had already passed since she liked him. Throughout our relationship she has also reassured me multiple times that things with J are strictly professional and only about the project.
Recently though, the situation has started bothering me more. But when she asked me if I was still okay with it, I kept saying yes because the project is almost over and I thought I could handle it.
But something happened yesterday that really got to me. During the past week she’s been very stressed and busy because of the project. We usually do video calls every night since we don’t live together yet, and I was trying my best to cheer her up, but I could barely get a smile out of her.
Yesterday during one of our calls she told me she was going to have a call with J to discuss the project. When their meeting started, she muted the audio from our call but left the video on. After a while, I saw her laughing and smiling more than I had seen her do all week, and I can’t stop thinking about how I barely managed to make her smile during that same time.
Now I don’t know if I should tell her how I feel and risk making things uncomfortable between them while the project is still ongoing, or if I should just keep it to myself until the project is over since there’s not much time left.