Hearing your partner compliment someone else may not bother you. But one woman claims her boyfriend's admiration for another woman is now sparking tension in their relationship and she's unsure what to do next. The awkward situation unravelled when the 30-year-old woman took to the internet to rant about her boyfriend of two years.
Although he's very family-oriented, caring and seemingly quite chatty, his love for this 'other girl' is something she simply can't look past. And while you may be envisioning an attractive colleague or overly friendly neighbour, this isn't the case at all. In fact, it's actually his younger sister.
"Recently, however, his younger sister (32F) seems to be coming up more frequently in our day-to-day conversations, and it's starting to bother me," the woman explained anonymously on Reddit . "For example, the other day we were talking about a new movie that came out, and he says: 'My sister has always been my favourite person to talk about movies [and] movie critiques with'. I recently have been considering a career change, and he would say things like: 'My sister went through the same thing before, and she handled it so gracefully/masterfully/logically (etc etc etc)'.
" The woman said she is very happy for his sister and thinks it's 'so lovely' to be that proud of a sibling. But now, she claims it's impossible to talk about anything at all without mention of his sister - and it's becoming 'quite tedious'. She continued: "Like, I can't talk about mysel.
