Ok, I KNOW I am being ridiculous. I have been with my boyfriend for almost a year now. I am American, he is Scottish. (adding that in, since I'm obsessing about nationalities with the ex). His ex is French- they broke up 2 years ago, were together for 4 years. She has NOT re-entered the picture, so its not like anything has happened to make me feel all this jealousy, but its basically just cause she is French. I know that’s crazy, but as an American I have this stereotype in mind of French woman (you know, the whole glamorous, etc thing). The thing is I know I am prettier than her, I also know he obviously has chosen ME and not her. But why can't I get these crazy thoughts out of my head? I keep having nightmares about their life together, etc and feeling all insecure and crazy. Why am I being so silly? Please help me grow up!

Hmmm.

I work with lots of French people and they're not good looking or stylish at all. I don't mean to be offensive, but I think you see it from an American point of view. Maybe the idea that French women are glamorous is pretty big in the USA, but here in Europe, esp in Britland, we don't see them like that. I mean, in the UK they get called "froggies", surely it's not a compliment

I am Italian, my bf is Scottish. I know for sure he's REALLY into the way I look (very mediterranean), YET I am very jealous of his exes, who were probably completely different from me. I dunno, you probably need to work on your jealousy full stop, without worrying about nationalities.

I prefer Italian coutre to French, personally. Please forget the notion of the French being sophisticated despite the fact that they balk at Brit/Irish sausage and processed cheese. Your boy is with you, keep reminding yourself that, there's no need for insecurities.

my gf is argentinian, i'm scottish too, (is there like a million single scottish women now?) and we talk about the differences sometimes, I don't think of her as argentinian though and it never comes into how I see her.

plus the french don't quite have as great PR here as they do in america haha. We're too close to them to let them fool us into believing they're any better than anyone else. french or not, I bet she had crazy hair and bad breath when she woke up in morning.

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i get jealous of my bfs ex because they were together for 4 years and i think she just didn't deserveto be with him. haha. its ridiculous. and i waste so much time thinking about it. stupid things like movies they watched together, imagining the inside jokes they had, etc. if you figure out how to stop it, please let me know. because im being an asshole.