Updated On: 02 May, 2011 08:07 AM IST | | Diana
I'm 19 and me and my boyfriend and I have been dating eight months. We have a strong relationship but he gets all mad and jealous if I talk to other boys as friends
Dear Diana,
I'm 19 and me and my boyfriend and I have been dating eight months. We have a strong relationship but he gets all mad and jealous if I talk to other boys as friends. Also he gets mad when I have plans with my friends. He always says they're more importantu00a0 than he is and it's anoying sometimes. I'm allowed to have friends too. I love hanging with my bf but I also try hanging with my friends so my parents don't say I'm ditching them cause I have a bf or say I'm too serious with him. I thnk I'm doing the right thing?
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Dear Friend,
Your boyfriend is immature and insecure -- not uncommon at his age but it's really not healthy for you to be controlled by a jealous boyfriend.You SHOULD be hanging out with your friends, you SHOULD be maintaining all your relationships, not just the one with him. He's important, of course, but if he can't handle the fact that you have other people you like to be with, then he's WAY too immature and needs to do some growing up. Your friends are just as important as he is and if you ditch them and then you and he split up you would have no one. He needs to grow up a bit and check out how real relationships work. Keep making plans with your friends and if he doesn't like it, show him the door. Life's too short to put up with someone being so jealous like that.
Why will a 'happily married' man cheat?
Dear Diana,
Will a married man cheat if he is truly happy at home? As cheating I mean carrying on an emotional and physical relationship for over nine years?