Dear Steve,
My boyfriend and I have dated for more than a year and a half. He has, what I suspect to be an online "friend" who he won't stop talking to.
Just before we met, he was introduced to her at work, but she moved back home to the east coast. She has everything he has always wanted -- dark hair, athletic and pretty. I'm sure she has a great sense of humor too because they are always messaging each other via Snapchat, Facebook and Instagram. I don't know what they're always talking about, but I mean what else could it be? He claims they are "friends." I don't have any male friends like that.
She currently lives in Tennessee, and when we traveled there a couple months ago, he was engaging with her via those same social media channels the entire time we were there. Most of the time, he was on his phone. I have been checking her social media profiles - and his - and it appears he is interacting with her more than I thought. He keeps blowing it off. How can I approach this without blowing up, because it's been happening a few months now and his communication with her doesn't seem to be stopping no matter how much I tell him I don't like it. Everything in our relationship seemed fine, but now I am now ruminating on this as their communication seems more frequent and he is trying to hide it.
Signed,
-- Too Social For Me