Definition: Given a real-life anecdote of a complex ethical situation, generate a suitable title that describes the main event/root cause of the situation. Imagine that the given text is a social media post, and you have to write the title of the post, so the users can decide to read the main text or not.
Input: I've been with my girlfriend for about a year. She's more outgoing than I am: I have a few friends that I've known since I was a child that I still keep in close contact, and she has a much wider net of friends that she's relatively not that close with. I'm a very direct and open person, and she's similar, so we haven't had much difficulty so far in talking it out when there's been a problem. Before me, she was with somebody else for a year, and her ex is somebody who she's known since elementary school, but according to her, they used to talk every few months before they had started dating. They broke up a while before we started dating, but according to my girlfriend, the guy was going through a rough period in life, and had few friends other than her, so when we started dating she still regularly talked to him (messaged and called, since we and him are in different countries) mostly about his issues as far as I know. I could empathize with this, but still I told her that the fact that she was in contact this much annoyed me. She said he was a friend, and that she couldn't just abandon a friend because I asked. I realize that I have no right to ask her to stop talking to a friend because it makes me jealous, but still, for the following several months she talked to him much less often. Recently she again started talking to him regularly, "only sharing funny stuff on the internet" according to her, but I got mad and shared this with her. Again she brought up the fact that he is an old friend, and I try to understand, but this does not help how I feel about this. Every time I see a message notification from him when we're, say, playing/watching on her iPad my mood goes down noticably, and this causes some friction between us.

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Am I the asshole for feeling this way? I'm not sure how I should be feeling about this. All of this just makes me unable to think long-term with her, and occasionally makes me want to not invest a lot in the relationship.


getting mad at my girlfriend for talking to her ex