My Best Friend - And His Girlfriend...

Happy New Year everyone! Hope y'all had a lovely Christmas!

It's not often I start threads and I'm not usually one for letting my feelings show - but here goes...

I need some advice. My best friend is a guy, we’ve known each other since we were 5 years old. We drifted apart during secondary school .. different classes and all that. Then about 7 years ago we hooked up again. In those 7 years he’s never had a relationship.

Now he has a girlfriend – they haven’t been dating long and I’ve yet to meet her. I’m really surprised by how… jealous of her I am! Jealousy is not a nice trait and I wish I wasn’t. But I am. For such a long time it’s just been the two of us.

I guess I’m unprepared for the changes that inevitably lie ahead. For example, my friend and I have been on weekends away – just the two of us and although there’s nothing romantic between us we’re quite happy to share a bed (especially if it cuts down the cost of a hotel!). Will we realistically still be able to do this? I mean, would you want a boyfriend or girlfriend going away with a member of the opposite sex – even if they weren’t sharing a bed?

I guess I’m jumping the gun slightly - but it’s just little things like that that are playing on my mind.

I just don’t know how to deal with it!