PhineasSpear
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I wonder what the dealbreaker is....?I’ve been dating my girlfriend for a year. I love her, she’s high-achieving and we have big plans for our future together. But I’m stuck on something that is starting to feel like a dealbreaker.
My body count is 4. I believe your body is something you should respect and only share with people who actually matter. I didn’t think this way initially but after my first one night stand I realised sex without emotion was empty and stopped.
She had to "catch up" with her whore friendsShe recently told me her count is 15. She started late (18) and basically spent three years "catching up" to her friends before she met me at 21. I am her first actual boyfriend.
Of course she has to rationalize/sugarcoat it.The part that eats at me:
About 10 of those guys were just one-night stands. She frames it as "exploring her sexuality" and says it didn't mean anything because she didn't respect or even like those guys. To her, she was just "figuring things out." In her view she can seperate the emotional attachment which she has been gatekeeping and the physical act of sex, which she hands out freely.
JFL at "smart, driven woman"To me, that’s exactly the problem. I don’t understand how a smart, driven woman can let random guys she doesn't even respect have access to her for no reason. It feels like she treated herself like a hobby or a sport for three years while I was out here holding myself to a higher standard.
BrutalShe says she "saved" the real intimacy and the effort, of herself for me because I’m the first man she actually respects. But it’s hard for me to feel like "the prize" when I’m the one who has to lead everything and put in all the work, while 10 random dudes got her for free without doing a single thing to earn it.
I’m offended by her past choices. I feel like there’s a massive gap in our values. I stayed disciplined; she was reckless. Now, I’m the first boyfriend, and I’m the one dealing with the "ick" of her history.
Answers:Questions:
Is it a red flag that she was so non-discriminatory with her body for those 3 years, even if she’s 100% loyal now?
Can a relationship work when I view sex as something sacred and she viewed it as something to just "check off a list" with randoms
1: Yes
2: No, the relationship cannot work.
Anyways as if it can't get bad enough, just wait till you read the edit.
LMFAOEdit: Hi all thank you very much for the insights please see below what conclusion I came too with the help of all of you - feeling which responses I resonated most with.
When actually auditing my internal beliefs not those imposed on me by broader society I realised I was in fact treating my gf as an object not a person. Our past experiences shape our present and if shes perfect in the present how can I in good faith hate on the past. This is highly freeing for me as I was in such turmoil I think due to believing what red pill influencers have been spewing for many years, subconsciously I must have associated those ideas as my own however after having been forced to think for myself for 72 hrs, I realised I don’t actually care. Anyone going through RJ I wish u well.
The state of modern relationships.





