Dear rosaly:

As I read your account of your boyfriend’s life I felt jealous myself! Please, do not be ashamed of what you think and what you feel. Thoughts and feelings are automatic mental events: we don’t choose them, therefore they are not good or bad and we are not good or bad people for thinking and feeling them.

I understand you feeling jealous of him: you are experience such lack of parental support, money, etc., and he is experiences plenty of parental support, money, etc.

Would you like to share: how long has he been your boyfriend, how often do you see him, how do you spend your time together and have you talked about a future together, of plans for the future?

anita