Am I being insecure with my gf? (Long story) M24 F22
My girlfriend (F22) and I (M24) have been together for 2.5 years.
For the first chunk of our relationship she would get jealous and upset if my friends wanted to have a “guys night” if she didn’t have anything to do at the same time (like hanging with her friends) it got to the point where I would just stop going because I genuinely felt bad and didn’t want her to be upset.
She started becoming closer with friends that she was distant with at the beginning of our relationship. Their friendship strictly involves going out DT to clubs and bars and staying out really late. I get going out is fun but I’m not even kidding when I say the only time they “hangout” is going out drinking.
At first I didn’t bat an eye and was happy she was becoming closer with her friends. Until things started to happen whenever she was with these friends. At first it was when they ran into a bartender her and her friends knew and got closer with from a club at home when they were in a different city during a girls trip. It was the first time she was very distant with me over the phone like answering my questions with a half selfie or leaving me on delivered for hours while her friend she was with posting stories and they were hanging with that bartender and his friends.
The next morning she’s being kinda distant still and then calls me and tells me that she needed to tell me something….. according to her, the bartender from home started to become creepy and started getting close to her and touchy. She told me he was DMing her the whole night. She screenshared her phone and while showing me the DM’s I think she accidentally scrolled to high and showed him asking where they went and her saying “home :(“ and then him asking if he could come and she replied “let me ask”
She told me that it was just her way of being polite because she feels bad and doesn’t know how to turn guys down.
This made me very uncomfortable but she convinced me that because she was showing me that she wasn’t hiding anything.
After that my feelings about her going out with her friends often became more anxious. And when she would go out she wouldn’t communicate with me like she used too
A month or two later she was on another girls trip in Mexico (a week before my friends and I met them there) she called me crying at 4am saying her friends and her got into a fight but couldn’t say what it was about. Later the next day she tells me half the truth and says the other girls were mad at her because she got mad at them. I come to find out a couple hours later that the reason she got mad at the other girls is because they went out to meet a bachelor party they met on the plane (red flag) and one of them was showing interest in my gf and they exchanged numbers and the guy even picked her up. One of the friends (that they no longer talk to anymore) told Nicole she should stop and that she has a boyfriend and that’s when she got mad at her friends.
I was livid and very upset. She kept apologizing and just said again that she doesn’t know how to say no and the guy just “picked her up from nowhere” but didn’t really have an explanation for her getting mad at her friend.
After that trip she kinda grew distant from that friend group and everything went back to “normal” until recently she started going out with them again (almost every other weekend if not every weekend) and while she’s out she barely communicates with me and even at times not come home and sleeps at her friends place. She always apologizes and says she got too drunk and that she doesn’t wanna go on her phone because she’s afraid to lose it.
This has started to become a common fight almost every weekend with her saying I don’t trust her or I’m being insecure.
I get upset because of the past things that have happened and the feeling of her having a completely other life out clubbing and the “free” feeling of being single going out with her single friends. She has had boyfriends for most of her life so my head starts to spiral that she likes the feeling of being single and flirting with guys or guys flirting with her because she hasn’t got to experience it much in her life. I also get the feeling she would rather go out with those girls than hang/ go out with me.
Am I overthinking? Are my feelings valid? I do genuinely trust her but I do feel like history gives me the right to feel scared.