I'll keep this short. After one and a half year I'm finding out I might be dating an alpha widow.

Been dating this girl for one and a half year. She's always been all over me, since day one. We met each other for a few months before I deemed her worth for LTR. I got to know her and beside the vetting I also made sure I was the best dude she ever had. But I'm realising now that might not be entirely true...

Few months before she met me she was seeing this one guy. I didn't care that much, I assumed I was better considering what I knew of him and at the time my self confidence was very high. I was very arrogant and aloof, getting lots of girls and pretty happy with my life in general. She was one of 5 girls on my rotation at that time.

Anyway, 20 months later, last week I went through her phone, first time ever I do this. i found an old conversation with some of her friends and found out she was all over this guy before me. Like intense oneitis, she was obsessed. Apparently he was a brute in bed, absolute animal. I also found some messages about me from after we met. After our second or third date she answered "Was the date better with him than with X" by "in general kind of, the sex was great and he adores me in some way".

I don't know if that sounds nice or not but I'm bothered by few things:

  • We were going through her pictures one day, me and her together, and some picture of her (taken by him) came out. Let's say the guy apparently liked them cheeks purple...She said she had forgot to remove it.
  • One month after we met, during a conversation she said I was a teddy bear, that I was gentle and that she was used to hard spanking... I thought myself as a pretty rough guy considering I spank, strangle, use my belts, use handcuffs, and am pretty intense in general. But no, apparently for her it was soft and gentle. I can't imagine what that dude was like lol
  • The guy "broke up" with her. She was all over him and obviously was trying to maintain their so called relation. The guy was honestly probably seeing other girl and/or she was just a toy. At that time she was telling her friends it was the best sex in her life. They met for two months total. I came in 2 months after their break up.

Anyway, these last few years I worked on myself a lot and was very self confident, even before meeting her. I live in a country where it's not so hard to stand out and a big portion of my life revolve around how I take care of me. But this thing is starting to shatter my ego for the first time... I can't possibly accept to be second in line. I never pictures myself as the good beta guy, and I even thought I was a jerk in the beginning of the relation. I thought I was rough and tough, I really take it hard that dude was so much more brutal considering how high I set the bar already..

Except for that she adores me, I can't even complain, she treats me like a king since one and a half year. And she never done anything weird, that's why I'm bothered.. she's a good partner except for that.

If you guys have any insights on that, I'd appreciate. I'm approaching the times where the relation becomes more cemented and serious. Am I committing to an alpha widow ? I can't possibly take the risk and go further if I'm actually the second best she had