Dear Queenie,
I’m very well educated and have a good job in a professional field and I’m reasonably good-looking and healthy and physically fit. However, my boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend is also well-educated and has a professional career and is absolutely gorgeous, and compared to her I feel like nothing.
Queenie, how can I stop feeling jealous of someone he broke up with and doesn’t have anything to do with anymore?—Green-eyed girlfriend
Dear Girlfriend,
Keep reminding yourself that it was your boyfriend who ended that previous relationship and that he must have had good reasons for doing so – and for being with you now.