I started dating a girl last year who had broken up with her boyfriend a few months earlier. She had broken off with her ex because he had started spending more time with a friend than her, whom he eventually started dating afterwards.

We started off just having dinner and going for movies. At the same time I was interested in another friend of mine, but she ended up moving to another town for work. Eventually after a few drunken nights we made out and then started sleeping with each other. She was one of those quiet and reserved people in public, but a riot once her clothes came off, and she wasn’t afraid to take them off anywhere. Once we fucked in my car right in front of her parent’s house. She never wanted to use a condom, gave amazing head, and swallowed every single time.

As with all my relationships, after about 6 months I got bored with it, even the s**.

Just around the time we broke up my friend who went out of town came back, so I started hanging out with her. One day my ex wanted to hang out, and so I took along my friend as well. My ex claimed that I never said I would bring someone else along, but I was sure I did. Anyway she was really pissed off about it. Since then we’ve made amends and hang out with friends.

Now I wanna date my friend, but I don’t want my ex thinking that I broke up with her because I was interested in someone else. It feels like I’m doing to her what her ex-boyfriend did. I know she’ll see it that way. She’ll pretend like it doesn’t affect her, but I feel like she’ll turn that into another negative experience, and probably swear off dating.

She’s a nice girl, and I don’t want her getting hurt anymore. What can I do?