Re: Help: I think about my GF and her ex-boyfriends way too much
Well, I don't have any earth shattering revelations for you, but my best advice would be to think about how detrimental this will end up being to your relationship. Imagine how low you will feel when you drive her away, that should be worth putting an end to these thoughts.
Have you had an unhappy/disappointing life to this point?
Sometimes when we are used to everything going wrong in life, we unconciously set ourselves up to sabotage everything that comes along, by whatever means. We pick things apart and drive others away, because unhappiness and sadness is what we have learned how to deal with. Have you ever learned how to just be happy? Have you had positive situations occur to teach you the feeling of happiness?
I don't know your whole background here, so I'm just throwing something out there.
I do similar things, and could guess that somwhere within the reasons.
If so, that would be an issue for counseling. You have to allow yourself to be happy in order to ever get there.
Re: Help: I think about my GF and her ex-boyfriends way too much
i know how you feel. i tend to get obsessed about the girls my guy has dated. it is normal to feel this way. but you need to try to not let this effect your relationship with your gf. don't obsess over why your gf dated certain guys. we all make mistakes in our lives. love has a certain way of blinding us. have you never looked back at your relationships and wonder why you were even interested in the person. maybe at that moment in your life, they helped to fulfill a certain need. we all change and our priorities change. concentrate on your relationship with your gf. it shouldn't matter who she dated in the past and why she dated them.
me and my guy have an unwritten rule. we do not talk about out exes. he doesn't talk about the girls he has dated and does not like it when i talk about the guys i have dated.
Re: Help: I think about my GF and her ex-boyfriends way too much
Reading what you wrote about your past relationships, you may help yourself get over this obsession if you realize she has more to worry about you than you do her.
Re: Help: I think about my GF and her ex-boyfriends way too much
just get over it before it eats you inside
she didn't make a mistake being with the other guy or guys, she was becoming the person you know now... what would you change about her (personality wise)? hopefully nothing... well if you were to remove the other guys, you'd be with a completely different woman...
so... move on from it... concentrate on why your together, not why she was with other people.
and yes she's with you for some absurd reason... if there were no reason she wouldn't be with you, and if it was logical i don't think it'd be love
again concentrate on making this the BEST relationship for her to look back and analyse, and she probably won't have to
just reading the header flashed me back to my ex. I had never heard of another guy with this issue to this extreme (if in fact they are as similar as they sound). My old BF would go through spells (mostly the 1st year of our relationship) where he would get into this obsessive mode of thinking vivid sexual scenes of me with my exes (some of which he had never met or seen!). He had no control over it and it drove him nuts - he could not stop thinking that they must have been better in bed, etc, just this illogical constant comparing to men I had been with in the past. I was not one to bring up the past a lot, do not have a ton of ex-lovers, or ever THINK of comparing him to one of them out loud, so it wasn't anything on my end. It also wasn't an actual OCD, it was just his insecurity, but he did not know how to stop it. It got to the point where he couldn't even enjoy coming with me to visit my mother because he knew I had "been with" other guys while living at her house - and he had to get drunk to deal with even spending time there! I hope your problem wasn't as bad. Eventually he went to therapy (for this and other issues) and it did get better the last year of our relationship (we broke up for other reasons)...
Re: Help: I think about my GF and her ex-boyfriends way too much
Maybe it"s time to find the source of this insecurity issue. Therapy might be an option. One can"t have a relationship with such thoughts in one"s head.
Help: I think about my GF and her ex-boyfriends way too much 
