| MrVandal you are over-reacting. So is everyone else saying that she has issues for wanting to keep mementos.
I might describe myself as the male version of her. There is no fucking way I'm going to trawl through my hard drive and delete every last photo after breaking up with each girl, and copy all my back up CDs, minus their photos and destroy the original CDs. Come on. I keep mementos of my previous girls, they are good memories. I even have a box containing all my previous love letters and trinkets given to me by girls. I don't put them on display because I know it can be confronting, but I don't cater for people who want to trawl through my private memories without permission.
Keeping the names on the condom wrappers for each guy means she treasures their first sexual experience, which means sex is a really special experience for her. This should excite you because it means it's not a trivial experience for her - you can take her amazing places through your sex life.
Forcing her to delete all physical records of her previous special people in her life is controlling and makes you look like you feel inferior to them. My advice to you is that this is the root of your problem. You feel like you are being compared to them. Fact is, they always existed in her past, and just because you know about them now, doesn't change anything.
Think about all the previous girls in your life - you have good memories with them, there are things you still like about them? Try to understand that someone like me, and your gf, cherishes those memories and feels that they will not fade and be forgotten forever if there is some physical reminder. We like our precious memories and don't react kindly to someone who wants to deliberately dive in and remove them - the goal here seems to be to erase her mind so that you are the only thing that exists and she has nothing to compare you to.
We know that seeing information about past partners can be confronting to the current partner, that's why these mementos are usually well hidden, and not on display.
The only thing wrong here is that you are not dealing with this. You only have 2 choices - learn to accept that she has good memories of her past guys and just judge her purely on the way she treats you right now, or accept that you can't help finding out everything you can about her past lovers even if it means digging through her private files/diaries and logging in with her facebook account to talk to her own friends behind her back, then feeling inferior when you inevitably do discover she has had sexual experiences before you arrived, while flirting behind her back with her hair dresser, and so will have to keep jumping from girl to girl till you find a virgin with no past, totally faithful, and understanding enough to stay with you after you almost cheat on her.
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