Third Time Lucky

So, I have been in my new relationship for a half a month now. It is going wonderfully and I really enjoy spending time with him. We seem to be going in the right direction and I really like that. This is all new to me but so far I am enjoying it.

Nothing about him bothers me, but there are a few things about others that are annoying me.

I hate how others feel they need to take credit for our relationship when they had a VERY small part in getting us together. We met through a friend. He is a friend of one of my friends and we all went out for New Year's Eve. Well, my friend is now going around telling everyone that she "set us up" and if it weren't for her we wouldn't be together. True, if we both weren't friends with her we would have never met. But going around telling everyone that it is all because of you is a bit conceited.

I'm annoyed that when I go out with that same friend, all she does is gush all over us about how cute of a couple we are and actually says "awwwww." I am glad that she is happy for us but it gets very irritating to hear the gushing within a normal conversation. I also feel like she may be overcompensating since I know that she complains a bit to others about us. See, she and I used to be the single girls in the group. We would go out together and all the guys would flirt with her and not so much me. So for New Year's, I had one out of the four guys we were hanging out with flirting with me and it worked out! I am happy but I think she is missing her friends and also is seriously jealous of it.

I am still getting used to the "in-laws" and I am starting to get the feeling that his mom doesn't like me. He insists that she does but I still get that feeling. I think she feels that I will take her baby away from her, even though her baby is 31 years old. I am sure that it will all work out but it still bothers me a lot. I want her to like me but I am not willing to change myself for it. I have never really had good luck with boyfriend's moms before so I am hoping this one will be different. I can still work on it but the important part is my boyfriend likes having me around and I guess that is all that really matters.

I have been very happy. This is the happiest I have been in a very long time. I am thinking that this relationship will last a long time. I am hopeful for that anyway. There is something different about this relationship than any of my last ones. A good different. Maybe the third time is the charm.