Dear Queenie,

I love my boyfriend and hope to marry him. However, a married couple that he has been friends with for a long time is a problem for me. When we are with them he spends all his time talking and flirting with the wife and ignoring me.

I've tried to be friends with her, but she doesn't seem to be interested in me, only him.

When I tried to talk to him about it he said I was imagining things, and later he told the wife I was so jealous.

To make things worse, the other couple's marriage isn't so good and I wonder whether she is trying to make up for it with my boyfriend. He says he would never cheat on me, but I'm still feeling uneasy.

Queenie, don't I have the right to ask my boyfriend to respect my feelings?—Forgotten and excluded

Dear Forgotten and excluded,

You certainly do! And the fact that he doesn't is an indicator of what you can expect from him if you make the mistake of marrying him.