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Dear Breakup Girl,

I recently stopped seeing a 29-year-old foreign man who needs to get his green card and feels that the only way to get it is to get hitched. Needless to say, I told him I wasn't going to be his citizen bride and that I wouldn't date him if he did get into a "marriage of convenience," because of the creep factor involved. So, now he's back to dating this woman he works with (about whom he has bitched openly), who PUBLICLY HUMILIATED him by slapping him in front of his friends and business associates because she was mad that he was seeing me. I'm sure he's dating her because she'll marry him. The problem is that I'm crazy jealous. I am in love with him, but because I won't concede to marriage at this point, he feels that he must go with the "sure thing" (his words). Oh, BG, should I forget about him even though I adore him, or what?

-- Citizen Ruth

Dear Citizen Ruth,

Hey, of course you're green with envy over Mrs. Depardieu. Perhaps by its very nature, jealousy is -- while not necessarily inaccurate -- irrational. So allow yourself that. But also allow yourself to consider the alternative ... well, there is no alternative. I mean, you're not going to marry him, so ... crap. Pardon my purple prose -- this just plain sucks. All you can do, my girl, is hold out for someone who will marry you for something blue.

Love,
Breakup Girl

 
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