Q I’m madly in love with my caring, funny and stable boyfriend of over a year. We’ve been relatively drama-free, despite being long-distance the entire time. We were good friends before dating, so knew quite a bit about each other going into it, skeletons included. There’s no doubt that without the foundation of friendship, our relationship would not be as strong as it is.

But I’ve had issues in the past year assimilating some of the information I learned as a “friend” in my current role as the “girlfriend” — e.g., a good friend he referred to once as “the one who got away” in a night of drinking pre-dating, whom he’s currently visiting in another town. Or information about our dating histories that we might have otherwise sugarcoated in retelling a significant other, but shared gory details with since we were pals.

To be clear, it’s not jealousy I wrestle with; it’s more information overload. I think he sometimes forgets I know as much as I do because he tells me the whitewashed versions of stories I’ve already heard, and I mentally fill in (and then obsess over) the details he left out. Is it odd that I almost wish I knew less? — Blissful(ish) but not ignorant

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