Thunder Bow, tell me if this matches your experience of dream interpretation and psychology:

It seems that people can have a mixup between an inner beloved part of themselves, and an outer crush. For you, Cherry Kitty, the masculine within, and the quality of his attention to you, is real. But you also have an outer masculine in your life, this crush. And his girlfriend can be a threat to take him away. So the "outer threat" can become confused with an "inner threat" as though the girlfriend were a threat to the masculine within.

This dream seems hopeful as Steve ultimately does not abandon you.

Thunder Bow, does this kind of mixup happen in your experience?