T makes me feel special because I also take groups with her and during the groups with her, she teases me a lot (in a fun way and I give it right back), and she doesn’t usually do that as much with other people. Since she started doing that, though, I feel myself getting increasingly jealous if she does have a positive interaction with someone else in front of me. I’m trying to check myself on that and know that she can have good relationships with others and still see our relationship as special.
The mixed messages for me come when sometimes we’ll be teasing each other and I’ll say something to the effect of “what would you do without me around?” And she’s like “oh, believe me, I’ve got plenty to deal with outside of you” or something like that.