Although your first impulse is to think that there is cheating occurring, it isn’t always the case.

Sometimes, it’s a case where he is a friend she hasn’t seen or talked to in a while, and she said that she misses him while chatting with him over social media.

Social media is how they keep in touch.

Saying she misses him was a culmination of the fun memories he triggered in her.

Your girlfriend wasn’t living under a rock before she met you.

She had a social life filled with activities and friends.

She knew people and had friends.

This guy is one of those friends.

You have to accept the reality that she does have people in her life.

She had a lot of these people in her life before you ever showed up in her life.

Sometimes, people who are newly dating become overprotective of their new partner.

Basically, you hold her on such high accord that you forget that she has people in her life she cares about.

Your desire is for her to care about you above all else, including family members.

It’s time you face the reality about relationships.

There are going to be people outside of your relationship that your partner cares about.

She knew these people before she met you.

She has a strong bond or attachment to these people.

Some of them have helped her get through difficult times, given her insightful advice at crucial moments in her life, and been there for her during bitter breakups in her past.

You don’t know the nature of her connection with this guy.

He could as easily be someone who helped her with something in the past.

He is someone who was supportive during trying times.

It isn’t out of the question that he is someone she has worked with in the past and built a platonic rapport with.

You don’t know and you shouldn’t judge.

You have no idea what this guy has meant to her in the past.

A past that wasn’t one of romance.

Even if there was, it didn’t go anywhere.

They realized they would be better off as friends.

The only time you should worry is when she communicates with this guy over social media a lot more than she communicates with you in general.

She isn’t purely telling him that she misses him over social media, but is constantly stalking him online to know what he is up to, observing how this guy is socializing with girls on social media.

This behavior is too involved.

There is nothing platonic about how she sees him.

She is attracted to him.

Checking to see how often he likes and comments on the pages of girls, or how often he strikes up a conversation with girls on social media, is how she demonstrates curiosity about who he is talking to.

When your girlfriend is tracking a guy this closely, she likes this guy over you.