So much fear and more fear. What do you have to lose? Understand that the M is over. This is you>>>>> I LOST THE GIRL.
OK, now you look at yourself and say: But, I want that girl. Hummm, what can I do to get the girl back?
RD, love has no age! We grow old and we may love smarter, but love itself is never old. So, brave yourself and try to flirt her back to you.
One day, if you look at it and feel it doesn't mean anything to you, then let it go, and it won't hurt no more. Right now, it hurts because you love her.
So, what is different if she was very young, you were boyfriend and girlfriend, then you broke up and she now has a new guy beside her. If you were that young would you just let it be? Or you would flirt and try to win her heart back until the day someone else crossed your way?
So my point is that you may not be that young and so she is not either, but love itself is not old, it always happen in any of our ages, with different meanings, purposes, but it happen.
Besides, starting somewhere does not mean you will be back in a week. It is a process. Why not make this process something beautiful. Because even war have it's beauty.
Please, think. Ask WW for a coffee or beer and talk to her, ask if you can help in any way (don't just give her money), if you can be at some help with this OM. You say you believe she is telling the truth and then OM bothers you. And if he is an OM, so what? When you love, you forgive. When you love, you understand. When you love, you are kind.
You are afraid to get hurt, but aren't you hurting still?