Quote: S17 is now working as a boxboy at the local grocery store (or "courtesy clerk", as he keeps reminding me). This is his first job and it is working out great for him
Boy, did that bring back memories that go way back.
Sounds like its turning out to be a busy (& fun) summer for ya.
I understand too about being resentful for the newly surfaced jealousy. As the ole cliche goes, I never had a jealous bone in my body ... now my bones rattle with it. OM use to be part of the maintenance staff at the school my W works. At my D11's DARE award ceremony this spring a new maintenance guy approached her and put his arm around her as he whispered about a prank they were pulling. Then one day during our vacation when we were home, he showed up at the door asking if she had a pot big enough to catch a woodchuck that found its way into the school. My first thoughts were, "... and how did he come about knowing where she lives?". Last week, she made a pan of bake ziti and brought it in for the "guys" (maintenance staff). This is a first, while most days I work, I come home to frozen dinners. I can't stop the thoughts of "Is looking at a possibly another OM?"
Now this guy is much younger too and has a fiancée. No I don't really believe there anything going on there, but before I would never had even formed the question.
Like you, I don't like the feeling either, but don't know how to make it disappear.
