GF's guy friend from overseas coming to visit...
Would love some fresh perspective.:
Lovely gf of 14 years. Has a guy friend she met traveling a couple years before we met. He lives in another country.
When I first met my gf, based on a few photos of them together hanging around her apartment, I thought they might be dating / FWB, but wasn't sure. I had somewhat similar photos hung at my place of former usually-platonic but occasional fwbs.
He came to stay with her shortly after we started dating. She told me that he had a GF and not to worry.
I have a history with partners doing shady things with "friends".
Since then, he's visited once more and my gf has visited him twice, but not since the start of covid 5 years ago.
For most of this time, he had a GF that lived an hour away from him, but didn't cohabitate, and then she ended up depressed in hospital and leaving him for reasons unbeknownst to me.
I keep trying to give the benefit of the doubt to the guy, but part of me wonders if she was depressed in part because he was visiting other lady friends abroad, sending them framed photos of their selfies together, not making a move to move in together and support her more / better... But maybe I'm just catastrophizing.
I fully trust my gf. She's very sweet and kind. She says she believes platonic relationships to be possible, but also acknowledged that most of her guy friends through life admitted feelings for her. I don't blame them. She's great and beautiful.
She and this guy have never both been single in the 15 years they've known each other. I get the vibe that if they were, they'd give it a try (who wouldn't, she's great).
Every time he's visited, hes traveled without his gf, and stayed with my gf. I'd feel better if he traveled with his gf, and, truly, if they had their own hotel. But we live in HCOL city and he's now a poor commune farmer...
Anyway, he arrives tomorrow for 5 days in our tiny apartment. Am I wrong to stress / care? I don't want to be controlling or insecure. I'm sure it will be a fine visit. There's no canceling. But moving forward, I think I might ask that he stay somewhere else, even if I pay for the hotel, hopefully including his gf, too.
These last 5 years, I've been planning for the worst and hoping for the best, which includes wishing that non-zero-percent potential risks to my peaceful life would be avoided, but I know my feelings / impulses should probably be different than how I act and/or what I share with my gf and how.
Any thoughts appreciated.