I (27M), have been dating a girl (27F) for 6-7 months now, and it’s great. Everything’s great. Before dating her, I had gone out with a girl (also 27F) on 5 dates over a span of 4-5 months – and it didn’t work out especially because she was confused about dating but also because I had moved to a different city.
She had eventually ghosted me and that was the end of it. December, she texted and apologised for ghosting me, I accepted it but did not have any conversation as I was dating someone else already. Recently, she had gone on a solo trip and we got to texting on Instagram again. I’ve been very careful as to not flirt with her at all – she hasn’t done it either. But we have been having off-and-on texting in an ‘excited’ way and with long messages like we used to earlier when we went out. I’m wondering if I should stop doing it – I like talking to her and would like to have her as a friend, which is basically just chatting over text and nothing more, but I know my girlfriend wouldn’t be comfortable with this, and I know I wouldn’t be either if my girlfriend was doing this with someone she had gone on dates with before.
Anyone have some advice here? Is it not possible to be friends with someone you went out only for a few times?
TLDR; dating a girl, is it wrong to talk and text a girl i had gone out for a few times before dating this current girl?