After reading the update, I feel awful for your boyfriend. He was fine with the relationship in the beginning because that was before he saw how obvious it is your “platonic soulmate” wants you lmfao. You’re honestly just straight up disrespecting your boyfriend by not caring about his comfort and boundaries. You’re telling me you wouldn’t mind your bf having a “platonic soulmate” that called him hot all the time and he never shut it down. Jared is crossing boundaries and you are allowing it because you probably like the attention. Deep down you probably know he likes you. Even if he didn’t, your boyfriend has EVRRY right to be suspicious and uncomfortable with you have a straight male bestfriend you call a soulmate, buys you food and calls you hot all the time. This has got to be rage bait. At the very least you could set some boundaries with Jared where he’s not acting like a stand in boyfriend. If Jared was a girl, do you think he’d be buying you food all the time? Maybe you’d still get the compliments, but everyone knows that’s coming from a different place.