you arent the only one that has experienced that stuff. i was in a college in pakistan and i openly spoke about my bf and everyone knew i had a bf. there were girls in my class that would speak about me behind my back and i always thought they were conservative and traditional and wouldnt even dare speaking to a guy unless it was about classwork.
ofcourse later on i find out that a lot of those girls that used to talk about me, actually had bfs. most of them had love marriages. one was even a hijabi...