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Weatherwax · 05/02/2019 19:46

AIBU for still feeling cross? Recently DH commented on a picture of a woman in Facebook. It was a "gym selfie" ie posed in leggings and gym top, bum sticking out, pouty face etc. Her post was all about her workout and pretty new pink gym top. DH had liked it and commented "cute". Obviously as this is a public forum, I'd seen the comment and post on my time line, as had a few friends who messaged me about it, generally saying WTF is he doing?

On closer investigation, this isn't the only picture of hers he'd liked. He has liked, and "wow faced" several. None of her doing actual workouts, or of her healthy food, but ALL of the skin tight leggings gym selfies, all of the bikini on a beach ones, and all of the dressed up to the nines going out in waist plunging body con dresses ones. He's also been following and liking about 30 very similar accounts on Instagram, liking all the bikini bod pics.

I was upset, and told him so. Don't get me wrong, he of course can find other people attractive, you don't stop that just because you're married. I take offence to the fact that he's doing it so publicly. It's the online equivalent in my head of going out with me to a bar for example, with all our mutual friends, and flirting (badly) with some 20 years younger than us girl who turns up. It's disrespectful.

It also makes me sad because I used to have an awesome figure, but 2 kids down the line I just can't get it back to what it was, and certainly it was never anywhere near as thin as this girl! So now I feel disrespected and not good enough.

What makes matters worse is that he knows this girl. She's a member of his gym and he sees her up there. He claims to only have spoken to her once, but he's been wowing over her bikini bod on Facebook for almost a year.

Perhaps I should let it go, but I can't get over how blatant he can be. Can he not just watch porn in private like everyone else?!? AIBU?

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Passing4Human · 05/02/2019 21:14

WTF's he even doing tracking down profiles of randoms from the gym. He's spoken to her once you said, and then he's presumable trawling through profiles finding her pic to befriend her? Is that what he did? I just think that's really grim actually and quite creepy. No YANBU at all. Sorry though because I don't know what I'd do about this because it would change the way I saw him.

Weatherwax · 05/02/2019 21:19

@passingforhuman I never even thought of how he tracked her down 😳 So he's either a huger sleaze than I thought, or they have had more than one conversation, which leads me down a whole different train of thought..... She seems to have a BF though, and I'm sure is not guilty of anything here. Other than being the owner of a rather self obsessed Facebook account!

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Shaboohshoobah1 · 05/02/2019 21:33

Lots of people add me from the gym I go to, even if we hardly know each other - I wouldn’t worry about that. I bet loads of other blokes would do the same if they thought they wouldn’t get caught out!! He obvs doesn’t know how Facebook works that well... I would be really cross too, but ultimately I think it’s down to him being a bit stupid and hopeful (‘perhaps the pretty gym lady will notice meeee & think I am hunky’) and not that he is a horrible sleaze.

Passing4Human · 05/02/2019 21:46

@Shaboohshoobah1 I confess to not being a gym-goer and also to having a clunky old Nokia phone you'd have to chuck down a volcano to kill (so can't even get online properly using it!). Would people just add you from a FB page for the gym then, or something like that?

What I would be worried about if this were my DP in this scenario, is the idea that he'd maybe spent time tracking this person down not knowing anything more than their first name. I guess I could get my head around it a bit more if people do just add a bunch of folk from their gym though?

Educate the old lady here, lol.

newnameforthis7 · 05/02/2019 21:48

Block him on facebook.

Do men not realise what utter fucking creeps women think they are, when they keep 'liking' posts and especially when they give 'nice' comments on them. VOM!

newnameforthis7 · 05/02/2019 21:48

PARTICULARLY when married men do it!

BananasAreTheSourceOfEvil · 05/02/2019 21:57

Id be beyond pissed off and heartbroken. Its the very personal nature that its someone he sees IRL and its not a one off thing. Im really sorry OP Flowers

For me, unfollowing them or whatever wouldnt be nearly good enough Id want to know what the fuck he is getting from this- if he likes their picture or posts an emoticon is he hoping for a response? What does he actually get from it? Where does he actually think hes going with this?

Needless to say the gym bunny probably doesnt even register hes alive, let alone get past the number of 'likes' the photo gets (which in fairness is all those preening, pouty gym poses are about- post a photo after youve done your cardio and lets see just how well those false lashes are staying on...Wink).

Dont compare yourself to her. Youve had two kids and your body will never be the same again.

However, ask yourself is his body still the same two kids later? Ill ber its not.

So is it you thats not good enough? No, youre lovely. Hes an idiot chasing a dream through an online thumbs up to a woman who probably doesnt know he exists. Hes the sad sack.

Give him hell.

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