DH blocked me on instagram?

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In case this isn't obvious I have extreme anxiety and I have been going over this in my mind and just need to talk it out. Name changed.

DH and I have been together 5 years, we're relatively young and use social media. One day DH messaged me whilst he was at work to say 'sorry accidentally unfollowed you on insta'
He said he did it whilst using my profile to get to another profile (something he does always do and I've seen) as he was at work he got distracted (shouldn't really be on phones but not something he'd get in trouble for, so would probably quickly hide it if someone came to him).

However, I noticed it had made me unfollow him too and that all my likes and comments on his pictures disappeared. This can only happen by blocking someone.

To block someone is a two stage process, it says 'are you sure you want to block X?'

He blocked me for, let's say, 15minutes maximum that I know of.
I don't understand why, is there anything bad he could have achieved in this time?

For what its worth:

• 99% of his pictures have me in them
• his profile is private
• I am logged into his profile (innocently, he used it on my phone and I never logged out) so I can easily go on his profile / get notifications. He never had or has had anything suspicious.

Do I accept this as a genuine mistake?
DH does spend a lot of time on his phone and has done some things on the internet before I am not okay with.

I guess it's more trying to understand, can anything bad be achieved by blocking me? I think no but I need clarity!

No, nothing bad can be achieved by blocking (and then unblocking) you. The only "dodgy" thing he could have done in that time would be posting and then deleting a photo, but there would be absolutely no point in that!

Social media. Ugh.

He could have been testing with you account to see what someone would see when blocked.

-Block your account
-Log into your account and try to view his
-Unblock your account

Is there someone that might have blocked him recently? Or someone he might have wanted to block?

His prior fishy behavior is a reasonable cause of your anxiety about this

You sound controlling and jealous and seriously paranoid. If this was reversed and a man was watching his girlfriends every move on line we'd be calling him abusive and telling her to LTB.

Get a grip op. Having anxiety is not a licence to treat people badly.

If he was up to no good, he’d have a secret account, not block you for 15 minutes. What on earth can he do in 15 minutes?!

Really - you are upset because you couldn't see your husband instagram for fifteen minutes?
Do you work, or just spend the entire day watching your husbands instagram?

Just reread the final para that you are secretly logged into his account anyway - controlling and stalkerish.

FYI I didn't know he had blocked or unblocked me - he text me to tell me so I had no idea, the 15 mins is an assumption! For all I know he could have done it the night before or something, I never look at his Instagram as it's quite boring

I unfollowed someone the other day and it came up with a message asking me if i wanted to remove them from my followers list without telling them.

Those of us who have been cheated on and then tried to stay with the partner have often eveloped anxiety problems as a result of being with a gaslighting liar.

Taken in isolation with a person who has never lied to you, of course this wouldn't be a concern.

But taken in context, something is amiss. Unusual activity online, last history of anonymous chat, financial anomalies and what I presume was him testing the water somehow on social media settings or for some specific purpose we don't know...it does arouse my suspicion too OP.

Go onto one of the "moving on from my cheating ex" threads and you will get very different replies to most here.

He might have messaged someone inappropriately then realised he was logged into his wife approved account and panicked, blocked you and her for long enough to remove proof and ensure she couldn't snoop your posts and account by removing all trace of your name and comments 'accidentally'. Then he can message her from his finsta account and sorted it all.

But, if you are worrying about it enough to monitor his social media so closely you either have bigger issues of trust and space, or you know something is off. Hope you figure out which.

I read your post a couple of times to try get a picture in my head, and something doesn't quite sit right either.

But I think he blocked you on purpose from his account. Then went on yours to see how it works, what can you see/not see then unblocked you. And made a petty lie.

Reasoning behind this? Only he knows! But if he was up to anything on Instagram. It be his DMs or maybe he liked someone's picture? Wanna check? Go on his account go on his settings "my account" "posts you've liked" that will tell you of his posts he's liked in order of most recent...

Do your digging x