A friend has been dating someone for just less than a year. Things seem to be going really well and they are moving in together. He has two kids from a failed relationship. Her last relationship ended quite messily and he moved on with another woman quite quickly. She was really upset about losing contact with his son because he was part of her life for four years.
There was only about 4/5 months from this split to her getting together with this new partner. At first she was reluctant to meet his kids too soon and wanted to leave it a good 6 months before doing so. They’d both spoken about it too. Partly this was because of what had happened with her previous partners son. She has since met them (sooner than 6 months I believe) and now regularly posts pictures with them on social-media, sometimes just her and them. I’ve seen her friends/family comment underneath the photos, ‘what a nice family’.
I can’t help but feel uncomfortable by this. They haven’t been together long and I wonder what the mum would think seeing these pictures. Personally, it’s not something I would do unless I’d been with someone for a long time and I’d still feel weird having my photo taken with someone else’s kids let alone regularly post them on social media. Just for the record, she doesn’t have kids herself and has always said she doesn’t want them.