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DP following loads of young female fitness accounts on Instagram

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fina22 · 04/03/2023 21:51

DP joined Instagram recently and about half the people he follows are young women into fitness (gym stuff mostly but a few of them are to do with onlyfans). Its made me feel horrible in many ways. I’m embarrassed that everyone we know can see. I feel inadequate and like that is clearly his kind of ideal woman and I’m mid 30s and slightly overweight, never been skinny. DP encouraged me to get into power lifting which I enjoy and now I feel icky about that like he’s trying to change me. Hit a real raw nerve for me about ageing and my weight and made me wonder if I’m better off ending the relationship.

I haven’t been happy with other things lately anyway - he spends excessively, and he said a few years ago he wanted to leave the military but he won’t and I really do not want to move away from all my friends and family if he gets posted. He is posted 2 hours drive away from our house at the minute and he lives away from me on the base during the week, as he can quite easily drive straight home on a Friday night. But if he was to get posted much further away that wouldn’t be practical and he’d want me to move with him. We bought our dream house last year and he’s not even here most the time.

Not sure if I’m being over the top about the Instagram thing or generally unhappy about other issues. AIBU?

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Aiimeee · 04/03/2023 23:31

People he knows would only know who he follows if they found him on Instagram and went looking at who he follows. Which is weird in itself. But yes, it seems odd to only follow young women and only fans related pages, it would tell me what type of person he is.

KatyKlanger · 04/03/2023 23:34

Michelle Khare is pretty cool.
Sorry, I know that isn't what you asked, but I'm watching one of her videos and thought I'd say it

RotundBeagle · 04/03/2023 23:35

Bit cringe but I'd add that a lot of these young women who want to gain a large following quickly mass follow loads of men in the hope they'll follow back. They then unfollow said men at a later stage and are left with loads of followers.

He may be getting loads of automatic messages of 'Fitgirl99 followed you, would you like to follow back?' and nay just be clicking yes.

But it's defo a bit suspicious.

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