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Do you care if an ex’s new partner is a lot more attractive than you are?

10 replies

probablyamunreasonable · 27/07/2026 19:25

I probably am being unreasonable, but is it human nature to feel a bit weird if you see your ex’s new girlfriend is A LOT better looking than you are?

Even if it was a long time ago that you were with them and you definitely don’t have feelings for them anymore. She (new gf) is so pretty I think I may fancy her!

YABU - I wouldn’t care
YANBU - It probably would affect me

OP posts:
Kipperz · 27/07/2026 19:26

Of course, it’s human nature!

MinnieCoops · 27/07/2026 19:40

Yes I wouldn’t like that

BasketCaseBug · 27/07/2026 20:02

I would be a bit miffed, but if my current partners ex wasore attractive, that would bother me even more!

Yes insecure I know.

GarlicEverywhere · 27/07/2026 20:05

They never have been. This is not an indication of my extreme beauty, it's more than I consistently punched below my weight. Silly younger me!

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 27/07/2026 20:05

I feel sorry for any girlfriends of my exes. They’re exes for a reason! The ones I have seen have been very pretty but I can genuinely say that hasn’t bothered me. They’ve drawn the short straw of having partnered up with a knob!

ThatCheeseNeedsEating · 27/07/2026 20:06

I saw a photo my exs new girlfriend and she was quite different to me and not at all what I expected. I thought what does he see in her?! I don't want to be with him at all. So it can work both ways.

MissCooCooMcgoo · 27/07/2026 20:07

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

SusanChurchouse · 27/07/2026 20:07

GarlicEverywhere · 27/07/2026 20:05

They never have been. This is not an indication of my extreme beauty, it's more than I consistently punched below my weight. Silly younger me!

Ditto.

Loulou4022 · 28/07/2026 13:09

Doesn’t bother me, he’s my ex for a reason and tbh I feel sorry for his current/ future partners as unfortunately a leopard never changes his spots in his case at least and he’s been married and divorced twice since we split 13 years ago!

TON618 · 28/07/2026 18:55

Of course YABU, he has technically put you in the same league that she is in ;)

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