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Brother's gf upset about his ex keeping wedding photos up on FB

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AvocadoBathroom · 04/08/2017 11:26

My lovely brother has a great girlfriend - they've been together about 4 years, he split from his ex wife several years ago. It's all tickety boo, they've just got engaged and I like his new GF a lot, she's down to earth, fun, most importantly she really loves him and she's great with his daughter from his previous marriage.
His ex was... ok. But she was imo a bit vain and into herself. She was seeing another man & he walked away. She didn't stay with the affair. She's friends with me on FB because occasionally I work with her company - she's always superficially friendly and we grab a coffee sometimes at lunch, but we aren't friends outside of the one week every couple of months we have to work on a project.

Current girlfriend was here the other night when we had all the kids here for a sleepover, put the kids to bed and then we had a drink. She told me that she's been told by a friend that his ex has all their wedding photos and their honeymoon photos up on FB still. She knows I work with the ex sometimes and she asked me whether she should message the ex and ask her nicely to take them down as he is now going to be married to her. I wasn't sure about this as his ex is a bit defensive and I said I thought she would refuse and that she'd also maybe get a rise out of his current gf having to ask.
I kind of think she's better off just ignoring it, because she's the one who is marrying him now, it's a bit embarrassing for his ex to have those pics up still. What would you do? I've told her to leave it for now and that maybe the ex will get the hint and take them down after enough people have told her about the wedding.

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CastIronCookware · 04/08/2017 14:41

My DHs exW ADDED these kind of pics to FB long after they'd split, divorced and we had got married - she posted pics from their wedding, their honeymoon and quite recently added as her profile pic a photo from the anniversary holiday they went on a few weeks before DH found out she'd been cheating on him. It was 9 years ago - she looks nothing like that now!

It's odd, but I don't see it as threatening - my DH and I are secure.

AvocadoBathroom · 04/08/2017 14:44

Under the moonlight - no kids are in the pics - they got married before they had kids. I don't even remember what the photos were like. I was drunk most of the day!

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AvocadoBathroom · 04/08/2017 14:46

Because I know what is like to be insecure I didn't say to her "oh you are being silly" I just think the friend is stirring. His gf has never said anything to me about his ex before even though she knows I see her. I think it's wedding nerves the more I think about it.

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AvocadoBathroom · 04/08/2017 14:48

I said "as long as she doesn't turn up in her wedding dress you'll be ok" 😂

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LunaMay · 04/08/2017 14:56

The gf is being ridiculous. It's up to the ex what she has on her own fbook, it was no doubt a big part of her life even if it didnt work out. I'm kind of surprised you didnt just tell her to let this go outright.
Whats she gonna do if the daughter decides she'd like a picture of mum and dad in her room at some point? Have a meltdown?

AvocadoBathroom · 04/08/2017 16:02

I think I was just sympathetically listening to her worry - like I said I can struggle with insecurity a lot myself - so I don't want to jump on her for feeling insecure just before her wedding. In all other aspects she's a great gf to him. It's out of character of her to say anything about his ex tbh.

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SpartacusSaiman · 04/08/2017 17:01

Some people dont take photos down.

Its the ex facebook
The ex marriage
The ex past

She has every right to keep those photos up.

BringMeSunshinePlease · 04/08/2017 17:19

I'm afraid I agree with poster, why would the ex want the pics online? It's a failed marriage, why would you want to keep that on your Facebook? It's best to ignore. Ex-wife needs to move on and delete them! It reeks of her not being able to!

SandyY2K · 04/08/2017 17:23

She'd be mad to contact his Ex. It's crossing a line in my opinion and if someone asked me to do that, I agree, I'd put more pictures up just for the hell of it.

It's not her place.

AvocadoBathroom · 04/08/2017 20:47

I think she's getting wound up by the "friend" - I just had a look and couldn't even see the photos - so they might be on a privacy setting that only the mutual friend can see. My brother isn't friends with his ex on FB so he's not tagged in anything. The ex never mentions him to me so if she was still hung up about him I think she'd take every opportunity to ask me how he was etc. I've said to his gf that she definitely shouldn't contact her about it, that she can't control what the other person might do and that it just makes her look as though the relationship isn't strong and I think she's now seeing past her initial reaction. I'm not sure how the "friend" worded it, maybe she said something inflammatory because normally Brother's gf is a really level headed & calm person. She's never been married before so I wonder if some of it is nerves around that too. Depends on how important the idea of 'firsts' is to her I guess.

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