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Is this disrespectful?

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Help1983 · 30/10/2018 18:42

I’ve just had a big argument with my boyfriend of over five years. I think he is out of order and he thinks that I am overreacting.

We have had today off work and we were messing around with the iPad. I took a photo of him and went to look at it in the camera roll. When I went to the camera roll, there was a photo saved from the internet of a woman I don’t know.

I asked him who it was and apparently it’s one of his ex girlfriends from ten years ago. When I asked him how the photo came to be on his iPad he told me he had googled her and saved the picture from the internet last week.

I asked why and he said that he realised he didn’t have any photos of her. Hmm this is a woman he dated for about three months ten years ago.

This is not the first time he has done this - the last time I went on his iPad about three years ago, he had sought out a photo of another one of his exes. We had a discussion and I explained that I felt his behaviour was disrespectful. He agreed then that he wouldn’t like it if I was seeking out and saving pictures of my exes.

I don’t have a problem with the fact that he has exes. I don’t care if he has photos from his past (provided they aren’t in my face and he doesn’t expect me to have weekly sessions where we look at them together! Grin )

What I do have a problem with is that he seems to be repeatedly trawling the internet for photographs of women he has previously dated, despite knowing that it hurts my feelings. It makes me feel like he is looking for something better.

There is only one photo of me in his camera roll.

Am I being over sensitive and controlling? Thanks.

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ABeanCalledHopeInAMadTin · 03/11/2018 14:47

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SendintheArdwolves · 03/11/2018 15:56

The bit that bothers me is his use of "being in the doghouse" - it's so disrespectful of your feelings.

It implies that he doesn't have to engage with you or listen or empathise or examine his behaviour - he just has to wait out your sulk until it goes away.

It sounds to me like he's a trophy collector - I'm betting this woman is above average attractiveness and he wants a reminder of his own prowess in sleeping with her.

The photo itself - bit creepy and gollum-ish. But then deflecting, accusing you of paranoia, grumping about "the doghouse", promising to delete it and then not - none of this is great, OP.

BundyLancroft · 03/11/2018 18:05

ABeanCalledHopeInAMadTin you are the OPs boyfriend aren't you Hmm

ABeanCalledHopeInAMadTin · 03/11/2018 23:15

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BundyLancroft · 04/11/2018 20:47

Well aren't you a catch ABeanCalledHopeInAMadTin Hmm

Bunny Boiling is pretty offensive misogynistic crap talk.

The OP is disturbed by her partner searching and saving current photos of old exes. I think she sounds quite justified and perfectly rational. That's just not good partner behaviour.

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