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I deleted a woman from his Facebook

125 replies

Dollyandflower · 27/03/2022 08:57

My boyfriend and me met 18 months ago. We talked and got close for 4 months and to be honest neither of us was in the best place for a new relationship. We had a little row and he over reacted and deleted me march 2021. He spoke to me 2 weeks later and then when we tried to discuss why we had clashed he tensed up and went off again for 6 weeks. I went onto his Facebook spying as we sometimes do. I noticed he had added a new woman. She was hearting his pictures and I clicked her page. She lived an hour away and there was absolutely no obvious connection.

He came back to talk to me 6 weeks later. We started getting close again and then one particular day she wrote something on his status that made me decide I needed to know. I asked her nicely how she knew him as we had been off and on for a while. She told me they met on tinder and had met and had sex a few times. He had told her he didn't want a relationship though and she told me there was no love or anything. When I told her about me she called him a nob and apologised as she had no idea about me. I deleted him that night and started moving on.

8 weeks later he's had therapy and really sorted himself out. It showed. I asked him if he had met anyone over the summer. He said no but he needed some time to figure out if he wanted a relationship and he said he tried to fight the feelings for me because he's scared but I'm the only woman he's felt love and closeness for since his ex. We've been together ever since and we are building up q future. But this woman has remained on his Facebook and she's now engaged to another man. The last few weeks she's started liking the odd thing and put a comment on his status the other day. So last night when he was asleep I deleted her off his Facebook.

He's never ever told me about her and I think they are both being really shitty towards me.

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AChocolateOrangeaday · 27/03/2022 10:01

It all sounds so childish.

How old are you both?

zen1 · 27/03/2022 10:05

Either way, you don’t trust him and have described him as being “shitty” towards you. This is no basis for a relationship.

MrsTimRiggins · 27/03/2022 10:07

This is so completely embarrassing and immature, and both of you are toxic. This is so unhealthy!! Best thing you can do is end it, block him (for good!) and just cut your losses.

TheLadyDIdGood · 27/03/2022 10:08

Sounds like something I hear when I'm on the bus with the local teenagers. Are you 15 or something?

I think you need therapy and need to learn social communication skills and how to conduct an adult relationship.

BadNomad · 27/03/2022 10:08

What was the purpose of deleting her? He's going to know you've been spying on him, lying to him by omission and playing games by trying to catch him out. What he did when you were broken up is none of your business. Ask him for his therapist's contact number maybe.

IWentAwayIStayedAway · 27/03/2022 10:08

8 weeks!!

He's just not that into you

Im sorry but you are worth more

Gonnagetgoing · 27/03/2022 10:09

Move on but also I’d get therapy for the jealousy and security issues because that level of it isn’t normal.

Flickflak · 27/03/2022 10:10

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Greensandon · 27/03/2022 10:11

Oh dear

SalsaLove · 27/03/2022 10:11

3..2..1….Pregnant!

speakball · 27/03/2022 10:15

Maturity is walking away from drama. Maturity might feel the urge to delete people off someone else's facebook but then realise what that means about the relationship. You can't artificially fabricate trust in a relationship. Maturity recognises when you're trying to do that.

Strugglingtodomybest · 27/03/2022 10:15

Massive red flag there for him. I'm sorry OP, but deleting somebody off his Facebook is very controlling.

LunaAndHerMoonDragons · 27/03/2022 10:16

Way too much wrong here. No one noticeably changes and sorts themselves out after 8 weeks of therapy. Real change is a lot harder then that. Mature people don't spy on each other's Facebook or delete someone off someone else's Facebook. They really, really don't. Neither of you are coming off good or mature here.

Brefugee · 27/03/2022 10:19

I went onto his Facebook spying as we sometimes do.

who is "we"? only immature 13 year olds pull stunts like this. Cut your losses, grow up a bit and move on.

Flowerpower23 · 27/03/2022 10:20

And this is exactly why I don’t have social media! All of this, he liked her picture, she liked his picture crap. It really does seem immature.

Brefugee · 27/03/2022 10:22

social media is fine. I don't have this kind of teenage drama on any of mine. And I don't police my DHs "likes" or friends list or whatever like an insecure control freak

sheiselectric · 27/03/2022 10:22

When I was 18, I used to go through my (then) boyfriend's phone looking for the numbers of girls and I would change the last digit of them so he could not contact them (This was back in the day when phones only held 10 messages so there would be no message thread.)

Deleting her from his facebook won't make your relationship better, just like me changing those phone numbers didn't make mine better. If you are in a position where you feel like you need to act in this way, the relationship is not a healthy one and you should end it so you can be with someone who can be honest with you.

WisherWood · 27/03/2022 10:24

8 weeks later he's had therapy and really sorted himself out. It showed.

That's not therapy, it's a brain transplant. Nothing else would work that quickly.

Honestly OP I'd just split up from him. He's playing you and telling you what you want to hear but he isn't committed to you and probably won't be committed to anyone for many years yet, if ever.

Frazzled2207 · 27/03/2022 10:26

I’m not sure what your question is or why you’re posting but life is too short to deal with crap like this. Just forget him and move on with your life.

Nidan2Sandan · 27/03/2022 10:28

Are you 14?

Hopingforabagofbuttons · 27/03/2022 10:31

So he had therapy for 8 weeks , really sorted himself out, and it showed .???????
You do know that 8 weeks is literally nothing in terms of therapy, like literally NOTHING.
You felt the need to log into his FB account and delete a contact , that is the very definition of controlling.
Do yourselves a favour and walk away, there’s no future here for either one of you

GracieLouFreeebush · 27/03/2022 10:32

@Dollyandflower

Jealous and controlling because I don't like being lied too?
But you have accepted being lied to. Once you forgive a behaviour from a partner once then you accept that they do that and you end up allowing it again and again.
Elderflower14 · 27/03/2022 10:32

What's the point? He can re add her!!

RockinHorseShit · 27/03/2022 10:32

Either he's turned you in to a bunny boiler, or your insecurities from elsewhere are making yiu behave like one.

Leave him, he's not for you, you are not for each other, stop flogging a dead horse

TabithaTittlemouse · 27/03/2022 10:32

I wish my therapy worked in 8 weeks!

You weren’t together and you are behaving like a child.