Is liking other girls Instagram pictures cheating?

[andzhella01]

Is liking other girls Instagram pictures cheating?

No

Not cheating, but very embarrassing and I wouldn't be happy about it.

No, that's basically jerk off material for a lot of men.

No.

It’s not cheating but it’s lame af. Is he 14?

Not cheating ,but can be a reason to dump someone.

Boyfriend likes pics of female friends/relatives/celebrities he likes: absolutely fine.

Boyfriend is constantly checking social media to find pictures of random women posting sexy pictures and posts comments to try to engage with them: creepy and disrespectful.

I would say that the second scenario is a huge red flag and a good reason to end a relationship.

It doesn’t matter what other people think. It matters what you think.

if a partner of mine was doing that I would find it a complete turn off. I would also find it a bit pathetic. Now people might argue with me and say it is harmless, fine, normal, whatever. I don’t care what others would do in that situation. I’m confident enough in myself that I would find it all a bit tawdry and…ick. And I don’t think I would even bother to ask my partner to desist. I’d just break up with them. My opinion of them would be forever tarnished.

…and you can argue about semantics until the cows come home but that, imo, is missing the point.

No, but:

I agree. Others might feel fine with their partners drooling over and liking half naked women on instagram but if you dont then you dont. Its ok to have standards/boundaries and not to want your partner constantly searching for sexy women online. Neither of you are inherently wrong but I'd make it clear that I didnt like it and then he has a choice doesnt he?- either respect that you dont like it and cut it out or jog on. Its not as if searching for sexy women online is some kind of requirement to live and you are imposing cruel and harsh rules on him. If he likes you and wants the relationship to continue then he'll respect that. If he literally cannot stop doing it or gets angry about it then I would question his level of maturity anyway. Its really the kind of thing teenage boys do and it seems odd to me that he'd rather ogle naked strangers online (who filter their pics anyway to make it seem like the ideal fantasy) than have an actual relationship with a real person.

Not cheating as such but wannabe/fantasy cheating as of course on one level they'd want to shag these girls.

Inappropriate if they're in a relationship.

If you ask him why he does it, what's his reason? What does he hope to achieve?

The only logical reason, surely, is it's an attempt to get the attention of the poster. Trying to form a connection.

Whatever the 'reason' it's sleazy and makes him sound 14. I couldn't respect or be attracted to a man who acts like a 14 year old boy.

No. It isn’t cheating.

It is sleazy, disrespectful, and gross behaviour and I would dump a man who does it. But that doesn’t make it ‘cheating’.

If your partner has done this and you now wanna dump them, just dump them, you don’t need to prove cheating, just do what you feel.

It’s sleazy behaviour, and very disrespectful to you.

No but it would piss me off!

Of course it isn't.

I'd just find it really embarrassing 🤦‍♀️🤢 sorry OP x

I wouldn't call it cheating exactly but I wouldn't want to be in a relationship with him.

I like photos of male and female friends when they're doing interesting things or in interesting places. I might like a particularly good photo of a close friend just because it's attractive, but not all the time and not people I don't know well IRL.

Nope, not cheating but I wouldn’t like it and it would make me view my partner in a different light (rightly or wrongly 🤷🏼‍♀️)

Not cheating, but why is he sleazing about looking at sexy models on Instagram? I suppose it’s one thing passively looking if they happen to come up in his feed, but he’s actually taking the step of attempting to engage with them on some level by liking their photos.

Its not cheating as in adultery or an affair.
But if he's doing it on the sly, knowing you wouldn't want that in a relationship then he's cheating you by hiding behaviour from you.
I'm not sure what label you put on it is that important though, is it? The only thing that matters is whether he's doing something that's unacceptable to you. People have different boundaries for that, so you just need to know what your's are.

Quite. There is something so shallow and sleazy about it. Like walking past a stranger and saying "you're fit". Once you get past age 14 it's just not normal.