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Making Him Block His Exes

31 replies

Looloolo · 20/12/2024 07:36

Brief backstory.

Met a guy on online dating who said he had females friends and I’d have to be cool with that. I was.

Then I found out he met them on dating apps.

Then that he’d slept with them.

Then it became apparent he was jealous of one of them having a boyfriend.

Then another wanted to go away with him and I said fine but he said no because she might try it on.

The one wanted him to run errands.

Anyway. I said to tell them all straight and we’d be good and instead he said he’d blocked them all.

I found it frustrating as a solution but whatever. They were gone and I could forget all about them.

Fast forward six months and we’re living together and everything seems good on the face of it until I spot a mutual friend in a Facebook group and it’s one of these girls.

A quick search and he’s friends with all the girls on Facebook and I can feel the walls crashing down around me.

I ask him about it and he said he blocked on them insta, never uses Facebook to chat etc

He doesn’t like being accused. I’m paranoid etc etc etc etc

I believe he’s not chatting with them but the thought of him checking up on their profile (if he does) upsets me a little.

Mostly though, I’m devastated that he said he blocked them and I just completely accepted it and he didn’t.

Also he seems to be using loopholes to justify it. Am I crazy to think that blocking someone means from your life and not just insta?

Now it’s been a couple of days and he said he’d block them again but also said he wasn’t sure which girls I meant so maybe he missed one.

The question is whether I deliberately check if he’s blocked them all and if he hasn’t do I now insist that he does because that’s what he said he’d do?

OP posts:
StrawberryDream24 · 20/12/2024 11:46

Anotherfrozenpizzafortea · 20/12/2024 11:19

I'm friends with 3 exes on sm. Some from before I was married (and divorced!).

I'm currently friends with my dp's former FWB! We all have histories op, unless you are significantly concerned about him/insecure/worried he's gonna cheat, you need to take several steps back. You either trust him or you don't.

Then it became apparent he was jealous of one of them having a boyfriend.
Then another wanted to go away with him and I said fine but he said no because she might try it on.
The one wanted him to run errands.

Do you and they behave like this?

Anotherfrozenpizzafortea · 20/12/2024 12:43

StrawberryDream24 · 20/12/2024 11:46

Then it became apparent he was jealous of one of them having a boyfriend.
Then another wanted to go away with him and I said fine but he said no because she might try it on.
The one wanted him to run errands.

Do you and they behave like this?

No, which is my point. Op doesn't trust her dp - and with good reason, he needs to be dumped.

If my dp told me to delete anyone from SM I'd tell him he was controlling - but he has no reason not to trust me. Op doesn't trust her dp, her 'relationship' is doomed!

unclemtty · 20/12/2024 12:56

The deceit. The twisting and turning. The DARVO. The moving in together after a few months.

I can't see this being anymore than and very painful life experience. It sounds like you've had the best of him, I'd dump before it gets even worse and you are put off men for life.

ChristmasFluff · 20/12/2024 12:56

Never date a man with a harem - you are only auditioning to become a member of it.

momofonex · 20/12/2024 13:01

Does he use Facebook though? I have a Facebook account that I never use however I do use Instagram - if I was to delete/block someone on Instagram, it probably wouldn't even cross my mind to go and do it on Facebook too as I never use it!

Can you check they're definitely blocked on Instagram?

Bananalanacake · 20/12/2024 16:24

Why the rush to move in so quick, now he'll be more difficult to get rid of when you've had enough.

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