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Fiance has a secret Instagram account

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Treetoptap · 10/12/2025 15:41

Me (33F) and my fiance (39M) have been together nearly 7 years and are planning our wedding for summer next year. We've also been family planning, after having some miscarriages, we've had appointments for health checks etc. My fiance lost his job in April but has successfully found another he is enjoying.

Last year we were in couples counselling because I had seen on his phone he was on only fans. He deleted the account before I could even see what he was doing on it.. he said he was only on it out of curiosity.

Anyway, we work through it. And go ahead with planning this wedding.

A couple of weeks ago I see on his laptop, not through snooping, it was just on his open laptop in our office as I passed it. I see hes got a secret Instagram account, following loads of explicit models and he has been messaging these models flirty stuff like "lovely thighs"... The account is a random username and no profile picture. It is also set up using a different email address so it doesn't link to anything on his phone.

Again, after working through counselling last year, he's betrayed my trust. We were both happily planning a wedding and very excited for our next chapter, I feel completely blindsided by it. He promised me he'd never put me through this again after the only fans saga, and here we are. I know he loves me, I don't doubt that. But he's not respected my boundaries. He wants to work on this in counselling again but I don't think I keep going through this. He says that losing his job was a stress trigger that causes this behaviour. He says that I'm throwing our life together away too readily but I feel like I don't have a choice after all this happening again.

Not sure I have a question, but anyone got any advice or experience with this kind of thing. I do love him very much and I don't doubt he loves me, we do have a lovely relationship, I just don't understand this behaviour.

TL;DR we are planning to get married next year but my fiance has broken my trust again by making a secret Instagram account and messaging naked models. There's a lot of love there but I'm struggling to see a way forward.

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hmmnotreallysure · 10/12/2025 15:47

Don't have children with him and don't get married.

KellyJonesLeatherTrousers · 10/12/2025 15:51

He doesn’t understand or care what a committed relationship looks like. Walk away before you become further enmeshed, you deserve much much more.

PashaMinaMio · 10/12/2025 15:51

He obviously can’t help himself.
Hes weak.
He’ll always be weak and you’ll always be on guard.
If you marry him you’ll be back on MN soon telling us you’re pregnant, he’s up to his old tricks and you’re devastated.
Think hard OP, think very very hard.

Beerlzebub · 10/12/2025 15:54

So he wants you to go to counselling - again! - because of something he's done? Again?

Fuck that shit.

Also:

He says that losing his job was a stress trigger that causes this behaviour.

Pull the other one 🙄

He says that I'm throwing our life together away too readily

Classic DARVO.

ohyesiseethatnow · 10/12/2025 15:55

Sorry to say, I would get out now.

He’s not just looking, he’s created a separate profile, separate emails address, in order to actually send messages and instigate contact. And this is after the Only Fans thing.

My husband hasn’t done exactly that, but he’s done things in a similar vein, has betrayed trust, hasn’t respected boundaries, and has proven himself to be dishonest.

We are married with young children and having to just get on with it. Separating or divorcing just isn’t possible right now. But the trust has gone and I’m constantly on tenterhooks waiting for proof of something to present itself to me.

It’s shit, OP, and it’s 100% where you are headed. If you have the chance to get out and build a life with a better man, I strongly suggest you take it.

TheseWinterDays · 10/12/2025 15:55

He’s shown you who he is or you’ve found out - either way, don’t marry him.

Beerlzebub · 10/12/2025 15:56

You're 33, OP. You've got time to get out of this damaged relationship and find a decent man to build a family with.

TheseWinterDays · 10/12/2025 15:58

OnlyFans will be the tip of the iceberg as well.

WinWhenTheyreSinging · 10/12/2025 16:00

Very hard, but at least you know before you marry him. If you do go ahead with the wedding, this IS what your life will be like. I wouldn't do it.

Coconutter24 · 10/12/2025 16:00

A couple of weeks ago I see on his laptop, not through snooping, it was just on his open laptop in our office as I passed it. I see hes got a secret Instagram account, following loads of explicit models and he has been messaging these models flirty stuff like "lovely thighs"... The account is a random username and no profile picture. It is also set up using a different email address so it doesn't link to anything on his phone.

You managed to see all that when ‘passing by’ and you weren’t snooping? Ask yourself why you were looking…. Because you don’t trust him! Marriage is built on trust so I wouldn’t go ahead with it

Itiswhysofew · 10/12/2025 16:00

He's the one who's thrown your life away with his diabolical behaviour.

I wouldn't trust him again. Your counselling hasn't changed his attitude. He's obviously incapable of monogamy. You deserve better than himFlowers

CraftyPlayer · 10/12/2025 16:01

Yuck. He won’t change op. You deserve better.

AttilaTheMeerkat · 10/12/2025 16:03

Do not marry this man. This is doomed to failure.

If there is no trust, there is no relationship. Once trust is broken it is nigh on impossible to get it back.

metalbottle · 10/12/2025 16:04

@Treetoptap 'There's a lot of love there'

Why? He sounds like an arse, what is there to love?

Move on and be glad that you don't have kids or a marriage to end.

Cappie73 · 10/12/2025 16:06

You know the answer OP
LTB he won’t change only get worse

JustSomeMama · 10/12/2025 16:08

Hmm. Looking at insta accounts of other women is one thing but actually sending messages to these women in some desperate attempt to get a reply (I mean why else would he send a message?) is a completely different matter altogether. I'd ask him what he was trying to achieve?

I know on OF people can message the models and pay them to have a conversation. Do you think he was trying to do the same again just on a different platform?

Seriously I would ask him what the goal was here and who is truly sabotaging your relationship? (Spoiler alert: it's him).

MrsDoubtingMyself · 10/12/2025 16:09

He doesn't love you

He'll never change

Find self respect and get rid

TheseWinterDays · 10/12/2025 16:10

If you marry him you will uncover:
Secret online dating
Escorts
Brothels
Fetish sites …
and there will be one excuse after another.

PInkyStarfish · 10/12/2025 16:10

Just bin him. He’s sly, deceptive, a liar and will make your life a misery.

TheseWinterDays · 10/12/2025 16:11

PInkyStarfish · 10/12/2025 16:10

Just bin him. He’s sly, deceptive, a liar and will make your life a misery.

This ^ and he’s not even intelligent enough to hide it well!

glendabrownlow · 10/12/2025 16:14

hmmnotreallysure · 10/12/2025 15:47

Don't have children with him and don't get married.

This. He is what everyone above said. You will be left heart broken at the things he has done and will continue to do. Get out now. Thank goodness you uncovered stuff this side of the wedding.

Beerlzebub · 10/12/2025 16:16

JustSomeMama · 10/12/2025 16:08

Hmm. Looking at insta accounts of other women is one thing but actually sending messages to these women in some desperate attempt to get a reply (I mean why else would he send a message?) is a completely different matter altogether. I'd ask him what he was trying to achieve?

I know on OF people can message the models and pay them to have a conversation. Do you think he was trying to do the same again just on a different platform?

Seriously I would ask him what the goal was here and who is truly sabotaging your relationship? (Spoiler alert: it's him).

Also, OP hasn't seen his DMs on his secret Instagram account... I bet he's been messaging models.

WallaceinAnderland · 10/12/2025 16:16

Look, he's a man who likes secretly perving on women and lying to his wife. If that is the sort of man you want to marry go ahead.

What else do you expect people to say? You said it yourself - he's not respected your boundaries.

VimesandhisCardboardBoots · 10/12/2025 16:17

You set a boundary, he broke it.

What advice is there to give other than end the relationship?

Ariel896 · 10/12/2025 16:18

You have zero ties to this man. Get out now. Waste no more time on this twat