Looks like your bf is encroaching towards full infidelity, with sexting men already at the starting point. Its been 4 years, probably he has now become bored with your relationship. Looking at your young ages, in addition to what he is doing does not show him ready to have a full commitment leading to marriage. Probably your relationship is moving towards its end.
It doesn’t sound like it’s about him not liking you. It sounds like about a selfish self-centered person. He’s only interested in him and what he feels like talking about being around or doing.
Do you expect someone to move into their partners home, whether they own it or rent it, and just “help out with rent and chores” and not contribute to the actual cost of the rent/mortgage? You get somewhere free to live! because they're already paying-how is that fair? It's totally normal to expect someone moving in with you to contribute to the cost of the housing. Also, you don't “help out” with chores, you take on a portion of the chores as someone living there. This post sounds kind of like you expected to give up the apartment you pay for and are responsible for, move in with your bf, pay an electric bill here and there and maybe wash some dishes while making sure it feels like “home” for you, instead of being an actual member of an adult household who fairly contributes to rent, bills, and upkeep. I hope you weren't moving in to get out of paying rent and cleaning…
Well, what's the worst that can happen if other creeps see your pictures? You won't know about it.
He's using this to keep you dangling. He likes how 'scared' you are, and that you're all stressed over it.
One option is to flip the story and start laughing at him and tell him you're actually a 53 year old guy and that's not you in the pictures.
He owns those pictures because you sent them to him, which was your first mistake, twice BTW.
Until he distributes those pictures, he can keep them forever and he hasn't committed any crime. If he distributes them, he is then guilty of 'revenge porn' which is actionable by law.
Your best option here is to forget about all of it, unless you connect with his mother and shame him.
And stop sending nude photos of yourself to strangers on the internet unless you want this to keep happening.
I’m so sorry this is happening to you. I will give advice at the end. Let me tell you why I don’t allow any man to have nudes of me, boyfriend or not. Not saying you haven’t learned your lesson, because by gosh you have.
When I was 18 I sent a photo on Snapchat of my breasts to a guy. This was not even a guy I slept with. I was in an emotional state and had been through some stuff I don’t care to discuss here tonight, but PTSD stuff and fresh after. Point being I was young, hurt, and acting way out of character. So I got drunk one night with my girl friends and one of my friends (not her fault) was sending boob pics to a guy she was dating. I was like whatever I’ll send it to this guy who’s into me. Snap, send. Screenshotted and we talked a bit, sexy and all. I go to bed. A month or two later I was assaulted by a good friend of his. Not a guy I was interested in or anything…we hung out under the pretenses it was a friend hang and we had a lot of mutuals. I trusted him and never saw it coming. I actually had rejected him prior to the assault, as I had NO clue he even was attracted to me.
After the assault, I got a message from him on Twitter at the time. It had nothing but that pic of my breasts I shared with one person. I was like how did you get this? He was like send full body naked in 24 hours or I’ll send this to every single friend of yours on Facebook. I believed it, was in my college class at the time, had a panic attack and went to the police sobbing. I was like I really have never done this please help me. It was one drunk mistake. The guy I sent it to sent it to his friend (the bad guy). I deleted Twitter. He found my tumblr and did that there. I deleted tumblr. This went on, with weird messages, for months. Cops did nothing cause they were like well we can’t track him. ? Lol
I lived in FEAR for a year or two over this one mistake mixed with serious trauma. He never did a thing.
Anyways, that guy was NEVER going to message my family! He was a pansy. It’s all empty threats. He’s a d-bag, do not get me wrong. But reach out to your friends and family? I doubt it.
My advice to you is to tell him it’s not a choice. He will delete them. You demand it. Be stronger than I was. Don’t live! in fear for a moment. Shut that shit down and tell him it’s your body and he didn’t “earn” shit. He can’t take from you what’s yours.
I’m not saying one day we both can’t send an naked if we want or have to be reserved, like you do you, but one day a man will be far better to you than that. He will never speak to you like that and a real man deletes a woman’s nudes he is no longer with.
You will be okay and everything will be okay! Revenge porn is illegal. Stand your ground.
He may be naïve about protection, but you seem to be naïve in what to expect from a loving and healthy relationship. The post and your comments point to a highly emotionally abusive relationship, bourgeoning on physical and sexual as well.
If your one rule is “no nude drugs in the home” and he consistently breaks it then what do you think your options are? He is clear that he doesn't intend to stop using drugs or keeping his friends from using in your home.
He does work in trauma surgery and a burn unit, so when he’s at work, I get it. But when he’s home playing video games and stuff, that’s when I get a little frustrated.
But yes to the intense anxiety. My dad used to be my best friend and somehow that turned into him purposefully ignoring when I would cry because he didn’t want to “let me manipulate him” with my emotions. So now I get like a shakey chihuahua when I get close to someone because I was extremely close to my dad until one day he suddenly felt like my enemy.
If not: There's nothing that can be done to stop her from hating you. She has every right and reason to hate you and never have any contact to you again. You destroyed her life. You set her up for a life of misery by abusing and torturing her. You are a terrible person and did horrible things that can't be forgiven. She needs to get help, but that's none of your business. You messed up and it's clear why she won't allow you anywhere in her life.
They are not wrong, sure people are calling out her abusive behavior, but you'll also notice a distinct lack of top comments suggesting they divorce and he “drop her.” Most of the top comments seem to be sympathizing with the B.
Sorry, mom. I know this is nude for you. The reason we give advice to the ones we love is to see them happy and successful and hopefully avoiding mistakes we can see. But you can't make anyone take your advice and an “I told you so” doesn't do anyone any good.
You have to be supportive and loving. Remind him that you are always here for him and happy to help even if he's a cough adult now. Hopefully he'll come around but there's nothing you can do to force it. He's probably scared of an “I told you so” coming from you. He doesn't want to have to eat humble pie and ask for help just yet.
So I'm going to let you know that when someone is being assaulted, they often freeze or don't understand what's going on. Especially when they are intoxicated. Or even weeks or months later. I stayed friends with someone who assaulted me for almost a year before I realized how messed up what he did was. It sometimes takes time to process, especially if you are close to someone.
None of this sounds like she consented to me or that she only stopped it before sex. It sounds like she was processing that she was being assaulted while intoxicated. Also regarding complete honesty, I'm married and wasn't totally honest with my husband about an abusive relationship in my past because I thought he'd blame me. Assault takes time to process. Your gf needs help processing what happened, not to be blamed. Don't make assumptions based on her response to obvious trauma. If you can't handle supporting her through her processing of that trauma, that's okay. But also maybe look up trauma responses.
You are not in a dilemma you are in denial. You are just the emotional partner and he is the sexual partner. It's never going to stop. They will just hide it from now on.
How long ago were the invites sent? Was it before you two had been together for a year?
I’m going to echo what everyone else is saying: this is less about how your girlfriend’s best friend feels about you and more about how your girlfriend is reacting to it. Either she feels that it’s fair you’re excluded and you need to discuss why; she would rather not rock the boat with her best friend and you need to discuss how she handles confrontation how you feel about that as well as where you are on her list of priorities; or she doesn’t want you there and this relationship isn’t as serious for her as it is for you.
It’s genuinely not something I ever thought about since we’ve been monogamous for almost 2 years. We got tested before we first ever had sex and showed each other the results. I’ve always gotten an STD every 12 weeks when I get my depo injection too just to be sure I’m clean, which I am. We should be using them now though, you’re right. It’s something I’m gonna tell him we need to do from now on until we become exclusive again
He is not as you say, a good man. He is a man who is sometimes capable of doing good, but also doesn’t have the moral compass or integrity to prevent himself from sexually assaulting a woman. Good men don’t do that. He doesn’t have the emotional maturity to seek help when he needs it and instead, waits until everything blows up in his face, endangering you and your kids in the process. How many more chances are you going to give him?
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Tell her you want to break up so she can decide what to do with the gift.
If you drag it out it'll seem as if you stayed for the gift.
Looks like your bf is encroaching towards full infidelity, with sexting men already at the starting point. Its been 4 years, probably he has now become bored with your relationship. Looking at your young ages, in addition to what he is doing does not show him ready to have a full commitment leading to marriage. Probably your relationship is moving towards its end.
I mean if you're being tempted maybe leave anyways? You don't seem happy in the relationship anyways?
He’s a loser man child and he will never change
It doesn’t sound like it’s about him not liking you. It sounds like about a selfish self-centered person. He’s only interested in him and what he feels like talking about being around or doing.
Your math is wrong. If she made 40% as much as him, she should only be paying 28.5% of bills.
You probably meant “if she makes 40% of total household income.”
Do you expect someone to move into their partners home, whether they own it or rent it, and just “help out with rent and chores” and not contribute to the actual cost of the rent/mortgage? You get somewhere free to live! because they're already paying-how is that fair? It's totally normal to expect someone moving in with you to contribute to the cost of the housing. Also, you don't “help out” with chores, you take on a portion of the chores as someone living there. This post sounds kind of like you expected to give up the apartment you pay for and are responsible for, move in with your bf, pay an electric bill here and there and maybe wash some dishes while making sure it feels like “home” for you, instead of being an actual member of an adult household who fairly contributes to rent, bills, and upkeep. I hope you weren't moving in to get out of paying rent and cleaning…
Well, what's the worst that can happen if other creeps see your pictures? You won't know about it.
He's using this to keep you dangling. He likes how 'scared' you are, and that you're all stressed over it.
One option is to flip the story and start laughing at him and tell him you're actually a 53 year old guy and that's not you in the pictures.
He owns those pictures because you sent them to him, which was your first mistake, twice BTW.
Until he distributes those pictures, he can keep them forever and he hasn't committed any crime. If he distributes them, he is then guilty of 'revenge porn' which is actionable by law.
Your best option here is to forget about all of it, unless you connect with his mother and shame him.
And stop sending nude photos of yourself to strangers on the internet unless you want this to keep happening.
I’m so sorry this is happening to you. I will give advice at the end. Let me tell you why I don’t allow any man to have nudes of me, boyfriend or not. Not saying you haven’t learned your lesson, because by gosh you have.
When I was 18 I sent a photo on Snapchat of my breasts to a guy. This was not even a guy I slept with. I was in an emotional state and had been through some stuff I don’t care to discuss here tonight, but PTSD stuff and fresh after. Point being I was young, hurt, and acting way out of character. So I got drunk one night with my girl friends and one of my friends (not her fault) was sending boob pics to a guy she was dating. I was like whatever I’ll send it to this guy who’s into me. Snap, send. Screenshotted and we talked a bit, sexy and all. I go to bed. A month or two later I was assaulted by a good friend of his. Not a guy I was interested in or anything…we hung out under the pretenses it was a friend hang and we had a lot of mutuals. I trusted him and never saw it coming. I actually had rejected him prior to the assault, as I had NO clue he even was attracted to me.
After the assault, I got a message from him on Twitter at the time. It had nothing but that pic of my breasts I shared with one person. I was like how did you get this? He was like send full body naked in 24 hours or I’ll send this to every single friend of yours on Facebook. I believed it, was in my college class at the time, had a panic attack and went to the police sobbing. I was like I really have never done this please help me. It was one drunk mistake. The guy I sent it to sent it to his friend (the bad guy). I deleted Twitter. He found my tumblr and did that there. I deleted tumblr. This went on, with weird messages, for months. Cops did nothing cause they were like well we can’t track him. ? Lol
I lived in FEAR for a year or two over this one mistake mixed with serious trauma. He never did a thing.
Anyways, that guy was NEVER going to message my family! He was a pansy. It’s all empty threats. He’s a d-bag, do not get me wrong. But reach out to your friends and family? I doubt it.
My advice to you is to tell him it’s not a choice. He will delete them. You demand it. Be stronger than I was. Don’t live! in fear for a moment. Shut that shit down and tell him it’s your body and he didn’t “earn” shit. He can’t take from you what’s yours.
I’m not saying one day we both can’t send an naked if we want or have to be reserved, like you do you, but one day a man will be far better to you than that. He will never speak to you like that and a real man deletes a woman’s nudes he is no longer with.
You will be okay and everything will be okay! Revenge porn is illegal. Stand your ground.
Ain’t that the million dollar question 🙂
Not saying he should trust her, I’m saying don’t be in a relationship with someone who doesn’t trust you. It doesn’t matter why they don’t trust you.
He may be naïve about protection, but you seem to be naïve in what to expect from a loving and healthy relationship. The post and your comments point to a highly emotionally abusive relationship, bourgeoning on physical and sexual as well.
If your one rule is “no nude drugs in the home” and he consistently breaks it then what do you think your options are? He is clear that he doesn't intend to stop using drugs or keeping his friends from using in your home.
So what is your boundary here?
He does work in trauma surgery and a burn unit, so when he’s at work, I get it. But when he’s home playing video games and stuff, that’s when I get a little frustrated.
But yes to the intense anxiety. My dad used to be my best friend and somehow that turned into him purposefully ignoring when I would cry because he didn’t want to “let me manipulate him” with my emotions. So now I get like a shakey chihuahua when I get close to someone because I was extremely close to my dad until one day he suddenly felt like my enemy.
I hope this is trolling.
If not: There's nothing that can be done to stop her from hating you. She has every right and reason to hate you and never have any contact to you again. You destroyed her life. You set her up for a life of misery by abusing and torturing her. You are a terrible person and did horrible things that can't be forgiven. She needs to get help, but that's none of your business. You messed up and it's clear why she won't allow you anywhere in her life.
They are not wrong, sure people are calling out her abusive behavior, but you'll also notice a distinct lack of top comments suggesting they divorce and he “drop her.” Most of the top comments seem to be sympathizing with the B.
Sorry, mom. I know this is nude for you. The reason we give advice to the ones we love is to see them happy and successful and hopefully avoiding mistakes we can see. But you can't make anyone take your advice and an “I told you so” doesn't do anyone any good.
You have to be supportive and loving. Remind him that you are always here for him and happy to help even if he's a cough adult now. Hopefully he'll come around but there's nothing you can do to force it. He's probably scared of an “I told you so” coming from you. He doesn't want to have to eat humble pie and ask for help just yet.
Seriously lol. “Babe, you knocked the armrest right into my balls again”
Nobody is this fucking stupid. Cool story writing though.
So I'm going to let you know that when someone is being assaulted, they often freeze or don't understand what's going on. Especially when they are intoxicated. Or even weeks or months later. I stayed friends with someone who assaulted me for almost a year before I realized how messed up what he did was. It sometimes takes time to process, especially if you are close to someone.
None of this sounds like she consented to me or that she only stopped it before sex. It sounds like she was processing that she was being assaulted while intoxicated. Also regarding complete honesty, I'm married and wasn't totally honest with my husband about an abusive relationship in my past because I thought he'd blame me. Assault takes time to process. Your gf needs help processing what happened, not to be blamed. Don't make assumptions based on her response to obvious trauma. If you can't handle supporting her through her processing of that trauma, that's okay. But also maybe look up trauma responses.
I like to play video games so my girlfriend buys me Steam, Origin ect gift cards every once in a while so if he’s the same you could do that
You are not in a dilemma you are in denial. You are just the emotional partner and he is the sexual partner. It's never going to stop. They will just hide it from now on.
Hanging out with her would be going bowling, not getting a hotel room.
How long ago were the invites sent? Was it before you two had been together for a year?
I’m going to echo what everyone else is saying: this is less about how your girlfriend’s best friend feels about you and more about how your girlfriend is reacting to it. Either she feels that it’s fair you’re excluded and you need to discuss why; she would rather not rock the boat with her best friend and you need to discuss how she handles confrontation how you feel about that as well as where you are on her list of priorities; or she doesn’t want you there and this relationship isn’t as serious for her as it is for you.
He brags about your age gap and that tells you yes he likes young woman.
Come on.
Try harder for what?
To keep being his mommy?
You worked 12 hours shifts, paid all the bills minus food and did all the cleaning. No wonder you had a burn out.
It’s genuinely not something I ever thought about since we’ve been monogamous for almost 2 years. We got tested before we first ever had sex and showed each other the results. I’ve always gotten an STD every 12 weeks when I get my depo injection too just to be sure I’m clean, which I am. We should be using them now though, you’re right. It’s something I’m gonna tell him we need to do from now on until we become exclusive again
He is not as you say, a good man. He is a man who is sometimes capable of doing good, but also doesn’t have the moral compass or integrity to prevent himself from sexually assaulting a woman. Good men don’t do that. He doesn’t have the emotional maturity to seek help when he needs it and instead, waits until everything blows up in his face, endangering you and your kids in the process. How many more chances are you going to give him?
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