Will I ever trust him again?

Anna

My boyfriend and his ex dated for three years, freshman to senior year, and me and him met the middle of our senior year. it was a bad relationship, and he wanted out of it and they broke up a month after we started talking. She took a very very long time to stop messaging him and calling after they broke up, which I had to be “okay” with because I didn’t want to be too pushy, since he had an issue with her being so controlling. Fast forward a little over two years, and we’re living together. He goes on a guys trip one weekend and comes back, everything seems fine, our two year anniversary passes and we’re happy. I find out a couple days after that on his guys trip, his ex had messaged him to see how he was. She was flirting at some points and saying how she “definitely misses all of him,” and he said he was high so he was just saying “mhm sure” to those things. He deleted all of that before I found the Instagram DM where he was apologizing for stalking her Instagram and liking a picture, in which he decided to make a comment about her big butt. It’s been several months since then and I’m struggling so bad. I love him so much and he’s trying to hard, he really is. I know he’s sorry and I know he regrets it, I just cannot understand why he would do that to us??? We were happy, and now all I think about is if he’ll do it again. Please offer insight, or let me know if your relationship worked out after he cheated.