Social media continues to ruin my relationship.
My boyfriend (22M) and I (23F) have been dating for almost two years and living together for one. We have had issues in the past with his social media use because he would flirt with women on Twitter openly and save sexy photos of women on Instagram. After every fight with me explaining how it made me feel he would just gas light me, tell me it’s not a big deal and “fine I’ll just delete the whole app”. It’s been six months since our social media fights and neither of us have instagram or Twitter and it’s been rocky but working. Our new app of choice is Tik Tok, things were going great at first, his page was filled with car videos and working out and mine was art or funny videos. The way the algorithm works is whatever videos you frequently comment, like or watch the entire thing will continue to show up on your page. If you like baking eventually your for you page will be filled with cooking videos. Anyway, I checked his for you page last night and every other video was women shaking their ass, wearing lingerie or doing twerking “challenges”. I’m very hurt by this because we have had so many disagreements in the past about him looking at that type of stuff. I get that in some relationships that’s normal and the girlfriend doesn’t care, but I do care and he has known that for a long time. I’m afraid to even have a conversation with him because I know he will just gas light me or turn the discussion around on me. And he did just that, he told me since he has to delete his tik tok, that I have to delete mine because it’s only fair. But it’s not fair because he was the one doing wrong, not me. I just really need some help.
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