Why does he keep following so many women?

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I've been seeing this guy for over a year now. We started off as friends. We were friends fr a few years before then until he said he liked me and then things progressed.

We still act like best friends, as in he flirts with me..and is forever taking the mickey out of me in a friendly way. But we don't speak to each other like couples do in thr sense of all the soppy speak. I.e baby I miss you and love you etc etc it's not like that.

We.see each other once a week or once every other week. and in between we do remain in contact. When we see each other everythings good we get on really well and don't argue.

Only yesterday he was joking around about us having kids he ws like make sure you name our kid ...... an then he said it'll be good he will be my security guard for you etc etc. and he's also mentioned marriage randmly aswell.

But one habit of his which really.annoys me is his need.to follow a random woman every other day on. instagram. I can see his followers increase every day and it's usually a woman he doesn't even know. Not even celebrities since that's normal I guess. And not being bigheaded but half these.women are either thr same as me looks wise or worse I honestly.don't see anything special in any of them. Fair enough we all find other people attractive but I wouldn't go an follow hundreds of other guys. in fact if it was the other way around would he really like that. I don't know if im over thinking it or if it really is a cause for concern but I just.don't see the need for it. he will log on to his instagram and his whole home feed will be full of women taking selfies. is it really necessary?

I even showed a friend pictures of these women and about one of them she said "eww shes ugly" but I didn't tell her about him following her. That's what I mean none of them are anythin special yet he's sittin there perving away.

I don't know about anyone else but I would want someone to be so into me that they focus only on me and not have images of hundreds of other women in their minds.

Having said that evrythng else is fine in the.sense that we get on and he will reply.to me straight away if I message and hl arrange when to meet me.next. But yeh it's just the instagram thing which gets me.thinking I suppose and also the fact that he's so overprotective of his phone. even if I innocently say can I look at your pics or your apps or play a game he just flinches and grabs his phone
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Are you in an exclusive committed relationship? Or just friends?
I wouldn't say it's just friends, we are dating, we do a lot together. I don't know how he sees it.
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Because men need labels to distinguish their freedom verses obligations. He’s not in an exclusive relationship, therefore he has the freedom to do whatever he wants. That’s probably why he loves his relationship with you. It’s not restrictive.
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Are you in an exclusive committed relationship? Or just friends?
I wouldn't say it's just friends, we are dating, we do a lot together. I don't know how he sees it.
Because men need labels to distinguish their freedom verses obligations. He’s not in an exclusive relationship, therefore he has the freedom to do whatever he wants. That’s probably why he loves his relationship with you. It’s not restrictive.
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This×10

You either have "the talk" or it never happened.
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Posted by peaches08
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Are you in an exclusive committed relationship? Or just friends?
I wouldn't say it's just friends, we are dating, we do a lot together. I don't know how he sees it.
Because men need labels to distinguish their freedom verses obligations. He’s not in an exclusive relationship, therefore he has the freedom to do whatever he wants. That’s probably why he loves his relationship with you. It’s not restrictive.
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welll he knows I wouldn't like it if I found out anything had happened between him and another woman.

a couple of times I did get moody with him and just stopped talking.to him and he always has something to say about it, so it's like her still wants me around
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Are you in an exclusive committed relationship? Or just friends?
I wouldn't say it's just friends, we are dating, we do a lot together. I don't know how he sees it.
Because men need labels to distinguish their freedom verses obligations. He’s not in an exclusive relationship, therefore he has the freedom to do whatever he wants. That’s probably why he loves his relationship with you. It’s not restrictive.
welll he knows I wouldn't like it if I found out anything had happened between him and another woman.

a couple of times I did get moody with him and just stopped talking.to him and he always has something to say about it, so it's like her still wants me around
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Doesn’t matter. You better have a talk with him about being exclusive.
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Your friend is only telling you that to make you feel better about yourself

If you get upset over your guy following other women on Instagram than that’s just sad

There are bigger problems in the world than “your” guy following other woman on social media
Like what? Please do tell
You need to stop coming to dxp when you're on your rag CC.

You are all sorts of extra mcsauce extra when you're bleeding.
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what the hell are you going on about. she's simply defending me against some tosser
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To me, it sounds like his Instagram activity annoying you is more a reflection of you not knowing where you stand with him.

Ask him what the deal is. Get clarification for yourself. Make sure you’re clear on what you want. It seems you’re outgrowing this more casual approach around him and there’s nothing wrong with that as long as it doesn’t continue to grow alone.
That's fair enough. yeh I think iv probably had enough from him. I just feel like I can't even be bothered to approach him, I'd rather just move on , while not letting him know a thing. he can find out on his own
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Your friend is only telling you that to make you feel better about yourself

If you get upset over your guy following other women on Instagram than that’s just sad

There are bigger problems in the world than “your” guy following other woman on social media
thanks for that. some cold hearted *****.
I’m being honest

Why are you so self conscious that you care that he follows other women? This is life. Even if a man loves a woman he will always look at other woman

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I know that. but there's a difference in just when hes out and about and he comes across women n looks fr a second and walks on without a second thought. What he does is he consciously follows JUST women practically on instagram, it's not just one or two, it's about over 200, and every single day his home page will just be full of women posing away. You're telling me that most people would be cool with that.
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Posted by AquaNextDoor
Never invest that much thoughts and feelings in a guy who isn't even yours. Just like the others said if "the talk" didnt happen then you ain't dating, you ain't official - you are just hanging out.

But why run away passive agressivly? Why don't you just simply ask him if he wants to actually date you 🌷
he should keep his marriage and kids comments to himself then and stop talking to me forever if that's the case. why keep me hanging. Because why should I give him that satisfaction, it's insulting enough what he's doing yet I have to be the one to ask him all the important stuff. not going to happen. he can go stuff himself
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Never invest that much thoughts and feelings in a guy who isn't even yours. Just like the others said if "the talk" didnt happen then you ain't dating, you ain't official - you are just hanging out.

But why run away passive agressivly? Why don't you just simply ask him if he wants to actually date you 🌷
he should keep his marriage and kids comments to himself then and stop talking to me forever if that's the case. why keep me hanging. Because why should I give him that satisfaction, it's insulting enough what he's doing yet I have to be the one to ask him all the important stuff. not going to happen. he can go stuff himself
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I know how that feels.. very frustrating. It will get better and when you happy with the next dude he'll be forgotten in no time!
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Never invest that much thoughts and feelings in a guy who isn't even yours. Just like the others said if "the talk" didnt happen then you ain't dating, you ain't official - you are just hanging out.

But why run away passive agressivly? Why don't you just simply ask him if he wants to actually date you 🌷
he should keep his marriage and kids comments to himself then and stop talking to me forever if that's the case. why keep me hanging. Because why should I give him that satisfaction, it's insulting enough what he's doing yet I have to be the one to ask him all the important stuff. not going to happen. he can go stuff himself
I know how that feels.. very frustrating. It will get better and when you happy with the next dude he'll be forgotten in no time!
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hopefully there is someone decent. thanks. I feel like if this guy isnt really serious he's been then stringing me along for too long though, there's months and then there's years. its been years
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Never invest that much thoughts and feelings in a guy who isn't even yours. Just like the others said if "the talk" didnt happen then you ain't dating, you ain't official - you are just hanging out.

But why run away passive agressivly? Why don't you just simply ask him if he wants to actually date you 🌷
I think it’s worth investing into someone you’re interested in, how else are you going to get to know someone and capture their interest? She is interested in a guy, but has found a flaw that she may obsess over during their potential relationship. If she can’t accept this flaw then there’s no point in getting into a relationship with the guy.

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The point are the little words "that much" that make a huge difference in my sentence. Women often invest waaay to many thoughts and feelings in a guy who isn't even investing half of what they do + is not even their bf
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To me, it sounds like his Instagram activity annoying you is more a reflection of you not knowing where you stand with him.

Ask him what the deal is. Get clarification for yourself. Make sure you’re clear on what you want. It seems you’re outgrowing this more casual approach around him and there’s nothing wrong with that as long as it doesn’t continue to grow alone.
That's fair enough. yeh I think iv probably had enough from him. I just feel like I can't even be bothered to approach him, I'd rather just move on , while not letting him know a thing. he can find out on his own
I suggest you lose this guy.

It doesn’t matter if you find out where you stand with this guy, If you don’t like his behavior now, he won’t stop while you’re dating. You can’t change who he is or what he likes to do.
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he always says he's loyal and In my head im just like "yeh right". maybe you're right it wil probably hard for him to stop. there are many better looking guys out there than him but I don't go after them even now, how would it make him feel if I did.
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Girl don't even worry about @queenaries comments

Get yo instagram up girlie 😂😂😂
LOL I do have one 😂😂😂, but don't follow strangers like him, maybe I will, you're right, going to do exactly the same 🙂
That’s just petty and not being yourself.

No wonder men have a foul taste in their mouth about women these days
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men have a foul taste in their mouths because thyre foul maybe.
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Posted by AquaNextDoor
Never invest that much thoughts and feelings in a guy who isn't even yours. Just like the others said if "the talk" didnt happen then you ain't dating, you ain't official - you are just hanging out.

But why run away passive agressivly? Why don't you just simply ask him if he wants to actually date you 🌷
I think it’s worth investing into someone you’re interested in, how else are you going to get to know someone and capture their interest? She is interested in a guy, but has found a flaw that she may obsess over during their potential relationship. If she can’t accept this flaw then there’s no point in getting into a relationship with the guy.


The point are the little words "that much" that make a huge difference in my sentence. Women often invest waaay to many thoughts and feelings in a guy who isn't even investing half of what they do + is not even their bf
I agree and I don’t know how much the op has invested in this guy, but sounds like she was very hopeful of a relationship. Now that she has identified something she doesn’t like about him, hopefully she moves on/doesn’t invest further.
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he's just obsessed with women, how's that going to work in a monogamous relationship, I dnt no why he bothers talking about marriage and kids to me. its just silly especially when I don't initiate those sorts of topics of coversation.
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I've been seeing this guy for over a year now. We started off as friends. We were friends fr a few years before then until he said he liked me and then things progressed.

We still act like best friends, as in he flirts with me..and is forever taking the mickey out of me in a friendly way. But we don't speak to each other like couples do in thr sense of all the soppy speak. I.e baby I miss you and love you etc etc it's not like that.

We.see each other once a week or once every other week. and in between we do remain in contact. When we see each other everythings good we get on really well and don't argue.

Only yesterday he was joking around about us having kids he ws like make sure you name our kid ...... an then he said it'll be good he will be my security guard for you etc etc. and he's also mentioned marriage randmly aswell.

But one habit of his which really.annoys me is his need.to follow a random woman every other day on. instagram. I can see his followers increase every day and it's usually a woman he doesn't even know. Not even celebrities since that's normal I guess. And not being bigheaded but half these.women are either thr same as me looks wise or worse I honestly.don't see anything special in any of them. Fair enough we all find other people attractive but I wouldn't go an follow hundreds of other guys. in fact if it was the other way around would he really like that. I don't know if im over thinking it or if it really is a cause for concern but I just.don't see the need for it. he will log on to his instagram and his whole home feed will be full of women taking selfies. is it really necessary?

I even showed a friend pictures of these women and about one of them she said "eww shes ugly" but I didn't tell her about him following her. That's what I mean none of them are anythin special yet he's sittin there perving away.

I don't know about anyone else but I would want someone to be so into me that they focus only on me and not have images of hundreds of other women in their minds.

Having said that evrythng else is fine in the.sense that we get on and he will reply.to me straight away if I message and hl arrange when to meet me.next. But yeh it's just the instagram thing which gets me.thinking I suppose and also the fact that he's so overprotective of his phone. even if I innocently say can I look at your pics or your apps or play a game he just flinches and grabs his phone


Says she with no picture LOL LOL