📝 AITA for questioning whether I should marry my girlfriend of 5 years after thinking about her past?

By Hefty-Memory551 • Score: 0 • April 20, 2025 5:57 AM


I (22M) have been dating my girlfriend (21F) for five years. We've been serious for all of that time, and we've mentioned things about marriage. But I can’t stop thinking more on her past, and I’m not sure if it’s a valid concern.

Before we started dating, my girlfriend hooked up with a guy who is in the nfl draft this year, her past also includes her sending provocative pictures to some of my friends. I’ve been struggling with comparing her mistakes to the person she is now. I was clean before we met, and I didn’t hoe around before our relationship, so her past feels a bit foreign to me.

It’s not that I don’t trust her it's just that the idea of her being so open with my friends, and the fact that she was with someone famous, makes me feel uncomfortable with the fact that people will see it as me being okay with being seen with someone’s seconds. I love her and we’ve been together for a long time, but I’m questioning if I can stomach us watching games together knowing that there’s a chance he might pop up on screen, or that the pictures she sent are still in the phones of other guys. Or fully accept her past actions will have a negative effect on our future.

If any of you (guys) were in my shoes, would you still marry someone with that kind of past? Or be comfortable been seen with someone’s seconds? & AITA for letting her past affect how I feel about our future?

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