📝 AITAH for telling my boyfriend he no longer has a say in my social media following?

By RedditXpressions • Score: 2 • April 27, 2025 5:02 AM


My boyfriend (22M) follows few women on Instagram. Claims to know the few as “friends” from high school. Most of them post bikini pictures regularly. I’ve told him I’m (26F) not comfortable with this. Not because it makes me insecure or envious of them (he thinks this). I find it disrespectful and inconsiderate. Maybe a tad bit unfaithful. We never got to a resolution on this topic… bad I know. Anyways, one of these “friends” lives not too far from him. They record music together from time to time. I’ve met her— she was polite and nice. We didn’t talk much. I should also mention her boyfriend is also my boyfriends barber so I guess in his mind that makes him friends with both of them. Anyways, here’s the problem… Today he was scrolling through Instagram, per usual she pops up on his feed— except today she is dancing provocatively in a bikini. This is a first for her. He said something to the effect of “woah, did you see that? She’s on to something.” Idk possibly insinuating a breakup with the barber boyfriend or her posting this to upset him idk and idc about that. I don’t like that this is now her content that he will be viewing. It’s just weird to me and makes me extremely uncomfortable with their continued friendship. I told him this and also said I’d like for him to unfollow her now as that will be her content. He asked me what does one thing have to with another and if I am jealous of her… he also stated he wasn’t interested in her and emphasized that he’s known for so long. I guess he was trying to reassure me by saying this? He’s removed men from my socials (to be fair these were just acquaintances) and has asked me to remove a couple before without valid reasons for either of them. They were men who posted about their everyday life, quotes, fitness, and sports. They weren’t posting nudity or anything inappropriate. Of course I asked him why but he had no reason. His response to me asking him why he wanted to remove them was just “why can’t you do something as simple as that?” Ok. I removed them. It made sense to me so I did it but I also pushed for an actual reason which I never got. Anywhoooo back to today— after him telling me he wasn’t going to remove her I told him never to ask me to remove someone or take it upon himself to remove anyone from my socials again. He got mad about this and claims I’m overreacting and just being an AH for coming to that conclusion. So AITAH?

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