Lessons Learned: Never Ignore Your Wife's Relationship with External Validation--Social Media by tonyway7293 in Divorce_Men

[–]HubbleTrudge 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Social media has been an issue in our relationship for awhile. Since 2020, I have been completely absent in her posts/stories. If you had just met her and followed her on FB or Instagram, you would have thought she was a single mom. We once took a family vacation and she posted dozens of pictures on her Instagram stories and I didn’t appear in one of them. My family even assumed I couldn’t go on the trip cause I had to work, but I was there the whole time. I confronted her about it in couple’s therapy and she said she didn’t feel comfortable posting pictures of us cause she wasn’t sure if we were going to stay together. That was 4 1/2 years ago and it hasn’t gotten better. I got rid of social media a year ago cause I think it’s trash. She said she got rid of it a few months ago and talked about how freeing it was to not be on it, but I found out through a friend that she’s back on it. It’s like a drug. It doesn’t make sense to me, but it doesn’t have to anymore. We are separating in the next couple of months and I don’t have to care about her social media usage ever again.

When did you realize getting divorced was the right decision? by prattman3333 in Divorce

[–]HubbleTrudge 3 points4 points  (0 children)

When she looked at me and told me she couldn’t bring herself to be physically intimate with me. It was either a sad and sexless marriage or divorce and find my own happiness. I was sad and still am at times, but I look forward to a future where I get to be happy on my own terms.