M27 here; Found out that my girlfriend of 2 years (F26), used to have dirty flirty message exchanges with her ex, upto 6 months after we met. We were exclusive from the first month itself. But started using the labels boyfriend and girlfriend much later like 8-9 month mark. What would you do?

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We’ve been together from May 2023 to now. I just found out yesterday. These texts happened between May 2023 to Oct 2023. It was in the areas of her/ her ex sending a nsfw meme on Instagram and the other person replying how they missed doing xyz (something sexual). I don’t think it was like a full blown sexting, but this still hurts and I’m too crushed. My girlfriend had told me when we started dating in May 2023, that she was still moving on from her ex and hadn’t fully moved on, but it was never communicated to me that they are partaking in these dirty textual messages still.

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  2. DplusLplusKplusM Avatar

    If it’s been a good two years I’d get over it. Knowing someone chose you despite having other options isn’t an insult and firing electrons back and forth at each other doesn’t violate the rule of “exclusive”.

  3. perthguy999 Avatar

    Water under the bridge, I say.

    It has been two years and while you guys were exclusive, she wasn’t sleeping around or dating him behind your back. When things got serious and you put labels on yourselves, she cut him off to focus on you.

  4. reb3l6 Avatar

    It’s not about what others would do, but about what you are okay with and whether you can live with it.

    Just for your information, you don’t need to officially label yourselves as boyfriend and girlfriend to consider this cheating, because it is, at the very least, emotional cheating, if not physical. Who knows.

  5. mapbot- Avatar

    well it looks like you’ve already identified the problem you have with it but the real question is are you okay with continuing this relationship? I mean you stated that they are still sending eachother NSFW memes and you guys are literally dating right?

    If she is still not over her ex boyfriend after this entire time she should of not pursued a relationship with you if she is “still healing” but then again “healing people” don’t send NSFW memes to the ex that is “causing this healing”.

    she’s obviously isn’t over him and she may even be using you as a rebound, you should have a conversation with her about the ex and if she is still trying to get over it she may need to be single to do that because she’s hurting you as well and it’s selfish of her to be doing that knowing dam well she is in a relationship.

  6. mister_burns1 Avatar

    That’s not gf material. If you are exclusive, you are not sexting others.

    Move on.

    Sorry bro.