Dear Annie: I’m struggling to make sense of this situation, but it felt like a red flag. I started dating a man, and one night out to dinner, we ran into a woman he knew from college and her boyfriend. She seemed nice, and after a brief chat, they left.
He briefly told me about her business, I said she seemed cool, and I thought nothing more of it. Shortly after that night, he asked for an exclusive relationship and even suggested I move in with him, but I told him it was too soon. I wanted to wait at least a year before living together.
For his birthday, I took him on a weekend trip to a coastal town he’d never visited. We went for a beautiful meal at a waterfront restaurant, and while at dinner, the waiter took our photo. I posted it on social media while this man was in the restroom -- for nearly 30 minutes.
When he returned, he immediately brought up the woman we had met prior, opened his social media app, scrolled past our picture I’d just posted without acknowledging it in any way, and instead showed me several photos she had posted and which he had hit “like” on every one. He also mentioned she was visiting the same town we were at the same time. All odd, but I let it go.
A month later, at a special family dinner, the same thing happened. We took a picture together, I posted it, and later he stepped outside for 20 minutes. When he returned, he again opened his social media feed, scrolled past our photo, liked all of hers and talked about her for half an hour .
