Iotus wrote:
i dont like my bf looking at my phone. dont get me wrong if he needs to use it he knows my password he can like im not going to stop him. but when im on vp, messaging people, ect. and im sat next to him soon as i feel hes looking at my phone i pull it away from his sight like not even on purpose its a subconscious thing. i have been doing it to everyone since i was abt 15 n had a lovely taste of unneeded childhood trauma with the police and my past of dating toxic men (one went absolutely mental i changed my fb password and didnt tell him he only found out because he was trying to read my messages) also didnt help. i also do it out of fear someone will see my phone and make a comment on what im doing (i have bpd soon as anyone says anything that hits a trigger thats me in a sad mood swing) which my family did a lot of. much as my mum doesnt think she was doing harm when she ripped into me because she caught me looking at weird stuff n having online interests she didn't understand it really did make me feel really insecure and vunerable. fair to say i rlly enjoy being able to be on my phone with no one asking what im doing and making comments on what i do or judging me silently from behind.
also, there is just stuff sometimes i dont want him seeing? like, sometimes im having a private conversation with a friend who is having the conversation with me in confidence. he doesnt need to see that thats an invasion of their privacy let alone mine. sometimes i am saying something about him (like i am now) not to slag him off but just because im having an issue and i want to speak to a someone abt it bc idk how to go abt it and i know hed probably see it as me slagging him off. sometimes im looking up something weird (i always google stuff abt sex, drugs n murder bc i like learning abt stuff like that) that out of context looks bad.
and finally tbh i wouldnt rlly feel the need overall to hide my phone, if he hadnt gone through my old phone when i gave it him and got upset because there was pictures he saw that he didnt like! pictures were of me meeting a friend (my friend Jules who is literally like a younger sibling to me wouldnt want to shag them (also the same friend i hide my phone from my bf with when hes looking soley because of this incident i think he deems him a threat) when we first met up after being online pals for a bit and he was all "you looked so much happier with them" even though the whole meet up was totally platonic. we literally went to the sex clinic to pick up condoms for them because they had a dick appointment after? there was also pictures of me n his ex from when we were... erm... having a fun night in and were taking things off our boobs and bums (yes, i was very far gone at that point) which was just you know, not sober close women being not sober close women. but obviously seeing that upset him. i was meant to delete all that before i gave him the phone but he desperately needed a phone and i didnt have the time right then to go through 4000+ photos and save ones i wanted to keep, so i told him fine but DO NOT GO THROUGH MY PHOTOS and he did it so.i just want to ask if im being totally insane? because my boyfriend always makes me feel bad for pulling the phone away. i get it makes me look sus 100% ive been cheated on before but thing is i am not doing anything bad? im not cheating i dont have a secret family in Mexico, i dont have anything bad to hide that he needs to know yfm? am i being insane?