No, it’s almost definitely “she’s pretty and I’m jealous” in THIS case. Or maybe “There’s history and I’m jealous”.
My reasoning for saying that: The partner follows up with “No one compares to my wife”, as if she was insinuating that maybe he’s into the other woman.
I cannot think of a single context where it is fine to tell your partner what or who they can or cannot look at. It is possessive, controlling, immature. What reason other than mistrust can you think of?
It definitely can be all those things, and often is. But it’s almost impossible to discern the overall tone of the initial text without knowing the person and their relationship. I do think it’s entirely within the realm of possibility that this could be a benign request between two healthy adults that would have been respected regardless of whether the individual agreed to unfollow or not.
Is asking to unfollow someone lack of trust, by default? I feel like it should be fine in some contexts
I’m assuming it’s lack of trust because I don’t know the context. Of course there could be other explanations.
Bingo. Context could be anything from “she’s pretty and im jealous” to “hardcore right wing pipeline” content.
No, it’s almost definitely “she’s pretty and I’m jealous” in THIS case. Or maybe “There’s history and I’m jealous”.
My reasoning for saying that: The partner follows up with “No one compares to my wife”, as if she was insinuating that maybe he’s into the other woman.
I cannot think of a single context where it is fine to tell your partner what or who they can or cannot look at. It is possessive, controlling, immature. What reason other than mistrust can you think of?
It definitely can be all those things, and often is. But it’s almost impossible to discern the overall tone of the initial text without knowing the person and their relationship. I do think it’s entirely within the realm of possibility that this could be a benign request between two healthy adults that would have been respected regardless of whether the individual agreed to unfollow or not.
Mhm, the submissive followup says a lot. Otherwise I agree. We are speculating. :)
They also shared this specific snippet of text online at some point. That’s another hint towards it not being entirely okay with at least one of them.