I'm a 35 year old women dating a 44 year old man. Our relationship is great. He's kind, considerate, has never played games with me and loves me to bits. The problem is things I've seen him write online mainly before we got together. (Yes I googled him and I know I shouldn't have) He used to be a member of a lot of forums, all quite innocent. Talking about celebraties, news stories etc and I learnt he had crushes on 3 women off the tv. The problem is the first one was only 17 when he was 38, and the other 2 more recently in their late teens when he was over 40. He suffers from depression and hasn't had much luck with women in the past and he says that contributed a lot to the amount of time he would spend online as he felt it easier to communicate online, then in real life. he's shut his accounts down and no longer posts online as it caused so many rows between us. He was quite happy to stop as he said the forums were just a hobby and it wasn't worth losing me over. I guess I should be happy he has done this and as I said he is a amazing boyfriend. But it still freaks me out about the age of the celebrities he fancied (and also that he used to follow what they did online and looked up everything he could find about them) Even though he has now stopped, it all still freaks me out. Do you think I'm overreacting? Feedback from men would be particularly helpful Thanks
Dear your worries are correct, few ppl are so introvert and do not express openly, and the worrying point is his past linliness, as you said he had never been lucky enough to had many girls, what so ever were the reasons, but now this thing is becoming internal frustration for him, what I see is the emotional gap in his life, try to spend more and more time with him to give him ease, the gap can be filled with love. try to make oc***ions memorable for him, like birth day, xm*** or any other event. man always carries memories with him and if the memories are good he will be mentally comfortable.
You are worrying too much. Many people like to track the football scores and remember the scores of the matches played the previous year. Though the forums are more personal I guess you can see it in the same way. Moreover, men who are actively interested in the people are more outgoing. AND he has kicked the forum binge for your sake. Be happy.