Girlfriend [20F] insists on posting pictures of me [23M] and details about our relationship on social media, I do not like or want that and it is putting a strain on our otherwise great relationship.

My girlfriend and I met in college and have been going out for 7 months, she’s a sophomore and I graduated earlier this year a few weeks after we started going out. I’m more of an old school, private guy and she is very into social media which is fine except for the fact that she posts photos and details about our relationship online and I really do not like that, I don’t feel comfortable having pictures of myself or any of my business online which is why I don’t have any accounts. I have told her to not post photos of me online or put my business out there, she thinks that I am overreacting and that may be so but I think that I’m entitled to that since it’s my privacy. She says that not putting pictures of her and I or talking about our relationship means that she won’t be able to share her life online because we are a couple and spend a lot of time together, that is true I suppose but I don’t understand why she has to share that in the first place. She has also accused me of being embarrassed of her and that could not be further from the truth.

In every other aspect our relationship is great and I think that I could one day fall for her but my privacy is something that I really value and not having a public and identifiable online presence is part of that, I can’t imagine having a future with someone who doesn’t respect that and since I’m not getting any younger that’s what I’m looking for in a girl, someone who I can have a future — marriage and children — with. How do I express this to her without coming off like an ass giving an ultimatum “do this or ill leave you”?

tl;dr: My girlfriend insists on posting our personal business and photos on social media and I do not like it.

Submitted November 14, 2018 at 09:04AM by helloeveryone19 https://ift.tt/2T9NIGh