Why would my son's newly engaged ex-girlfriend randomly text him a photo of her wearing an engagement ring?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What does it matter, OP? He can send a quick, “Congratulations, wishing you all the best!”

Instead, he…ran to Mommy?

And you…ran to the Internet?

+1.

What motivates your son to show you this nonsense?

+1. Son sounds like a beta loser and mom sounds like an annoying busybody.

A beta loser? You are a SAHM aren’t you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:She’s bragging that some other guy “locked her down” and wants your son to feel bad that he “let her get away.” She probably sent the photo to a few exes. At the end of the day, she’s just a very insecure young woman in her 20s.

In five years, she will be embarrassed and mortified by the fact that she sent these texts to ex-boyfriends. Your son probably dodged a bullet.

It's definitely embarrassing. If he actually cared about her he probably would have reached out in the past two years.

Why does he still have her number active in his phone? Why isn’t she blocked?

Why would he need to block her? He obviously wasn't tempted to call her and probably forgot about it. Blocking is for highly emotional people who need to act out in some way or protect themselves from a harasser.

Well he and his mom appear to be highly emotional people...

In what way? Sounds like they had a laugh about her for being so odd texting him this. The consensus here is that this is sad and desperate.

+1. OP’s son dodged a bullet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does it matter, OP? He can send a quick, “Congratulations, wishing you all the best!”

Instead, he…ran to Mommy?

And you…ran to the Internet?

+1.

What motivates your son to show you this nonsense?

+1. Son sounds like a beta loser and mom sounds like an annoying busybody.

A beta loser? You are a SAHM aren’t you?

That PP is giving man hating bitter spinster vibes more than "mom".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does it matter, OP? He can send a quick, “Congratulations, wishing you all the best!”

Instead, he…ran to Mommy?

And you…ran to the Internet?

+1.

What motivates your son to show you this nonsense?

+1. Son sounds like a beta loser and mom sounds like an annoying busybody.

A beta loser? You are a SAHM aren’t you?

That PP must be a man. That would be deplorable enough. But if this a pickme mom trying to sound cool by acting a tatebro, that's even more pathetic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They broke up due to living on opposite coasts. According to him it was pretty mutual. Sad but not messy. They have not communicated since Christmas 2023. He randomly got a photo text from her over the weekend with no caption, just her hand showing off her engagement ring. What motivates such a text from a 27 year old woman and what reaction is she looking for?

Sounds like it wasn’t mutual, she was waiting for him to propose and he didn’t. This photo is supposed to make him feel like he missed out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does it matter, OP? He can send a quick, “Congratulations, wishing you all the best!”

Instead, he…ran to Mommy?

And you…ran to the Internet?

+1.

What motivates your son to show you this nonsense?

+1. Son sounds like a beta loser and mom sounds like an annoying busybody.

A beta loser? You are a SAHM aren’t you?

That PP is giving man hating bitter spinster vibes more than "mom".

lol no, that’s how SAHMs who are chronically online talk about men who are not “providers” or “alpha.”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why would an ex from YEARS ago be on her mind in any way right after getting engaged? Super messy and classless. Anyone rationalizing this is also messy and classless. You know damn well you wouldn’t tell your fiancé you just texted your ex boyfriend the news.

It is possible she sent to all her friends just like people post their engagement rings on Facebook. Still classless, but all OP's son had to do was delete her number.

People post their rings on Facebook? I don't think that's a thing.

Welcome to USA. Enjoy your stay!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does it matter, OP? He can send a quick, “Congratulations, wishing you all the best!”

Instead, he…ran to Mommy?

And you…ran to the Internet?

+1.

What motivates your son to show you this nonsense?

+1. Son sounds like a beta loser and mom sounds like an annoying busybody.

A beta loser? You are a SAHM aren’t you?

That PP is giving man hating bitter spinster vibes more than "mom".

lol no, that’s how SAHMs who are chronically online talk about men who are not “providers” or “alpha.”

No, that's just you. That doesn't make any sense whatsoever in this situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would an ex from YEARS ago be on her mind in any way right after getting engaged? Super messy and classless. Anyone rationalizing this is also messy and classless. You know damn well you wouldn’t tell your fiancé you just texted your ex boyfriend the news.

It is possible she sent to all her friends just like people post their engagement rings on Facebook. Still classless, but all OP's son had to do was delete her number.

People post their rings on Facebook? I don't think that's a thing.

Welcome to USA. Enjoy your stay!

Did you just hop off a Time Machine? 20somethings aren't posting anything on Facebook.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What does it matter, OP? He can send a quick, “Congratulations, wishing you all the best!”

Instead, he…ran to Mommy?

And you…ran to the Internet?

He confided in his mother about something bizarre. And she posted here, like many women do. You sound like a dumb person.

Nope. It's not bizarre enough to " confide" to someone about. And it's not bizarre enough for his mother to crowd source on here. The girl probably doesn't even realize it is his number.

OP and her son are reading too much into this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:She’s bragging that some other guy “locked her down” and wants your son to feel bad that he “let her get away.” She probably sent the photo to a few exes. At the end of the day, she’s just a very insecure young woman in her 20s.

In five years, she will be embarrassed and mortified by the fact that she sent these texts to ex-boyfriends. Your son probably dodged a bullet.

It's definitely embarrassing. If he actually cared about her he probably would have reached out in the past two years.

Why does he still have her number active in his phone? Why isn’t she blocked?

Why would he need to block her? He obviously wasn't tempted to call her and probably forgot about it. Blocking is for highly emotional people who need to act out in some way or protect themselves from a harasser.

Well he and his mom appear to be highly emotional people...

All you know about him is that he got an unsolicited rock pic and told his mother that it happened.

[Anonymous]

Could be as simple as she tried to send the pic to Samantha and accidentally sent it to Samuel.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does it matter, OP? He can send a quick, “Congratulations, wishing you all the best!”

Instead, he…ran to Mommy?

And you…ran to the Internet?

He confided in his mother about something bizarre. And she posted here, like many women do. You sound like a dumb person.

Nope. It's not bizarre enough to " confide" to someone about. And it's not bizarre enough for his mother to crowd source on here. The girl probably doesn't even realize it is his number.

OP and her son are reading too much into this.

If my brother told me his ex did that I would think she was weird and understand she’s not over him. That’s the answer OP, she’s not over him and the breakup probably wasn’t mutual.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does it matter, OP? He can send a quick, “Congratulations, wishing you all the best!”

Instead, he…ran to Mommy?

And you…ran to the Internet?

He confided in his mother about something bizarre. And she posted here, like many women do. You sound like a dumb person.

Nope. It's not bizarre enough to " confide" to someone about. And it's not bizarre enough for his mother to crowd source on here. The girl probably doesn't even realize it is his number.

OP and her son are reading too much into this.

Did you recently do something similar and are surprised at the reaction? The defense of this is very odd.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would an ex from YEARS ago be on her mind in any way right after getting engaged? Super messy and classless. Anyone rationalizing this is also messy and classless. You know damn well you wouldn’t tell your fiancé you just texted your ex boyfriend the news.

It is possible she sent to all her friends just like people post their engagement rings on Facebook. Still classless, but all OP's son had to do was delete her number.

People post their rings on Facebook? I don't think that's a thing.

Welcome to USA. Enjoy your stay!

Did you just hop off a Time Machine? 20somethings aren't posting anything on Facebook.

On instagram these days, but explanation is same. You are stuck in the nitty gritty because you don't want to consider the possibility that this girl has not thought of her ex in ages. Her poor ex and OP are latching on this opportunity to feel relevant.