Adventures in GALing

[AntoniaB]

So not much to update, but just wanted to vent some about the very latest profile photo of XH that he put up today on the alt...and remember, I am not friends with him but can see his profile pic, and I do not block him because honestly this is the only insight I have into him at all and I still care about him.

Anyway, it's taken in his parents' house over Christmas. In over 20 years, his parents never once took a pic of us together in their house. He's wearing all clothes I bought him, down to the tie, 10 years or more ago. The wool sport coat he's wearing is one he wore every year for our anniversary. He looks considerably aged. I brought up one of the last pics I ever took of him and put it next to this pic. He looks exhausted, face lined, lots of grey/silver in his goatee. OW looks like his daughter next to him. The age discrepancy is more apparent in this pic than ever.

When their rel. hit the one year mark, or one year "post-bomb" for me, he stopped putting pics of himself alone for his profile. Since then, they've been a succession of pics of him and her together. In each one, she is larger. As in, she stands sort of in front of him, and based on the angle or whatever, she is physically more apparent than him. This one is the worst. All the light is on her. He just recedes into the background.

Hence, his profile pic for HIS page looks like it's for HER page. I've seen thousands of profile photos and I've never seen someone so clearly feature someone else in a pic of the two of them.

Mutual friends tell me the only thing he ever talks about on the alt is how he hates his job and how awesome OW is. OW has NEVER acknowledged anything he says on the alt.

I guess I'd just like some insight here...has anyone seen an MLCer "promote" the OP so heavily? Any insight into "where" he is in terms of MLC? He doesnt' live with OW and still seems to be trying very hard to make a case for her with this social networking tool. I think he'd just say he was "proud" of her, but it all seems so abnormal to me, and so sad.