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Why would a 40 something married guy never ever mention his wife on his facebook page. He has no photos of her and no relationship status but plenty of himself and his friends?

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Lynn Blakeman Profile
Lynn Blakeman answered
It is difficult to guess why a married man would act this way without knowing all the facts, but two things cross my mind regarding what he could be up to:

  • He is hoping to meet someone through Facebook and therefore doesn't want them to know he is married.
  • He already has someone in his friends list that he is seeing/interested in, and either doesn't want to hurt her by posting happy family snaps, or doesn't want her to know about his wife.

Either way, it doesn't sound good... but I may be way off the mark here, I am only going on what you told me.

It could also be that he feels the relationship he's in has simply "lost its spark", and he no longer feels like posting about it on social media.

For example, my friend is in a stale marriage, and it is very rare that she mentions her husband at all, I think she just doesn't like to be associated with him.

Her husband never mentions her either, but he talks to girls on Facebook and tells them how pretty they are, etc. It seems obvious that he is pretending he is single. He doesn't even mention his daughter on there, which I do find unforgivable!

For whatever reason, there are a lot of people who treat Facebook like a dating site, and this is what makes me think that this man may be doing the same. Hopefully, I am wrong.
Rath Keale Profile
Rath Keale answered

Your question got me thinking about this.  My spouse of 33 years has nothing about me on Facebook.  I have nothing about him on mine.  We get along just fine. 

His Facebook is all about him and his friends.  They shares illy stuff, science fiction, how to fix things, and making plans to get together.  It has nothing to do with me.

I want him to have a life of his own.  It makes him a more complete person and it makes him happy.  To us, anything else would be annoyingly clingy. 

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