My boyfriend keeps liking his friends sexy selfies, am I wrong to be annoyed?

[PugLife1234]

My boyfriend told me when we first started going out that this specific girl told him she likes him and that he was sick of her messaging him all the time so he was going to tell her they can no longer be friends if she didn’t calm it down. Anyway 6 months later I’ve noticed anytime she posts a sexy selfie with her ass or boobs out he’s liking it. Most times when I met him she’ll also message him. I brought it up and he says they’re just friends and she has a boyfriend so there’s nothing to worry about. I’m pretty annoyed and upset that he doesn’t see anything wrong with liking these kind of pics of her. He won’t like the pics of her and her boyfriend, if they were just friends like he claims then why hasn’t he liked those pics? Am I in the wrong for being angry and upset about this? He said he’d block her but hasn’t. We’ve fallen out over this. Any advice?

[coldmarch]

That's definitely bad, but I would say not necessarily "so" bad, as it might be just what it is and not something more. Liking a photo might not mean much. He might not try to send her hints of interest, but is only doing a "reflex", almost, to like photos he likes, then forgetting shortly after. Sexy girls are good looking, and appreciating them for a couple of seconds doesn't automatically mean he plans anything with them, it's just random appreciation.
However, here there is a precedence: she likes him, and he knows. So, if he doesn't, he should still stay back and not play with her feelings. But now that she got a boyfriend, probably he feels she isn't that granted anymore, or that desperate, and more valuable, so it could be advantageous to "keep her there". Guys sometimes try to keep the options open, around them, even when they don't plan to cheat. But this surely "helps" cheating at some point if he is a cheater (check about his part relationships, did he cheat? If so, I'm sorry, but you can expect the same in the future). Still, at the current status, nothing says that he is planning to cheat or to flirt with her... So far it's just casual chatting and liking photos, which for him might not mean much.
In any case the problematic bit is that he is seeing her in a way of "potential partner" and not "friend", because if he cared as a real friend he would like to see her with her boyfriend, and so liking those photos too. It doesn't mean he is "about" to leave you or even to "cheat with the mind" (like crushing on her or having frequent fantasies), but that in his brain the perception of this girl is not "friend". So far it's nothing more but casual chatting and that's why he says "just a friend", but if it evolves, it won't be "friends", in my opinion.
6 months are not sufficient to change so much to not like someone anymore at all, unless you argued/hate them. So she is probably still slightly interested and is keeping her options open, too.
All this is to reassure you, but at the same time, yeah, we can't exclude he is actively interested in her and figuring out how to get her.
Now you have 3 options: 1) You let it be as it is, as long as it doesn't get stronger, hoping that eventually it will stop. 2) You speak with him and tell him that you feel uncomfortable that he is appreciating her sexy photos while she recently looked interested in him because it feels like reciprocation or anyway there are some games there that you don't like, and that keeping his options open while staying with you feels humiliating. He will probably deny, not because of being a liar but because probably he is not even realizing. If he insists she is a friend, ask him what she is giving to him of relevant, what interests in common they have, etc. Make him justify the friendship, but not in a provocative way. 3) You become overcontrolling and paranoid, and if he notices he will get so pissed off he will be more prone to cheat (if he is a cheater) or to end the story because a climate of tension always, always, always, destroys the relationship.

[YoHoeRose]

Oof! This would make me very uncomfortable! Unless of course you do similar things. I'll warn you though this is a man full app so you might get some mean responses to a question like that. But I would definitely be upset I would definitely try to talk to him about it more and I wouldn't let it go because if he's not going to block her I feel like there's a reason I know if my partner was uncomfortable with someone I would block them

[In_Trance]

smh... stop watching his social media. Problem solved

[spartan55]

All this over 'liking' pictures... so stupid.