She’s revealing all our secrets online
MY GIRL IS VIDEO ‘CELEB’
I HAD no idea that my new girlfriend is a vlogger until a mate suggested I check out her online channel.
He said I might want to view her “honest and down-to-earth” content for myself.
Well, I’ve just emerged from a four-hour binge and my head is reeling. Let’s just say that no detail has been left out in her discussion and dissection of our relationship.
I feel so violated. From my annoying habits and “quirky” opinions to my food fads and weird likes in bed, I feel like I’ve been given an emotional enema.
To her credit, she doesn’t actually name me and or show pictures of us together, but it doesn’t take a genius to work out that the “irritating but kissable, messy but horny” geek is me.
I didn’t sign up to this. I had no idea that every lick and spit of our sex life would be repackaged as “content”.
She claims that I always knew what she did for a living; that her “celebrity” was what attracted me to her, but I must have been asleep or blind drunk when she revealed all because I have no memory of it. I thought she worked for a bank.
Now she’s saying I can’t try to censor or silence her because this is her life, this is how she
makes her money. But what about my feelings and privacy?
Delving back into her past videos is even more hideous.
Hearing stuff about sex with her ex-lovers is excruciating.
Talk about forensic, this is a woman who notices everything from toe-nail picking to a throwaway remark and exploits the heck out of it.
Her mantra is “I’m entitled to speak my truth” – which I find more than a little chilling.
JANE SAYS: I’m sure your girl is extremely proud of herself and her edgy, no-holdsbarred content – but if you
didn’t sign up for this then you’re entitled to cry “foul”.
Make it clear that you are a private individual and your quirks are not for public consumption.
I’m sure she rubs her hands together and thinks “ka-ching” every time you do or say something that constitutes comedy gold, but you’re entitled to feel safe and protected.
Obviously, the stuff she put out before you came along is nothing to do with you and, if it upsets you, then ignore it.
But she has to promise that things will be different in
future. Is there content involving you that you’d actually like her to take down?
If she won’t, then do you need to speak to a lawyer?
This is not about you being precious or negative, it’s about protecting your privacy and sleeping easy at night.
I suppose she’d argue that if you live with a stand-up comedian, vlogger or even a writer then all bets are off – but if you didn’t even realise that she is a performer, then you are allowed to insist on fresh boundaries.
Is she willing your position? to respect