So this is my story:
To make it short, I dated this guy for about a year. Beginning, he was great and a perfect gentleman! He moved in after a few months with me and my preteen son. At first, everything was great but with time he behaved like a princess and acted like everything was due to him. He was also very insecure and would have outbursts of jealousy for nothing. Also, his financial situation was horrible. I had to help him out a lot. I sometimes felt like he was using me, especially by the end, which I called him out for. I also felt like he was pulling away. I stupidly stayed because I thought we shared a complicity but now I know I was holding on to a lot of resentment as I started to gain a lot of weight and couldn't lose it (crazy how the body responds). We ended up having a big argument (a rare one for us) and he left the next day. He only reached out a few days later to figure out when he can pick up his ***. He acted very cold but even though I was hurt, I responded calmly and packed everything for him, and made sure I wasn't there when he came. For the 2 weeks that followed, he was blowing up my phone for us to meet and talk with the typical I miss you and I love you. He ended up losing me, his job, and staying with his mom at the same time. I chose to move on because a man who behaves like this has no room in my life and decided to not give it a chance so I blocked him.
Ever since I´ve been healing and moving on. We broke up during the summer (I know, how common) so I enjoyed myself by going out with my friends and just finding myself again. I also lost all the weight I´ve gained and took care of myself. Really, I was proud of myself because I also never reached out to him nor cared to know what was going on in his life. So overall, I did everything that they said to do during a breakup.
But this is the thing:
Last week, a close friend of mine shared that he´s been posting on social media with another woman. It´s basically him and her going out to dinner and taking cute pics together. I saw the pics and not to be mean but he looks like *** and I was shocked by his facial expression: the like sucked out of him. I´m not going to talk about the girl bc I don't want to be mean but...
And I don´t know why but this doesn´t sit right with me. From my friend´s investigation, they started to date not even 2 months after we broke up and half of my friends still follow him on social. I haven't reacted nor cared to reach out but what´s bothering me is that I feel like he´s using this as a way to get back at me. I´m also wondering if he was monkey-branching before we broke up as it happened pretty fast.
I´m just curious to get an opinion on this. Also, apart from continuing to heal and live my life, is there anything I could do to get back at him? (yes, I´m being petty)