TIFU by letting my girlfriend take a “funny” picture of me and having her friends accidentally see it

This happened about a month ago. I posted this in a couple of other subreddits just venting, but figured it would make a good TIFU post.

This is one of those moments that hits you straight in the gut and makes you cringe for years.

A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I were hanging out after I got out of the shower. It was freezing in the apartment, and I made a comment about how cold I was. She glanced down, laughed, and said, “Wow… that's crazy. I can’t believe how small it can get!” I looked too, and yeah, it honestly did look ridiculous. I'm not the biggest down there anyways, but most of all I'm a grower. If you don't know what that looks like in extreme cases, just imagine an acorn sitting on top of your balls, barely over an inch (sorry to be graphic, but you need to know how embarrassing this looked).

After laughing a bit at the situation, she asked if she could take a picture. We both have secret photo vault apps where we keep each other’s nudes, so I was fine with it as long as we followed our usual routine: move the photo to the vault immediately, delete it from the main camera roll, then clear it from “Recently Deleted.”

She took a couple of pictures from different angles and lighting, giggling at the absurdity (I know this might sound immature, but we do have an immature sense of humor and just thought it was a silly moment). After that, I specifically remember saying, “Alright, seriously, delete those now.” I watched her go through all the necessary steps of moving and deleting all the pictures and was sure that would be the end of it.

A few days later we went on a weekend trip to Traverse City. We visited wineries, went on hikes, and took a charter out on a boat into Lake Michigan. It was a great trip, and we had a bunch of pictures from it. The weekend after we got back, she had two of her friends over and was showing them photos from the weekend. At one point, my girlfriend handed them the phone to keep scrolling through pictures as she went to grab a drink from the fridge.

I was sitting across the room as I watched the two girls sitting next to each other on the couch, scrolling through pictures one by one. The next moment will probably be burned into my memory forever—one more swipe, and I saw both girls' eyes widen. They looked at each other for a moment, then put their hands to their mouths as they started laughing super hard. I was a bit confused at first until their eyes met mine, and my heart dropped.

My girlfriend was just walking up behind them and quickly said, "Wait—give me that," and snatched the phone out of their hands. Her face went pale. "Oh my god, I thought I deleted that" she muttered as she was tapping at her screen, now actually deleting it.

One of them said, "I'm so sorry, we didn't mean to see that," and the other added "We just kept scrolling, we didn't know." But I could tell they were still holding back laughter, glancing at each other. I just sat there, completely frozen. My face felt red hot.

My girlfriend sat down next to me clearly upset. Before either of us could say anything, one of her friends awkwardly changed the subject. I don’t even remember what they said exactly, but something about the trip which elevated the tension just enough until I ended up grabbing a beer and heading to our bedroom until they left.

After her friends left, my girlfriend came straight up to the bedroom apologizing profusly. I initially started yelling, but could quickly see how sorry she felt as she buried her face in her hands crying. I know this might sound like a BS way for her to get herself out of my justified anger, but at the end of the day I love her and know she didn't mean for this to happen.

I wrapped my arm around her, pulled her in, and told her it was okay. She cried for a few minutes while I told her it wasn't a big deal and I'd be fine. I decided to just man up and push through the embarrassment, what else can you do? Only thing I can hope is that image doesn’t stay burned in their memory whenever I see them in the future.

TLDR; Let my girlfriend take a funny pic of me fresh out of the shower (major shrinkage situation). We both thought she deleted it, but her friends accidentally saw it while scrolling through vacation pics on her phone.