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TIFU by accidentally liking my ex's Instagram post from 2019 while stalking her profile at 3 AM

This happened last night and I'm still in bed at 2 PM questioning every decision I've ever made.

Background: My ex (24F) and I (25M) broke up about eight months ago. It was mutual-ish, but I took it harder than I let on. I've been in the "doing fine, totally over it" phase for a while now. You know the phase. The one where you only check their profile four times a week instead of four times a day.

Last night I couldn't sleep. I was lying in bed, scrolling through my phone, and somehow ended up on her Instagram profile. I don't even remember how I got there. One minute I was watching a video about a raccoon learning to use a doorbell, the next minute I was deep in her 2019 archive.

I was being careful. I wasn't liking anything. I was just... observing. Like a wildlife documentary. "Here we see the ex in her natural habitat, captioning a photo of brunch with 'Sunday funday.'"

Then I found it. A photo from August 2019. Her at some music festival, wearing a flower crown, looking genuinely happy. The caption was something like "best weekend of my life." I stared at it for probably three full minutes. I wasn't even sad. I was just... curious. Who was she with? What was she listening to? Did she still have that flower crown?

My thumb slipped.

I liked the photo.

I didn't just like it. I double-tapped it. Hard. The kind of double-tap that sends a notification immediately. The kind that says "hey, someone from your past just scrolled all the way back to 2019 and touched your flower crown photo at 3:17 AM."

I panicked. I unliked it within about four seconds. But Instagram had already sent the notification. There's no undo for that. I sat there in the dark, holding my phone, watching the little heart icon turn back to grey, knowing that somewhere across the city, her phone had already buzzed.

She hasn't texted me. She hasn't called. She hasn't blocked me (yet). But I know she saw it. I know she knows. And I know that she knows that I know that she knows.

The worst part? I have a date on Friday with a girl I actually like. Now I'm going to spend the entire date wondering if my ex is going to post a screenshot on her story with the caption "when your ex from 8 months ago is still lurking."

I've considered deleting my entire Instagram account. I've considered changing my name and moving to a different time zone. I've considered just texting my ex and saying "hey, that like was an accident, I'm not actually still hung up on you, I was just bored and sleepless and your 2019 flower crown photo was objectively good."

But I won't. I'll just sit here. In bed. At 2 PM. Waiting for the consequences.

TL;DR: Was stalking my ex's Instagram at 3 AM, accidentally liked a photo from 2019, unliked it immediately, but the notification already went through. I have a date on Friday and I'm terrified.

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