A woman was mortified when she innocently went on her phone to look at the holiday snaps they'd taken together but was greeted with something much more sinister.

She explained that she was 24 and he was 31, and her phone had "recently stopped working," so he gave her an old one of his. "I went through the gallery and told him so, and he agreed. In this gallery, I found pictures from 2025 only. I was looking for from 2024 from this trip we had to Hawaii," she explained.

But, she "found a cloud " and was "surprised" when it didn't have a password on it, so she "checked the cloud" and found the pictures she'd been looking for. But she also saw a whole lot more, too.

Taking to , the frustrated woman explained: "I went further on this cloud, there was a tonne of pictures of his childhood girlfriend. Very old pictures kissing each other etc.

"I felt like I wanted to vomit, but then I thought everyone has a past. He talked to me about his ex, and they dated from 2010 til 2017 (but I found photos of them hooking up till 2020)."

But then she carried on scrolling out of curiosity after accepting that those photos were "alright" as they were so long ago. "Then I noticed he had pictures from 2019 of this woman wearing lingerie, very explicit photos and videos. And I confronted my boyfriend," she admitted.

Of course, when confronted, he was shocked and said she had "no business" going through his cloud. "I asked him why he kept those pictures; he said he didn't have time to delete them since there are so many," she recalled, saying that since 2010, there were "more than 40,000 photos".

She continued: "I told him to look into my eyes and tell me he didn't have them for another reason. He said he loved me and only me, and that's why he took a 16-hour flight to spend two months with me. I don't know what to think. I want to vomit. He's never taken pictures of me like that like there were so many naked pictures."

She added that they'd been together since 2020 and this was her first long term relationship, so she wasn't sure what was right or wrong as she had nothing else to compare it to.

In the comments, some did back the man saying that people have lives before they meet their current partner - especially if they're in their 30s. "So these are photos from before you were together? Not your business at all. I have thousands of photos with my exes since my husband, and I met when I was 31. I had a whole life before I met him," one penned.

Another agreed, sharing: "It happened before you. I also think you going through his cloud photos isn’t on; you knew you were looking at things that didn’t concern you".

Somebody else wrote: "You are being very unreasonable - not just for going through his stuff when he trusted you with access to his photos, but also for being controlling about what pics he should be allowed to keep and for trying to trip him up by getting him to 'look into your eyes' and swear he doesn't look at them etc.

"If I were him, I’d see this as a huge red flag, and it would change the way I feel about you as a partner. If my ex started questioning me about photos of an ex, he’d be joining their ranks as soon as possible."

Another Mumsnetter backed the woman, though, saying that it was unacceptable. She said: "Everyone has a past, yes. But I don’t think keeping naked or lingerie pics is normal or ok at all." Somebody added: "Everyone has a past, and he's not cheated on you, as I can see. I think it's pretty grim that he's kept naked pics of ex, though."