Guys are visually stimulated by what they see.
As a consequence, they are exhilarated and motivated by beautiful images that are presented to them.
Beautiful images like those of cute girls on Instagram.
He is exhilarated by their beauty.
And yes, this doesn’t make you feel all that great as his girlfriend.
After all, you want to be the one that he admires and is exhilarated by.
Naturally, you don’t want your boyfriend to be distracted by a bunch of cute girls on Instagram.
You want him to look to you as his source of visual stimulation.
All of this is understandable and warranted.
That said, he is a man.
Men are stimulated by what they see.
They are drawn to beauty.
If the internet didn’t exist and we lived in the stone ages, your boyfriend would be drawing images of women with chalk on the cave walls.
This alongside the rest of the men in the clan.
These would be images that these men walk by each and every day and admire.
Even back in the stone age, men were visual creatures.
In the modern day era, men don’t have to draw images of women with chalk on cave walls.
All they have to do is get on the internet.
Instagram is a thirst trap.
A cesspool of sexuality.
Attractive women know that the sexier the photo they post, the more followers they get.
They know that men are drawn to titillating visual images.
They know that a titillating image makes men flock to their social media profiles like moths to a flame.
When your boyfriend follows a bunch of cute girls on Instagram, he doesn’t believe he is doing anything wrong.
He believes that all he is doing is following and admiring these women from afar.
In his mind, as long as he doesn’t have physical contact with these cute girls, he isn’t doing anything inappropriate or unfaithful.
You have less of a rosy interpretation of what he is doing.
You don’t like the fact that he is following a bunch of cute girls on Instagram.
Should you be worried?
No.
Lots of men in long-term serious relationships follow a bunch of cute girls on Instagram.
There is a dopamine rush that accompanies seeing the images of beautiful women on Instagram.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter and hormone that permeates pleasure through the body.
These men are intent on getting a dopamine high when they look at these images.
That being said, they compartmentalize.
They know that their motivation is short-term fun, a quick escape so to speak.
While he has some time to kill and is bored at work, he takes a look at what has been posted by these cute girls on Instagram.
It’s akin to when you are bored and make a post on social media, motivated by the dopamine high you get when you receive all those likes.
That’s how your boyfriend sees it.
Once he gets his dopamine rush, he gets back to doing whatever he was preoccupied with.
The only time to worry when your boyfriend follows a bunch of cute girls on Instagram, is when he is obsessively revisiting their social media pages multiple times a day.
Furthermore, he is liking and leaving comments on every single one of her posts.
This behavior is an indicator that this isn’t about a quick dopamine rush anymore.
He wants to get further insight into her life and personality, as someone that is now emotionally invested in her.
An emotional affair is usually a precursor to a physical affair.