Am I crazy?
My bf[27M] and I[30F] have been dating for a couple of months. He is from Azerbaijan, I am Asian and Latina but born and raised in the US. We met on a dating app. We have agreed to exclusively date each other when we met. I noticed that he is messaging many girls on social media. Yes, I did go through his phone in front of him. He says that it’s nothing, the conversations mean nothing, and he’s just asking them questions. He tells me that there’s no point in him trying to have a relationship with them because they’re on the other side of the world. I felt some type of way about it because I saw that one of them sent him a pic of themselves and he called them beautiful with heart eyes.
He said that I’m invading his privacy and overreacting, I should look into the dating culture from where he’s from so that I can know that I’m overreacting. To my understanding, men are men no matter where they come from.
Is it normal for Azerbaijani men to act like this or is he gaslighting me?