Facebook relationship status change. Hers=nothing. His=in a relationship with her?

[Cassie]

She has most likely gone to her Facebook profile page and edited who can see her relationship status. "Who can see my relationship status" can be set to "Only me" or to any other group of friends. Changing this setting does not automatically change the corresponding setting their partner has.

It is actually a good idea to use "Only me" when you change your relationship status, since that prevents it from being turned into a news story, sent to everybody's news feed and commented on by all your friends. You can later change the visibility to Friends and people will still be able to see it if they look at your profile, but not be alerted to it the same way.