Created a new account to post this, since I don’t really want to post too personal stuff on my main.

I’ve been single for a long time, and I’ve felt lonely for a lot of my life. I have a thing about saying no, or more specifically, I don’t like saying no to people, even if I disagree or don’t want it. When I was little I was responsible for splitting my parents up, and my dad hit me a lot because I was a “bad girl.” I’ve long grown to associate myself as being bad, and someone who needs to do good to become better.

I also became chronically ill with a heart condition in my late teens which went undiagnosed for years. I wasn’t able to be productive and that made me feel like more of a bad person, and I need to do even more to own up to it. I need to make up for being bad and become a good person. When he offered sex I just said yes despite the discomfort I actually felt, and let him do the thing. My mom and my sister went mad at me for it. I told them I’m pleasing him, I’m being a good girlfriend, setting aside my discomfort and being loyal to him and I told them that sometimes to be a good person you have to go through discomfort. I didn’t want to look like a bad person by rejecting his offer.

I just don’t want any arguments or fights, so I find it much easier to just agree with everything even if I don’t actually feel that way.

  • Cyborganism@lemmy.ca
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    7 days ago

    First of all, I’m saying this out of concern for you: you need therapy. I think you have some major self worth and self esteem issues that need to be addressed.

    Second, it’s OK to not like sex. A lot of people are asexual and it’s not abnormal or weird. It’s just the way you are, and people have to respect that. And it’s OK to say no if you don’t want sex and if you’re feeling discomfort doing it. It’s YOUR body. It’s YOUR choice what you or anybody does to you.

    It doesn’t sound like this was the case here from the information you provied, but your boyfriend would be a bad boyfriend if he forced you or coerced you, or guilt-tripped you or gaslit you into having sex. It could even be considered sexual assault. So be careful about that. If your boyfriend really wants the sex, maybe he’s not the right person for you and that’s ok.

    But please, seek therapy because it sounds like you need it.