what hurts is never feeling good enough or beautiful enough. i know appearances and beauty aren’t everything, but...i don’t know. i feel like recently, in my relationship, i make so many compromises. i compromised us not having a ton of sex. i compromised my eating her out (which i do enjoy, but the point is i had a strict boundary), i am trying to compromise her being feminine...i know it’s not her fault that she didn’t know all this stuff about herself. i also know that she was trying to be selfless, and that she could argue that SHE was the one compromising. but it’s not really about her, i guess. it’s about my feeling like i have to be a certain way, and that she does too, for my life to be happy. it’s like my brain needs utmost certainty about the future for me to be able to enjoy the present. i never want a relationship like i had with micaela. i don’t want to be dominant or forced to top, and i don’t want to be with someone hyperfeminine. and my relationship now is NONE of those things. but i am so afraid it will become something different before i know it, that i’ll blink and everything will change. the issue is, i want to feel loved. and i do, and i know mads loves me...but the kind of love i need is SELF-LOVE. i need to feel loved by myself. i’m feeling never good enough and that’s because i don’t see myself as loveable.