I’ll try to summarize this as much as possible but it’s really hard.
Me and my bf have been talking since end of November so it hasn’t been that long but we got really attached to each other. I always had guys talk to me only for sexual stuff so it took me a long time to believe he actually cared for me for anything besides that. He is the best guy and most caring one I’ve ever met. During the begininning (when I was unsure of what we were) this was the first month, he asked me my body count, I got so scared and threw a fake number at him to see how he would react. He was so upset and was crying and I felt guilty and then told him the actual number and was even more upset but then was fine after a day or so. I felt horrible. After awhile I was still unsure of what we were (we’re 7 hours away drive) and was asking him “what are you talking to me for? What do you want from me?” And he never said boyfriend girlfriend but he said he can’t tell me exactly because he doesn’t know what can happen in the future with his work and all of that. He was scared of telling me something and then me possibly being affected by it a year from now… anyways, then I started feeling it was official. I have TikTok and have had some people say they’d send me money to chat (I know it’s dumb). I told my boyfriend if he would be okay with it as I was not sending anything of myself and he said yes. I was messaging one guy and he wanted nudes so I sent the fake nudes (my bf knew) and then instead of sending money he sent me nudes back and I was so grossed out and told him this isn’t the payment he said and then we argued and I blocked. I didn’t tell my boyfriend about the nudes he sent. Moving on, another guy sent me money for doing nothing, just talking about our day and then my boyfriend said he’s not fine with it unless they are sending money through go fund me link (which I understand because he doesn’t like the attention aspect behind it). I said okay and I blocked him. I did request more money via email because I was dumb but never added back and only requested the one time the day after. I feel so stupid for this. On TikTok someone said they’d send money on go fund me if I give them my Instagram first. I thought nothing of it, I thought I’d give it, get them to send, and just remove. But then they sent a dick photo out of nowhere and I blocked. I felt so guilty and couldn’t stop crying. I told my boyfriend this and he was so heartbroken that I lied. That I gave my instagram out for money. Which I understand. And I told him that the first guy also sent dick stuff and he got more upset. He needed space and we were both in a rlly dark time. We decided to talk about it in person. By the time we were gonna meet, we were begininning to talk to each other more normally and he would make jokes that he made before (sexual and regular) and I guess I got my hopes high for thinking it’ll go back to the same
We met up on Thursday night to friday. When I got to the hotel we hugged for a long time and I told him I want to talk about it but he said he wanted to enjoy the night and he didn’t know what to say. I insisted multiple times but nope. We enjoyed the night and we did everything we usually do. The next day was also fine until I noticed he looked upset and that’s when it all came up. We cried a lot, hugged a lot. And I guess he just can’t trust me the same and he’s scared he’s going to invest more feelings and end up being more hurt. I feel so bad for my dumb actions and how it made him feel. I don’t know what to do.
He’s like the only good thing in my life. I asked him what made him finally think of this decision and he said when I was singing along to my music that he didn’t feel or react the same as he used to before. That shattered me. I told him how does he feel that’s different but us having sex and cuddling all night was okay? We both care and like each other a lot and we agreed to being friends and not getting rid of each other from our lives. He says he knows I made a mistake and stuff but idk how to live with this guilt. I don’t want to lose him, I want to prove to him that I will never hurt him again.
I told him my body count was 5 initially when it’s really like 18 or something. It’s so hard to remember because I did it all to fill this dumb ass void I had inside of me. Fuck if I know, maybe it’s a bit more. I genuinely don’t know. All I know is that I don’t have any STDs because I always got tested. I hate when that question came up because it opens a dark path from my life. He’s scared he won’t be able to trust me again.
Girl, I am saying this with so much love and compassion for you- any person who is worried about body count is not worth your time. Him asking alone would be enough of a red flag for me that I would be telling him we’re done if I were in your shoes. And then when he hears 5, he is sobbing? Massive red flag, I don’t care how nice he may seem, he is not mature enough to be in a relationship and you deserve better.
Sex is just a thing that two consenting adults can do, you having sex before you met him is nothing to be ashamed of, especially if you are practicing safe sex. It’s also pretty unhealthy for you to take on the burden of his shame over your sexual life. If you were able to get him to come back, I fear his jealousy and insecurity would be riddled throughout your relationship. I spent all of my 20’s in relationships with insecure men (I am a cishet woman) and I want to try to advise you against making a similar mistake. I could have been enjoying those ten years either on my own, or trying to find someone who really valued me. But instead I took on their problems and when I look back on my twenties I SO FUCKING WISH I had broken up with those men sooner (it was 2 long term relationships, one was 6 years, the other was ~3.5 years). I don’t know how old you are, but I get a young vibe and I just want you to know that you will find someone who sees your beauty and isn’t worried about such trivial things. “Forced love the worst love, throw that shit in the can.” -a line from YBN Cordae’s song Family Matters https://youtu.be/j8Xg0Y60Tr4
As for messaging people for money and some of the concerns about breaking his trust (as well as being accosted by online horndogs), the best you can do is learn from that outcome. I am not going to shit on people who sell companionship, whether that’s just chatting, pics, or otherwise, but as you have found, men online who engage in this trade are dick pic machines. My personal takeaway is that whatever money you made was not worth the stress and the damage it wrought in your personal life. I won’t, and can’t, tell you not to do it, but to me it doesn’t seem worth it.
Take care of yourself first and foremost, and know your value 💖
Sounds like this dude, consciously or subconsciously, can’t get over the fact that he sees OP as “his”, and he doesn’t like the idea of sharing her with people from the past. Depending on how old you are, 5 isn’t even that much for a body count, so i agree, him freaking out over that is a red flag. 18 is definitely more, but again, thats all dependent on how much you tie emotions to sex. Some people need a long emotional connection before they have sex, some don’t, and there’s nothing wrong with either. But being upset with how someone choose to use their body before they were dating you is childish and possessive IMHO.
If you like the guy, then you like him, but it sounds like a long distance relationship with someone too insecure and controlling to be in a mature long distance relationship. Lying is bad, crossing boundaries you two have set is bad, don’t do those things. But taking people’s money for talking on the internet causes no harm. Getting dick pics sucks, and I’m sorry you had to go through that, but if your BF blames you for that, he’s an idiot. Unless you said “please show me a picture of your penis”, nothing you did caused dudes to take pictures of their junk and send them unsolicited to strangers on the internet.
I’m not my wife’s first. Not the biggest dick she’s had. Nor any of the usual male ego things. But she loves me more than any of the others and that’s the only important thing.
Plus any time I’ve wanted to do anything kinky she has been game and we’ve had a lot of cool experiences together she hasn’t had with anyone else.
You sound really young (at least compared to my fifty) and I hope some day you and your partner can both be comfortable with each other. There’s nothing shameful about how many partners you’ve had.
Thanks for this comment. I’m glad you are your wife are super comfortable and I’m happy you guys are happy with each other :). I am young, I turn 22 in August and he just turned 23 in march. I do have experience as I was in a relationship of 3 years a couple years ago but I was so young. I started dating in grade 9 and he was in grade 12. That relationship destroyed me because I never learned to love myself and I feel like that relationship made everything worse.
But what about the mistakes I made with the older men sending me money. That’s what he can’t get over. He said it’s a big issue that I didn’t tell him the first guy sent me disgusting pictures/video and that I gave my Instagram for someone to send me money. I never thought much of it. I was just going to give it, send my GoFundMe link (my bf said only GoFundMe link was okay) and then block them but they just sent me a photo out of nowhere, I blocked and told my boyfriend how bad I felt and sorry. That’s when I told him the first guy sent something too. I just didn’t find a point in saying it before because I didn’t ask nor wanna see that nasty shit.
Maybe I’m not understanding something but it sounds like you got sent unsolicited dick pics. That’s not your fault. There’s not one damn thing to feel guilty about there.
Yeah, you’re playing with fire there and you ought to know that but you have nothing to feel bad about, and he has nothing to be angry with you over unless he thinks you arranged that in purpose. If not, no harm no foul.
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If this was all before him what is the problem. He asked you a bad question and you downplayed it and lied then told the truth and apologized(?). Is he a little Protestant boy?