video games are going to ruin my relationship
this may not be the best place to post this but r/bddvent is so dead and this is mostly about video games so idk where else to post. i wanted girl gamer friends but when i joined this sub several months ago but it seemed like everyone was into bg3 and other games that include lots of nudity and sexualized women. those kinds of games trigger me as i have bdd (body dysmorphia) and struggle with lots of jealously and insecurities so i realized i would probably never have friends, especially gamer friends.
now my bf, the only person i have, who i connect with mostly over video games, wants to try bg3 and it makes me want to dump him. im just so tired of all these games with nudity... they always have perfect bodies and i get so stressed, insecure, jealous, and depressed over the thought of my bf playing these games and seeing the women and we've been wanting to move in together but i just cant if i have to watch him play them. just feel like i want to be single forever if everyone is going to be consuming sexual media whether its tv, video games, or porn... like it feels like everyone has an addiction nowadays.
idk how to get over the jealously of video games. my bf will say stuff like "nobody is playing these games for the sex" which i know isnt true bc i had an ex that would play or watch anything he could just for the sex/ nudity and from what i see online a lot of other men (and some women) do too. i dont understand how all these other girls are so chill with it yet so many women struggle with insecurities and bdd. just wish that i could be normal and not care like all these other girls in this subreddit.
like nobody else get jealous over this stuff? not even with the porn games? just seems crazy to me that video games are so sexual now that it even needs to be a discussion to be brought up in a relationship. literally everything is going to be extremely sexualized in the future anyways... cant even go in public without seeing half naked preteen girls /).-
ik ill probably get a lot of hate but whatever. and yes im in therapy for bdd but it literally just doesnt work. i just thought maybe itd be helpful to find someone that has gone through the same issue idk
Posted Mar 8, 2025, 12:58 PM UTC