I (23/m) will never be "allowed" to watch Game Of Thrones, among others, while I'm with my gf (21/f) of 2 yrs...

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I love my girlfriend, I really do. She's smart, funny, loyal, beautiful, and we have a pretty good sex life. There is one thing that always nags at me though and it's starting to depress me.

Basically, we've had multiple arguments/disagreements about shows/movies that show nudity/"inappropriate" behaviour/sexual violence, etc. She gets VERY upset when I want to watch things like Game Of Thrones, Fast and Furious, The Wolf of Wall Street, etc, because of the sex scenes, "slutty" women, and so on. Her argument always comes back to "why would you want to see that stuff if you have me?" and "that's disrespectful to women and to yourself for watching it". Not only does she not want me watching it with her, she also doesn't want me to watch it by myself, calling it "porn". I do not watch Game of Thrones for the sex, I watch it for the plot and the action/suspense.

On most shows she wants me to look away from the screen if there is nudity, but even if I did that for Game of Thrones I would miss a third of the show. I personally don't care for sex scenes and I don't jack off to them like she seems to think, but I don't think I should be expected to look off the screen ever. That is childish in my opinion but she does not understand that. This may sound kind of crude but what I really want to say to her is that just because I see a pair of tits on TV does not mean I don't love you or don't want you. I really do just want her. She was abused in the past and her mother was like that so she was also raised in a strange way in my opinion.

Also in real life she gets super jealous if I even make small talk with a woman, especially when the woman is "attractive" but even if she is not. I am not to have female Facebook friends and can't text them except my sister and mother.

All this makes me want to break up with her and I have kind of accepted that she probably won't change any time soon, and I am not waiting around for years even though I love her and want her to be "normal". She is going to therapy and taking a natural anti-anxiety supplement but they haven't helped much.

In a way the thing I'm mostly upset about is how ridiculous the whole thing is; how can she be a near-perfect girlfriend but then ruin it over this? It's so unfair and sometimes I feel guilty for wanting my freedom to watch my shows and talk to people normally. I know many people would say "she's crazy; run!" which I totally get, but she really is mentally ill and I feel guilty that I don't want to wait around forever...

tl;dr: my otherwise good girlfriend of 2 years is super insecure to the point of being controlling and not letting me watch certain shows/movies with nudity/etc, and getting super jealous.

WOW. this really blew up. I was only expecting a few more replies before I went to bed last night xD

Posted Jun 25, 2015, 5:08 AM UTC · edited

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