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These kinds of questions are best discussed with a therapist if you can see one, but yes, you can improve, and it doesn't mean you have to be solo to do it. But try not to let the relationship define you. You need to be a whole, complete person without the external validation. Taking pride in your appearance is good, but feeling like you cannot show your most intimate partner your bare face is some regressive thinking from older generations we should leave behind.

In time I hope you feel happier and more comfortable just being you, regardless of being with someone. Being able to find self worth solo makes you much, much more rounded as a person, healthier, and ultimately a better partner too. Good luck.

The comment above is a half serious joke, but you do seem rather desperate for the approval of your partner and their validation. This isn't totally healthy, and on one hand can be suffocating potentially, but can also be abused by a bad actor if you happen to date one. And those kinds of partners can sense and prey on that part of you.

I hope you have some positive friendships and relationships to help offset whatever is driving this feeling in you. In a perfect world, I'd say speak with a therapist but who can afford healthcare nowadays.

This is a hard thing to just say, but I hope you can understand that some of your fear and jealousy here is probably stemming from a lack of self confidence.

I say this, because I hope you can reflect on that, and be aware that some partners will understand and exploit that if you are not careful. This guy doesn't sound like that, but maybe your next relationship is.

As others have said, try to have open communication, and accept sometimes if your values are fundamentally different. Sometimes people just are. Some can have open relationships happily, some thing looking at porn is cheating. Without judgement, both can be valid as long as both partners communicate and agree on that.

My feeling is generally the more secure you are in yourself and your sexuality, the less jealous and the less concerned you will be come with these things, and the more confidence you will have to cut off shitty partners who violate the norms you set. If your relationship is okay with porn, but not dating apps, then fuck them of they are browsing Tinder, even "just to look".

Communicate, but also value yourself. This guy may be perfect, but maybe he's not perfect for you. And that's okay. Your chances of meeting someone gold are far better than you think if you keep your head up and go in eyes wide open than try and ignore issues.

Anyways, I hope some of this is moderately helpful to you. I hope you and him can work out, but I also hope you don't compare yourself to camgirls or porn, ever. Fantasies are just that, we all have them. And they should never hurt your self worth.

Be well.

Agreed on both Organic Maps and Magic Earth.

Organic Maps let's you login to Open Street Map, so you can submit revisions and reviews. It's my goto right now for an alternative.

Giving up Google Maps is hard though, they bake it into a ton of services. Everyone mocked it, myself included, when Apple maps launched, but I'm now really glad they are a player in this space.

The best feeling is to call in strategems for the they haven't unlocked yet. They don't always want to take yours but often it's a lot of fun because they won't unlock it for a while yet.

Hello comrade.

I didn't even know raccoon existed.

But I love that Lemmy has so many options.

Will check it out. Seems the dev is working on an update for Android 15 compatibility.

What's the name of this one? I haven't see it with a center trackball before.

If true, there's a class action waiting to happen.

Good thing Trump will stop it from getting off the ground. Classes are bad. Should have purchased through a shell company that can litigate for you.

Just putting it out there that the UN is mainly a place to air grievances to avoid war.

Cause when you don't have the ability to air grievances, people tend to become more extreme.