Girlfriend of one year is extremely insecure and FORBIDS me from watching any TV shows or movies with nudity, so we broke up.

Some elaboration: my girlfriend and I are both 18, and I do love her, but sometimes I feel trapped in the relationship. I feel like I can’t do things without asking permission I’ve had to drop being friends with girls because she thought they were too pretty or that they liked me. The one thing that I asked her was to be able to watch TV or movies with nudity because I’m not a child and some of my favorite TV shows or movies have nudity in them but that’s not why I watch them I watch them for the plot? She said it’s something she could never get over and that me doing that would hurt more than breaking up. I’ve given up a lot of things to make her happy in the relationship, and it feels like she’s trying to change me, not even on purpose, to be who she wants me to be. She accused me of not loving her enough to not watch these things, and I tried to say it wasn’t really about that it was about me feeling like I have to ask for permission to do things, and being restricted. She wouldn’t listen. Am I in the wrong here? This was all brought on by the fact that my mother asked me to watch a documentary with her (Warriors of Liberty City), and she asked for the name so that she could search up if there was nudity in it, and if there was she was going to make me not watch it. I got so mad because warriors of Liberty City is about children playing football in a low Income neighborhood in Miami, and how their parents encourage football to help their kids to escape poverty and the lives of the children and their parents. I got so mad because of the fact that even if there was nudity, it was still a very powerful documentary that I should’ve been able to watch with my mother? Am I in the wrong with breaking up with her? It just feels like no matter how hard I try with her to help with her insecurities and jealousy nothing ever works and I feel trapped.

TL;DR: my girlfriend and I broke up because she won’t let me watch TV or movies with nudity, and I felt drowned and that she was being too controlling. I’ve tried to work with her on her jealousy and insecurity, but it’s never worked and she accuses me of not loving her enough. Am I in the wrong?

Submitted July 03, 2020 at 08:06AM by Liam3055 https://ift.tt/3gkofo0