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when someone kicks you in the insecurities

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Pinklady11 · 24/07/2018 20:22

dated someone briefly a while ago. Was all going well, dtd, then bam got totally ghosted. Just about hung on to my dignity and sent the one message of 'I respect you don't want to see me again, but could you please tell me what went wrong as maybe it's something I can work on?'
Anyway, this was a fair few weeks ago, just got a message out of the blue saying 'I'm sorry but I never appreciated how tiny you were and it just doesn't work for me'.
In context: I'm 4'11. I do usually wear heels, but not fuck off stripper ones, at most 3 inches (so puts me 5'2 - not really giant!). My height is something I've been ridiculously self conscious about even before my teen years but getting older I really thought I'd put the worst of it behind me. I'm pushing 40 and I'm generally quite happy with what I see in the mirror. I'm a size 6 but with good boobs and arse, so I have 'womanly' curves (no mistaking me for a child lol! Think of a cross between Kylie and Dolly Smile)and I think I have a pretty face. This sounds really big headed, but it's not because I've always been shadowed by this massive insecurity over my height.
So here I am, getting teary and feeling like I'm 15 all over again. Is 4'11 really to short to be attractive?

OP posts:
AgentJohnson · 24/07/2018 22:29

You asked and he answered. Should he have lied? Would a lie or a fudge make you feel better? Don’t ask questions to which you won’t be able to handle the truth. I personally think asking someone what you could change about yourself to make them like you, is definitely a moment when the ‘holding on to your dignity’ boat was missed.

Everyone has insecurities, that something something they wish was different about themselves, the strength comes from owning it and not giving others the power to make you feel less than.

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