This morning me and my partner were both sat next to each other doom scrolling and glancing at each others phones to look at the occasional video.
My partner's social media feed was full of half naked woman (probably more accurate to say young adults) wearing underwear/bikinis and gyrating about jiggling their breats.
I felt irrationally angry and disrespected although I can't fully explain why. I know he uses porn, and I don't like that either, but he's never done it somewhere that I can see and we have never really had a proper conversation about it.
For further context, and I believe this is relevant, I do not have great self esteem to start with. I am late thirties, he is in his fourties and we have been together for 6 years. We are getting married next month.
Prior to me, he was single from being 18 due to having significant caring responsibilities for a family member. I had children young - he had never seen naked or slept with a woman who has had children until me. He has always struggled with sex - about half of the time he can only finish by using his own hand.
I think he does love me in his own way, but he has never really given me any sort of compliment aside from 'I like your tshirt' or anything romantic or thoughtful. He even proposed to me at a concert, during a song that is notoriously known to be a breakup song (it's even called 'I don't love you') and he has loved that band for 20 years so he knew that!
Today really hit home that the bodies he is looking at, are very different to mine. I am not one of those women who 'bounced back' after babies. I've had vaginal and csection births, two of my babies were over 10lb, and I breastfed for 9 years. I have recently lost a few stone but I have loose and stretchmarked skin. There is nothing about me that is perky.
I don't really know why I'm posting this, I keep crying at the thought of having sex with him now I know what sort of women he likes to look at. I really love him, and I am so attracted to him, I do not look at other men.