As the title says, do you show your SO your content and profiles or would you feel embarassed or ashamed to show them what you do in your work time?
My hubs enjoys my content often! He's the reason I signed up as a cam girl over a decade ago, so it would be weird if I wasn't cool with him watching while I'm live or watching my videos. Hell, he used to be my photographer and camera man before I took over doing it completely on my own.As the title says, do you show your SO your content and profiles or would you feel embarassed or ashamed to show them what you do in your work time?
Idk, embarrassment and shame should not be descriptors in this biz. While I don't enjoy my man being in the room when I am doing a show (for some reason it feels odd to me, I'd rather he watch from another room on his iPad lol) but it's not embarrassment and DEFINITELY not shame. In fact, as you stated, it is an adjustment for the SO of a sex worker in the beginning, which is WHY my boyfriend tuned in when he could...he needed to see what it was like, to ease whatever was going on in his mind. Maybe you don't need that, but I also feel like you wouldn't go through the process of coming to this forum and posting if it doesn't bother you at all....I think it would be easier for you to adjust to her new job if she were more open about, and that is just my $0.02. Again, I only say this because this is not a 'normal' job; it is a job where relationship insecurities can rear their ugly heads very easily.
you know what is annoying? not having a partner empathic to their feelings and dismiss them as annoying. if she isn't comfortable with you being home while she works, what can you do to alleviate that stress? maybe leave? go get an outside hobby or part-time job. life is all about making sacrifices for yourself and your loved ones, and you never stop. i'd be so pissed at my husband if he called my feelings of uncomfortableness 'annoying.'So now we're at a point that because i looked at her profile she feels dirty and feels uncomfortable camming with me in the house, this is annoying because we sacrifice a lot of our time to camming and this makes it even less, I've never been interested to look or come into the room shes working in before or planned on doing it either.
thank god for grandmas! same with mine! she doesn't like it, but she has been very respectful and supportive of my choices.My grandma was more supportive than my ex when I started selling custom pic sets.
you know what is annoying? not having a partner empathic to their feelings and dismiss them as annoying. if she isn't comfortable with you being home while she works, what can you do to alleviate that stress? maybe leave? go get an outside hobby or part-time job. life is all about making sacrifices for yourself and your loved ones, and you never stop. i'd be so pissed at my husband if he called my feelings of uncomfortableness 'annoying.'
if she didn't want you looking at her content and didn't give you permission to look, you crossed that boundary. you have some serious apologizing, even if you don't think it's a big deal, she now is hurt because you went behind her back.
thank god for grandmas! same with mine! she doesn't like it, but she has been very respectful and supportive of my choices.
Yeah thats exactly what i want, openess! I feel kinda shut out about it recently and her reaction to an innocent peek at her profile bummed me out, i thought it would ok to look seeing as we're a solid couple and the 7.something billion people in the world can access her page and use her services if they wish but it sucks theres an issue arisen because i did. I respect her wishes and won't go back on and I'll continue to be her number one fan and cheer her on.
I can't go to an outside hobby or part time job, i work 12-14 hour days, 5 or 6 days a week and have children. As for not being empathic... do you know what i do while she works? I come home and cook, clean up, tidy the house, make her drinks, take her dog out and a whole lot more, also I'll add that i don't live with her so i do those things to help and support her in day to day life. It is annoying because as I've said I've sacrificed a lot of our time and encourage her to do well, because i want her to do well. We're a solid couple aside from that. Also where boundaries are concerned she crossed our boundary by going further than what was agreed when she was drunk so i think taking a peek at a profile out of curiosity and apologizing for it is minor compared to actually going behind my back and apologising for it later. A bit of openness and honesty goes a long way.
its called emotional support my dude. you asked her while she was under the influence of alcohol something she probably wouldn't be cool with sober. you don't see how that isn't cool. you sound a bit resentful. she has some clear hang-ups, and so do you. i think it's best if both of you try to have a clear non-emotional conversation. recognize and acknowledge the boundaries crossed. both sides.
if you don't live with her, why are you going to her place while she works? if she has issues with you being at her place while she works, maybe you need to respect that? respect her workspace and work time. also if time is an issue i understand. my husband works night shift 12-14 hour days too. i see him maybe 4 hours a day if im lucky. we have to schedule time together. i know it isnt the most romantic thing, but it's how we can have a relationship that isn't "hi, kiss, goodbye"
I've only been in one serious relationship since I started camming. This wasn't a new relationship by any means and I had started camming while we were on one of our (many) "off" periods. It was never a secret that I cammed, but I never once told him what my stage name was. Why? Because I wasn't comfortable with it. He was judgmental and jealous even at his best times, and to be quite frank, I didn't trust that he would keep my business to himself if, or should I say when, we broke up again, because he had spread some pretty nasty rumors about me in the past when he was upset with me. I'm about 98% positive he still ended up figuring it out, because he would make offhand comments about stuff that happened in my room, alluded to knowing what my cam name was and there was even a time that I was almost sure he was coming into my room acting like a random person (he had a very distinct way of joking around, this "random" said stuff, mostly inside jokes, that only long time regulars of my room or people who knew me irl would know and his profile was brand spanking new, and a few times my ex would text me right as soon as I got off cam, which could be a coincidence, but still).
Basically, it all came down to trust, and I had none for that person. The fact that he, more than likely, went out of his way to find out my info anyway despite me telling him I wasn't comfortable with it shows that my instincts were right. I have two very close friends who know my stage name and have looked at my stuff before, and I don't mind that one bit, because I trust them. If I was in a loving relationship with someone I could see myself with long term, someone who I totally trusted, I would let them look at my stuff. Hell, I'd probably encourage them to look at my videos (for the record, I only make content now and don't really live cam) and help me out with them.
she did the drunk thing and they got to see things that I've never seen.
jealousy is something you should learn to curb if you want to date in this industry. That sounds incredibly possessive, why do you think you deserve more than what she's given you?
you aren't gatekeeper of her boundaries though... my boundaries change quite often.Because when she started it all she wanted to set boundaries and she overstepped her own agreed boundary, the one thing i should be able to do is trust my partner, deceit causes mistrust and mistrust causes problems.
I'm sorry to hear your ex was like that cast a lot of insecurity, you were definitely right not to reveal your stage name to him and if he was entering your room thats just so fucking stalkerish!
Me and my lady are in a really loving trusting relationship, we both know that we're life partners and the things we've battled through together shows we're a strong unit, i think thats why I'm so bummed out about her not including me more into her work, like she's asked numerous times to do couples which I'm totally up for and she's suggested i cam too which i plan on starting, thats why i can't understand why she was so annoyed at me for looking at her profile once. I'd like to support her more by helping her with her content and stuff but she doesn't allow me to see and i feel kinda frozen out by it.
I would not sweat the little things, and just focus on money, like you would with any other job. She makes her money, you make yours. If you guys plan on any type of serious long term relationship, the more she makes (by any means) the less you have to help her with. That's a positive thing. Making money is exhausting!
This thing about going further etc etc, is a minor issue (as far as your relationship is concerned) that if you guys stay together, will likely be a non issue, and not even something you remember in 10 years. But sidenote; she should not be drinking on cam, and going further than she wants to. That is not a good way to be healthy and happy, in the long term, as a SW (sex worker). However, that is her business.
Whoever the dude was, prob won't stick around or even be a factor. I think to be delving into details like this you will drive yourself nuts. I never talk about the details of my shows with my SO, and he wouldn't even care to hear them. It's a boring topic of conversation. Focusing on little details, in any context, always amplifies jealousy. Try to have better boundaries with each other, so as to avoid having arguments and going to negative mind spaces.
In 60 years you guys probably won't even remember this whole thing, and if you do, you will both laugh about it.
ETA; Maybe you guys should do something fun together like play Xbox, or go Karaoke, so as to have positive things to bond over, and talk about.