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Body Image: It's the Feelings, Not the Facts

If you’re married, or in a committed relationship, the way your partner responds to your physicality is probably part of how you feel about what you see in the mirror. Give each other the working materials to easily generate an erotic home-base that feels hot and sexy sometimes, warm and friendly most of the time, and coldly evaluative never. Judgements and measurements are for competition, and home is not a place to compete.

Dysmorphia, Relationships, Self Esteem, SexualityJamey HechtAugust 8, 2025body image, dysmorphia, feminism, self acceptance

People-Pleasing Pleases Nobody

It’s true that people-pleasing and self-effacement are much better than the opposite extreme—where narcissists act as if the world owed them everything they could ever want, going through life exploiting others by deception, cheating, and entitlement. But there is a vast, wholesome, fertile middle-ground between these extremes.

Dating, Self Esteem, Dysmorphia, Sexuality, Sociality and IsolationJamey HechtSeptember 6, 2024people pleasing, confidence, beauty

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