Caution – wall o’words ahead! (I may have spent way too much time thinking about this stuff over the years…..)
Obviously this stuff varies a lot from person to person, but even more so across the gender divide. I’m going to toss out some experience and thoughts, but I do understand that in this area in particular guy-stuff and girl-stuff isn’t always the same.
First of all, I’d agree that you want to wrap your heads around this now, because decades of issues are not a good plan. Secondly, if it is an issue now when you are young and pumping as much hormones as blood through your veins (yes, that is an exaggeration) it isn’t apt to get better later, IMO. Third, in this sort of area, the more you worry or stress about it, the less well anything is apt to work, so not getting stuck in a vicious cycle is a good plan! So good on you for addressing it rather than pushing the concerns aside.
Some questions.
Are all your fat related ‘hot-buttons’ feeding and weight-gain related? Or to put it another way, are your issues that you don’t think he is an FA or that you don’t think he is a feeder? If he is turned on by whatever degree of chubby that you are, but wasn’t turned on feeding you or you gaining weight, would that make any difference? For that matter, are your fantasies all about you, or does other people being fat, getting fed, gaining weight, etc turn you on? (if it does, perhaps that makes it easier to externalize your fantasies?)
Are you sure he isn’t some degree of an FA? He may not be hard-core, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t like you because of your chubby body rather than despite it. And even if he isn’t into chubbiness in general he might be into rounder, softer, bums, or the tapered shape that chubby thighs have, or the softened face, etc. Unless he knows that you like it, why would he ever offend his girlfriend by telling her he likes anything about her being fat? (since that is tantamount to calling her fat, which is supposedly about the worst thing you can tell a woman).
Do you have any other kinks that you might be able to leverage? As in, if your feeding fantasies are ‘sub’ related (and they may not be, there are all sorts of different ways to fantasize weight gain….but as an example, if they are), perhaps you could see if you can expand your fantasies to other sub type activities, and see if he has any dom type tendencies?
For that matter, have you managed to get him to reveal any of his preferences, quirks, or fetishes? Granted that if he is your age, the hormonal amplifier can make pretty much anything that isn’t an outright turn-off seem pretty hot, so he may not have figured out the signal from the noise just yet (at least that is my recollection of that age). But the plus side of that is things that are lesser turn-ons for him may still be entirely enough of a turn-on to arouse him, so it could be a good time to work on anything where you can establish any degree of sexual common ground.
You said you would not be comfortable revealing your fetish to him, which is very understandable. But could you be brave enough to talk about some of the implications of it? Just maybe that could create enough of a bridge, make you more comfortable, etc that it might be enough. Things like:
- After seeing a diet ad or something “I know everyone expects me to be insecure about my body because I’m chubby, but honestly I’ve never really wanted to be thin. I like being curvy and cuddly, and even having a squishy little tummy.” (that could give him permission to be more open about liking some of those parts of your body)
- or after a good meal together “I know this is pretty weird, but there is something about having a tummy full of good food that puts me in a frisky mood. So now you know my weakness, save the money on roses, put it into dinner—just don’t abuse it too much or you know the consequences.” (which may make him more eager to see you eat well, and you have even openly told him that if he keeps you eating well you’ll probably gain weight).
- Or “My breasts are a little tender right now, could you go easy on them tonight? Gentle kisses on them would still be good—and gentle kisses on my tummy, too, please.” (look, he wants to turn you on, you are giving him directions, if it works he is not going to complain)
FWIW, my sexuality is all tied up in fat stuff (I’m chubby, an FA, and a mutual gainer at heart), while my wife has a sexuality that seems more aligned with being a sub. I apparently cannot do dom stuff in a useful sort of way (nor does it do anything for me, my take on sex is much more a mutual pleasuring of two people working together as equals, with no power transfer involved), so our sexualities don’t naturally intersect very well. But for a lot of years the fact that I’d want sex and could be the aggressor was just enough for my wife, and the fact that she loves food and had gained a fair bit of weight over the early years of
Obviously this stuff varies a lot from person to person, but even more so across the gender divide. I’m going to toss out some experience and thoughts, but I do understand that in this area in particular guy-stuff and girl-stuff isn’t always the same.
First of all, I’d agree that you want to wrap your heads around this now, because decades of issues are not a good plan. Secondly, if it is an issue now when you are young and pumping as much hormones as blood through your veins (yes, that is an exaggeration) it isn’t apt to get better later, IMO. Third, in this sort of area, the more you worry or stress about it, the less well anything is apt to work, so not getting stuck in a vicious cycle is a good plan! So good on you for addressing it rather than pushing the concerns aside.
Some questions.
Are all your fat related ‘hot-buttons’ feeding and weight-gain related? Or to put it another way, are your issues that you don’t think he is an FA or that you don’t think he is a feeder? If he is turned on by whatever degree of chubby that you are, but wasn’t turned on feeding you or you gaining weight, would that make any difference? For that matter, are your fantasies all about you, or does other people being fat, getting fed, gaining weight, etc turn you on? (if it does, perhaps that makes it easier to externalize your fantasies?)
Are you sure he isn’t some degree of an FA? He may not be hard-core, but that doesn’t mean that he doesn’t like you because of your chubby body rather than despite it. And even if he isn’t into chubbiness in general he might be into rounder, softer, bums, or the tapered shape that chubby thighs have, or the softened face, etc. Unless he knows that you like it, why would he ever offend his girlfriend by telling her he likes anything about her being fat? (since that is tantamount to calling her fat, which is supposedly about the worst thing you can tell a woman).
Do you have any other kinks that you might be able to leverage? As in, if your feeding fantasies are ‘sub’ related (and they may not be, there are all sorts of different ways to fantasize weight gain….but as an example, if they are), perhaps you could see if you can expand your fantasies to other sub type activities, and see if he has any dom type tendencies?
For that matter, have you managed to get him to reveal any of his preferences, quirks, or fetishes? Granted that if he is your age, the hormonal amplifier can make pretty much anything that isn’t an outright turn-off seem pretty hot, so he may not have figured out the signal from the noise just yet (at least that is my recollection of that age). But the plus side of that is things that are lesser turn-ons for him may still be entirely enough of a turn-on to arouse him, so it could be a good time to work on anything where you can establish any degree of sexual common ground.
You said you would not be comfortable revealing your fetish to him, which is very understandable. But could you be brave enough to talk about some of the implications of it? Just maybe that could create enough of a bridge, make you more comfortable, etc that it might be enough. Things like:
- After seeing a diet ad or something “I know everyone expects me to be insecure about my body because I’m chubby, but honestly I’ve never really wanted to be thin. I like being curvy and cuddly, and even having a squishy little tummy.” (that could give him permission to be more open about liking some of those parts of your body)
- or after a good meal together “I know this is pretty weird, but there is something about having a tummy full of good food that puts me in a frisky mood. So now you know my weakness, save the money on roses, put it into dinner—just don’t abuse it too much or you know the consequences.” (which may make him more eager to see you eat well, and you have even openly told him that if he keeps you eating well you’ll probably gain weight).
- Or “My breasts are a little tender right now, could you go easy on them tonight? Gentle kisses on them would still be good—and gentle kisses on my tummy, too, please.” (look, he wants to turn you on, you are giving him directions, if it works he is not going to complain)
FWIW, my sexuality is all tied up in fat stuff (I’m chubby, an FA, and a mutual gainer at heart), while my wife has a sexuality that seems more aligned with being a sub. I apparently cannot do dom stuff in a useful sort of way (nor does it do anything for me, my take on sex is much more a mutual pleasuring of two people working together as equals, with no power transfer involved), so our sexualities don’t naturally intersect very well. But for a lot of years the fact that I’d want sex and could be the aggressor was just enough for my wife, and the fact that she loves food and had gained a fair bit of weight over the early years of
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