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My partner and I have been dating for 8 months. We both are models and a lot of things that come with that make me very uncomfortable. (I'm 17 and she is 15 by the way.)

Other girls putting their hands all over her.
Guys constantly throwing themselves at her.
Her consistently wanting to post provocative pictures.
Constantly wearing clothing that lets everything hang out.

I'm not okay with any of these, so I don't do them and luckily nobody throws themself at me.

But there were things that I did that she didn't like too. Like she didn't want people seeing me in a tank top, wearing earrings or wearing certain types of underwear under my clothing. So I stopped doing those things. But when I ask her not to do something it usually spawns a fight.

She has low confidence so modeling and doing all these things make her feel good. But they are a big red flag for me. I have brought up breaking up multiple times but each time she strongly disagrees and we seemingly resolve everything.

But it's led to competition, at least on my behalf. I now feel so competitive with her and get upset when things happen to her that don't happen to me. (Pretty childish right?)

But the bottom line is these things happen daily and I'm not happy any more. I haven't fallen out of love with her, but 5 out of 7 nights a week I lose sleep over this. I can't make myself okay with it and I can't change who she is, nor would I want to. I wanted to seek counseling but she doesn't want to and we don't really have money.

Is it time to end things or is there another solution?

I'm a middleweight amateur boxer who has competed in the sport since the age of 10. Now, I'm 20 years old and I'll tell you, boxing is a very tough and physically demanding sport and not something to be taken lightly at all.

Anyways, there was this new guy in my gym who came to my boxing gym. He happens to come from an MMA background (as an amateur MMA competitive, for a very short time). At first, I thought he seemed like a pretty good kid at first... until he started to show his very disrespectful and cocky personality. He started to talk all sorts of crap about boxers and boxing in general, about how he thinks he can easily kick any boxers ass with his MMA background in the ring and how boxing is such an "easy, p*ssy pillow-fighting" sport.

I started to ask him if he thinks he's such a badass tough guy who believes he can take on any boxer in the ring, then why don't you step in the ring with me for sparring. He relucantly accepted. As soon as we started sparring, he just went charging wildly at me with looping punches, then I just utilized my footwook and constantly threw him off balance and knock him down with a few power shots. After knocking him down for like the 3rd time in a row already just a couple seconds before the first round ended, I asked him if he's finished yet, he said no, and then we took our 30 second break for the next round. Then, we proceed our sparring session for the next round. He's still fighting with crappy defense and I landed one powerful straight right hand directly to his chin and he went flying across the ring, down to the canvas. As soon as he tried to get up, he struggled at first but rushingly got back up, then stumbled back down to the canvas floor. That's when I started to tell my trainer to end the session since I didn't want to seriously hurt the guy but to teach him a lession and put him in his place.

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