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When your partner's 'helpful' comments about your appearance feel hurtful

My boyfriend criticizes my appearance in ways he says are helpful but they make me feel worse about myself

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Criticism disguised as care reveals the controller's inability to love what they cannot mold into their preferred image.

Ideas that help explain it
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