u/MoonlitHemlock

Hi. I'm looking for shops that sell black wedding dresses in size 22 or 24 in the New England/NYC area. I'm looking for somewhere that has more than 2 options as well. Please let me know if you know of any stores, shops, dressmakers, etc. I already tried shopping online and that turned out awful, so please don't suggest that. Also, if they have an in house tailor, that would be great. I have very unusual measurements. Thank you very much in advanced!

Hi, I'm moving to Massachusetts this summer/fall. I am not tied to any location specifically, but am just looking at anywhere West of Boston and it's suburbs. Where are the areas that have the most/least humidity? I don't do well in the summer with any humidity and need to find places to look that are the least humid. Anything I find online goes back and forth, with nothing concrete, so I thought I'd ask the people who actually live there. Thank you in advanced with any information.

I put the fat shaming abuse so no one was triggered by anything I say, though it's not out right abuse.

I have found that in all of the relationships that I've had, my partners have settled for my looks. I'm not horrible looking or anything, and all of the people pursued me, but made it clear that I wasn't their type physically (plus size wise) after we got together. In the beginning of the relationships, they would tell me their ideal type of person physically, repeatedly, which definitely wasn't anything like me. They would look at these women online and flirt with them when I wasn't around. I would ask them how I looked in something or just what they found most attractive about me, and it was always a delayed answer of something about my face.

I've been told after directly asking them that they had to grow to like my looks, meaning my body. I am 42 and have never had anyone, besides my high school sweetheart, really want all of me for me. I've been in about 6 relationships where this has happened. I feel like I'm in a beauty and the beast situation where they had to grow to love me past my hideous flaws. It's the same with my current relationship. She said that in the beginning that she wasn't fully attracted to me and would look at other people that were her type and casually flirt with them, but now, after time, she finds me attractive and only wants me.

I am a person who internalize negative things and I can't help but think it really is me and I am that ugly and awful. That I'm not really anyones type unless it's to fetishize me. I'm just really heartbroken and lost right now and don't really know what to do or how to feel about it. I'm hoping someone has some kind words or advice, because I don't believe her anymore when she says she's attracted to me or any of her compliments., but I also don't believe I'll ever find anything different. Thanks in advance.

Edit: I am physically disabled (non visible) and this limits my dating pool greatly.