Yeah, I felt this for years and things have ~semi worked out for me~ sexually, but I was never able to find someone who fit all of my initial dating dreams (i.e. similar senses of humor, similar interests, shared fetish, mutual attraction, and not long distance).
I’m actually about to get married to a huge hottie that I love deeply BUT we don’t share this as a fetish. I go through phases of caring a lot and then only caring a little about to sharing a fetish with someone, so it all kinda depends on the day. It sort of still works with her sexually because she’s a sub and really enjoys when I “grab her how I like” (and she literally has unintentionally nearly tripled in weight since we met, and she was already fat)… but also she was way more confident about her size when we first met (which I intentionally sought out someone like that), and the idea of feeding freaks her out, so I don’t think I’ll ever have an experience where I feel fully sexually compatible with her. She can be amazing, and she has moments of confidence, but they fluctuate, and it can be hard to feel comfortable fully loving someone’s body when they don’t love it themselves. (And I especially can’t playfully tease her about her weight, which is one of my biggest turn ons 😩)
But our relationship ultimately works because I made the conscious choice to prioritize having both great personality compatibility and pretty good sexuality compatibility over just perfect sexual compatibility. And I still think that was a pretty great choice, even with the drawbacks. Because even if you were to have perfect, daily sex with your parter, you’d still probably spend 95% of your life with them outside of the bedroom.
So ultimately my advice is:
1. Seek someone you’re attracted to and that you get along well with (in-person). You can usually tell if you enjoy being around them after 1-3 in-person dates. If you’re not excited to see them again for a 4th dates, just cut it off.
2. Try to sus out if they resent being fat (or becoming fat if they aren’t yet) quickly. While people can ultimately grow to love being fat, it’s a LOT easier to date someone who likes their body already (even if that confidence fades, it’s a lot easier for someone to regain confidence than it is for someone to develop it for the first time)
3. Accept that modern dating is a numbers game. Try your best, accept that it really fucking hurts sometimes, don’t ever try to force a connection with someone (bc it’s ultimately just a painful waste of time for you), and keep trying.
4. Don’t fuck with starting anything long distance. Props if you are able to maintain a text chain for more than a month with someone overseas. But I never could. I always recommend trying to set a casual coffee date (in a public place) asap so you can suss out your actual chemistry fast.
5. Idk if this is good advice, but I strangely found that shortly after I truly, to my core, accepted I would likely never find someone in my lifetime AND felt comfortable with that idea (which took years of rejection to get to), I met the love of my life. When you’re able to let go of your deep desire to find someone, suddenly everyone finds that confidence irresistible. Idk man. It works, but it sucks getting there.
And that concludes my Ted Talk