#Help/Advice
How do you maintain healthy friendships/relationships while in this line of work?
I'm asking because I really haven't been having an easy time making connections with people that aren't just looking for something shallow, and the people that I was close to either left when they found out I did cam work, or they keep trying to put their opinions of me and MY boundaries in my face. I feel like I can breathe sometimes and I wonder if I really just can't have both a successful camming career and a healthy social life.
It's definitely something that is difficult. Sex work is still considered very taboo and not acceptable to many people (and those same people usually love watching porn.....). You'll need to exercise your judgement on who you tell. I'd suggest not saying that you cam immediately, but work up to it. Such as asking what someone you know thinks of camming or sex work in general. Maybe even what they would think if someone they knew was a sex worker/cammer. I always tell every cammer/sex worker to separate their cam/work persona's from their real life persona so that they can control who knows what they really do and to protect themselves from weirdo's that are online. It gives them a chance to control their data/narrative. But in the end, for some people you know, be prepared to know that you' might lose them as friends. Of course, there's always us here on Cam 101 or Discord. There's also other platforms, such as FetLife, that are more accepting of what we do.
For sure you can , you havent meet the right people yet i belive , i do have few friends and i kinda feel comfy chatting to them , i kinda not like bring up my work to my daily conversation i only do talk about work with other models because no one can understand this kind of work ...