I am hopeful that this will be a great learning opportunity, as awful as it feels....

** MAY TRIGGER **

Here's what comes to mind when I'm going through this...Say, a group of friends are getting massages and you joined them. Everyone strips down into their birthday suits - except you. You are wayyy too self-conscious to get THAT undressed. Everyone is getting mad because you're not participating.

You're thinking, "But wait, don't I have a right to set a boundary, to have limits? Can't I get a massage with my clothes on? Should that affect our relationship so drastically?"

But they're saying, "You came to a nude massage parlor, what do you expect?"

So, I see their point....leading me think that maybe I don't belong there anymore.