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so. i am 29 this year. compared to where i was 10 years ago, i have changed a lot. i am a fully functioning adult human being with a job and a flat and friends and everything. this is good.

i have not ever been in a relationship/dated anyone. as an abstract concept this doesn't particularly upset me. i am, as noted above, a self-sufficient independent person. i can appreciate the argument that having had no relationships is better than having had bad ones. and y'know, if that was the end of the matter i don't think i'd be unhappy. but it's not.

because every so often someone makes the mistake of being nice to me. and i get painfully infatuated. and i then get rejected. and then i feel like shit for a few months, and then it happens again with someone else. i would like this to stop happening. if it could stop happening by someone actually liking me for a change this would be nice. it doesn't seem very likely though, does it?

people tell me they have no idea why people aren't interested in me, but that they are sure it is just coincidence. i don't believe that. there are clearly influencing factors. i am very worried that i'm missing huge chunks of appropriate human behaviour in my socialisation (i ought to have learned all this in my late teens/early 20s, when i was otherwise occupied), and this is just an area of life which will remain forever closed to me. this idea upsets me, because what little of it i have experienced i liked. i would like to have hope, but hope has caused pain.

i am left confused and upset.

so
  • what is wrong with me?
  • are people not interested in me because they assume i am happily single?
  • are people not interested in me because they assume there must be something wrong with me?
  • are in fact people interested in me and i am not noticing it? (note: if so please tell me)
  • should i make effort to meet more new people?
  • wouldn't it be better just to go and hide?
  • am i just hanging out in the wrong social circle to meet people who might be interested in me?
  • given how bad i am at dealing with rejection anyway, wouldn't it be a really terrible idea for me to put myself in a situation with even more potential for that?


in conclusion: argh. answers, suggestions and proposals welcome.

Date: 2008-03-18 09:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abigailb.livejournal.com
This all makes sense.

Some background: I moved to London in July 2006. I knew pretty much nobody down here (a friend of mine who moved down to London around the same time was on the other side entirely), and was rather hermit-like at first, this continued until some lj-friends persuaded me to start going to Pembury. Since then I have met lots of new people (and this process is still kind of continuing as different people cycle through). I'm actually not sure what would happen if someone approached me today. I would probably withdraw because right now I'm in the not-wanting-to-get-hurt-again stage.

Remaining friends is important, yes. Doubly so if people were your friends already. Doing this is the trick. I worry that people think I was all along only interested in them as potential romantic partner, and not friend. And I'm worried that that might be true. Nonsense, of course.

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