I don't want to live single anymore

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I hate that I couldn't find a girlfriend last year and this year doesn't look like it will be any different. I hate having to see couples wherever I go while I have to walk alone. I am 28 but I am just as lost as when I was 18.

I don't want to live single anymore. I just want death to accept me since life continues to reject me.

From my observations, girlfriends tend to be more «claimed» than «found», and maybe you'll have more success by just going the «OMG I can't believe I just said that» route and saying outright and directly to a girl with whom you have an interest that you are now claiming her for your girlfriend. Give her the «hypnotic-suggestion» whilst you are talking to her that she doesn't mind being claimed as your girlfriend of course. Good luck, get some experience, but let me also admit that I find that a lot of us Aspies also tend to highly value the time we can have to ourselves the older we get (you wouldn't believe the amount of time and attention that most women will demand from you in order for her to even consider keeping a relationship). If your «offers» are being «rejected» then modify or change up your «offers» until you are able to give offers that can't be refused/rejected.

It's definitely difficult/awkward at first as I remember, but with a lot of practice, and being confronted with a few security guards sometimes for accidentally/inadvertently scaring off the ladies due to coming across as creepy (explaining to them that you're trying to develop social-skills because you haven't had any experience with it due to being autistic and were told by the professionals that you're supposed to be interacting with people in-person more when they question you as happened to me before), you should eventually be able to figure out what to say/do and what not to say/do from forcing yourself to gain experience in increasing your «time spent today talking to girls» missions.

Just keep trying different things, paying attention, and maybe even make use of some of those on-line psychological-success hypno-therapy videos that can probably still be found on You-Tube, that may help increase your chances.

I feel like a failure going through each day being single and not making any progress towards getting a girlfriend. It feels like I shouldn't be alive. I should just slash my throat.

A girlfriend is not going to make everything better.

You need to make peace with yourself and stop measuring your worth by your relationship status.

Focus on being a good man, be kind to yourself for once. You are causing yourself a great deal of mental anguish with this quest for a girlfriend as if it will magically improve your life to fairy tale levels.

It won't.

She'll fill your house with shoes and nag you until you develop an alcohol abuse problem from all the time spent in the pub avoiding her wrath.
Just putting that out there as a possibility.

Instead of cutting your throat, have a shave and put on a nice shirt then go and watch some live music, less messy and far more fun.

You really need to break this fixation on couples, they may look happy but 90% of them will break up within a year.

Don't ever think of getting to that point of self-harm. Have hope instead. I'm currently single, but I did have my first girlfriend when I was 23. I'm 25 now and even though we ended it, I look back on it.

QuillAlba: I'm sometimes guilty of the stuff you mention about.

^ Aren't we all.

I'm talking from experience, the fixation on a girlfriend and it making life instantly wonderful.

You still have to live with yourself as well, I don't think I made peace with myself until a few years ago, wish I had managed it earlier.

If you're wanting a woman so bad. Maybe you can join a online dating site and maybe find a girl on there and go out with her. Or maybe where you work there's a woman you find attractive and ask her out.

I know the feeling. Hell, I'm 38 and have never had any kind of relationship. I want to say I just don't care anymore, but that's not right. I just have 0 expectations. I doubt I'll ever actually kill myself, but I don't do anything to go out of my way to prolong life. It's just pointless.

We don't have pubs in Texas (Except for some in the big cities like Austin), just really disgusting dive bars. I think a pub would be Shangri-La compared to the puke factories in my area.



Dating sites have been unproductive for me and most of the women I work with are already in relationships.

It's hard for me to make peace with myself when nothing gets better in my life no matter what I do.