Attraction and Obsession

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07 Oct 2007, 5:11 pm

This is driving me mad!! I am so restless. I have a crush on someone I had a fling with weeks ago, who has no interest in me he was drunk. I don't really fancy him its just I cannot forget his face it was like a sculpture, Scandinavian, big eyes so I have like a visual obsession. I can't stop looking at his facebook profile and to top it off I can't stop thinking about his ex girlfriend. I need to know all about her. Is she attractive, what does she wear, eat god I am so pathetic. I avoid romance at all costs because this always happens. I fixate on details and get repetitive thoughts. Feeling attraction is just unpleasant for me it just translates as anxiety. The ex-girlfriend knows he had a fling with me, and finds it amusing which is a little un-nerving, she must think I am some kind of joke.



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08 Oct 2007, 8:26 am

I get obsessed with everything. Just thought i would let you know now.


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08 Oct 2007, 11:57 am

I had a guy obsession too. It lasted over a year and I eventually got over it. I'm glad I couldn't find his myspace or facebook (even though I looked for hours every few days), I would have been looking at it all the time too. Time was the only thing that worked for me, just waiting it out.



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08 Oct 2007, 5:12 pm

16 months so far for mine, and it shows no signs of stopping.
I certainly know the hell. It makes one feel so pathetic and so out of control.



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08 Oct 2007, 5:36 pm

I love it.


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09 Oct 2007, 9:37 pm

fresco wrote:
This is driving me mad!! I am so restless. I have a crush on someone I had a fling with weeks ago, who has no interest in me he was drunk. I don't really fancy him its just I cannot forget his face it was like a sculpture, Scandinavian, big eyes so I have like a visual obsession. I can't stop looking at his facebook profile and to top it off I can't stop thinking about his ex girlfriend. I need to know all about her. Is she attractive, what does she wear, eat god I am so pathetic. I avoid romance at all costs because this always happens. I fixate on details and get repetitive thoughts. Feeling attraction is just unpleasant for me it just translates as anxiety. The ex-girlfriend knows he had a fling with me, and finds it amusing which is a little un-nerving, she must think I am some kind of joke.


I totally understand how you feel. I've learned to not react that way to someone I find that attractive, cause I'll usually then say something to them that I'll regret later. Like, something realllyyy embarrassing. I also kind of think it's immature to go boy-crazy over someone, but that's more my perspective of what I should leave behind from being a teenager.

It's not like I'm saying you're immature, it's just I found it to be too much stress to be obessessed with someone I usually can't have. This coming from an experience with liking affeminate guys, who usually are gay. And obsessing over celebrities I'll probaly never meet, which right now is Criss Angel. So I figure it's futile spending so much energy being concerned over what most likely will never be. Although in Japan it seems it's not that weird for women to like really affeminate looking guys. So at least there's comfort in knowing I wouldn't be considered having weird taste in men there. Except that I can't learn Japanese for anything, meh.


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10 Oct 2007, 2:08 pm

I can relate.

I'm obsessed with someone right now. I kind of set myself to be obsessed with guys I think. I'll get obsessed with a guy who seems to meet my all "criteria" except for one: he's not available or interested in me. So have that crsuh, I'll re-evaluate my criteria, thinkign that will keep me for failing for another guy I can't pursue a reltionship with. Then a months or a year or so later, I find another guy, and it's the same damn thing - just the guys different adn he fits a different set of criteria, yet still either not available or not interested.

This latest one's bad because at first I thought he was interested, or acted like it, but then it turned out he's in a long term relationship with a kind of scary woman who;s ovbiously the jealous type. So now I've avoiding him, have for several weeks, even though I think about him constantly. It's even worse now, because my only close friend screwed me over a while back, and now I've been feeling really lonely lately, just wanting someoe to talk to. And that guy's really easy to talk to. I just don't think I could just be friends with him feeling thesekinds of feeling I do about him.

It just sucks. I think my life's just going to be one unrequited love obsession after another, never getting a chance to actually have a real relationship with anyone. I haven't actually dated anyone in years, and I'm 36 now, so I just feel old and undesireable now. Sometimes I think I should just give up and accept a real romantic relationship's never going to happen for me.



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10 Oct 2007, 2:17 pm

AspieMartian wrote:
I can relate.

I'm obsessed with someone right now. I kind of set myself to be obsessed with guys I think. I'll get obsessed with a guy who seems to meet my all "criteria" except for one: he's not available or interested in me. So have that crsuh, I'll re-evaluate my criteria, thinkign that will keep me for failing for another guy I can't pursue a reltionship with. Then a months or a year or so later, I find another guy, and it's the same damn thing - just the guys different adn he fits a different set of criteria, yet still either not available or not interested.

This latest one's bad because at first I thought he was interested, or acted like it, but then it turned out he's in a long term relationship with a kind of scary woman who;s ovbiously the jealous type. So now I've avoiding him, have for several weeks, even though I think about him constantly. It's even worse now, because my only close friend screwed me over a while back, and now I've been feeling really lonely lately, just wanting someoe to talk to. And that guy's really easy to talk to. I just don't think I could just be friends with him feeling thesekinds of feeling I do about him.

It just sucks. I think my life's just going to be one unrequited love obsession after another, never getting a chance to actually have a real relationship with anyone. I haven't actually dated anyone in years, and I'm 36 now, so I just feel old and undesireable now. Sometimes I think I should just give up and accept a real romantic relationship's never going to happen for me.


I am in an identical situation myself.

Tim


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