TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
I am having a really hard time coping with my sorry excuse for a love life. When I actually like someone (which I admit is rare) I can't get anywhere. BUT... and here's the part I can't cope with... I keep getting horny men both online and in person trying to get into my pants. Some of these man get really, really mean when I reject them.
I don't know how to deal with all this unwanted attention, nor do I even really understand why I get it in the first place. It's not like I'm anything special in the looks department.
I can totally identify with this. I'm completely invisible to anyone I could be interested in, but my inbox is full of messages from 48-year-old alcoholic single mothers who want to tell me why I should change my deal-breakers just so I can date them. Nope, not gonna happen.
It reminds me of George Costanza's line on Seinfeld: "When you like them, they don't you. When they like you, you don't like them."
I used to have a policy of writing everyone back -- I figured if they took the time to write, it's the decent thing to do. I don't even bother anymore. If they can't respect me enough to accept what I wrote in my profile, there's no need to take things any further.