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Adam82
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31 Jul 2010, 8:46 pm

Look, I'm 27. I've never had a G/F. I just don't see the point in even starting now, if I know the odds of it being doomed to failure are so astronomically high. Why waste all those hours, days, weeks, months, years of courtship, trying to get her to like you, if its all for nothing? I haven't spent all these years alone, just so I can find someone, only to lose her again.

I've liked people in the past, but the only love I've ever known has been unrequited. I don't want to be hurt by anyone anymore. If all I have to look forward to is a string of fruitless, ultimately futile relationships, then I quit on the whole thing. It's just not worth all the emotional pain. I don't see dating as a fun activity. I see it as highly serious.



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31 Jul 2010, 8:57 pm

I think the idea is that with the right person, it will seem fun.


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01 Aug 2010, 6:11 am

OneStepBeyond wrote:
Chronos wrote:
I'd have to agree with Shakespeare that it's better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all..


sod shakespeare. that guy was nuts

It wasn't Shakespeare, it was Tennyson. In Memoriam (1850) Verse 27, Stanza 4:
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I hold it true, whate’er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
’Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

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