kraftiekortie wrote:
In my case, I stopped making the attainment of a girlfriend the topmost priority.
Women sensed desperation in me when I was younger; this made them overtly express disgust with me, and to actively seek ways to remove themselves from my presence.
I think this might have been part of my problem as well. I obsessed over girls and would do pretty much anything to get into a relationship. And then I’d get all pouty over rejection. You’d think having a gf long-term would have done me some good. And it was good for a while. But the desperation put me in the direction of girls I was better off without.
What was so odd later on was the more I was in a position past the point of caring whether I had a girl or not, suddenly a small handful of girls made themselves available to me. The first time my wife and I dated, I had to turn another girl down; and for a while I wondered whether I made the right choice. I eventually slipped back into my old habits and got thoroughly burned. Got out of the Bible Belt, wasn’t really looking because I wanted to focus on my master’s degree program, and soon had two girls I had to figure out what to do with.
That pretty much ended that phase of my life and was the last time I broke up with someone. It’s like, you work so hard to keep it going only to get dumped, now YOU are the one ending it. How does this happen? How did we get here? I dunno, but I think kraftie is on to something.