Sweetleaf wrote:
Marknis wrote:
This year has been another wasted one in regards to finding a relationship for me.
I really tried to get out of my rut this year. I paid for speed dating as well online dating despite how my previous attempts with the latter didn't work before, called a dating agency, went to meet up events, and went to bars. I have tried a lot of the things society tells me to do and I never find a girlfriend no matter what I do. I have suffered clinical depression since 2006 and I was hoping it wouldn't go past ten years but everything is pointing to the fact that it will continue.
Earlier this year, I wondered if I should've just given up. If this year was no different from the previous year, why should the next one be any different?
Well it seems like you're putting a time limit on it, and spending too much energy trying to make it happen 'right now'...maybe obsess on it less focus on things that are going well rather than obsessing to where not having a girlfriend is the only thing happening in your life. That isn't good for you because it's making you feel like crap about yourself...and also it could make you come off as too desperate or clingy..or wanting to jump into things too fast which can be detrimental to finding that relationship.
So don't give up, just maybe put it more on the back burner and focus on some other things for a while...also instead of paid dating sites, why not the free ones? I imagine a lot of people on the paid ones are more well to do or already have an established career and are looking for fellow professional career people and such.
Why guys always get accused of wanting it "right now" (This is synonymous to "you are desperate")? You have no idea how long he was probably trying before he makes this thread - and there's nothing in his post indicates that seeking a gf is the only thing he focuses on in his life.
I see a lot of these assumptions toward guys here.
To women who make these assumptions : Don't exaggeratedly over-estimate your value in guys' lives too much, having relationships with you is
never the only purpose in our lives.