Is it ok that I give up on romance?

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neptunekh
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07 Feb 2017, 7:28 pm

So I'm mental case: aspergers, ADHD, and borderline personality disorder.
I'm a cisgendered 33 year old woman who mainly likes men but I would back away from sex so I'm sort of asexual maybe. But I also think about women sometimes, including transwomen.
I'm Not A Good At Finding A Partner and I hate myself. Is this ok?



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07 Feb 2017, 9:06 pm

Are you okay with giving up on it?


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07 Feb 2017, 11:43 pm

neptunekh wrote:
So I'm mental case: aspergers, ADHD, and borderline personality disorder.
I'm a cisgendered 33 year old woman who mainly likes men but I would back away from sex so I'm sort of asexual maybe. But I also think about women sometimes, including transwomen.
I'm Not A Good At Finding A Partner and I hate myself. Is this ok?


The first part of the bolded is okay. A lot of us have had trouble finding someone, or anyone.

The second part isn't okay however, if it bothers you to the level that you feel like you hate yourself.


Ultimately for the main question, that's going to have to be entirely up to you. I've found that society isn't exactly warm to people openly asexual or the ones that 'give up'. So you'd get different opinions on other internet spots.
But as far stopping looking for a partner, if you feel like you'd be happier or a load would be lifted off of you...then maybe its a path for you.

One way that isn't exactly giving up, is to re-frame your mind to say 'whatever happens, happens'. Or something along those lines. There is a lot of pressure to find and experience romance and sex. Some people out there aren't influenced with this.

Try to love yourself first and then ask yourself these important questions.


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08 Feb 2017, 11:39 pm

It doesn't have to be a priority.

I know I can make me happy, I can make my friends happy, and I can make my family. I try to focus on that. But, I'm plain, and kind of awkward, and I don't think that's ever going to make a romantic partner happy. No unusual talents or anything to make up for it, not a super-ambitious STEM woman or anything. Just me.