Except it's not a failure, because it had nothing to do with you.

You are a failure because you didn't mention any pie.

One thing I like about online dating: You'll know ahead of time if you're barking up the wrong tree.

One thing I don't like about online dating: I'm not really sure what I want, or if what I want is really what's good for me.

^
Just don't let your horniness take over and you should be all right.

Monk Ed wrote:
One thing I don't like about online dating: I'm not really sure what I want, or if what I want is really what's good for me.

Congratulations, you're a human. Be fruitful and multiply.

Chuckman wrote:The female species often responds to uninvited verbal signals by spraying its stomach acid at the male. The males that survive this acid bath survive to mate and thus strengthen the species.

That is how the wild Chuckman do.

Monk Ed wrote:One thing I like about online dating: You'll know ahead of time if you're barking up the wrong tree.

One thing I don't like about online dating: I'm not really sure what I want, or if what I want is really what's good for me.

Isn't that kind of like IRL dating?

I've begun to realize that I wouldn't be so troubled about my complete lack of romance and affection of the universe didn't keep throwing cheap expies of my particular type at me while endlessly taunting me about how I could probably never manage to even befriend one of them. It's like a cheap dating simulator run by GLaDOS, all the choices look the same and the only ending type is bad.

Chuckman wrote:@CJD you will wake up tomorrow without a trap snuggled lovingly against you to soak up your warmth.

This on the other hand bothers me far less so.

How do you guys ease your loneliness?

Porn and masturbation.

I read "TELL ME ABOUT HAVING A SIGNIFICANT OTHER" threads on askreddit and use them to intensify my emptiness and longing so I can concentrate it, focus it, and wield it as a weapon in the realms of the unreal.

Dataprime wrote:How do you guys ease your loneliness?

Crying and or meeting up with friends. Or drugs.

Guy Nacks wrote:Porn and masturbation.

Also one of my favourites.

Chuckman wrote:I read "TELL ME ABOUT HAVING A SIGNIFICANT OTHER" threads on askreddit and use them to intensify my emptiness and longing so I can concentrate it, focus it, and wield it as a weapon in the realms of the unreal.

This is too awesome, but I guess this is just how Cuckman rolls.

Guy Nacks wrote:Porn and masturbation.

It's all true! *weeps*

Guy Nacks wrote:Porn and masturbation.

Second.

robersora wrote:I guess this is just how Chuckman rolls.

It's more of an ominous hovering.

NemZ wrote:Ditch the leeches, get your own space and stop obsessing in secret.

Firstly, there's one, erm, "leech" (the best friend), and with current observations, further resource strain seems less likely (i.e., even if they get back together, she isn't moving in here). Besides...he's my BEST FRIEND, and he's had good luck getting employed in a pinch (I got fired first, which probably led to his termination via some strange butterdomino effect relay system, and I owed having a job at all to his pushing me to follow through).

Also, my only other alternatives to living on this street peacefully are either live in Colorado with the woman who took everything from me, or move back in with my father, who won't take losing his storage room and gaining a dependent lightly, because any disruption of the status quo will make me a pariah in my group (who are also my neighbors, one of whom is my landlord).

Shinoyami65 wrote:That is how the wild Chuckman do.

Truly you're a man after my own heart.

Anyway, I'm still ronery as ever (although I have mostly recovered from my previous heartbreak...mostly). I am friends with a really nice girl (who incidentally is also into anime and horror movies) but we're just friends- not that I mind that at all.

*Sprays on Fedora repellent*

I never thought that I would have to post here, considering I'm not that good with relationships or forming them....but finally being in one.....I guess it's to be expected and it at least proves more that I'm human, capable of being hurt....

Things have been not going well with me in this department....not at all....

Trust, it's a value that I think we can all agree that is very valuable and well worth protecting and upholding....but when violated....it changes you and who you thought you knew of those around you. It makes you question the very beliefs that you ground your life on...whether or not they were worth anything.

I'm going to have to make a choice soon...a choice that will hurt me either way, no matter what choice I have, them being between having a hollow sense of short-term happiness or my self-respect. And...I PRAY that a 3rd option will present itself...that makes everyone happy.

I know what I want with my life, and I put every fiber of my being into knowing what I want. And I would hope to share that life with someone, cause I would put every fiber to make us both happy....but if people are just gonna turn their back on me despite that....then I'm better off alone....

.....I pray guys.....I PRAY....it won't have to come to that.....

If you tell me what the choice actually is I can give you a flippant but sage suggestion.

Not getting a real clear picture here but it sounds to me like you need to move on. If you have to make some huge personal compromise to keep what you've got, or at least try to keep a semblance of it, then it's just not worth it.

child of Lilith wrote:Not getting a real clear picture here but it sounds to me like you need to move on. If you have to make some huge personal compromise to keep what you've got, or at least try to keep a semblance of it, then it's just not worth it.

^This. CoL is wise, you should listen to her.

Apologies in advance if I'm too blunt in this post. Northeast tendencies shining through.

If this is continuing off our PM discussion: Based on what you've mentioned in here, it sounds like moving on is the best option. It's painful, but if your former partner isn't willing to talk while you're trying to keep the communication lines open, then it's the only solution.

It sadly really does sound like they've moved on instead just of taking a break, which isn't fair to you at all--but people don't always think about each other in relationships. And that's not the kind of "relationship" you should want to be in, anyway.

Best of luck with finding the right person for you! They're out there somewhere as long as you don't give up!