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We texted for 3+ hours straight - unsure feelings

Hey,

So there's this girl i've been texting and we meet at this weekly group.

We have a lot in common and we managed to have a conversation from 11pm to 2;30 am the other night

I've never had a girlfriend (i'm 17 male) or really known a girl as much as i know this girl.

The problem is the feelings, i don't know if i find her attractive, she's an extrovert and im an introvert, i am also friends with her brother so i would find it really awkward going around to her house.

I like to be around her, we can talk for ages just us two alone.

We are meeting as a group of friends in a few weeks so i can get to know her a bit more then.

But for now, shall i carry on texting her- i don't really want to lead her on?

Plus, due to my age and not had a girlfriend yet i kind of feel this weight on my shoulders....

Any thoughts would be nice




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I'm losing everyone to cheating

Both my grandfathers were cheaters - both deceased now but hard to respect.

My father is a cheater - loss of respect and trust.

My husband is a cheater.......l

My brother is a cheater - same feelings as above.

Three of my friends are cheaters...:(:(

But now, my very, very close friend has informed me he is a cheater too. I tell him everything and now I am hurt again.

Is everyone who cheats untrustworthy or do they remain honest with some people and not with others? What has happened?

I thought I had at least chose good friends because of the dysfunction I have witnessed in my family but I guess I didn't. I am sooooo sad about this recent news.

He just keeps painting his wife as evil so he can justify his cheating. He did not want to hear that he was cake eating.

"She spent too much money at the grocery store"
"She wants me home to watch TV with her and I want to go out"
"She didn't hang up the coats that fell on the floor"
"She said I needed a haircut"

WTF?? This is what people spin in their heads as excuses for cheating. These are my friends that would never cheat, looked down on cheaters as weak and disgusting and now it's all fine and dandy!??

Oh, and make sure you tell ME all the ways you are sneaking around as if I have not heard ALL of them from my WS.

Just sad and disgusting. I know I lost a friend today and it is almost as painful as my own DDAY.
:(:(:(:(:(:

And I don't think he cares. If I don't agree with his choice he has no use for me. He wants to be given the OK.:confused:

Fvcking cheaters. Selfish a55holes. I hope they all get plowed by the Karma Bus.

:(




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Men; is there a lack of sex in your marriage and if so - why?

Let's try this again since the women also have a similar thread up in their forums section.




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help?

So i met my boyfriend when i was 17. when i was 16 i dated this 21 year old guy who cheated on me(yes worst decision of my life. I was young and naive). SO that scarred me a lot and i really distrusted guys in general.

I'm quite an innocent girl to whom sex is something sacred that shouldnt be dont unless married. otherwise in general also, I come from a more conservative background.

My ex pretty much forced me to go physical with him. at that time, I didnt see anything wrong other than my conservativeness saying no so I made sure I just went second base and no way did i have sex. it was just out of the question.

Now, ive been dating this guy for 2 years. He's my age (lol) and a very very sweet guy. He's so loving and caring and really takes very very good care of me. Apart from that, we are best friends. We can be in each other's company for ages and not get bored.

We hit third base within the 3rd month of our relationship and then my parents found out and being conservative, they weren't happy. It influenced me into thinking its wrong so I was literally friendzoning him after that.

I am his first girlfriend, first kiss. He says it's hard for him cause he wants to be intimate and if we had never done anything it wouldnt matter much but now that we did, its hard. He somehow convinced me that it didn't matter.

But I still dont feel convinced about sex because I feel that my conservativeness saved me from my bastard ex and I really dont want to make the same mistake again.

It's not like hes forcing me into sex, he will wait I know that.I dont want him unhappy though.but now but that fact that hes able to convince me scares me that he also could be playing me I really don't know

And sometimes I get so confused that I wonder if i really am attracted to him or if im just staying with him because hes just such an amazingly sweet guy and I know i cant find a guy who takes care of me better.

At the same time, I get really turned on when we do stuff and it is really good only. Im not sure if hes just really good in bed or i actually do love him.

Oh and we really are best friends. I can barely go a day without talking to him. I tell him everything and he, me. I do love him

I'm really messed up I know. If any one can make out anything from this, please do tell me




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FINALLY watched the movie "Silver Linings Playbook" and....

......brought back a lot of bi-polar memories of my ex-wife who had it, and after finally seeing this movie tonight it made me really appreciate once again how glad I am to be out of that crazy lifestyle!




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Worried that I am not attractive - Opinions?

Before anyone says it, I'm not vain. I am just a really unconfident guy. I have always thought of myself to be unattractive from a kid. It's been like that for ages. But nowadays it gets me so down. Maybe it's because I've had the odd nasty comment in the past saying that I'am ugly or maybe it's the lack (or absence) of female attention at all. After all , in my almost twenty odd years of age, I have had no female sexually interested in me as far as I know (maybe apart from one)

I'm going to take a risk , post a few pics here. I'm anon and chances are slim that anyone I know will spot this out. I don't know why I'm posting here, I think I feel more comfortable facing strangers through here asking them what they think as opposed to people I know. It's more embarassing and I know they will probably be all "yeah yeah you're cute yeah" and be biased.

After all I'm quite short compared to other guys my age (5ft 10 in) , I'm slightly overweight with a podgy ass pot belly , quite chubby and no muscles. I hardly have much physically going on for myself aestethically.

Anyway here are the pics:

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Comming out gay to my family.

Hi guys. I am a gay male who is muslim. My parents are not really religious just believe in god like me. So let me start from the begining, about 4 years ago I decided to come out to my family. I at the time living abroad with my family on a small island full of close minded gossiping idiots and one day was pretty frustrated with being bullied at school and was constantly being pestered by my dad about what was wrong with me and why I was so down. I blurted out that I am gay. He brought me to the table and called my mum and said we were going to talk about it, he kept shooting questions how do I know im gay? what makes me think that etc. I had no choice but to tell them my sexual experiences which shocked, made them brake things and cry. I couldnt take it anymore because it got to the point where I would wake up in the morning by my mum crying. I had to save them from this sadness I put them in so I lied and said I made up being gay for attention. It all worked out fine and they were relieved and everything went back to the way it was before. Fast forward a couple years we have moved back to London and I went out clubing with ny cousins and someone saw me kissing a guy and my sister heard and told my mum. She freaked out and started yelling. She now knows forsure that Im gay I hope. My sister is religious and my dad doesnt know anything. I recently started dating a guy and it looks like it is getting serious. What do I do? Do I tell them all and suffer whatever happens or do I keep on hiding behind a mask and risk someone seeing me out and about with him. I really need advice as I really like this guy. Thank you




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Anyone think this is not abusive?

My daughter (11) has behavioral problems. I believe this is a direct result of my husband's emotional abuse.

Today, she came home from a 5-day stay at a Christian camp. When I woke up (I work 3rd shift), I came downstairs and he was asking her to put her stuff away. She is a bull and doesn't listen well (neither does he). She was being defiant, so he started getting belligerent saying "I'll turn off the computer, you're ass is going to listen to me", so she was screaming "I hate you, I don't want to be here with you". He proceeded to be an 11 yr old himself by spouting names and hatred...."same old stupid, lazy, POS comes back from camp, you'll never change" and on and on. He was throwing a tantrum, being a baboon as far as I'm concerned. So, then he started to go off on me..."well, just let her get away with it then stupid b*tch, be a lazy POS mother like you always have been". So, my daughter looked at me crying and said "Mom, he's abusive and he's abusive to you too, everyone knows that, I want to go live with Grandma" (my mom and dad).

My poor mother is dealing with caring for her mom who's been in hospice and a down syndrome sister (who's been staying with her for a week now), but I decided I finally NEED to pull a support system. I said "Call Grandma, and see what she's doing", so she called from a cellphone because he had turned off the internet (which was part of the battle) because NOTHING in my house works without internet. He was being controlling over all of us, saying we were going to clean and nobody was doing anything else.

I know my daughter needs discipline, I just know abuse isn't the way to change her anger/listening issues. In fact, I think it's the root of the problem.

I took her out of the house to my mom's for the night, so her infantile father can calm down. I was heading to work from there (which I'm at now). When I talked to my mom on the phone, I tried to sound very calm because I know she's tremendously stressed out and I feel guilty burdening her more. All I could do is think in the back of my mind "sure Pig, I'll just burden my mom because you only think of yourself". My first thought was to have the cops come and ask him to leave, but IMO mental/verbal abuse is VERY downplayed in society and I didn't want to feel silly "he's calling us names".

Please state any opinion. I'm always questioning myself whether I'm doing the right things. My 15 yr old son was defending his dad. :(




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Am I overreacting?

Story:
My boyfriend recently admitted to me that he had flirted with one of his coworkers about a year and a half ago.
1. I don't think flirting with other people is acceptable in a relationship if you are serious. And we are. We have been dating for six years.
2. I feel like this is a form of cheating. A minor form but still cheating.
3. I have never liked this girl and I never knew why. I guess now I do.

When this happened, we weren't in a great spot. We were always fighting and were very unhappy. (Up until I found this out we were doing great. We had worked through everything). I understand how during that time that I was at fault for many things and have worked hard to try and make things better.

When he first admitted this I was extremely hurt and I cried. We tried to work on things and to move on. A few days later though he came back to me to say that it wasn't exactly flirting and that he felt like he didn't do anything wrong. In my eyes, he basically took back everything he just said and created excuses for everything. That hurt me again and of course I cried some more.

After a lot of talking, he has finally come out to say that he made a mistake but he still holds his ground that he didn't flirt. He has agreed to stop talking to her. (He called and texted her fairly so often and would talk about personal stuff. We have even gone out with her and other friends but this was before I knew what happened). He has been doing this but the other day I found him liking her personal photos on facebook and I got hurt again and asked him why he did that. He said he felt like he wasn't really talking to her and that many other people liked her photos too. After him getting angry and several hours of talking, he agreed that he wouldn't contact her at all of any kind over facebook.

I have access to all of his accounts and his phone. He admitted to me in the past that he would delete calls and texts from other girls because he didn't want me to get jealous or fight. Now, I have this fear that he is talking to her but is just deleting everything.

Technically, he has been doing everything we have agreed upon but it hurts me that he thinks he has done nothing wrong. And it hurts me that he doesn't even seem remorseful.
We have talked about this a lot for the past couple of weeks but we get nowhere. Today he finally said that he is just sick and tired of talking about this and that he is done with this convo.

Am I just being crazy and irrational?
Am I hanging onto nothing here?
Do I have anything to worry about?
Am I causing problems when I don't need to be?
Should I just stop obsessing and just get over it?

I really don't want to give into him and then to have this happen again. Im trying to stand up for myself but it's like talking to a brick wall with him sometimes.

Please let me know what you think. Like him, I want to get past this too....But for some reason I can't.




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Mild domestic violence? men please help

My husband and I are in our thirties and have two children and a lot on our plates right now.. We got into a horrible fight a few nights ago, a conversation we've had many times before. He called me a the c-word, I poured four of his beers down the sink, and he responded by handling me roughly to stop me. I repeated told him hands off, but he held my wrists and told me he wasn't letting me act stupid. The only closure of the fight he would give me were callous remarks and a general attitude of non-participation. He concluded that I have psychological issues (something he only brings up in arguments) Years ago, we had two incidents of mild domestic violence (pushing, that sort of thing). He promised me solemnly that it would never happen again. He's really not a violent person. I'm devoted to my marriage and I'm not looking to divorce. He apologized a few minutes after but hasn't mentioned it since. I've been on edge ever since and he's going on as if nothing happened. I don't even want to look at him. He doesn't see it as a big deal and it doesn't help me let go of my anger. I love my husband dearly and I know he loves me. He doesn't understand how degrading this is to me and I don't even know how to bring it up. We can't afford counseling, and he feels that I'm the only one who really needs it anyway. How do we move on from here?




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Feeling like a failure!

I'm just really sad and have been sad for a very long time. I've posted before. I've been having problems in my marriage, husband has been deployed, 2 kids on my own and dealing with family especially my mother in law has been a nightmare. I feel so lost. I've been told I'm just stressed and not to make any decisions while he is gone. I totally agree. I just can't help to feel like I've failed in life. What is wrong with me?




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18 years no O - Miss Scarlett has found success!

Bask in my afterglow with me friends! Miss Scarlett has arrived with an evening of having kids gone and 5 shots of American Honey.

(Tossing Confetti a little drunkenly.) Woo hoo!!!




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My Wife Won't Move

My family has an excavation company that nearly went bankrupt when the recession hit. Led by blind faith I took every piece of equipment we had and relocated to North Dakota. Most of this time I've been here alone and my wife, 6 year old son, and 13 year old daughter would come visit as often as the schedule would allow. This last year my whole family managed to stay with me the entire school year and then when summer came they went back to our home in Montana. Now with the new school year approaching my step daughter has decided that she does not want to return to North Dakota because her she does not want to be away from her father, family, and long time friends. Because of this my wife will not return as well. I'm extremely conflicted. This now means that I will not be with my family, especially painful to be without my son. Please understand that the economy has not recovered in Western Montana and the only reason why I and my parents have kept their possessions and homes is because of the work I have created in North Dakota. Our relationship was on a thin thread prior to making the move and this whole ordeal has pushed me over the top. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.




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Changing jobs a month in...

I'm currently working a part time job in Communications for a software start-up. The pay is low but I fell into this line of work so I thought, at the very least, the work would be enjoyable and I'd be gaining experience, thus causing the need for a second degree to disappear.

I've been working for less than a month and I already hate the job.

Realistically, my position should be full time but I'm only allotted 20 hours a week. I make so little that I can't live on my earnings. I have a chance to gain more hours if I'm able to produce results - in other words, if I get them more social media exposure, I get a raise, either in hours and/or in pay rate. But they've got me putting out so many fires that I haven't had time to implement a marketing strategy. Worse yet, everything snaps together - their blog launch, their LinkedIn profile, their Twitter, their webinar schedule, appearances at events, etc. And I have no time to hook it all up!

When I took the job, they asked if I intended to continue looking for full time work. I said no and, at the time, I meant it. I thought I'd just grab a part time job, any old job would do, and continue working my way up a ladder I wasn't even actually supposed to be on but quite liked. Since then, I have not only come to be miserable, as stated above, but I've also realized that no one seems to want to hire a college grad for part time grunt work. I'm viewed as a high risk for turn over so I'm overlooked. This means that I'm rather stuck. I either need to make more an hour, get more hours, or at least not hate waking up in the morning.

I applied for another job a few weeks ago that sounded like it would be part time. I've since gone through a phone interview, an in person interview, and an interview with the COO who then asked for my references noting, "This is a good thing, it's the next step." He knows one of my previous bosses and asked to call him to which I, naturally, said he could as he's already one of my references. He also made it a point to say that my answers to two of his questions were wise and that his "only hesitation" was my current job conflicting with theirs because, oops, they want someone full time. So I told them that I would leave as I prefer full time anyways. He seemed pleased to hear this and even said they could pay better.

I feel guilty and I even feel like I lied to these people. But here is what I'm dealing with - no directions, only emails telling me I did something wrong after the fact; constant additions to a to do list that never shrinks; and an annual salary of ~$10k that will, at this rate, never increase because the metric by which my success is being graded is related to a task that I haven't been given time to work on.

If I'm offered the job, I intend to tell my current boss that I'm leaving in 2 weeks because part time work never panned out and a job that I had thought was part time turned out to be full and I really need it. I'm not sure how she'll react but I have to do it. I suppose I'm posting this mostly because I feel anxious. I've had a rough time for a few months now and as some of you already know, anxiety is an issue with me so it's building as time passes. I'm dealing pretty well but I'm not looking forward to potentially letting these people down but holy hell, this is the worst job I've ever had and that includes working as a cashier for a pharmacy that paid $5.75 an hour and a factory job surrounded by backstabbing, ass kissers. :glare:

If only I'd had a crystal ball when I applied for this job in the first place...




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Being Single Depression

Yeah I'm single and the majority of the time I'm ok with it...

However when I hear certain things I'm like ****. Like this girl I know is seeing one of my friends and she was asking her own friends if it was a good idea to turn up to his house dressed in nothing but a long coat and lingerie to surprise him because she saw it on some film. My god.

And I hear about some lads surprising their women with massages when they come in from work.

Or when they're going away on holidays together.

Just when I hear stuff like this I hate being single, man.




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Post breakup syndrome

What's up TSR,

So I recently just split up with my girlfriend of 16 months after our relationship became incredibly toxic, climaxing about 2 weeks ago in her pummelling me in an elevator screaming 'you think I'm fat' (this was based on absolutely nothing other than her profound insecurity) and me sending her home on the train.

To keep things relatively brief, she has had an awful upbringing, very awful and as such I believe has an incredibly negative outlook on people and things, rarely being able to see the good in people and her friendships and relationships not lasting for very long.

We've had some amazing times and seemed to be in love with each other a ridiculous amount, but both allowed our paranoia to affect the others liberty out of fear of getting hurt. Most notably, she was utterly convinced that I was interested in other girls more than her, and I believed that she loved male attention while at university and was unfaithful to me. We've broken up a few times in similar circumstances, with her having been in her first year of university and things being incredibly difficult with trust, after I ended things because of her irrational behaviour, then she has become upset causing me to feel sorry for her and try to comfort her but say that we aren't meant to be together, then her turning incredibly cold and hateful, and every time they have resulted in me crawling back to her as she becomes incredibly cold and hateful towards me causing me to question my role in everything and want to try things again. I am meant to be attending the same university as her next year. .

About 6 days ago I messaged her to say that I was sorry that I hadn't made contact and didn't want her to think I didn't care, but that I was just very angry at her behaviour and that I really thought she was crazy. She seemed incredibly happy and overwhelmed to hear from me and was then messaging me constantly for about 2 days saying that she had been incredibly down because I hadn't texted or called, and felt that she had made huge mistakes in the way she had treated and appreciated me. A day later she then asked for my Facebook password, and before I responded had used my email left logged in on her laptop to access my Facebook. In return, I asked for hers and she was incredibly shady about it, refusing to give it to me, claiming it was out of self-respect, so I said that I didn't want to talk to her any more because of that as I knew there was probably something she had done that would hurt me. Since this happening she has now turned incredibly cold and hateful, as usual, telling me that she is completely over me as she 'remembered what being with me was like'. I was quite thrown by this, as I was fairly happy with us being apart while it was my decision, but now she doesn't want to be together I felt slightly dropped. To some extent, I had hoped that we could be friends at university next year and avoid any spiteful behaviour.

Last night I checked up on her Facebook and it turned out she had been chatting with an awkward mutual friend, who over the first summer of our relationship she used to Skype regularly and lots of dodgy things appeared to be the case. She knew this was someone who her talking to would bother me and yet when confronted about it claims that 'it wasn't meant out of spite', and that she had meant to block me but forgot.

I'm really confused and feel quite unstable about how she can go from saying things like 'I wish the world was just us two, I'd be so happy then' two days ago, to absolutely hating me and my family's guts right now, acting spitefully. In one sense, I'm hurt that this is clearly the end between us, but in another that I no longer feel responsible for her craziness. But I'm unsure whether going to the same university as her will be a regrettable decision as she may be the type of girl who will spite me the whole time I am there, making my life miserable as I do care about her and would get hurt by lots of things.

tl:dr, why do girls turn so mean after breakups




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Need help with this girl

To start off, I've been texting this girl for about 5 weeks now, and after about 2 weeks we stopped texting because of a falling out over her flaking on meeting me twice. About a week after we stopped texting, she messages me, and asks me to meet her. I do, we go to the cinema, have a good time, I kiss her at the end. She seemed pretty happy with the day when we were texting later, but then she stopped texting me, out of nowhere.

I texted her a few times to try to get a reply, with no luck. So I didn't contact her for a few days and then she texted me asking to meet again. We meet, same thing basically, good time, kiss at the end before I leave. I texted her after and got no reply. Texted the next day in the morning, no reply. It's now been three days since we last saw each other.

The thing is, she just randomly stops texting me a lot of the time, and I don't know what to do. She's obviously interested, or she wouldn't text me asking to meet, and wouldn't kiss me back when I went for a kiss. Thanks for reading.




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Her name is Mary and she is here to help misguided women

Her name is Mary and she is 23000 years old and although technically dead, she has returned to inform misguided women why it's difficult for them to achieve climax during sex.

Mary's second job is spreading her legs for burly cavemen. Yes I said 'cavemen' as opposed to 'caveman'. You see, Mary is wise. She screws as many men as possible to increase her chances of pregnancy. Her vagina hungers for caveman cock and it's not uncommon for her to take a group of 5 men at once.

As the hairy harlot is pounded, she finally climaxes on her 7th cock.

The point of this story is to inform naive women why some of them struggle to climax during sex. The vagina has evolved to increase a women's chances of giving birth to healthy offspring during her lifetime. In other words, the more semen Mary has inside of her, the better her chances of becoming pregnant. Mary is a biological machine programmed to have as many children as possible.

So it's no surprise then that women find it difficult to climax with only one penis inside of them.




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Birthday Present Ideas please?

Hi its my bfs birthday coming up in a few weeks, he's turning 23 and i jus wanted to hear some ideas of what kind of gifts i could get him...i mean in the sense of what would a guy like generally

i have previously given him perfume, tops, games and other things he likes although he's not a big gamer or tv watch-er or even outdoorsy person so now im running out of ideas!

i was thinking jewellery as i havnt got him any kinds of that yet, but i jus wanted to hear any ideas for guys

thanks


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How to lose feelings for a girl???

I used to sit beside a girl in class in 2011 and she would always smile, stare at me and be nice to me. Anyways at the end of the semester I added her to facebook and started being mean to her called her ugly, small etc. she just restricted me. Then I kept unfriending her and adding her back and she kept accepting. Anyways I started more convos she responded but then I started being mean again to her and now she just blocks me. I can't stop thinking about her but I don't really like her that much




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Worried about going to Warwick

I'm going to Warwick this September and there's a chance I could have a slight problem. There was a guy at my school I had a massive crush on. I used to see him walking around school all the time, and there were many, many times when we were in the same room, but I was always too nervous to talk to him. I went to a boys' school, and at that time I was still in the closet. I couldn't get him out of my head for about 5 months - it was pretty horrible: I got really depressed because I thought I was in love with someone I could never have or even get close to.

It faded away, finally, and he left to go to university. I got down to my studies, and I didn't think about him for a long time. But earlier today I was browsing this forum and I saw a post in which the user mentioned he went to my school. Naturally enough, I clicked on his profile and quickly looked through his posts; it was pretty obvious that it was the guy I had the crush on, and I had completely forgotten that he went to Warwick. Looking over his posts brought back all those feelings I had when we went to the same school.

My question is: will I develop those feelings for again if we're at the same university, and, if so, what do I do about it? He's straight, so we're completely incompatible, and I don't want anything to detriment my studies or my social happiness while at university.

Help, TSR people!

P.S. New account for anonymity.




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Avoiding joy for the fear of joy?

I don't know where to post this. I guess men with similar thoughts would exist somewhere around here.

I subconsciously avoid positivity, joy, fun, excitement and sometimes sex for fear of 2 things:

1. The inevitable end
2. The predictability

There might be other reasons, but these 2 stand out every time I want to commit myself to an act that is meant to be rewarding.

I realize this is easily diagnosable as a form of depression, but knowing that is just not satisfying enough.

I'm a visual person. Everything gets visualized in my brain and run through multiple times before it actually happens. Of course, I rely on my predicting abilities for this and unfortunately (really unfortunate) I'm quite good at predicting the level of joy, hence totally spoiling future experiences for myself.

Example:

I think of traveling to Barcelona:

Naturally I should be excited and feeling joy. I do for very very short moments, but for the most part, I can easily visualize and perhaps 'feel' being in Barcelona and the level of satisfaction that I'm going to experience. Finally I take the actual flight and arrive in Barcelona. Not only was I totally accurate on my assessment of 'self' in the new setting (Barcelona+activities), I often find myself having been overly forgiving of the possible annoyances in my imagination. At this point, because the original level of joy was already predicted and perhaps 'felt' to a degree before I even set foot in Barcelona, the inevitable annoyances that would normally be ignored gain significance. This ruins things.

This was just an example. I go through this with every little thing. Even eating a sandwich follows the same trend.

Sometimes, the 'aftermath' or the 'ending' of joyful events causes incredible levels of hesitation in me. I fear the ending more than I invite the beginning and duration. It sucks.

Just wanted to get this off my chest and in writing for future reference.




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