well i am new here. well truth be told I have kind of half lurked here on and off for a while now. figured I'd post my story.
Well i won't lie i am closing in on 29 and have minimal dating experience. in fact my longest relationship was over 10 years ago and it was online for 8 months or so. sad and pathetic i know. however i would like to actually get into the dating world again and i realize i know absolutely nothing about this dating world.
that being said i think i havent dated for years for a few reasons.
1. as a teenager really by age 14 or 13 i came to the conclusion that women are overall stupid. and teenage women are stupider still. as i grew older i thought my initial conclusions were that of a sexist dirtbag but now that i am a bit older i realize that no i was write all along. my teenage self had at least this much figured out.
2.i am naturally introverted to an extreme level. despite this i can strangely BS presentations on the fly with great results and get A's in class. but bonding with people takes me quite a while. that said mix that with the usual "if i like a girl" nervous silence and things tend to badly although i wish my ability to BS an A presentation could come out instead.
3. every relationship i have seen with friends and family seems to carry with it an insane level of pointless mindless BS drama. i have lost friends solely because they got into a relationship with someone. i have known countless people that(really i cant think of anyone i know that didnt fit this mold) get into relationships and completely change. they also seem to put up with a lot of unhappiness and senseless lying. theyll whine about how unhappy this person makes them but still stick it out. i cant fathom why i would ever do that to myself if a person makes me miserable i see no reason to keep going to that person.
i see it in nearly every case of people i have ever met. they get into a relationship and the person morphs(usually the guy). ill just use a more current example. i have a friend that whines about his girl daily and if i let him he will go on for hours. sometimes while we are playing xbox so i am at least half distracted while doing it. or sometimes while on the toilet....because well i dont know how people do it but everyone i ever know or give my phone number too can without fail call me the second i go to the bathroom. without fail. so he whines about her daily for hours on end it seems like. he cant play the xbox while she is home(i moved out of state for college so this is how we "hang out") yet she will be on the phone with random guys for hours on end telling them what she is wearing and he does nothing about it. he is accused of cheating for being out of breathe because i don't know??? the other night after a long drive out of state and back all day for something she wanted to work out at midnight so they did. what she commands he does. and most relationships i see people in end up exactly like that.
while i have no issue with compromising in a relationship i rarely see that happen. as stated in some cases i have lost friends because they got into a relationship. in another case this one guy i know literally morphs into a completely different person. his level of lies are amazing. this an example of a common one. shell call and he'll say i am eating dominos and watching the lion king. in reality hell be eating little casears and watching harry potter. theyve been engaged 7 times and currently are engaged. i cant say im shocked hes justifed cheating on her. though shes lied a lot too so it evens out i guess?
and you know i see this kind of dramatic BS in relationships repeatedly and i think i do not want that but yet i want to actually be in a relationship. i admit my ideas might be old fashioned but i would like such a relationship where i am happy to see the person more than i am not happy and i have no qualms with providing a house if shell look after the kids. sure its an old fashioned kind of view(my folks had me rather late they could be my grandparents so i have that old 50s parenting style passed onto me)
4. i really havent looked for any kind of female relationship not even one night dates in years. i am completely out of the loop here.
all that said the other problem is the current dating world....wtf is going on? i have no idea. it seems like a clusterbomb of madness. trolling dating websites i see woman all want a guy to go travel the damn world with and be crazy and wild. in real life i see women being fickle as hell and men just wondering around hoping to get lucky and often putting up with the most BS arguments in the world. i swear a man in relationship could hear the girl say 2 + 2 does not equal 4 and he wouldnt call her on that. i admit if there is a girl i like i am likely guilty of that. ironically in that one 8 month relationship i had thinking on it now at 18 or 19 or 17 or whatever maybe i had more balls then cause i am certain i called her out on that BS repeatedly. strange this just occurred to me...
i also admit my method need slight altering. i am religious and i am trying to avoid sex till marriage. although closing in at 29 being a virgin is horrible and taxing on the body and mind and the most sex i've had is porn(ok im not perfect a man has urges). well i lied i made out once on prom night. ya ive been in a sexual closet doing nothing for years. though i know porn isnt healthy i did quit it for a while but it came back. that aside due to the i dont want to bang her on the first night rule i do admit my methods will need to be somewhat altered but the general principles ive read on many of the posts here should apply i'd imagine?
so basically due to various reasons i have done nothing in the world of interacting with the opposite sex in any kind of sexual or romantic way. and i am lost. i am biting my pride and posting here. that said i accept it i probably haven't been a real man in this area of life. though i am sure some of the reason for that is religions tend to condemn sex(while there is a valid scriptural argument against premarital sex this tends to condemn everything from date one to the honeymoon and the magically oh its all great....i think this polluted my brain in a bad way over the years....note i am not condemning people that don't believe this just stating where i am coming from here)
sorry its a long intro. but whoever reads i thank for your time and appreciate the replies. but i iz lost and iz confuzed.
Well i won't lie i am closing in on 29 and have minimal dating experience. in fact my longest relationship was over 10 years ago and it was online for 8 months or so. sad and pathetic i know. however i would like to actually get into the dating world again and i realize i know absolutely nothing about this dating world.
that being said i think i havent dated for years for a few reasons.
1. as a teenager really by age 14 or 13 i came to the conclusion that women are overall stupid. and teenage women are stupider still. as i grew older i thought my initial conclusions were that of a sexist dirtbag but now that i am a bit older i realize that no i was write all along. my teenage self had at least this much figured out.
2.i am naturally introverted to an extreme level. despite this i can strangely BS presentations on the fly with great results and get A's in class. but bonding with people takes me quite a while. that said mix that with the usual "if i like a girl" nervous silence and things tend to badly although i wish my ability to BS an A presentation could come out instead.
3. every relationship i have seen with friends and family seems to carry with it an insane level of pointless mindless BS drama. i have lost friends solely because they got into a relationship with someone. i have known countless people that(really i cant think of anyone i know that didnt fit this mold) get into relationships and completely change. they also seem to put up with a lot of unhappiness and senseless lying. theyll whine about how unhappy this person makes them but still stick it out. i cant fathom why i would ever do that to myself if a person makes me miserable i see no reason to keep going to that person.
i see it in nearly every case of people i have ever met. they get into a relationship and the person morphs(usually the guy). ill just use a more current example. i have a friend that whines about his girl daily and if i let him he will go on for hours. sometimes while we are playing xbox so i am at least half distracted while doing it. or sometimes while on the toilet....because well i dont know how people do it but everyone i ever know or give my phone number too can without fail call me the second i go to the bathroom. without fail. so he whines about her daily for hours on end it seems like. he cant play the xbox while she is home(i moved out of state for college so this is how we "hang out") yet she will be on the phone with random guys for hours on end telling them what she is wearing and he does nothing about it. he is accused of cheating for being out of breathe because i don't know??? the other night after a long drive out of state and back all day for something she wanted to work out at midnight so they did. what she commands he does. and most relationships i see people in end up exactly like that.
while i have no issue with compromising in a relationship i rarely see that happen. as stated in some cases i have lost friends because they got into a relationship. in another case this one guy i know literally morphs into a completely different person. his level of lies are amazing. this an example of a common one. shell call and he'll say i am eating dominos and watching the lion king. in reality hell be eating little casears and watching harry potter. theyve been engaged 7 times and currently are engaged. i cant say im shocked hes justifed cheating on her. though shes lied a lot too so it evens out i guess?
and you know i see this kind of dramatic BS in relationships repeatedly and i think i do not want that but yet i want to actually be in a relationship. i admit my ideas might be old fashioned but i would like such a relationship where i am happy to see the person more than i am not happy and i have no qualms with providing a house if shell look after the kids. sure its an old fashioned kind of view(my folks had me rather late they could be my grandparents so i have that old 50s parenting style passed onto me)
4. i really havent looked for any kind of female relationship not even one night dates in years. i am completely out of the loop here.
all that said the other problem is the current dating world....wtf is going on? i have no idea. it seems like a clusterbomb of madness. trolling dating websites i see woman all want a guy to go travel the damn world with and be crazy and wild. in real life i see women being fickle as hell and men just wondering around hoping to get lucky and often putting up with the most BS arguments in the world. i swear a man in relationship could hear the girl say 2 + 2 does not equal 4 and he wouldnt call her on that. i admit if there is a girl i like i am likely guilty of that. ironically in that one 8 month relationship i had thinking on it now at 18 or 19 or 17 or whatever maybe i had more balls then cause i am certain i called her out on that BS repeatedly. strange this just occurred to me...
i also admit my method need slight altering. i am religious and i am trying to avoid sex till marriage. although closing in at 29 being a virgin is horrible and taxing on the body and mind and the most sex i've had is porn(ok im not perfect a man has urges). well i lied i made out once on prom night. ya ive been in a sexual closet doing nothing for years. though i know porn isnt healthy i did quit it for a while but it came back. that aside due to the i dont want to bang her on the first night rule i do admit my methods will need to be somewhat altered but the general principles ive read on many of the posts here should apply i'd imagine?
so basically due to various reasons i have done nothing in the world of interacting with the opposite sex in any kind of sexual or romantic way. and i am lost. i am biting my pride and posting here. that said i accept it i probably haven't been a real man in this area of life. though i am sure some of the reason for that is religions tend to condemn sex(while there is a valid scriptural argument against premarital sex this tends to condemn everything from date one to the honeymoon and the magically oh its all great....i think this polluted my brain in a bad way over the years....note i am not condemning people that don't believe this just stating where i am coming from here)
sorry its a long intro. but whoever reads i thank for your time and appreciate the replies. but i iz lost and iz confuzed.