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Meeting people (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I have no friends or partner, I’ve been very lonely.

When I go out to try to meet people, no one ever comes up to me and starts talking to me. But if I want to meet someone I have to do exactly that. But like, why should I have to be the one to initiate 100% of the time? Shouldn’t it be 50/50? (And I’m not really talking about societal expectations of the man initiating with the woman, I’d rather have a boyfriend anyway.)

I have such a hard time initiating conversations with people, to the point where I mostly just stress out and sit there alone. If someone initiated with me things might go better. But they just don’t.

The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that literally no one has any interest in me.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

What is this ritual ass shit. People just expect you to know this?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Right?

And that's just the brief overview in general terms to provide a foundation so that you are able to identify and observe this pattern in real life, where it takes on a whole lot more subtlety and nuance and it's much more contextual.

This shit gives me a migraine.

this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
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