LillyBoPeep -> RE: Still alone (9/29/2011 7:44:56 PM)
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it does sound like you might be depressed, OP, and it would probably be good to try dealing with that first. because depression won't care if you have a person or not -- if it's situational, it can be caused by one particular thing, but it can change and be triggered by a host of other things. it seems like once your brain sets into a depressed way of thinking, it will go there more frequently. so if you are having depression issues, try to start working on dealing with those. improving your own outlook will help you be a healthier, happier person, which you deserve to be. i kinda understand where you're coming from. after everything that happened over the last two years, i feel like i'm ready to go out and date, but i can't, for the life of me, meet anyone who's actually available and who i mesh with well. i have my Toppy friend, but he's married and often preoccupied and i don't think we can (or should) build the kind of connection that i learned that i need. he's a great friend though, and the friendship is wonderful, but the part of me that wants to be owned again is still going "someday..." the community here is small; there are two groups and most of the members of both overlap, so when you've met everyone, you've basically met everyone. so the community really doesn't have much to offer as far as a long-term relationship, with compatibility and all that involved. i poke around online, and i'm not expecting to find anyone here, either. i just like to yammer, share perspectives, reminisce, blah blah blah -- they say that you find what you're looking for when you're not looking, but i haven't been looking and have managed to find nothing. =p so... i've more or less just accepted that life doesn't work the way i thought it did, and whatever will happen will happen. just take your time, and work on yourself as a person. do things that make you happy, learn about things you're interested in. try to address the possible depression stuff and see what you can do about your own outlook on the world. what are you scared of? are you scared of the people you might meet? are you scared of what could possibly happen to you? as others have said, take your time in getting to know people -- meet people you can trust and feel comfortable with. try building up friendships in a "vanilla" way, rather than building from the kink.
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