smudge wrote:
Am I the only person who wants to retch at the numerous amounts of dating and relationship threads where people give the same advice over and over and over again and yet threads like these get ignored?
Come people, you lot are smarter than that. There's more to you people than giving out the same advice. Why not think about a slightly different topic?
I await your good ideas.
Agreed. I'm sick of hearing people complain about not being able to get "girlfriends" and ignoring the (trite) advice that would allow them to do so. I have a lot more respect for someone like you who genuinely wants an intelligent, human connection with no neediness or lust attached to it.
Unfortunately, I can't offer you much constructive advice; it really does depend on what your interests are. I suppose if you can't accept any of the pathways listed in your original post, then your only option is either to rely on chance or to meet such a person over the internet. To be honest, and you may not want to hear it, I think you - and perhaps most people here - would be better off just learning to accept the asocial life. I've found that human connections - on or off line - with people I actually like tend to sour very, very quickly. There's always something I can't stand about the other person and so I'd rather be alone.