ZZZTired wrote:
Mark, here's my prediction if you find all that success, you'll get bored and stressed from it all and all the value you got from it originally disappears and then you'll try to find another way to find that same value. Think about it. As a kid didn't you wish you'd get a job and find a home and not live homeless. Well, now that you are not homeless and have a job you were happy once about it, but then its value is lost and you face the reality of the stress of work. It's probably going to be the same with getting a relationship. It'll feel great at first, and then once all the emotions are put aside it get's serious, now you have to have chores, you have to get a job, you have to get a car, you have to be willing to listen, and the list gets bigger each time you have more of these things you want. I'm not saying it's not impossible to find happiness in love, but you need to be realistic about what you want.
I never had a love life, but if any sort of advice I'd say, is that get your life situated first and be happy first before you find a date, but I really don't know what to say. Hopefully this helps, and take what I say with a grain of salt.
I don't own my own home and my job has been stressful since day one. To be honest, I thought I was going to be a little boy forever.