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15 Feb 2010, 1:06 pm

My stepdad cares more about my love life than my friends do.



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15 Feb 2010, 3:14 pm

I've never had anyone try to set me up with anyone, but I used to have a friend (we're still friends, I guess, he just moved several states away) who would ask me when I would get a girlfriend or why I didn't have one. He and his girlfriend would do couples things with other friends of ours and I was just kind of left out.



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15 Feb 2010, 5:32 pm

This has been an interesting topic to read. I don't know what it's like to have friends, never really had one that most standard definitions of the word would apply. So I wonder what it would be like to be set up by anyone with the express intention of helping me find some romance. I'm so shy that it would probably be a pretty scary prospect :oops:


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15 Feb 2010, 10:26 pm

musicboxforever wrote:
I am in a similar situation as you. I can't seem to get any interest from the single guys I know. And as I get older (I'm only 28 ), but as time passess, the pool of single guys decreases. So I understand. I get on very well with a married guy at work and he was flirting with me alot, so I just try and ignore him. Not easy, because he sits about 100 yards away from me. But he's been very busy lately, so hasn't had much time to talk to me. I'm sure that the feeling is mutual, but I can't say anything about how I feel. I respect that he is married. I have never found anyone that I wanted to commit myself to and he has, so I think that the fact that he found her is quite a precious thing that I don't want to ruin. Although, I have heard her talking on the phone and I hate the sound of her voice. Really hate it! But that is just jealousy.

Normally I would be quite content on my own, but I feel this warmth coming from someone that I can't touch and it is frustrating and I have had to go on anti-depressants just to deal with it. They're not really working. I feel like crying most of the time.




LOL i can relate to the voice thing. I had to call the list for overtime the other day and I called his house and got his answering machine and his old lady's voice was on it. she sounds like a b***h. Hahaha. i donno. he talks trash once in a while, but all guys do that it seems. :(

and i can relate to you as well, you have my condolences... haven't thought about anti-depressants but i have thought about changing jobs (not entirely, just within the company) so i don't see him around as much, kinda makes me crazy to see him all the time. i miss my old job without all the added sexual drama. :(



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16 Feb 2010, 5:27 pm

A couple of my female friends keep asking about it, or want to set me up with their friends.

My buddies? Naw. Their interests in my dates are more straightforward (real or implants? etc...)



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16 Feb 2010, 5:58 pm

I don't really have one of either. My family would be concerned but I think that's probably about all.



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16 Feb 2010, 6:03 pm

The replies here have been interesting.
I have been often told that one should focus on making friends with many people before dating or finding a partner, but what advantage does that really have?
Judging from most replies, there isn't much benefit to having friends when dating.


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16 Feb 2010, 6:12 pm

Zara wrote:
The replies here have been interesting.
I have been often told that one should focus on making friends with many people before dating or finding a partner, but what advantage does that really have?
Judging from most replies, there isn't much benefit to having friends when dating.

Just having a big social circle of acquaintances increases the amount of opportunities for dating greatly, through the meeting of friends of friends and the like. You could consider your friends to be an indirect help, in this sense, rather than people who are directly helping you.



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17 Feb 2010, 4:27 am

With the exception of one of my grandmothers who mentions that she wishes I'd find someone every now and then, the rest of my family has accepted that I'll never be in a relationship.



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17 Feb 2010, 5:03 pm

No, because I have no RL friends.


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17 Feb 2010, 5:21 pm

Nope, probably because they get bored about me going on about my girlfriend all the time whenever I have one :P



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17 Feb 2010, 10:21 pm

Unlike women, setting someone up isn't "fun" for guys. SO, it doesn't happen, unfortunately. Make some lady friends, might have more luck. Actually, I have more female friends than guys and sometimes they drop hints for me to ask someone on a date, but honestly, I'm content being single atm.


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