NeantHumain wrote:
Pandoran-March wrote:
The primary difference between those normal guys who actually get a girlfriend, and one of us who sits alone on a Friday night, is that after being rejected, they get right back up and start pursuing someone else. They refuse to let it get to them.
The unfortunate thing is there aren't dozens of women just waiting for you in the wings. If you're still in high school or you're in college, you're going to be surrounded by a lot more people your own age. After college, it isn't like that. You'll work with people over a variety of ages; coworkers where I work are all older than me, and programming is a male-dominated profession. The area I live in seems to have a surfeit of elderly people and also people raising kids; people in their twenties, I just don't run into very much (especially twenty-something-year-old women who are single).
I join Meetups and stuff, but I guess I've mostly got "stuffy" interests, so no women there.

Well -- now that you have sized up the obstacles -- what's your next move? If you know what you want, you have to go out of your way (and your comfort zone) to get it/find it. Clearly staying where you are now is not going to work, and trying to find someone at work (or depending on that) is not a winning plan.
You have to make your luck.
Also - I've found that women do tend to find you (as opposed to you looking for them) when you are successful, single, and happy. Get there, and they will find you.