Rushing things seems to make me anxious

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ToughDiamond
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17 Apr 2025, 12:11 pm

funeralxempire wrote:
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Well, my testosterone levels probably aren't what they used to be, so it's not so much of a problem these days, but even back then it wasn't all about sex. The idea was always there, to a greater or lesser extent, but like most gentlemen I took care to suppress it. It was one of the reasons I tended to avoid girls who wore revealing clothes.

There's probably a reason why men and women can't seek privacy together without arousing suspicion about what's going on.



That's the part I'm questioning because it's not relatable. There's been plenty of girls/women in my life I've been emotionally and intellectually close to without having to repress any desire to f**k them because I had no visceral urge to f**k them.

I don't think it's normal to have to repress your desire to f**k every single female in your life unless one has very few of them in their life. That doesn't mean one won't encounter girls or women that they'd like to f**k, only that it's unnatural for that to include all of them, unless (perhaps) they're only remembering the ones who aroused the desire to f**k them.

I said suppress, not repress - repression would mean I wasn't aware of it, which is much more dangerous.

I don't see the point in arguing much about the normality of having broad tastes. After all, I did say "to a greater or lesser extent," so your idea that it's abnormal is a bit of a stretcher. It's not as if I was getting a boner every time a girl was around. And it's hard to get reliable statistics about such a subject. In the animal kingdom the females are only on heat for a short time, but with humans, not so much. That might be expected to have consequences. I suppose a difference here between you and me is that I claim that when I was young I fancied most girls at least a little bit, while you claim that you didn't, or don't, fancy most women at all.



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08 Jun 2025, 6:59 am

I know this sounds ridiculous as I don't know what goes on in other people's lives and relationships and I don't know how many have kids and don't have kids or don't want kids but it does feel like a lot of people are at that stage whereas a few years ago they were probably still single and so on. The thing is with me I'm not in a relationship and feeling like rushing things just provokes anxiety.

I do sometimes feel bad because in my 20s I wasn't thinking about marriage and kids much until late 20s, but even now my mindset feels like it's barely changed.