Most of my friends married and moved on, had kids, etc. Our lives are so dramatically different that even if I reach out and try to reconnect, I’m still “that weird guy from school”- I can tell immediately when I see them.
The other friends are deceased. Those were the friends I expected would outlive me. I’d hear from them every year or two when they came back to town. That hasn’t happened now for a few years, because they’re all gone. They were better looking and more social than I was and they’re no longer with us. Doesn’t inspire confidence.
Making new friends feels impossible without lying and bullshitting about who I really am. Each new person I start to befreind says something insane/far right and it’s instantly ruined.
Excluding family, nobody even remembered my birthday this year. No texts, no cards. If I weren’t useful at my job I would be completely invisible.
I force myself out of my comfort circle every weekend and go to the big city. All I wind up achieving is a few hundred less dollars in the bank, with a bit of heartburn and a hangover in the morning.
Is there something anyone can recommend? I don’t know if there’s anything else to try.
when you look at that ‘study’ more and more you realize just how stupid and useless it is to the average man and even woman in the world.
45% of the women in the study had a master’s degree …uhh …far less than 45% of women AND men AND non-binary people have a Master’s in the general population
90% of the population of the women were White. Well over half of all women on the planet are not White. The majority of humans in general are not White!
ALSO they dont have asection for what hobbies the MEN ans NON-BINARY people say makes womeen more or less attractive. …WHY?! So a man or a non-binary person is unable to conclude what hobbies they find attactive in women? …uhhhOk?..
Garbage.
The thing I find funniest anout that particular website you just cited is that they are thee ones who taught me the principle of : ‘Sinces humams are hopelessly irrational using small single studies to make massive sweeping generalizations about humans is wrong. To make sweeping generalizations of humans? You can never rely on anything except meta-analyses and systematic reviews or MAAASSIVE studies with many deep questions and answwrs and with many subjects to make final conclusions about humans.’ Ill find the page but givee mme a minute. Just remind me.
But overall thats a garbage study and anyone with a half working brain should avoid it.