hurtloam wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
I think that’s true.....the premise of the thread.
There are many things to love and enjoy outside of any relationship.
Yes, true, but for some of us there's this one door is locked because either a) no one fancies us enough or b) our lack of social skills make it difficult to form a sexual/loving relationship and that's frustrating.
It's ok for those who've had relationships to tell us how s**t they are, but we want to become jaded for ourselves and experience the wonderfulness of the first buzzing hormonal dizziness at the beginning and then the crash and then the jadedness like a regular human adult.
Excuse me?

I started this thread. I've never been in a relationship in my life.
A couple evenings ago when I left my sister's place to walk home it was to the sound of my 3yo nephew, Chaos, shouting the words: "I love you uncle!" Melted my

for sure!
And just last night while I was working 45kms away (and had some volunteer work queued up to borrow a truck and help a single mother who's infant son was murdered 2 years ago move their heavy furniture to their new place afterwards) I received a text message inviting me to the restaurant a couple of my God kids were having dinner with their father at. I haven't seen them in months because their family lives busy lives and we haven't connected - but damn did it feel good to get the invite, and had I been home a few short blocks away I'd have gone for dinner for sure.
There's a whole lot of love in this world besides that between romantic partners. I think some of you have such blinders on that you don't even notice it in your own lives because it isn't a significant other and thus is insignificant, and that, IMO, is oh-so-wrong.
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for supporting trump. Because doing so is deplorable.