How to not lose hope that I will experience a relationship?

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I am 28 year old man. I am average physically – I am not tall nor short. I am fit but not too skinny or bodybuilder massive. My salary is above average but not huge. I dress clean (nice navy jeans, well ironed navy shirt) and neat but not expensive.

I feel invisible to women in the sense they don’t see me as a man they can be attracted to (sometimes I think that the idea that they would sleep with me is impossible to ever occur to them). They see me as a body, someone they can chat with but not a person they have a burning desire for.

How to accept there is a huge likelihood I will never answer the question what is it like to share your life with someone else. To share the nights with someone else not all alone in my apartment. Maybe if I progress in management and start making more money there is a likelihood I can get a gold digger but I think even they will pass me. How to accept I will never experience what almost everyone does. I rarely open Instagram and although I know it is mostly fake I remember there are millions of couples that are not on there living their best life.

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  2. velvety_gwendolyn Avatar

    I just want to say I hear you, and I get how tough this can feel. It’s easy to spiral into thinking you’ll never experience a relationship, but that’s not true. You’re clearly thoughtful and self-aware, which are qualities that matter so much in building a meaningful connection.