My boyfriend is amazing. He's the first person i have ever been able to just be myself around, and not feel smothered or controlled, and he's always super sweet to me. We are both hard workers, very intelligent people, and have a lot of potential. As things stand, we've not been able to get enough money to be able to live together. He lives with his cousins, i live with my parents. His cousins now hate me because i made a mistake, which my boyfriend and I worked through, but now they are making him move in with another relative on the other side of the state so he can't be with me. He says i'm the best thing that ever happened to him, and promised to wait for me and keep texting me (he has), and i promised the same. He's getting really sick though, from the stress they're putting him under, and i just had to quit my job because of seizures/ptsd/depression. (not forever, just long enough to recover a little! Can't keep me down for long.) What can I do to get an apartment where the two of us can live so we don't have to worry about people constantly trying to tear us away from each other? we almost had a place lined up and then his landlord attacked me because i said my boyfriend isn't a liar and i didn't appreciate the landlord threatening to beat him up every other day. I'm so sick of getting stuck with all these toxic people, i just want to be around the one person in my life who gives a damn about someone besides themselves!
You sound like you have issues. He's probably better off without you, to be honest
>>16936489
solve your mental issues with professional healthcare
get a new job
get money
get apartment
i actually have gotten professional help, and wont need it for much longer. and no, he really isn't better off without me. as to getting a new job, i'm working on it, but it's hard to even get part time anywhere right now. i'm hoping to get something near the college i want to go to, to get an associates degree in a medical feild i've been looking at since i was 10.
I've been thinking about this for a while.
How can someone learn to be happy or glad alone ?
I've been working on it. IM schizophrenic so I've decided I'm not going to have children and probably wont even have a girlfriend just because of how crazy I can get, unless a miracle happens.
Ive been taking some anti depressants 1 citalopram a night but I don't really feel happy. More so I just don't feel depressed. I would like to find something to make me happy. Would a different anit-depressant or more anti depressants make me happy?
>>16936439
Can't. You are a human with a necessary social and sexual instinct. Without such an instinct societies would never have formed. Your parents had it, and subsequently you have it.
There are those who practice extremely rigorous spiritual lifestyles who are able to reject the temptations of flesh and defeat their instincts, but I have a feeling you are only trying to pick and choose which temptations you want to indulge in, not reject all pleasures, so that won't work for you.
It can't be done the way you wish. At least, there is no known way.
I'm unhappy with my lack of action with the opposite sex. I am a male and almost turning 22. I've had sex before but i still have trouble when it comes to approaching women. i can hold a conversation with them but i really struggle on approaching girls I do not know. weather it is in a club or in university or a girl in class sitting beside me, I end up doing nothing and I REALLY want to change this. anyone got any tips? also to be 100% truthful ,I don't know how to transition from small talk into flirting and more . Usually with one night stands for me it has happened because the girl will come to me and say something like " hey you are cute". Even my longest relationship began like this
Honestly I am most likely making things worse than they should be. I know there would be nothing awkward about going up to a girl that is in my class and asking for some help on the homework but I still psyche myself out.
I guess I am putting the pussy on the pedestal and probably making sex something more special than it truly is. what can i do? approach until eventually i get better at it? I end up psyching myself out at the last second by overthinking things.
>>16936418
Are you looking for just sex, or a relationship?
>>16936445
friend ship, sex and a relationship i guess. obviously more on the last 2.
I resent my own sexual desires. I hate that I am easy for women to walk on because I am nice, inexperienced and ultimately predictable. I highly doubt I'll ever lose my virginity. I also don't think virginity is worth anything and that it is nothing but a burden. I wish I knew what sex is like so I could find out whether or not it matters for me. I can't talk to women much at all. I'm working on my life and don't need some woman fucking it all up.
Am I a fundamentally flawed person? What should I change?
>>16936404
Right off the bat, your concern with sex makes you sound like a 15 year old. I don't think you're a flawed person, as much as you're someone that hasn't figured out his priorities in life.
If sex is that big of a concern, just pay for it and get it over with.
Sex should be the last thing you're worried about when you still have to figure out the fundamentals to a relationship with a woman.
>>16936436
There's a lot of growing up that I've never done. I'm not about to treat sex as a bridge to manhood. I'm a man without it. I'm a man because I handle my business and answer for my fuckups. If I have to throw away the idea of sex and relationships completely just to get where I want to go, then fuck it I will. I've watched people I know get fucked over and I'm not about to be the next in line just because my crotch itches. Pussy be damned. The jerks can have all the problems.
>>16936404
See I am 21 a virgin and I think sex is an important thing in life to have done. I don't speak for everyone I know but to me it being a virgin means no one ever cared about me, no one loved me, no one ever wanted to make a bond with me, try to get to know me whatever. It means in life I am failing because I can't do what other people do so easily, I can't make a relationship I just failed so far.
Hey guys, what's my move here? A cute girl from my school saved a pic of me. I know it's super subjective, but is she into me or not necessarily? Do I say anything to her about this?
>>16936398
maybe shes making you into a dank meme
>>16936431
Well, it was a flattering picture, so that would be okay.
>>16936398
Wierd... just by opening an image in the browser, you're downloading it in your browser's cache
What's an entry level manual labor job that doesn't require me to be an athlete to do?
>>16936388
all of them? You just need to be a soulless drone.
I know I could barely keep up at some of the manual labor jobs I've had Its like why cant we just slow all this shit down why does it have to be so stressful
>>16936410
Even trade jobs?
Anyone else here /terrifiedofintimacy/?
and/or how do i become not that
>>16936386
I think I am. That or I dont want to be in a relationship because I like to be alone alot. I cant tell which, ideally Id like a girlfriend who I hung out with 2 times a week.
>>16936992
i used to be ok with being alone, but not so sure now
hadnt wept for a couple of years(grief) but have cried myself to sleep for almost a week now
starting to lose motivation for basic things and interest, feeling pathetic
i really do not want to burden someone else with my problems
I don't believe in god or spiritual things in general. I spent a lot of time reading religious texts and books and I just can't get into it. I've accepted that I'm an atheist/agnostic and I can live with that.
The whole idea of hell still creeps me out though. I was raised in a religious household, but I never really thought about hell the way I do now. Just the thought that a place of eternal torment might exist, gives me the chills. I find the idea completely ridiculous and disgusting, but it still scares me for some reason.
How do I get rid of this childish fear? I believed in it as a child, but I wasn't scared of it until recently.
Hell was created to manipulate people's decisions. When you die, your body decomposes and those particles eventually spread elsewhere.
Hell is the same as being promised 72 virgins. We both know it's a lie told to dumb people to complete someone elses agenda.
Hell on earth.
There are few atheists or Christians today that believe in a literal hell, unless your a career criminal who harms people for a living op I really wouldn't worry either way.
>>16936381
Listen to Alan Watts
I was diagnosed with depression five years ago. Three years ago my doctor stopped prescribing me antidepressants.
Recently I've been feeling like shit again (no motivation, little care, sleeping a fuck ton). I remember being the most unhappy during the spring and throughout the summer. I looked through my journal entries and I found it to be consistent.
>Do you guys think it's just a coincidence my cycle of depression in the spring months or could it be Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder?
>inb4 "we don't fucking know go talk to a doctor" I can't afford to see a doctor right now.
as someone with seasonal affective disorder, there's no such thing as seasonal affective disorder.
Sometimes shit is the worst during February/early march due to the "buildup" of the lack of sunlight, but never past march.
take vitamin D regularly. if it helps, you have SAD. But if you're the worst in summer, it's something else.
>>16936435
sorry, disregard that I suck cocks: no such thing as "*reverse" seasonal affective disorder.
I hate the summers to op. Have to struggle trying to find a job and eventually give up and feel like shit all summer long. When fall comes around classes start and I don't feel so bad. I fucking hate this cycle. It started in middle school and now I'm in college. Sam's shit every year
Dupes, hobbies, etc
>>16936338
Do you even cry?
Do you main R.Mika in SFV?
>>16936338
Stop seeking attention you faggot.
I'm in a pre-development stage of making a horror film (filmed in one location). In short it's about a person (Marc) who is on the verge of breaking point due to weeks of being watched by an unnatural looking man (called The Man Outside) through the window, and only Marc can see him.
I always liked the idea that The Man Outside would never physically harm Marc, but focus groups and questionnaires suggest that The Man Outside should hurt him.. Purely because it's a horror. Even my own friends think it sounds boring. This annoys me. There's more than just death and violence.
What are some ideas I could do that would please both myself and the audience? Or if i'm to be completely defiant, how can I expand on The Man Outside doing nothing but still remain creepy?
Pic related, source of inspiration ('cept outside)
The idea is cool, but ultimately you cannot do a whole horror movie with that idea, there has to be some sort of escalation.
If you really want the man to be harmless, I suggest you escalate by making Marc increasing paranoid and delusional. Provide some auditory hallucinations, eventually visual.
You'll also need a way to end it in a way that is satisfying for the audience. Marc can end up hurting himself, or someone else in his delusion.
Good luck
That sounds boring as shit, you should be ashamed of yourself
>>16936306
this. there NEEDS to be death and violence
I've been with the same girl for a long time, wondering if I'm missing out on something if she's the only girl I ever sleep with. She's gorgeous but sometimes I wonder what else is out there. Am I limiting myself? We were each other's first, and I don't know if it's bad if she's my last.
It's a personal issue, as sex isn't a necessity
I can't read your mind
You're not missing out on anything. If you both truly love each other, that is the question. Sex is just one of the things you can do without anyway.
Not sure if this answers you question but, I met my fiancé at 18, I'm 21 now, turning 22 in a few months, and we're still together, still very happy, and the sex is still fantastic. We don't have as much time now with school and work, but we find a way. I've personally never once in these 3 years asked myself if I've missed out on anything (all that late teens early 20's bullshit like partying and stuff). I'm just not that girl. I think that as long as there's immense love in the relationship, good communication, honesty and respect, you'll always feel very fulfilled in your relationship. I do.
>Recently found out my lady friend gave somebody head, whom she wasn't even in a relationship with
>never had many friends until recently, not experienced in social situations, especially with girls
>I'm really protective of my friends for some reason
>obviously seemed very concerned, don't want my lady friend to get taken advantage of
>now she's pissed at me for "slut shaming her"
>mfw nit even sure what that is
Please help /adv/
You shouldn't concern yourself with the sex life of those you are not sexually involved with
>>16936251
K thenks
>>16936242
When I had something like that happen to me it was because I had some level of feelings for her and I was envious when she was doing this shit with other guys.
It sounds totally pathetic and I generally don't give a fuck nowadays but it sounds like you have the feels for this girl.
Tell her how you feel.
Hey /adv/ I am an autistic teenager, and I believe I am currently experiencing the emotion refereed to as 'love'. I like someone and I cannot bear the thought of them leaving my life, and we mess around in class a bit and talk a lot, a)am I in love b)does she love me?
1) No one knows but you
2) No one can tell you but her
You don't understand yesterday I mixed up being sad and being angry, secondly that sounds like a really risky strategy I mean anything could happen what if she hugs me without warning?
>>16936236
>yesterday I mixed up being sad and being angry
That's fine. Emotions sometimes are not clear cut, even if you don't have autism
>I mean anything could happen what if she hugs me without warning
I didn't mean to imply you should ask her directly.
You should ask her out, though. If you're worried about her hugging you without warning, you should be open with her and tell her about your condition.
Recently had a few girls come into my life and I got used to having a girl over at least twice a week. Now when nobody can come over I feel like shit. I keep messaging a bunch of girls to come over and I just come off as desperate af wut do?
I don't think it's something you can teach yourself. It just happens.
I don't know brah. Sucks to be dependent on other people for your own happiness huh. It's even worse when you think it requires the opposite sex. It takes time to figure it out how not depend on other people. Frankly some people can't do it and will always depend on other people. Kinda pathetic if you ask me. Just hope you aren't one of them.
I'm just chillin' on a Saturday night alone at my house watching Netflix. Pretty content if you ask me. How did I get this way? Not entirely sure. In my early 20's I probably would have to go out to a bar right about now to fill this void but now there is no void to fill. Like I said I'm pretty content just hanging out by myself tonight and relaxing. Recharging my batteries till the work week starts Monday. Not everyone has the mindset to be this way.
>>16936189
thanks for this girl anon
it's jess hannah, for your research