ebracer05
Senior Don Juan
I posted earlier this week about a rather embarrassing relationship situation I had found myself in. And after stopping, starting, stopping, starting, and stopping for the last time tonight with the girl... I think I'm starting to realize the state of depravity I've reached as far as my dating style goes. It's just not good. And I want to become a better person.
I'm 23 years old and about to finish up an undergraduate pre med and pre law program. Last November I ended up having some really serious cardiac issues from some Adderall I had been taking... legally. And I remember sitting in the hospital bed of the emergency room I was in, scared to death I was about to die. I thought a lot about my life and realized that if I did die, I'd die with an awful lot of regrets, particularly related to my failures with women. I was a virgin. I'd dated girls, fooled around, but never quite managed to seal the deal. And it had to change.
So after I got out of the hospital and found out I was going to live, I started researching how to improve my life. When I was in high school, I read an online forum called The Art Of Pickup and always thought it was amusing... I was still getting their newsletter in my spam folder, and I happened to see it and check it out. They mentioned I guy most of you probably know... David Deangelo. So I got his book and read it. Then I got his advanced series. And I watched it. I got his ****y comedy series and listened to a lot of his interviews with dating gurus. Great stuff!! And throughout all of this I was applying it.
I met a girl at college around Christmas time and went on 2 dates with her. Didn't work out. AFC issues. I was discouraged, but not brought down. School was getting ready to start. I knew I'd meet people. And I did. During the first week of class I got with this girl I knew from lab last year and ended up losing my virginity to her. We dated for about 5 months and it was the worst relationship of my life. Totally dysfunctional, terrible... one of my biggest regrets.
Towards the end of my relationship with the dysfunctional girl, I signed up on an online dating site. I ended up meeting up with one girl that was a disaster, and another girl I totally lost control with... the object of my last post.
And so, with all that potentially boring biographical stuff behind me. What should I do now? In some ways I feel like I've come a long way from where I was in the hospital bed about a year ago, and in other ways I feel like I haven't learned anything. What I'm about to say may go against the whole spirit of everything that the people on this forum are about... I've lurked for most of the year reading, but never posting... Despite the mistakes I make in my life, I'm a very serious Christian, and that's probably the biggest reason I was never having sex. And I also really want to find a relationship that will end in marriage.
So as I begin this new leg of my life's journey, is there any advice anyone can give me... that doesn't amount to marriage bashing and telling me my religious convictions are something I need to abandon? What are things I can start doing now... reading now... or watching now... that are going to get me out of this AFC frame and transform me in to the man I want to be? And give me the life I'm dreaming for?
I'm 23 years old and about to finish up an undergraduate pre med and pre law program. Last November I ended up having some really serious cardiac issues from some Adderall I had been taking... legally. And I remember sitting in the hospital bed of the emergency room I was in, scared to death I was about to die. I thought a lot about my life and realized that if I did die, I'd die with an awful lot of regrets, particularly related to my failures with women. I was a virgin. I'd dated girls, fooled around, but never quite managed to seal the deal. And it had to change.
So after I got out of the hospital and found out I was going to live, I started researching how to improve my life. When I was in high school, I read an online forum called The Art Of Pickup and always thought it was amusing... I was still getting their newsletter in my spam folder, and I happened to see it and check it out. They mentioned I guy most of you probably know... David Deangelo. So I got his book and read it. Then I got his advanced series. And I watched it. I got his ****y comedy series and listened to a lot of his interviews with dating gurus. Great stuff!! And throughout all of this I was applying it.
I met a girl at college around Christmas time and went on 2 dates with her. Didn't work out. AFC issues. I was discouraged, but not brought down. School was getting ready to start. I knew I'd meet people. And I did. During the first week of class I got with this girl I knew from lab last year and ended up losing my virginity to her. We dated for about 5 months and it was the worst relationship of my life. Totally dysfunctional, terrible... one of my biggest regrets.
Towards the end of my relationship with the dysfunctional girl, I signed up on an online dating site. I ended up meeting up with one girl that was a disaster, and another girl I totally lost control with... the object of my last post.
And so, with all that potentially boring biographical stuff behind me. What should I do now? In some ways I feel like I've come a long way from where I was in the hospital bed about a year ago, and in other ways I feel like I haven't learned anything. What I'm about to say may go against the whole spirit of everything that the people on this forum are about... I've lurked for most of the year reading, but never posting... Despite the mistakes I make in my life, I'm a very serious Christian, and that's probably the biggest reason I was never having sex. And I also really want to find a relationship that will end in marriage.
So as I begin this new leg of my life's journey, is there any advice anyone can give me... that doesn't amount to marriage bashing and telling me my religious convictions are something I need to abandon? What are things I can start doing now... reading now... or watching now... that are going to get me out of this AFC frame and transform me in to the man I want to be? And give me the life I'm dreaming for?