Bible_Belt said:
You feel really bad. I don't. I am often half of that couple who is making you feel bad. But what you don't see is that I am just as likely to be unhappy as you. Having a woman does not make a person happy. It's only when you don't have a woman that you think that.
I wouldn't say I feel really bad when I see ANY couple together, because honestly, I had a gf experience with someone I wasn't crazy about, so any 'feeling bad' impact is minimsed, although I may miss the feelings I had about a past relationship. I also realize a gf can get boring after the novelty wears out. But if you NEVER had a gf, relationship, or x,y,z, then that sort of rubs it in.
I'm not talking about happiness, I'm talking about deprivation.
Bible_belt said:
This is important for two very big reasons. You're not getting a woman because you're unhappy, because you think that women are required to be happy. You can continue living this paradox for the rest of your days if you choose.
You can see my posts on here with log and catalogue efforts on a case by case basis. I cant pin down any specific cause as resting from unhappiness. It's better if you look at anything that looks like a field report, or activity and then comment on that because I don't go to women and tell them I'm unhappy and if they can make me happy in an obvious way.
From what I can see, no woman has captivated me to a point that I have a limerance or spell on her. If that happens it's very far and few inbetween.
Those types of women -- I would call limerance object, are the types of women that are used as a drug. They can say 'hi' to me, and I'll feel euphoric and are often obsessed with them. Right now, there is NO limerant object in my life. The last documented LO (Limerant object) was in 2006. Prior to that it was around 2003. Last one is over two years ago. I'm still limerant on her, but it's much reduced since that time.
Other than that, I'm usually not really aroused by most of the plain and flat women around to say they will make me happy, but usually just pursue anyway to try and find something I couldn't get from a past limerant object, but when they don't measure up to the past LO, then the interest wanes. I guess that's the motus operandum. But usually them LO's are bad matches anyway.
Now, I don't have control over my body language and projection. If anything I'm quite detached, abstract and stoic with the environment and tend to display an androidal neutral emotion most of the time, but to say depressed and unhappy wouldn't be characteristic at all as that usually leads to withdrawal and forfeiting --which is something in itself could be blamed for itself.
Other than that, specific instances may make me feel bad, but that reflects deprivation not unhappiness. Being satiated may not make you feel happy, but at least you are not hungry.
Bible_belt said:
This scenario would be better than the second reason that it is a horribly bad idea to think that woman make you happy, which is when you do eventually manage to get a woman, you're going to let that make you happy.
Like I said, it sounds like this is talking about a limerant object, which is an anomalous girl that likes the alpha bad boy types, has a wierd character and personality like she could be a hybrid alien for all I know, and I'm captivated by her since I like wierd science fiction stuff and she has some sort of wierd sci-fi charm of being wierd. But no, I don't buy into this hybrid concept or want one -- that's disgusting, but I'm saying, in terms of the wierd mystique -- I tend to fall for those type of girls, even if I don't want to.
Other women, I really don't care that much, and know I'll probalby get tired until the novelty wears out.
I think there are social self-confidence issues where I feel I would rather be alone than with another person or girl, and don't know what I would say to keep an ongoing dialogue or rapport with a girl other than sticking to the selfish motivations of why I'm interacting with her to at least have a premise of interacting with her.
Anyway, I cant respond to the rest of your post as I feel I have said a mouth full here so hopefully you can understand where I'm coming from.