[ SECRET POST #6339 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6339 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I think you're being much too hard on yourself, anon.

I've been gay-married for half a decade, after meeting someone in person that I'd been online friends with and unexpectedly falling in love with each other. But I never expected this. She never expected this. Neither of us put any effort into dating or had anything resembling a normal love life before we met each other. So, my impression is, you might be better off having whatever amount of social interaction makes you happy, and if that doesn't mesh with other people's expectations, it's really their problem, not yours.

I had three decades and some with all the freedom of being single. That makes the work that goes into making the bicultural, long term relationship I'm in now feel lighter. And it gives me the assurance that I'm in this because this specific person is incredibly special to me - not because being alone was ever something I fled from.

I'd characterize "a partner who's hot and young forever," "a partner who just KNOWS what you need without needing that explained to them and can always meet those needs," and "a partner who wants what you want by some miraculous coincidence, and never disagrees with you about anything important" as media-promoted unrealistic expectations. But a lot of the other compatibility things people assert don't really exist? They're being cynical. Real relationships run the whole gamut from nightmarish to paradisical. If stories do it for you, they're not less-than anything. But the older I get, the more Mark Twain's quip, 'truth is stranger than fiction because fiction is supposed to make sense' seems apt.