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I'm losing hope for ever finding someone to be in a relationship with and I don't know what to do

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I've been dealing with depression and loneliness for a good chunk of my life at this point. Loneliness especially was a big issue for me and I used to dwell on that - fantasizing about how awesome it must be to be in a relationship, feeling bad about myself for being single, worrying about the experiences my peers are making while I'm not - that kind of thing.

I haven't had these thoughts in a long time. I thankfully managed to reach a point where I'm doing much better and learned to enjoy life for what it is, with the ups as well as the downs. Through therapy and mainly by basically putting myself out there, spending more time with friends and working on my life goals, I managed to embrace the single lifestyle and be content with it.

However, ever since I grew more accustomed to feeling content in life, I decided to attempt to date someone because I felt ready for a relationship.

But I quickly realized that it's actually really frustrating. Honestly, I don't think I need to explain to anyone how much dating apps suck, everyone knows that nowadays. I don't really use them anymore, and mainly go about the dating business by simply meeting more people in real life and seeing where things go.

It's been a good few years of that now and nothing really came out of it. There were a few occasional dates but for the most part nothing that I was actually looking for, which was a genuine intimate relationship, rather than a quick fling. I made sure to not take it too seriously and to take frequent breaks in between my "active search" but I still find myself feeling pretty bad about it all now.

I'm not outright depressed again I don't think, but I do feel like I might actually never really find anyone at this rate and, while I know it's not the end of the world and I experienced for myself that I am able to be perfectly fine and happy just living a casual single life already, I can't help but feel awful about potentially missing out on so many wonderful things. It's natural to want to share your life with someone, it's literally why relationships are so popular after all, so I'd feel pretty dang disappointed if I couldn't at least have a little taste of that in my life.

So yeah, life story aside, I guess I'm just curious to see if there's someone around here who might have some advice or kind words or anything else to say. But really I think I just needed to vent my worries to someone.

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