you'll survive.
carry on, don't waste your time in useless melancholy. It's of no value.
do a post mortem to find out what you might have done wrong and figure out why you made bad choices, and don't make that same mistakes again.
you may want to consult with family and friends and ask them if they have any insight into what went wrong.
you'll survive but people do tend to make the same mistakes twice, so don't do that.
election interference.
I remember the first time I spent two months dwelling in useless heartache.
everyone you know is like her?
move to a different town, anon.
make new friends.
start going to religious services.
Read the Bible.
avoid gold diggers and self-entitled narcissists.
some people are addicted to falling in love.
soul mates are a myth.
there will always be someone who would be a better fit.
you pick one and mate for life
or you become a chaste person who understands that you aren't suited for matrimony.
there is the other choice of being promiscuous, but I don't recommend that.
I see.
you have your priorities correct by putting them first.
you might avoid relationships for a time, and be aloof and let a good woman find you . . .
but first you have to be able to say 'this isn't a good fit, I'm not going to continue with this.'
often times rejection is just the other person seeing that you and the other aren't a good fit, they just recognize it before you do.
In your case you knew that she wasn't for you but you kept the situation going.
just be thankful you didn't bring more children into it so you'd have to know that one for the rest of your life as the mother of your next child.
You probably would benifit from reading some books on relationships and how to find a good fit.
and keep your self chaste for a time. I'd say till marriage but I understand that is often unrealistic.
men are men
lions are lions.
we were given The Law and The Commandments.
the wise follow the precepts of The Lord.
you seem desperate for clicks, anon.
that makes people far less likely to click through.
maybe if you told us what is in the video we might want to watch it.
the reason I never checked off 'organ donor'
you have to trust that random people in random emergency rooms aren't going to murder you for your organs.
Priests are lonely?
it's not for everyone, anon, but it does work for some.
there is a point when you get past a certain age (in your 30's) that if you have never had a relationship you start to understand that you probably aren't good at it which is why it doesn't happen for you.
Some people need another person and they have to be in a relationship.
some people just want to fall in love and then they look for the next one to fall in love with, and toss the one before. They continue like this till they are an aged lothario.
Some just want sex and toss you as soon as you give it to them and put a notch on their belt.
and some want many relationships and tell each 'it is only you, darling'
each person is their own case.
clearly 'celibate and not in a relationship and not looking for one' is one of the ways people can be.
and it has nothing to do with being 'defeated by the past women, lonely but safe.'
PS: did your friend know it that you were filming him when he was telling you those things?
too old, or too jaded?