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Unwanted longing for companionship

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First, no negative, cynical or put-down comments, please.

For the most part, I am accustomed to my own company and just keeping myself busy to pass the time, but sometimes there is a sort of longing for a significant other, though I have accepted I wouldn't have the right stuff to make it happen (money, own vehicle, job, social connections, etc.) and I ignore and quash those feelings by keeping busy.

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  • in reply to Desmond1979

    It’s so tricky isn’t it? I met my husband at college - and part of me thinks that I could so easily have never got married because in general I find connecting to people so very difficult and stressful. My youngest definitely wants a partner - but doesn’t feel he’ll ever have the confidence to achieve that. My eldest has found a partner - they met at a club for a special interest they both have - and I think that can be a good way to find like minded people. He didn’t realise she was attracted to him at all (he doesn’t pick up on social cues easily) but thankfully she plucked up the courage to ask him out! If left to him it would never have happened because he couldn’t read the signs.