Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Reasons why they could be single:
-fat -men generally hate fat women
-asexual or closeted lesbians
- autistic-there’s lot of high functioning masked autistic women who just never got diagnosed out there and this makes them have difficult social relationships
-overly picky
-doesn’t leave the house because they wfh and won’t use dating apps
-undiagnosed mental health issues that make dating for them difficult
This might be me.
-Not really asexual but I don’t like penetration which is what most men tend to like
-I definitely have some kind of neurodivergence. Extremely high functioning: I have lots of friends and a six-figure job, but there’s something about me that people just don’t want to be my partner and live with me. I’m very set in my ways about a lot of things. “Lovable and eccentric” is how my friends would describe me.
- Of the men who have shown interest in me, too many of them just gave me the ick. Or something was just off about them. Whatever it was, it wasn’t going to work. Not hoping for a 6’4 handsome doctor. I just have to LIKE the guy and there’s so few guys that I LIKE.
- Mental health, I have trust issues and I’m overly cynical. While my friends think I’m fun and outgoing, I am just not “fun” and light and flirty when dating. I take myself too seriously sometimes.
Years of therapy and I figure this is why I’m single. Meanwhile here on the internet, people are like “maybe it’s cuz you’re fat, just don’t be fat hurr hurr” I’m literally 115 lbs.
Anonymous wrote:Reasons why they could be single:
-fat -men generally hate fat women
-asexual or closeted lesbians
- autistic-there’s lot of high functioning masked autistic women who just never got diagnosed out there and this makes them have difficult social relationships
-overly picky
-doesn’t leave the house because they wfh and won’t use dating apps
-undiagnosed mental health issues that make dating for them difficult
Anonymous wrote:I’ve dated a lot and have had some short term relationships, but at 49 the longest exclusive boyfriend/girlfriend type relationship I ever had was about eight months when I was 19.
I think it’s a combination of wanting a very specific type of person, being very comfortable remaining single, and, what I’m only now beginning to realize, lacking some specific dating skills.
For the first time in my life, I have a group of wonderful female friends and apparently all this time I’ve had no idea how to recognize a man’s interest or show mine. They’re teaching me things that they’ve just naturally known since they were teens. It’s been so shocking, I wondered if I might be on the autism spectrum or something, but that doesn’t seem to be it.
I can’t explain it, and I’m really not sure I care anymore, but a year of female friends independently sitting me down and explaining things I’d been oblivious to for thirty years has been illuminating.
Anonymous wrote:This sounds like a hypothetical problem I use to teach statistics. With a normal distribution, 95% of women without "issues" have a relationship by the time they reach 35. Mary is 40 years old and never had a relationship. What is the probability that Mary doesn't have issues? Would you date Mary? LOL!
Anonymous wrote:Reasons why they could be single:
-fat -men generally hate fat women
-asexual or closeted lesbians
- autistic-there’s lot of high functioning masked autistic women who just never got diagnosed out there and this makes them have difficult social relationships
-overly picky
-doesn’t leave the house because they wfh and won’t use dating apps
-undiagnosed mental health issues that make dating for them difficult