Genuinely dont know what else to do 26M here. My entire…
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Genuinely dont know what else to do
26M here. My entire life I've struggled with making connections and forming relationships. I'm a nontraditional student and currently a sophomore in college, and I've really been trying to make a change. I've been working on becoming more confident in myself, embracing my interests, improving my social skills, and putting myself out there more. I've gotten pretty good at initiating conversations, and I have no problem talking to strangers at bars, meeting people, or striking up conversations on campus. The problem is that at the end of the day, I'm always by myself. I can have a great conversation with someone, get their Instagram or number, and then nothing ever comes of it. I feel like I'm constantly the one initiating, and nobody ever seems interested in getting to know me beyond that first interaction. For Halloween, I even went all out with a costume that took a lot of courage for me to wear publicly. I felt amazing that night, but afterward, even my coworkers barely acknowledged it unless I brought it up. I know nobody owes me compliments or attention, but it hurt because it felt like yet another time I'd put myself out there only to feel invisible. I'm genuinely exhausted. I don't want to become withdrawn or stop sharing who I am with people, but I'm starting to wonder what the point is when none of my efforts seem to lead to meaningful connections. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you go from being someone who could talk to people easily to actually having people who wanted to spend time with you? I'm tired of always being the one making the effort, and I genuinely don't know what else to try.
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26M here. My entire life I've struggled with making connections and forming relationships. I'm a nontraditional student and currently a sophomore in college, and I've really been trying to make a change. I've been working on becoming more confident in myself, embracing my interests, improving my social skills, and putting myself out there more. I've gotten pretty good at initiating conversations, and I have no problem talking to strangers at bars, meeting people, or striking up conversations on campus. The problem is that at the end of the day, I'm always by myself. I can have a great conversation with someone, get their Instagram or number, and then nothing ever comes of it. I feel like I'm constantly the one initiating, and nobody ever seems interested in getting to know me beyond that first interaction. For Halloween, I even went all out with a costume that took a lot of courage for me to wear publicly. I felt amazing that night, but afterward, even my coworkers barely acknowledged it unless I brought it up. I know nobody owes me compliments or attention, but it hurt because it felt like yet another time I'd put myself out there only to feel invisible. I'm genuinely exhausted. I don't want to become withdrawn or stop sharing who I am with people, but I'm starting to wonder what the point is when none of my efforts seem to lead to meaningful connections. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you go from being someone who could talk to people easily to actually having people who wanted to spend time with you? I'm tired of always being the one making the effort, and I genuinely don't know what else to try.
#relationships
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