I have no friends or partner, I’ve been very lonely.
When I go out to try to meet people, no one ever comes up to me and starts talking to me. But if I want to meet someone I have to do exactly that. But like, why should I have to be the one to initiate 100% of the time? Shouldn’t it be 50/50? (And I’m not really talking about societal expectations of the man initiating with the woman, I’d rather have a boyfriend anyway.)
I have such a hard time initiating conversations with people, to the point where I mostly just stress out and sit there alone. If someone initiated with me things might go better. But they just don’t.
The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that literally no one has any interest in me.
What is this ritual ass shit. People just expect you to know this?
Right?
And that's just the brief overview in general terms to provide a foundation so that you are able to identify and observe this pattern in real life, where it takes on a whole lot more subtlety and nuance and it's much more contextual.
This shit gives me a migraine.