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I often grieved and feel melancholy for my lost teenagehood through adulthood. I'm someone who feels fundamentally incomplete without a relationship that's both
by jimmaswell 3y ago
I often grieved and feel melancholy for my lost teenagehood through adulthood. I'm someone who feels fundamentally incomplete without a relationship that's both romantic and actively sexual but I've largelynonly had fascimiles of the first and only caught up to the second at the age of 27. It's been very rough being a male nerd in this predicament. The only times I've felt truly complete and happy were when I felt like I'd found those. It's all only slowly gotten better through an amount of self-work foreign to the average person.
I often think how I'd prepare a straight son of mine not to have the same black hole in his life from middle school to 27. Strict nutritional monitoring, at least one mandatory sports team enrollment (I would have hated that too but it would have made me more fit), some extra push to talk to and ask out female classmates (not sure on the right reward structure, something to do with allowance, allowed to quit the sport or the gym while in a relationship?), some structured knowledge given and tested on at home about how relationships develop and how to approach them from good sources like HealthyGamerGG, pay for photoshoots and such for dating profiles in college if he's not succeeded much by then (it's gotten insanely competitive how good a man needs to be on there). All based on what I think might have helped me in my dark years. My parents meant well but were clueless and naive, all they could say was the old "be yourself" and "there's someone out there for anyone", perfect mindsets to stay in the dust while your peers have the time of their lives.
Any parents had success in this area with a disadvantaged son?