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Jacob Ryan

My biggest issue is my self-worth but what I would fix is my overthinking and getting into my own head. Long story short my only relationship ended when I got cheated on at 20, spent years trying to learn the social skills required to mingle, flirt let alone progress past that point. I failed over and over again and fell into a deep depression and somewhere around 24 I simply stopped trying, it was soul crushing and I became avoidant of women my own age due to the bad experiences, and no I'm not just talking about rejections but mind games, manipulation, push and pull games, being outright bullied by women around me for opening up about this. Yeah, I have always has platonic female friends but that's it. Your self help videos along with some personal life experiences inspired me to try to better myself again mid to late last year. Since then i have mamaged to lose 40kg and have been able to at least hold conversations with women my own age again. But now I'm so paralysed with anxiety and self doubt, self loathing, a lack of self esteem etc. I feel like I'm smashing my head against a brick wall trying to learn to flirt/make a move. I can't even put into words exactly why, all I know is that I'm frozen with the fear that im going to say or do the wrong thing, make her uncomfortable, afraid, disgusted that I even tried or even be accused of harassment. I have been seeing a therapist about this and am trying to push through but, I'm currently struggling to see what the end goal is. I don't believe I will ever own my own home, I don't see myself ever trusting a woman enough to start a family as I've only ever been hurt and watched the men I look up to in my life be tossed aside by their wives in the same way I've listened to the women in my life complain about being sick and tired of being hit on. Life just feels... meaningless and I find myself not wanting to wake up to the next day. So yes, I would cut out this overthinking, over analysing, avoidant and self-sacrificing for other's benefit behavior I have developed.

Gauris

Having been on a pension since I was 21 (now 54 almost 55) a secure, adequate weekly wage would be the one thing. Once that was sorted, I'd have the luxury of being able to consider other things, but at this point, I need financial security.