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How does it feel being in a relationship? (lemm.ee)

submitted 6 months ago by FookReddit69@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The fact I'll die alone without ever feeling the love of a woman besides my mother and without a child saddens me. So, as kind of a consolation, I want to know... How does it feel? Being in love and being together, the sex part, just living together and all that...

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[–] hellothere@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Thank you.

It's taken a long time, and I'll be honest and admit that a good amount of what was written above was by the more adult and rational parts of my mind, than the emotive bits. I'm still working through a lot of shame, and on bad days it's still floods back, but usually less than before.

There's many thousands of steps ahead of you, but you'll get there, I believe in you.