Dating-Age |OT3| Positivity, Confidence, and Not Being a "Nice" Guy

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I became reliant on porn because it was the only option which resulted in my dopamine levels in the brain becoming completely messed up. It is a bio-chemical mechanism that results in your desire for an orgasm with a woman, but if you don't have that connection with a partner then you have the rush of dopamine and then the crash. Over time you become desensitised to it and you need more extreme levels of porn to reach that dopamine high. Anxiety, depression, irritability and lack of motivation (what good is dating when you don't want to do it) can all be signs of low levels of dopamine.

You know what else uses dopamine to create an addiction? Heroin.

As for psychedelics: The psilocybin in magic mushrooms (at the right dose) has been proven to be able to improve psychological health and instill lasting personality changes (source: http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/16/magic-mushrooms-can-improve-psychological-health-long-term/). Extensive studies have shown that the DMT within Ayahuasca triggers the memory centres of the brain as well as the visual cortex, so you literally see the traumatic memories that have haunted you for your entire life, it becomes entirely up to the individual if they want to let them go or not. What does therapy do if not to try and achieve the exact same thing?

I've done my research and I am taking action. I would appreciate it if you did not treat me like a god damned idiot.

Googling some articles is not research. You hide behind so many fact just so you can be unhappy.
 
I'd like to nominate Mr.City to be a certified GAF-therapist. Because he's totally on point in what he says. And yes, I speak as a patient of his.
 
I'd like to nominate Mr.City to be a certified GAF-therapist. Because he's totally on point in what he says. And yes, I speak as a patient of his.

lol @ being a patient of his,

He just lurks the thread until you or some other repressed individual post their anxiety problems, so he can you insult you to make him feel better about himself. Your low self esteem makes you believe he's giving you tough love, but in reality, he's just using you for his own ego.
 
I'd like to nominate Mr.City to be a certified GAF-therapist. Because he's totally on point in what he says. And yes, I speak as a patient of his.

Dude, that's not hard to do. You have a wealth of self limiting beliefs, and I just tell you that they are not true. I don't know how that makes me anyone's therapist.

ol @ being a patient of his,

He just lurks the thread until you or some other repressed individual post their anxiety problems, so he can you insult you to make him feel better about himself. Your low self esteem makes you believe he's giving you tough love, but in reality, he's just using you for his own ego.

This is something I have to explore. I'm not sure if I'm doing this or not. I mean, I see someone say they hate women and that the world is awful, and I got to respond.
 
I've been chatting to this girl casually and we've hooked up 3 times, but she doesn't want a relationship cause she's moving to europe in 2 months, so its supposed to be strictly sex. It sucks cause I like her and get jealous thinking how she may be with other guys.

Then two nights ago I go out with my sister, and get this cute girls facebook. Last night I got the number of the hot bartender(not fake) and ended up making out with/fooling around a bit with sister's roomate.

The fact that I know there are options makes me feel better about the situation with europe girl, lessens any feelings of jealousy, and generally makes me feel better about myself. But then I feel deceitful if I pursue anything with more than one of them at once. I'm trying to set up dates with the two girls right now, and the roomate wants me to come over this weekend, and while it makes me feel better about the europe girl situation, overall it feels like a dirty way to live life, I guess.

This is just what I was thinking on a more philosophical level, I guess. Thoughts, anyone?g

Just be upfront with all involved? Otherwise I don't see anything wrong with enjoying the company of multiple people.
 
Really glad you took your date positively, Sheap. More props to you for staying because you did it to remedy that curve ball thrown at you. If you guys became cool, I bet she would make a killer wingwoman.


You guys need to get this through your heads.

VALIDATION DOES NOT EQUAL LOVE

Attention (and sex) feels nice. Being popular feels nice. But that's it. None of this determines your value as a human being. Not being able to get your dick wet doesn't mean you're an awful person. The last few pages have had people looking for relationships as quickie patches to fix the holes in their lives. Welp, that's fine until the patch blows off, and you're at square one again. The real question lies in where your pain is coming from.

I want to make sweet love to this post. Well said.

Quick question: Has anyone developed a crush on a fellow Gaffer, and, supposing you lived in the same country, would you act on it?

Jeez, just ask me out already.
 
You guys need to get this through your heads.

VALIDATION DOES NOT EQUAL LOVE

Attention (and sex) feels nice. Being popular feels nice. But that's it. None of this determines your value as a human being. Not being able to get your dick wet doesn't mean you're an awful person. The last few pages have had people looking for relationships as quickie patches to fix the holes in their lives. Welp, that's fine until the patch blows off, and you're at square one again. The real question lies in where your pain is coming from.

Excellent fucking post.
 
A random pretty Russian girl who helped pay for a cab (I'll spare you the details) and who gave me her email so I could reach her to pay her back tomorrow just sent le an email asking if I want to go out for a walk this evening.

I didn't do anything to deserve that, I owe a complete stranger 10$ and she asks me to go out with her, lol.
 
A random pretty Russian girl who helped pay for a cab (I'll spare you the details) and who gave me her email so I could reach her to pay her back tomorrow just sent le an email asking if I want to go out for a walk this evening.

I didn't do anything to deserve that, I owe a complete stranger 10$ and she asks me to go out with her, lol.

She's going to steal your liver.

Just kidding, congratulations!
 
Sadly she doesn't seem to realize how far she is from my hostel, so it probably won't happen:|
 
Public transit? You ask her to meet somewhere? Surely you can work something out.

Not that simple, I'm on vacation and just git here two hours ago, and so did she. We don't know the place and I can't pay for transport untim I exchange my pesos tomorrow... Complicated situation.

Edit: Won't work for tonight, she is wondering if we can do this tomorrow. I am trying to make it so that we might spend the whole day together tomorrow, but this might mean also being with her mother the whole day (she is traveling with her), and that's fine with me. It might mean her mother would stay at the hotel in the evening, at which point we would be togheter then by ourselves, but even if she brought her mother I woukdn'tcare, lol. I like how on this solo vacation I practically spent no evening, or even day, by myself.
 
I've just registered with OKCupid. I don't like taking photos of myself so have very few, the only decent one, however, seems pretentious - I look like a poser and I dread to think what others may think of it in the context of a dating site. In short, I'm not sure if its appropriate for it.

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i would say dont post it cause you dont have a shirt on.


just take some pictures of yourself till you find one you like. nothing wrong with a mini photoshoot
 
Googling some articles is not research. You hide behind so many fact just so you can be unhappy.
I would have more respect for you and your opinions if you made a single fucking attempt to know who I am and why I think the way I do. Because you haven't done that your opinion of me is based on nothing but pure assumption. However, I know how I have reacted to different stimuli over the years and so I would rather trust in my own insights about my mind rather than the hostile bullshit you're giving me.
 
No, what I'm talking about is from years ago. They actually met on Gaf and chatted online before meeting.

I think that creepy Fernando guy had his lady pal sign up for Gaf after the fact.

I know whom you mean, forgot the names tho.
I think she (white) was from Australia, and he (black) was from America?
 
Sweet, date on Tuesday, BUT I actually got her number this time.

Don't mean to be harsh, but don't get your hopes up dude. I hope everything goes well, but with online dating flakiness is a terrible sign. It most likely means she was on a date with another dude, not sick and sleeping all day long.

How do I know this? Same thing happened to me. When I went for our rescheduled date, she called me to say she couldn't go through with it... When I was already half-way there. As she was explaining why, I realized just how crazy she was... Saying that she didn't believe that a guy like me wanted to see her, I was too good for her, was going to hurt her, etc.

We hadn't even met in real life yet.

Again, not trying to tell you this to be a dick. Just keep her off a pedestal and go with the flow. If you meet, awesome. If she bails again, who cares, she's fucking crazy most likely.
 
Don't mean to be harsh, but don't get your hopes up dude. I hope everything goes well, but with online dating flakiness is a terrible sign. It most likely means she was on a date with another dude, not sick and sleeping all day long.

How do I know this? Same thing happened to me. When I went for our rescheduled date, she called me to say she couldn't go through with it... When I was already half-way there. As she was explaining why, I realized just how crazy she was... Saying that she didn't believe that a guy like me wanted to see her, I was too good for her, was going to hurt her, etc.

We hadn't even met in real life yet.

Again, not trying to tell you this to be a dick. Just keep her off a pedestal and go with the flow. If you meet, awesome. If she bails again, who cares, she's fucking crazy most likely.

I'm not.
I plan on asking out another girl on Monday.
 
Time to step up to the plate tomorrow night...

Radiohead concert + me&her... something has to happen or its a done deal. This girl has been giving me mixed signals for a month. Hard to describe.

I know if I plan this out... it will fail miserably . I need to learn to be relaxed and go with the flow... but eh

Any tips to remain powerful + alpha style during concerts?
 
Sounds good to me. Dating success is all about confidence. Having options is a major key to that.

Just one question though. Assuming OKC girl is legit, and other girl says yes, how would I go about playing off if the date with OKC girl was extremely successful?
 
Just one question though. Assuming OKC girl is legit, and other girl says yes, how would I go about playing off if the date with OKC girl was extremely successful?

playing off?
you can date more than 1 girl at a time
not sure why you'd ever mention one to the other, especially on/around the first date.

you seem wayyyy too emotionally invested in putting the relationship on the pedestal man
 
playing off?
you can date more than 1 girl at a time
not sure why you'd ever mention one to the other, especially on/around the first date.

you seem wayyyy too emotionally invested in putting the relationship on the pedestal man

I left out a word: Playing it off.

I guess that makes sense, it's just something I've never had experience with doing before.
 
This is what I put for mine after a few hours of scratching my head

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So I went single on my okc as an experiment yesterday (I got timedog's permission since I didn't feel comfortable doing it otherwise) and it kind of bothers me how it decided to shout it to the world (I guess it would be best to do this when you are ready to be courted again) but still I had no idea it would blare it so loudly and my visitor number surged. And it made me realize how easily one could troll this site either faking a profile or using it as an ego boost of sorts. I wouldn't know the solution to this phenomenon either, it just kind of made me aware of how difficult this shit can be from the man's perspective.
 
So I went single on my okc as an experiment yesterday (I got timedog's permission since I didn't feel comfortable doing it otherwise) and it kind of bothers me how it decided to shout it to the world (I guess it would be best to do this when you are ready to be courted again) but still I had no idea it would blare it so loudly and my visitor number surged. And it made me realize how easily one could troll this site either faking a profile or using it as an ego boost of sorts. I wouldn't know the solution to this phenomenon either, it just kind of made me aware of how difficult this shit can be from the man's perspective.

It made me realise how shallow I am :(
 
Better?

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I don't know what I'm doing

Just the third paragraph. That's it. Cut everything else out.

The other parts have depressing stuff in it. Like going to the movies alone... Wut. Don't be that honest.

If you want more edits you're going to have to cut-and-paste the text from your profile. We can't work with these screengrabs :P

Edit: leave the part about being confused for a girl in only if you're a good looking guy. If you actually look like a girl then don't draw attention to it.
 
So I went single on my okc as an experiment yesterday (I got timedog's permission since I didn't feel comfortable doing it otherwise) and it kind of bothers me how it decided to shout it to the world (I guess it would be best to do this when you are ready to be courted again) but still I had no idea it would blare it so loudly and my visitor number surged. And it made me realize how easily one could troll this site either faking a profile or using it as an ego boost of sorts. I wouldn't know the solution to this phenomenon either, it just kind of made me aware of how difficult this shit can be from the man's perspective.

This wouldn't exactly be exclusive to OKC though, you could do this with any free dating site....
 
Jason: knee-jerk, gut reaction to reading your profile? You seem like a nerdy loner.

Whether or not that's true, it's the image you're projecting. Ditch the nerd humor, the intellectual undertone, and the self-deprecation and your profile will look much more appealing.
 
This wouldn't exactly be exclusive to OKC though, you could do this with any free dating site....

Right. But guys who get down about these thinks should realize that women aren't necessarily rejecting their messages so much as they picked a troll or someone who wouldn't be replying in the first place and to keep on keepin' on.
 
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