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Hey all, hope everyone is doing well.

I’m curious if anyone out there has made a conscious decision to not date or be in a relationship anymore.

If so, what was your rationale? Do you feel it was the right decision? If you’re currently considering it, why?

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[–] randomcruft 1 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Well, that is a solid reason for not wanting to date or be in a relationship. Is there something specific you “don’t like”. While a fair statement, I also find that interesting… without any other context around it.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Well let's start off with just basic things like hobbies and interests. Let's LaForge this. Computer: run speed dating simulation three gamma. Add a typical bachelorette, approximately 35 years old, American, with a personality, hobbies and interests typical of her demographics. Run program. Alright, I'm going to go strike up a conversation with her about the heavy modular frame production line I built in Satisfactory, we'll see how she responds. I bet I'll respond similarly to listening her talk about the pointless knickknacks she bought at a thrift store or yoga class or whatever.

Like, you should enjoy sitting on the couch and watching TV with your partner, right? Okay, I'm about to binge watch Clickspring's clockmaking playlist again. That's three solid hours of a guy building a clock from scratch out of plate brass. He stops to build a custom wheel depthing tool. He experiments with different lapping plates for polishing the heads of screws, spoiler: Tin is better than MDF. Find me a woman that would actually enjoy watching this with me any more than I would enjoy watching some drag queen show with her.

I've got maybe 40 years left on this planet, I've reserved not a second for pretending to care about antiquing or pilates class, I'm sure there are few women on the planet who are interested in, say, hand plane sharpening. So why bother each other?

Beyond that, my "Never putting up with that again" list has grown quite long. Shit like being called "non-communicative" by little miss "If you don't know what's wrong, I'm definitely not going to tell you."

So...what's there to like, exactly?

[–] randomcruft 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

My dude… I’m not sure I have the right words to respond to your comment.

I feel bad for you and wish there was some way to change the situation. However, I don’t know what that is to help out.

If you don’t consider yourself “typical” based on your likes, hobbies, interests, etc. it’s going to be difficult to connect with a normie.

I still don’t think you should give up though. Sadly I don’t have any good advice either.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't worry, I've got a plan that will 100% take care of it. I'm going to:

  • feed my cat her breakfast
  • build some nice furniture
  • probably get rained on because it's summer in North Carolina during the climate apocalypse and Trump fired all the meteorologists
  • bake a pizza from scratch for dinner
  • play a video game about process engineering
  • feed my cat her dinner
  • fall asleep listening to an astronomy podcast.

I think I've got it surrounded.

[–] randomcruft 1 points 20 hours ago

I think you have a solid plan!!

I hope the pizza is great, the furniture stable and comfortable, and your cat is happy 🙂

Rain and climate apocalypse not withstanding.