Palum said:
Yep, pretty much...
I"m really bad at the whole women thing, I don"t meet many women which compounds the problem. All of my female friends hang out with guys mostly and the few that do have a large group of female friends have them from college/hometown type settings so they"re typically far away. Plus all the places I go with friends where women typically would be (lake/beach/bars/Boston) are 25-50 miles away so I just don"t even bother half the time.
On top of that I"m back asswards: I am totally uninterested in strangers, which makes piquing their interest easy, but then I don"t engage them enough and they just give up before I care enough to actually interact and keep their attention. IE, I pre-date before I ask women out, I have to know enough that it"s not a waste of time before I give it a chance. It"s a shitty habit and doesn"t work often with the personality types I"m attracted to. For instance, I would never, ever, just bump into a cute chick working someplace then ask for their number, even if they are obviously flirting with me. I"m strictly business 100% of the time and it"s killing me because it takes me forever to relax around people and means I miss 100% of any random opportunities.
I don"t really enjoy the bar scene because I don"t drink very much and to be honest, it"s really, really trashy around here. On top of that, the online dating sites are full of the same trash. So, meh. I don"t know anymore.
Oh well, fuck it, I"ll just work more like I usually do.
If you don"t have a new influx of people in your circle from time to time, you should find other ways to meet new people. The other option is be bored and slowly become depressed because every day is the same and you know tomorrow will be the same still.
I was lonely as hell for a while in Korea. My terrible failings are partially documented here. At some point I joined a hiking group on meetupdotcom that did weekend trips to various small mountains around the country. I met a few cool people there, and ended up dating one girl from there for 8 months. I should have done more trips, but you fall into laziness when there"s a routine. Most of my friends while I was there had met most of their friends through some activity, whether it was a poker game, soccer league, work training, etc. I also never appreciated how hugely being exposed to new people on a regular basis increased your social circle. My closest friend there I met at the birthday party of another friend, who I met through another friend while at a festival, who I met through another friend that had just started working with her. When he left, I became closer with a guy I met through him (by probability alone he had to be Kevin Bacon in disguise). By the end, every one of my friends was through a chain of like 3 other people. Yet I only had a handful of friends because the population of normal foreigners in Korea is like 2.5. I never imagined how many new friends (and associated with that, often a couple new girls) you meet through being constantly exposed to new people.
The beauty of hiking in particular is you spend an entire day or 2 with the same people, and you"re all beat down from exhaustion which lowers your social inhibition. And it is well documented that those kinds of activities quickly bond people, and that whole thing combined makes meeting people a million times easier. Meet new people for new friends, new friends for more girls around. Or just meet girls there. People always say "get a hobby!" like it"ll solve all your problems. It won"t. But it"ll help a lot from time to time, and help a little bit always. Eomer is/was a ski guide, which is much cooler, but we don"t all live in the arctic circle. God knows how many vaginas that role spoon-fed him.
Really any hobby you may have has an associated group you could find to meet people through. There are also rec sports leagues for every sport in every medium sized city or suburb. If you don"t have a specific hobby, pick from a list of a billion outdoor activities (because those are generic-ly fun for everyone), and start doing that.
And if you"re bad with girls, that just means you have less practice than some other people. Being the way you described (which is a lot like me, so I know what you mean) makes it harder to naturally get that practice because you don"t always want it. But generally increasing the amount of socializing you do with strangers, through the ways I listed above for example, will improve skill with girls too, and the better you get, the more fun it is, and the more you want to do it.
If you"re uncomfortable going to something where you know no one, my ex (the same one I mentioned before) had the simplest line that I"ll always remember, and it is brilliant: "If you constantly push yourself just outside your comfort zone, your comfort zone will constantly expand [and soon cover all the things you were previously uncomfortable with]." Edit for Engrish
/therapy
I thought I quit this thread. What happened. Aychamo get out of my brain
P.S. Lost, first of all, GOOD JOB ON DATING AN ASIAN. Second, where is she from? +1 point for Southeast Asian, +2 for Korean or Japanese, +0.5 for Chinese. Third, what you aren"t understanding is that there is likely a cultural barrier here. Is she first generation born in USA or off the boat? What you and I and everyone sees as stalker murderous behavior from her ex, is more likely just a little bit weird and too much from her perspective. I know from being raised in the US that behavior is insane to me, but the part of me that adjusted to Asian life doesn"t think it"s that weird. Girls aren"t as direct or assertive, men have more freedom to control women and do as they wish, and lots of other things you can"t really put into words.
Obviously you gotta be firm about making her change the locks and making sure this guy stays away, but if you"re freaking out because you think it means she"s crazy or whatever, she"s probably not. There"s probably a lot of cultural subtleties at play that you have no idea about. You gotta adjust to the way you think of normal and abnormal when dating someone from another culture. It"s a weird and difficult adjustment, but don"t fuck it up, because SHE FUCKING ASIAN DAWG
P.S. If she"s 2nd generation, bitch be crazy.