As a loner, virgin, never in a relationship male adult, it’s something I’ll never experience. So do your best explain it to me, so I can feed that little of imagination left on me.

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    If you try one of the many free therapy options likely available to you, maybe you’ll be able to experience it!

    As I’ve offered before, if you give me a region, I’ll happily find you a free mental health service.

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    Joy in seeing the other person. Warm comfort. Early in the relationship it is at the highest, partners sacrifice their own “usual” to align with their partners needs. However by the two year mark people have let their facade drop and they reveal more of their true self and what they need daily. This often feels like the love has faded, since your partner is expressing their needs and not just fulfilling your own. This either kills the relationship as people think they fell out of love and are now annoyed by their partner, or the partners take more of the “love is a choice” route and continue on, with communication and acceptance of partners quirks. Having open communication without blame helps this process. Then you both start building on a solid foundation of time, past support, trust and mutual caring. Here love is often not described as the heightened falling in love feeling, but something more calm and enduring.

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    What does sex have to do with romance?

    Also, are you aromantic? Why won’t you ever experience this?

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          I checked OP’s post history and it’s fine? I expected way worse based on your comment. He posted like 1 post complaining about games and 1 about mcdonalds. Then it’s just random shit and a few questions about not dating. Also one about how much porn is too much porn (that’s probably the worst one.) OP sounds sad. What’s the issue here?

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          Yikes.

          One of those people who would rather wallow in misery than take responsibility for anything.

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            Yeah. It just bothers me because you can see so many different people have taken the time to articulate solid suggestions, try to be friendly etc and are, at best, met with a “no.” Like, even them complaining about their birthday, so many good people chimed in just to be kind and instead of a thank you or any kind words it’s just this petulant “nooooooooo” attitude, except for literally one post where the commenter posits we’re all insignificant and going to die.

            It’s the best and worst of the internet in a single person.

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              Majority of y’all “doctors” are here just to piss me off and feeling better about yourselves. I didn’t asked for help, because you won’t tell me anything useful.

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                How is offering to help you find a licensed mental health professional for free trying to piss you off?

                And, more importantly, you keep asking “how do you do X, Y Z?” And people keep taking time to help you out!

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    It should be noted it feels different for everyone. Whenever I’ve had a true partner, it feels like I found a lost part of me.

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    In true, committed, romantic love your partner becomes an extension of yourself. They are as familiar as your own hand. You have no doubt that you belong together, and you are one unit working towards a shared goal. Their presence is natural and comfortable, and you gladly sacrifice for them and accept their sacrifices in return. It is ultimate, unwavering trust. Your heart feels full just by their presence.

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      Agreed! Love begins with self love. If you can’t accept and love yourself, you’ll never be able to love someone else.

      That doesn’t mean you think you’re perfect. Far from it. It means you accept yourself, warts and all, for who you are without judgement. You look for ways to improve what you can, and work with or around what you can’t. Once you’ve learned to do this for yourself, you can begin to do it for others. But it must start with you. There’s no shortcut.

      Also, virgins make a bigger deal about virginity than it needs to be. You’re a person. You’ve done some things with other people at some point in your life. Sex is just another thing you do with another person (or people I guess). Love is what makes sex special. Without it, it’s just another thing to do with someone else. Granted it’s a fun thing that feels good, but without love it’s just a thing. Don’t let it become this mountain you have to climb. It isn’t.

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    Surely you have come across depictions of it in movies, literature, etc. Did that not convey it to you? I don’t expect random internet commenters to do a better job than all the world’s past and present artists. I have to wonder if you are trolling.

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      Agreed. I’d take a virgin guy over a guy with a high “body count” any day. That’s just my preference, not implying that there’s anything wrong with having a large number of sexual partners. I think it would be lovely to have that first experience with someone.