Recent content by EmmaWK

You seem to have a lot of resentment about your feelings, thinking that you're not allowed to feel them or subconsciously thinking that what you are feeling is not right, or maybe you've been told that. Well, NO ONE HAS TO LEGITIMIZE YOUR FEELINGS FOR YOU. What you feel is what you feel. Your...

I am sorry that you feel rejected due to your race/ethnicity. That's not easy to deal with. Speaking as a (straight-ish) girl, I feel that a lot of guys maybe don't want to feel strung along and "lied to," so if I don't feel an immediate connection I would definitely let the other guy know...

I feel like there are two things you could do here. I see a lot of "shoulds" in your post, and you say you don't "feel like a man." You put "normal" in quotation marks. That tells me that a lot of the despair you feel is due to you feeling like you're not living up to some kind of grand...

Absolutely agree, as a woman. Also, as a super socially awkward woman, if I don't really know you, I wouldn't know how to make small talk and would probably avoid you if we haven't been around each other a lot. None of that is a reflection on you. I'm saying there are many possible reasons...

OP, you're absolutely right that some MeetUp organizers are fuckups and should be better organized. You can't help that, and you've had a string of bad luck. I've heard that from many people who've used MeetUp (I haven't). However, from your description of events, it also sounds like you never...

I've never posted here before, but your situation worries me and it just seems wrong that 13 year-old doesn't have his mother (or any other parental figure) to talk to. With respect, depression looks like a lot of different things, so I don't think you can say for sure whether it is or not...