re: The Bitterness of Missing Out on Love

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Dude...you get over it the same way you get over learning wrestling and santa Claus are fake.

It never existed.

It doesn't exist.

You are so desperately trying to convince...who?...you...the people who post here what you keep calling innocent love.

There are a hell of a lot of people here who dated all through high school and their 20s and will tell you about how awesome and innocent it felt when you popped a condom or your girl was late with her period.

You are being purposely obtuse.

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I guess it is true to some extent. It's like I love the idea even though the rational side of my brain knows it reality it's not true. And I agree I would never want to go though the horror of possibly having a kid from a one night stand or a casual relationship. My paycheck sure thanks me as well, lol.

I don't think I'm being purposely obtuse and apologize if I come off like that in any way. It's truly just me trying to work on my emotions on this topic (something I should've done a long time ago) and get some advice on here.

Really there's two things that I've been trying to process:
1) Accept that whatever you missed is gone and the only thing you can do is to accept it and move forward.
2) That the idea of true love that I believed in for so long is truly just a delusion. Understanding that really I didn't miss as much as I think I did and that I idealized something that was never real.