* Dear KP and  SoutHeartedMen:

StroutHeartedMen, it’s a delight this morning to read your replies in 3 different threads. Your reply in this thread is excellent and I can’t imagine the original poster (KP) not replying to it, but it often happens that Original Posters start threads and then.. they are gone, either not checking their threads for replies, or reading replies but not bothering to respond. Not even a thank you to well-meaning members like you who produce excellent replies.

KP, you wrote: “I am destined to be alone“- not responding to replies that are submitted to you and not being responsive otherwise, will keep you alone. You are welcome to return to your thread anytime. I will be glad to read from you again!

Back to you, StoutHeartedMen, you wrote: “If a love interest is forever out of reach, I get to imagine whatever I want about them… there is no human born to be my perfect match, unless they are obscured by my imagination“- profound, so well written.

You shared that you recently joined dating sites because you are “interested in the process of beginning a relationship”, but once you start speaking with interested and interesting women, you “shut down and lose interest/ attraction and feel tempted to deny them”. You then asked the OP two questions.

You are welcome to write your answers to your own questions, if you’d like. I am suggesting this because in a thread titled “What inspires you to write?”, you answered: “I write my best funny stories when I know someone asked me to do so and is waiting for me to deliver… Having at least 1 person to work for gives me a purpose”.

anita