There’s this guy in my neighbourhood who apparently I find very attractive 😂 I didn’t realize that until recently, I always avoided him until one day I had to talk to him and I turned red and started smiling like an idiot.
This happened twice and both times, when I got home, I started crying… not because of what happened, but it felt as if I was losing something??
All I know about this “reaction” is that this guy isn’t my usual type, I just find him physically attractive and when I get home I cry and think about those guys I actually felt a lot for (mostly platonically) and it hurts 🤕 wtf
And today I was almost telling myself to “stay on track”??? Like thinking about the others and thinking “that’s the life you want, that’s what would make you happy” and just wishing this didn’t have such an effect on me.
i used to do that. it took me decades to learn that it came from a place of low self esteem combined with envy and the inability to admit to myself that i didn’t want to find those men attractive simply because the were conventionally beautiful while i felt that i wasn’t.
30 years later i’m still struggle with these feelings from time to time so i don’t have an answer for you; but i can tell you that seeking out therapy has considerably diminished both the intensity and frequency of them.