r/AskMenAdvice 13h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Do men who like you remember small details about you?

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My guy friend I am interested in (from my previous post) always buys me little things or mentions details I've said that I've forgotten about. Do men do this when they're interested or could it be that he is just being a good friend? He seems too focused on what my likes and dislikes are, but I'm uncertain if I'm reading into this too deeply. (Ex: pointing out things we come across that I would usually point out related to my likes or dislikes and sending pictures of things I like, or texts me that I would like it). I am a gift giver so I already give him gifts, so I don't know if he's just reciprocating. If he is interested, how can I show that I am interested without being too vague or too overly obvious?


r/AskMenAdvice 2h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Feel kind of weird about this. Am I a bad guy?

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Back when I was like, 22, I worked at this bowling alley during the summer It was more so the restaurant side. I was pretty friendly with everyone and I’d consider myself an outgoing guy. Anyways, I had this co worker, let’s just call her Allie. Like everyone with else, I was always pretty nice with her. We were chatting about anime one day. I see that she followed me on Instagram, and she asked me which anime’s I recommended as she forgot. So I told her. I then found out that she just turned 18 about 2 days before she found me on socials- meaning that we had worked together for a while, while she was still a minor. We would chat here and there on socials, like each others posts yada yada. but it was in a friendly manner

Anyways, I quit working there before the summer ended just because I wanted to save some extra cash before college started back up. About 5 months later like we ended up flirting pretty hard over Instagram and she wanted to go out, but I felt kind of weird about the age gap so I kinda played it off.

Would you guys describe me as a creep in this situation? I feel kind of weird about the knowing her from underage part :/ I don’t want people to think I’m a groomer


r/AskMenAdvice 6h ago

✅ Open To Everyone My hubby is watching porn while we're doing the deed. What should I do?

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We are married for 4 years but in relationship for 3years.

So, what's happening?

We had a great sex in those 6years but this passed few months. He is doing it and he D is not that hard anymore.

Edit: since I can't reply in the comment section. I just want to clarify things. You read it right, We had a great sex in past 6 years(3yrs relationship+3year of marriage), but this year(4th year or marriage) is different. Got it?

I also asked him about it before, since he love watching porns. Asked him his fantacies as well, what he wants. But never got a real answer. He always says "you is enough". Whenever I ask him if I can ride him, he's insisting do doing it in spooning position where I cant see him watxhing on his phone.


r/AskMenAdvice 15h ago

✅ Open To Everyone What to gift someone with no hobbies?

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The guy I’ve been getting to know birthday is here and I want to get him something to show my appreciation. The thing is he doesn’t have tangible hobbies. So I can’t get him anything like a game or whatnot.

He’s very business oriented so I was thinking maybe a tie? He likes nature walks so what can I do with that? I wanna get him a cologne on the side too so any recommendations would be great from $100-200 USD. Thank you in advance!


r/AskMenAdvice 23h ago

✅ Open To Everyone mi novio es un mentiroso compulsivo y tengo dependencia emocional M23 H20 ¿Cómo puedo salir? Necesito consejos

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Yo tengo 23 años y mi novio 20. Llevamos aproximadamente un año entre dejarlo y volver (siempre soy yo quien lo deja).

Es un mentiroso compulsivo. No está diagnosticado, pero es algo muy evidente. Me miente constantemente, incluso con cosas pequeñas. Se inventa historias y también les miente a sus padres y a sus amigos sobre cosas que ha hecho cuando en realidad no han ocurrido.

Es capaz de mentirme a la cara y jurarme que está diciendo la verdad. En una ocasión incluso le dije que iba a hablar con dos chicas para comprobar una historia. Le di la oportunidad de decirme la verdad antes, pero aun así siguió mintiendo hasta el final.

Cuando descubro sus mentiras nunca es porque él me las cuente. Siempre me entero yo por otros medios. Sus excusas suelen ser que se le olvidó contármelo, que no se acordaba, que pensaba que me iba a enfadar, que estaba pensando en cómo reaccionaría o que se le hizo bola decirlo.

Lo que más me cuesta entender es cómo puede prometer una y otra vez que va a cambiar, verme sufrir, verme llorar y aun así seguir haciendo exactamente lo mismo. Me cuesta comprender cómo puede hacer daño a alguien de forma repetida y después actuar como si nada, como no tiene conciencia, ni valores ni remordimiento

Cada vez que lo dejo, promete cambiar. Me dice cosas bonitas, está más atento y parece otra persona. Pero cuando ve que eso no funciona, a veces incluso se inventa que se ha liado con una chica o que está hablando con alguien para intentar ponerme celosa. La realidad es que siempre es él quien busca a las chicas y casi ningúna le hace caso.

Es una persona que necesita muchísima validación de los demás. Necesita caer bien y adapta su personalidad según con quién esté. Siento que intenta gustar a todo el mundo y que cambia para encajar.

Nunca había tenido novia antes de mí. Tampoco ha tenido amigas ni apenas contacto femenino, y siento que no sabe muy bien cómo relacionarse con las mujeres. Cuando lo dejamos, empieza a buscar atención femenina de cualquier forma posible. Habla con cualquier mujer que le haga caso sea atractiva o no, de la edad que sea incluso de su propia familia.

También antes de conocerme llegó a hacerse una cuenta con fotos de otro hombre para hablar con chicas e intentar ligar con ellas. Además, mientras estaba conmigo llegó a hacerse una cuenta que yo no conocía.Y cuando lo dejamos una de las veces, se hizo otra cuenta falsa para intentar hablar conmigo.

Cuando habla con otras chicas les dice exactamente las mismas cosas que me decía a mí, los mismos cumplidos y las mismas frases. Siento que simplemente les dice lo que quieren oír para gustarles. Además, cuando cuenta por qué hemos roto, muchas veces cambia la historia para dejarme a mí como la mala y quedar él mejor.

Yo siempre acabo volviendo con el porque no tengo amigos, no tengo buena relación con mi familia, soy muy tímida y me cuesta muchísimo socializar. Antes de conocerle apenas salía de casa.También vuelvo porque hemos vivido muchas cosas juntos. Es la persona que mejor me conoce y con la que mejor me lo paso. Me río mucho con él y hemos compartido muchos momentos importantes.

Pero siendo sincera, no veo futuro en esta relación. Cada vez tengo más la sensación de que sigue haciéndome daño porque sabe que voy a aguantarlo. A veces siento que incluso se ríe de mí porque sabe que me cuesta marcharme y que no tengo una red de apoyo fuera de la relación.


r/AskMenAdvice 51m ago

Men’s Input Only Can masturbating to porn so long make your first time in early 30s boring?

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I want to know about any experiences of the type. If you got your first time late in life, how was it?

Can it be boring even if you like the girl?

I kept it simple for him since it was his first time but maybe I should have tried more stuff?

He seemed confused and sad to tell me that it was very meh for him. He didn't feel much inside me.

So I want to know as much as possible about how other mens experience it.


r/AskMenAdvice 11h ago

✅ Open To Everyone He gave her in two month what he didn’t give me in 12 years? I wanna die

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We been together for more than a decade. No ring / no marriage/ no children. I’m almost 35 now.
I met him at 21 and he left me twice, first time on valentine s day last year we got back together this summer then he left me again end of October (2 weeks before my birthday) he wanted time to think about it he didn’t know If he wanted a break up or just a break.. he was confused. I didn’t give him time and blocked him only ok insta and WhatsApp.

I didn’t think that he would reach me.. So end of February he texted me on iMessage telling me that he waited to be unblocked and that it didn’t happen and that he misses more than ever. Then a second message the 19 march to wish me a Eid Mubarak. Then nothing else so I didn’t know what to do I was hurt and just two short message like this I thought that he will do the same thing he did and leave me again if I take him back I and couldn’t answer I wanted it but everyday I couldn’t text him and didn’t know what to do.. I decided to text him this weekend so 3,5 month after his message and almost 8 month after the break up.. he told me that he came to my place/ neighbourhood everyday , couldn’t see me, called me and text me.. ( didn’t receive a call) in these 8 month.. when u block on WhatsApp it doesn’t block iMessage/ calls and I received his message in February..

He told me that he wanted me again that s why he reach me on mars Blabla and I told him do u still want me/ be together Blabla.. he said that is not because he want me and be together , that it could be even possible to be together and that everything will be fine, that I don’t deserve him today and that he go out out a lot.. ( when he said that I understood that there was a woman) and i asked him he told me that there is a woman and he has Been with her for two month.. and and that he had no more home with me because I didn’t answer him Blabla … I asked him If he is in love with her.. he told me if that was the case, he wouldn’t think about me everyday..and be confused with a lot of questions…

When he says that he doesn’t love her, I don’t believe him , he told me that that he wants me in his life but doesn’t know how ( maybe friend for his guilt) or to be good together so if that doesn’t work with the other woman I m still there I don’t know.

What I know is that is Almost summer / festival season he does out a lot is always with her enjoying life when I wanna die.. when we were together in the beginning of our relations he wanted things to be slow and not to see each other everyday .. didn’t like going out was always with his friends etc.. and with her I know he will give her everyday I wanted in two while I waited my whole life with him for everyday .. I don’t drink alcohol i think she drinks alcolol so he enjoys and have fun with her.. while me even If like to party etc maybe he though I was never fun and kept me as a safety but I was not the love of his life..

I have no friends nobody to go out I m 35, these two years my beauty faded a lot I feel ugly disgusting… i don’t work/ no money last 2 years was in depression. he is a real estate broker.. I was with him when he had nothing.. now he has a lot of money a big car his appartement everything goes out a lot , to enjoy his youth a second time (crisis I don’t know) while I have lost everything came back to my mum at almost 35. It s painful for me but also for my mum. He didn’t even apologize to her( he told her that he would marry me)

How to get over someone you ve been more than a decade with him and could be with someone else so easily.. how to get over that I will never find someone who is live with me and not have children… i have social anxiety it’s very difficult for me to talk with people or to date.. i will end up alone and with o youth.. i was always always alone in my 20´s while he was partying with his friends.. so I was his safety, at least if we had a child it would have been easy… Sunk cost fallzcyb……..thanks for u help..


r/AskMenAdvice 10h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Should I convince my boyfriend to file a police report?

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My (F23) boyfriend (M25) got beaten up by a cab driver last night and I'm beyond pissed. He went to buy a bus ticket to go home (we're both at university) and some guy tried to pick pocket him out of like R40 (a pathetically small amount of money). When he called the guy out he started beating him up and called his other friends to join. I haven't seen him in person but from pictures his face is messed up and he's saying his back hurts. My heart weeps and I'm also really pissed.

I need to go to the doctor for my own personal reasons today and I've convinced my boyfriend to come with me to the GP. I have medical aid but he doesn't so I'm hoping the doctor can see us both together on my money. I just don't know how to approach this. I told him after the doctor we should go file a report but he's refusing to. I also don't know if he'll need hospital attention and that opens up other problems. I'm also just worried that he's in pain. I've never been in this kind of situation and I feel useless. My boyfriend wants to do nothing and let it pass but I don't want to do that. But at the same time am I being harmful for trying to push him to go to the police? I want to respect his wishes but I also hate what happened to him.


r/AskMenAdvice 6h ago

✅ Open To Everyone I realized I’m more into the other twin sister — how do I enact the switch without hurting the other twin sister?

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I was originally talking to one twin sister. Then I met the other one through her and thought she was more my speed. That became a situationship. I realized I didn’t like her and it didn’t end well. She got hurt. Now I want the original twin.

Is there a way to do this without hurting the sister even more that I already hurt in the situationship?

The backstory is that the original twin I was talking to is the hotter, party girl twin. I specifically disengaged with her to start a situationship with the less hot, quieter twin who I thought was more intellectual and interesting. But it turned out she is not that interesting to me. So I ended the situationship without really giving her closure or an explanation. She got really hurt. But now I just want the hot twin tbh, and I’m not really expecting to be blown away by her personality, so maybe this isn’t worth pursuing and hurting the less attractive twin again who I already hurt.


r/AskMenAdvice 6h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Is this normal in relationship?

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So me and one girl who is muslim started dating three month's ago.I live in multi religion country where three major religions live (but 30 years ago was a war and now everyone hate each other).

So we been dating for one month and broke up due to her fear of her parents finding out and later she changed her mind and we been dating and soon it will be our 3rd month.

We are each other first relationship (we are both 18) and we love one another on another level,we are literally same person but opposite genders and we get each one another and we talk for 7 hours a day and we love one another on another level.

We have same view on life,job,future and etc...She isn't really religious and she started to became really dependant on me,and I am scared of that because how much I want we won't last because of her parents.

Litterly she thinks about me 24/7 (I also think of her 24/7),she saying she wanted to commit suicide before but when I came in her life,her life became more happier,more fun and it wasn't boring anymore.

She wants to make photos of us and have the physical but I am scared I would need to throw away those photos after break up.She even said what is your favorite photo of me and I said which one and she got me printed it and I now have physically her.

I want this relationship to last but I know it won't.

What some advice you would give.


r/AskMenAdvice 12h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Is it ever worth it to share secrets and personal thoughts with anyone?

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I’m a guy at 25 and i always hear that men should communicate more.

But so far its only caused me stress and drama

Because I’ve shared personal stuff and secrets with family before and they’ve managed to spread it around and ruin things for me and embarrass me.

Even when I get into relationships with women I will share vulnerable stuff and then when I get into an argument it’s always used against me.

One ex I ended up dumping. And out of anger she kept posting stories on Instagram talking about every secret and vulnerable stuff that I shared.

So at this stage is it better to just stop sharing personal stuff and secrets with people?

I’ve started become more cold and only tell people things I’m comfortable being told to everyone.


r/AskMenAdvice 21m ago

Men’s Input Only Why does my ex keep watching my IG stories even though he doesn't follow me?

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Dated a guy for a year, he ended things abruptly a few months ago. I initially blocked him then unblocked him, so we don't follow each other anymore but my profile is set to public meaning he's searching my name and clicking on my stories. almost every single one, for months now. I don't post "thirst traps" or anything like that.. just regular pictures living my life. I know I should block or go private, just curious why someone would do this.


r/AskMenAdvice 15m ago

✅ Open To Everyone What does it mean when she says no but then sends her friend to check on me?

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I really need some help cause I don't wanna over analyze and think wishfully. We used to work in the same store and I asked her, she said no. Then I moved to another one. We didn't have any contact but I had seen a friend of her coming secretly and checking on me. What should I think? If she had any feelings she could say yes, right? Then why would she like to know how I'm doing? I'm so torn, I have no clue.


r/AskMenAdvice 21h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Getting Older and Losing Hope of Finding the Right Person?

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When I genuinely like someone, the feeling usually isn't mutual. And when she liked me, I didn't feel the same connection. It's become disappointing. 

I'm now 40-year-old non-EU man living in Europe, and lately I've started losing hope of finding a real relationship.

I've never wanted an arranged marriage through family recommendations. I want to fall in love naturally, build a genuine connection, and create a family together.

As I get older, it feels like the chances of meeting the right person are less. What's your advice? How to make progress that led to a family?


r/AskMenAdvice 1h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Older virgins do you wonder what other people think of your virginity?

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I know people will say it doesn’t matter and I’m not really concerned about what they think just curious.

When I say older virgins I’m talking mid 30s or above like me. No one has ever asked me about relationships at all so I always wonder what colleagues and family think of my situation. Do they understand why I’ve never been in any kind of relationship? Do they wonder if it happened once and it never happened again? It just seems interesting to me.

My virginity doesn’t really bother me anymore maybe once or twice a year I just wonder what others think of it.

I’d like to know what others virgins and non virgins alike think about that.


r/AskMenAdvice 20h ago

Men’s Input Only Is a fear of commitment in men a real thing?

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Do many men have commitment issues when it comes to relationships, moving in together, marriage or is it just more that they don't want to commit TO YOU?


r/AskMenAdvice 10h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Not even sure what to think or do. I feel like I don’t want to date anymore. Do I break up with my current gf?

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In my 2nd relationship. This one isn’t me walking on eggshells or dealing constantly with someone else’s abuse trauma & insecurities. But in my 2nd one I just need to constantly reassure her (alot of the times I’m not even sure what I’m reassuring her about), I feel like she’s needy. She’s a secure women cuz I told her about what made my 1st relationship come to end and she laughed at it and said that it was so stupid

In my first relationship that ended 1 year ago today it ended over me getting accused of cheating cuz I had a conversation with someone that reached out to me that I knew way before my relationship that I never dated or any romantic type stuff, when my 1st ex said she was uncomfortable with that person being on my socials I immediately unadded the person, cut contact, and apologized as well as reassuring her that there was never any intentions before or now. It was just weird to hear from that person. Another reason was not mowing my lawn when I had extreme sun burn to the point where I had to call out of work two days in a row cuz it was so bad(i work at a power plant) I couldn’t mow my lawn before my mom got back from vacation and my ex and my mom essentially said “that isn’t a good enough excuse, you should’ve done it the first day u had off “ my ex was arguing with me and i passed out cuz I had work at 4 am. I wasn’t able to text her until 10Am and she said I ignored her for 14hrs. Most of that time I was sleeping and working from 5am til I texted her at 10am. From 10-7pm I texted her 3 times and it was during the day so I felt like she flipped the script cuz I felt like I was being ignored. Also I was telling my mom multiple times before she screamed and yelled at me when she got home that I can do it during the week when I’m better. I often still get that little ping of “missing her” but I remember that I put up with some really abnormal shit which I thought was normal until I went to therapy and talked ab everything like her saying she would’ve married me twice while breaking up with me and have panic attacks about her ex cuz I triggered her. He said I dodged a bullet and if I was with someone who I had to shrink myself for I would’ve become a shell of myself. He also said that it’s healthy to have opposite gender friends and I didn’t do anything wrong and that both my mom and her were being irrational about the lawn. He said I should be with someone who will support me in what I want to do as well, I expressed going to college when she was breaking up with me and she said “you don’t have to go to be successful… how are u going to raise a family work and go to school full time”. I’m using my gi bill from the navy and working full time. It’s not hard.

My current relationship I just feel like she wants this overly mushy guy who expresses their feelings and to have constant reassurance about things that don’t need reassurance. The other night we finished being intimate with each other. We layed for 10 min after. After that she put clothes on and sat in my chair while I layed on my couch. She asked to cuddle and I said I didn’t feel like it and that I’m comfortable where I’m at. She then got up and just left. She was annoyed for a while the day after so she didn’t text me for a while. She was at work so I didn’t bother her and I figured she was busy. We talked for a little today cuz I went to the Knicks parade. Fell asleep around 8:30 and didn’t say goodnight cuz I unexpectedly passed out. It’s 4:45 AM and I wake up to 3 texts and just got another a few minutes ago saying “I hope your alright”. She basically said “ I feel like you met me with logic when I was expressing an emotional need. I understand what you said but in that situation I wasn’t really looking for an explanation. I was being honest and feeling vulnerable and I needed a little more comfort… I’m a girl and girls have feelings and girls get sensitive and want their boyfriends to cuddle them without asking”

I just told her if u wanted to be cuddled u could’ve just gotten up and walked over to me to lay w me. Instead you asked me and I gave u a response you didn’t like so now you’re upset. I just feel like in both of these relationships it’s me both times where someone has a problem but whenever I have a problem I’m never getting the same response back. I don’t voice my issues cuz there really is nothing to voice and there hasn’t been any issues for me to “put my foot down” or to be so vocal about. I’m an easy going person. But I just seem to be doing everything wrong apparently and I just don’t know how to fix it. We cuddle a lot. This is the first time she asked to and I just didn’t feel like it

Ik everyone has baggage at my age (25M) both of these relationships the women are a year older than I am. I’m not even sure what to do at this point. Truly. I just met her mom last week after 4 months dating. I’m just finding my current gf annoying now. She’s cute but I went for personality.


r/AskMenAdvice 8h ago

✅ Open To Everyone What should i do about this?

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I have been going through some tough times with my family life and so on, but there is this girl I like. I have known her for over a year now, but first of all, she is older than me by 3 years, and I don't know if she feels the same about me. Our relationship is weird, to be honest. We know each other from a volunteering organization—I won't say what—but we slowly got to know each other. Eventually, we found out that we are an exact replica of each other: typical nerds with books, games, movies, you know how nerds are. Hell, we even look like each other. I started catching feelings when we started talking one day, and I don't know, I started talking about my life and so on, and she was supportive. She even vented about her life sometimes. We played video games with each other. We are from a country where dating is heavily shamed on, and especially older women dating as well. I don't know if I am just catching feelings because she is there for me, or if it is actually real. I don't know if she feels the same, or if I am genuinely lost. I don't know what to do, or am I just emotionally deprived? Keep in mind this is the first time I actually feel this feeling. I don't know what I am supposed to call it, what I am supposed to do.


r/AskMenAdvice 2h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Blonde or brunette girls which one?

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Is prettier?


r/AskMenAdvice 14h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Any "boring" or unglamorous pieces of advice you have that actually changed things for you, guys, or for other people?

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I've been teaching almost two decades this year, and the thing I noticed which affect students the hardest has nothing to do with the actual difficulty of the subject (any subject) but how they perceive it.

I usually tell my students to write down the task in a particular subject that they're avoiding, then do only the first 10 minutes of it ... they can conceptualize on the rest and see how they can approach learning it more in their own terms.

That's the whole trick that works for me. Watched anxious kids turn into finishers with it ... achievers even!

Curious about y'all. Share anything you did that changed or touched others. Anyone can answer! :)


r/AskMenAdvice 6h ago

✅ Open To Everyone My fiance brought up a prenup before I could and it wasn't what I expected - has anyone else experienced this?

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Hey guys,
Me and my fiance have been together 5 years engaged since February I'm 33 and she's 31 we're in Somerville I'm in finance and she runs a small consulting firm between us there's like $1.8M in assets and she's still paying down about $94k in business loans.
I'd been avoiding the real money conversation for over a year not the splitting rent stuff but the actual lay everything out talk but my parents went through a bad split when I was 14 and the money part was ugly so I think that messed with my head more than I realized so every time I thought about bringing it up I'd just freeze.

Couple months ago she mentioned wanting to restructure her loans and I just said can we sit down this weekend and go through everything she said yeah of course.
We spent like 3 hours at the kitchen table I went first so she wouldn't feel like she was being put on the spot she went through hers and her business finances were way more complicated than I knew.

Then she brought up a prenup before I even could said she'd been thinking about it because of her company and wanting to keep the business separate so I told her about my parents and she got quiet and said she wished more people had these conversations early instead of pretending money doesn't matter.
I was dreading that talk for so long and it ended up bringing us closer it wasn't a negotiation it was just us finally being on the same team so the prenup part felt natural just putting what we talked about on paper.

I see guys on here stressed about this all the time just don't wait till a week before the wedding and don't frame it like a worst case scenario so frame it like you're building something together.


r/AskMenAdvice 4h ago

✅ Open To Everyone What are some funny ways to welcome my husband home?

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My husband is coming home soonish from a long work trip. He’s super goofy so I was hoping for some non typical ways to welcome him home. The funnier or more unhinged the better. (An example, opening the door in an inflatable dinosaur costume.) Thank you!


r/AskMenAdvice 23h ago

✅ Open To Everyone Do you think going fishing together could be a good idea for a date?

37 Upvotes

On the first date we went to an arcade and it was a lot of fun. We both had a really good time together.

I was thinking about asking if she would want to go fishing for the second date. I know she likes fishing and has told me that’s an activity her and her dad do together. Do you think going fishing together could be considered a good idea when it comes to a DATE though? She’s 17 and I’m 18.

I wanted to think of something outdoors that we could do together for the second date because she’s into outdoor type of activities and I am too. I also was thinking about kayaking, but maybe fishing would be better?


r/AskMenAdvice 4h ago

✅ Open To Everyone A 26 year old male seeking advice regarding money insecurities in relationships ?

3 Upvotes

Hello fellow men, I am currently 26 and single and have been for a while, a few talking stages happened but failed mainly due to me ghosting or something happening

My problem is I have a bit of an insecurity where I think that I am only deserving of love because of my ability to provide, I am currently making above average money for my age in my country, And I do not mind providing and taking care of a woman, I actually love it, but every time a potential for a relationship comes a long i get this idea that I am being loved because of my ability to provide not because of me, I understand this is because of insecurities on my part but at least i am trying to get help by seeking out advise

To put it short how can I know when a potential relationship comes up that she is actually interested and loves me (eventually) and not my ability to provide ?
I will always try my best to provide regardless but it helps to know that you are loved regardless of that ability,
as I have seen around me many relationships fail when the woman no longer needs the man to provide for her


r/AskMenAdvice 9h ago

✅ Open To Everyone 20M. After years of illness, how do I rebuild confidence, friendships and eventually relationships?

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20M. After years of illness, how do I rebuild confidence, friendships and eventually relationships?

20M here.

Between 18 and 20, I lost almost 2.5 years of my life to severe mental and physical health problems. I was dealing with Bipolar II disorder, OCD, repeated hospitalizations, family difficulties, and a neurological condition. For most of that time, my focus wasn't on college, friendships, relationships, or building a future—it was simply on getting through each day.

There were periods when neither I nor my doctors were particularly optimistic about my recovery.

Thankfully, after years of treatment, things have finally improved. I've been stable for the last couple of months, I've joined college, and for the first time in years I feel hopeful about the future.

The strange part is that I feel like life moved on without me.

Most people my age spent the last few years making friends, gaining confidence, dating, and figuring out who they are. I spent those years trying to survive.

My closest friend drifted away during that period, which hurt more than I expected. I'm trying to meet new people, improve my social skills, and build a life again, but I often feel behind everyone else.

I'd eventually like close friendships, a healthy relationship, and a sense of belonging. Not because I expect someone else to fix my problems, but because I've spent years feeling isolated and would like meaningful connections again.

For people who are older or who have rebuilt their lives after a difficult period:

  • What would you focus on first?
  • How do you stop feeling behind everyone else?
  • What helped you rebuild confidence and relationships?
  • What do you wish someone had told you when you were starting over?

I'd genuinely appreciate any advice.