what is wrong with me???

have not written in this forever, but i am just struggling on a different level now. I've done so well for so long, but I am just seeing an endless stretch of lonlieness ahead. I am only getting older. and I just don't have the energy and enthusiasm I had when this first all started about 2.5 years ago. Then I was going out to bars with single girlfriends and hopeful about the future even as I was going through a lot of internal pain - I honestly felt that I would eventually get back to a place of peace and normalcy. yes, I pictured a partner in that dream. Well, it hasn't happened. I do get interest. I have had TONS of dates. I even dated one man for 7 months, but ultimately (it's almost always me), I end it for one reason or another. I see now that the pattern is me being too picky? Maybe? I just can't envision getting sick and having no one to care. Traveling and never having anyone care when I get home. Never being able to tell someone about my day, dreading weeeknds because there are HOURS AND HOURS to fill and no one to talk to. I actually prefer work now. I am so empty. I am like a chatterbox the few times my son is at home with me, because I finally have someone to talk to. I do have friends, but seriously, this is no exxaggeration - I have on several occasions asked 7 different people to go do something, and NOT ONE is available. Then I get even more depressed because I felt i was being proactive and think no one cares about me even more!!! It's lonely. I don't want to be at bars till all hours with drunks. I want to figure out why I keep rejecting people -Why I expect perfection? I even forced myself to go out with one guy 8 times because he was nice, attractive, into fitness, intelligent, and I couldn't figure out why I wasn't feeling more towards him. I wish someone could fix me and fix this lonliness.....:(

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Lovinsimple
Lovinsimple

Cmonge. I am so sorry to hear. Could it be because you are still in love with and hopeful of reconciling with your husband that\'s holding you back from falling in love again?
movingon2016
movingon2016

You know that saying? When you stop looking is when it will happen. When you stop trying to find someone to fix you and realize you are great as you are. Even if you need to make changes to be better, that\'s all on you. No one out there will fix you. Once you stop looking for the guy who can fix you, you find the one that completes you.

Hugs to you.