How do i cope with missing out on teenage love?I feel as if i will always be socially stunted because i turned into an introverted neet and didn’t do the things you’re supposed to do.
Good question, mein friend
Having experienced teenage love, I can safely say it's not what it's cracked up to be. You date a girl you get to see maybe a few hours a day between classes and after school, your "dates" are pretty limited thanks to parental interference and just not having the financial freedom to do what you want, and you end up breaking up six months to a year after you start dating because teenagers get bored of repetition and stability easily.
You have a lot bigger problems then some non-issue then missing out on "teenage love."
>>33832573You will be more socially stunted by obsessing over the past than you ever will be by not having some abstract concept you only care about because you've integrated memeplexes from a website where people piss in bottles.
Teenage love is utter shit. You missed nothing, be glad.
>>33832573>yet another missed teenage whatever threadIt's overrated, and you are not "damaged" in any way from "missing out" on the goofy "friends" and puppy love. Stop ruminating about the past and start building a life now.
>>33832573>how do i cope with missing out on teenage love?how do you cope with anything you missed? You missed out on bitcoin, you (probably) missed out on seeing Micheal Jackson in concert, you missed out on every lottery you didn't buy a ticket for. If you keep clinging to what you DON'T have you'll never appreciate what you DO have.>i will always be socially stuntedYou can still grow, you're just going to have to work harder than most other people did. At this point you're the only thing holding you back.
>>33832573No teenage love? Don't really care, often overrated. No wife that was your childhood friend? I'm ngmi.
>>33834139>No wife that was your childhood friend? I'm ngmi.This ACTUALLY kills me. Teenage romance is whatever but fostering a love with someone you've known and adored pretty much all your life sounds so fucking precious, and everything I've read about IRL dudes who married their childhood friends suggests they're the happiest men alive.
>>33832573I feel like statistically a LOT of people did, and in that regards you're pretty much average
>>33832573Did you you get laid in your teens?
>>33832573No one gives a shit about teenage love
>>33832573You could just date a younger girl if you want to. Dude I know from uni who was heavy into inceldom (like full on blackpilled at one point) but broke out and started trying to actually get women 3 years ago currently has a FWB arrangement with an 18 and a 19 year old (he turned 30 several months ago). Former is cute and average but the latter is smoking hot to the extent that he'll joke that the incel version of him wouldn't even be able to imagine ever having sex with a girl that attractive. Honestly having seen the amount of effort he went into to dig himself out of that hole he absolutely deserves it.Point being there's nothing really all that special about teenage puppy love. Most guys don't get to experience it either especially nowadays where the average age for losing your virginity keeps climbing so you ain't special OP.
>>33832573Exclusively date teenagers.
>>33836427not him, but what did he do exactly to get to this point?
>>33838724Did the obvious first like hit the gym and lose a ton of weight (he didn't look fat but once he got down to like 15% body fat, it was insane how much more defined his features became. He didn't even have the chiseled male model appearance that lookist fags cry about but still got called very handsome). Picked up a bunch of hobbies like HEMA, piano and learning chemical engineering for fun (he was in IT but hated it so he decided to do the self-taught thing and ended up getting a pretty well-paying entry level job in the field thanks to social connections he made from his hobbies). And finally he decided to actually start talking to people. Was super awkward for the first 6 months or so and would often come home depressed after going out but he kept improving. Hated dating apps but made profiles on Tinder, Hinge and Bumble and got some professional photos done but he still thinks it was a waste of time because he only ever got two lays out of it. He actually got his first girlfriend by cold approaching and he was getting like 5 dates out of the 12 girls he asked out when he first started out. I know it's hard to believe but girls are actually really open to being talked to and asked out in person nowadays. As someone of an older generation, zoomer girls are much friendlier than millennial girls and won't throw nearly as many obstacles in your way for the hell of it.
>>33832699>Having experienced teenage love, I can safely say it's not what it's cracked up to be."Bros I didn't have my eyes plucked out, but having your vision isn't all it's cracked up to be."This is you.
>>33832573I don't know I lost my virginity at 20, I then fell for a 16 year old girl and we dated for 3 years, which made up for what was lost.That said I was actually popular in college just didn't want to get with anyone at the time. The important thing is that you live now rather than live in the regret of not having done it, you can still be sweet with someone it's just a matter of improving yourself, and finding someone who's... Frictionless to be with you just go together with.Finding that love is far more cherishing
>>33840871>not getting to awkwardly slow dance with a girl at prom = getting your eyes plucked outNigga are you for real
>>33832573A vast majority of people don't experience this. But i've asked those that have and they either say its not that important, or just shrug it off as not a big deal.Out of the 50+ relationships that happened in high school, only 2 are still going, and 1/2 is toxic cause the girl cheated.Focus in moving forwardQuit being stuck in the past, cause i can guarentee you it's doing more damage than never getting teenage love
>>33832573OP. consider me.-Dateless through HS and 7/8 of college-Midway through senior year the prettiest girl in a club I'm in asks me out-Explains later she just found the things I said interesting-We date, lose our virginities together graduation week.-Split amiably because life takes us to different cities.--Half-dozen different girlfriends in my 20sWhat happened is that once I had evidence girls noticed me, I began to notice them noticing me and acted on it. I sometimes wonder of there were girls interested in me earlier and I just didn't notice because I didn't believe it possible.
>>33841045This is why I fucking hate you normies, you have no idea how hard it is for men like us who have never experienced any kind loneliness because you always had women you could feel love with. You make fun of teenage love because you had it, you take for granted something I would literally kill to have had.Yes, asshole, not experiencing love during my teenage years is just as painful, if not more painful, then getting my eyes plucked out, because it was a fundamental milestone in my social development that just didn't happen, and now I will never have a normal romantic life because of it. So get the fuck off my board and don't come back, you normie piece of shit.
>>33842091Go pluck out one of your eyes and compare. You could use some perspective.
>>33842091You're in pain because you've built up the concept of teenage love as THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER and turned it into part of your identity. I don't doubt you've neurotically meme'd yourself into extreme existential levels of pain obsessing over your regrets. But you are, in fact, being a faggot about it and teenage love is anything but love and not that great on retrospect. The whole developmental milestone thing is just a lukewarm 105 IQ reddit rationlizaiton cope.
>>33832573I wont read self pity blogposts
>>33832573>How do i cope with missing out on teenage love?You can't
