Is it normal to feel like life is meaningless without someone to love?

I've always been kind of a loner, you know, one of those socially awkward kids with few friends. However, within the last year I've completely changed, and now I'm a really cool, funny, confident guy. And I've been told by many girls I'm good looking. I've only had one girlfriend, and she broke up with me 6 months ago. Now that I see what a true relationship is, it's all I can think about... I am very picky with high standards, and I'm not desperate, but every day I don't have someone to like or love feels like a day wasted. All I want is to love and be loved... I had little love from my family growing up, and I really need a deep connection with a lover. Anyone else feel life is meaningless without someone to love? I just feel like I'm going through the motions of life and not living. IIN?

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  • BoredGuy

    gfs*

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  • NoLoved1215

    Dude my life is like that right now. I feel like im just going through motion of life. I always talk to this girl but she live like 40 mile away and i got no license or a car to hang out with her. i only get to see her at work even tho she and I always text all the time but it feels like its not enough. She is more like a popular girl in school and im more like a normal kid, very shy, rarely talk and socially awkward. I told her that me and will never work out cause and now i feel like shit and i feel like Im just going through motions of life. Should i take back my words?

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  • MeLikesLittleBoys169

    you can love me :)

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  • Crisp

    Keep smiling Good Looker..someone will be watching you and fall in love with that smile..just when you least expect it..in the meantime, make yourself a wise and wonderful person and discover the real you.
    Remember, if you can't be happy in your own company, others might not be happy in your company.
    Find new interests and go to new places, because when you are married it is not so easy to do just what you want, so go and do it now and be an interesting person for that special person who will come along.

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  • ManInBra

    I have that same fear myself, but I am also a male mid 40's and a crossdressing male that usually keeps it home in private. It seems that when I try and be honest with a female and tell her about my deep personal side, they seem to pack and turn and run as fast as they can. I have been single the last 10 years and I hate it. To see me on the street you would never know that I am a crossdresser unless I told you. But yea, the fear of being single and alone the rest of my life, scares the hell outta me.

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  • babyburd

    umm............I think we're the same person.
    Yeah, I'm kinda scared that I'll never be able to find the one person for me........because its been all my life ..and what? I've never been asked out. Well, I've been told it's b/c I just don't want to but, Its frustrating and depressing. I understand you, your'e not alone. :) I'm just being patient.....still, I need to get out more haha

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  • Nikitosina

    Yes. Keep looking for love.

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  • BoredGuy

    well... love is not real. i break up with my gas if I start to fall for them, needless delusions, may else well do drugs ;)

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  • Mormodes

    Yep, I am pretty much the same way.

    Although more and more I am realizing I don't need another person to be happy. I see relationships everywhere. On tv, in movies, in books, walking to classes, during the holidays.

    It is pretty normal for a person to want something that bad when its constantly being marketed towards them.

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  • ashleyritawalton

    Ya your normal. Dont let it get yu down cos love will come along &+ jus cos you aint poundin it every other nite dont mean love is around yu if someone is payign for a roof over your head then trust me boy theres love, and look at the things yu got instead of the shyt u dont have and dont let it ruin your life cos thats the biggest mistake yu can make, i kno ppl who really let this shit get them down and they lose jobs, friends etc just keep yu chin up and things will get better, k :) ?

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  • 8Serene8

    Being single is alright but I've realized that I'm 100% happier being with someone I love.

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  • Murasaki

    Yes it is completely normal to do this, but it's also 100% wrong. Life may seem that way sometimes, and believe me I've been there, but you will never ever be able to love another person unless you can love yourself. And at the moment, it doesn't sound like you can do that.

    Be alone, enjoy your own company, experience life. When you're not looking love finds you. I thought this was untrue, but from experience, it is completely factual. No girl wants a guy who will smother them, nor do they want you to have high standards and be picky.

    Like a wise man says, to obtain something you must do the opposite. To get the love of your life you must love being without it.

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  • Dude?

    Go out. Have some fun with your friends. The right one will come along. Just when you least expect it.

    ...You say you aren't desperate but. If you do want to find someone so badly. Try dating sites.

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