u/Individual_Half_1826

At 16 I thought I'd be happily settled in a relationship by the age of 40; now I'm pushing 45 and still single, having wasted the best years of my life pining after someone who was emotionally unavailable and treated me like an afterthought, what am I supposed to do?

I've always tried to be a good person. Good job, good morals - do unto others as you would have them do unto you and all that, and it's got me nowhere. I've wasted my life when I could've been having fun.

If I'd know then how my life would turn out, I'd have ended it long ago.

What's the point now I'm old and past my prime?

Please give me some hope.