u/Particular-Drive1454

I miss the teen years. They weren't the best, and I was depressed and severely neglected by my mom. Yet, I was surrounded by my peers who happened to be curious, open-minded and friendly. We had a lot of shared interests. We were revolving around some unimportant shit, having dramas, we lived in our small pre-adult world. Most of all, we were important to each other. People were reaching to you even if you had some problems.

Now I can't even check on most my friends because of the political climate, and I can't meet new people irl because my country is basically devastated.

All my new friends aren't as invested in being friends as I am, most of them have forgotten about my damn birthday despite actively chatting with me. Only people who knew me since ~2020 congratulated me. Well, and coworkers. They keep forgetting basic stuff about me while I'm trying to be a quality friend for them and keep myself reminded about who they are.

It truly feels like the best years are behind.

Kind of sad.

In human years :D

Not a political debate

нема кому розказувати про свого каджита який прикидається нордом :(

I'm in EXTREMELY DIRE search of people who played/are playing Skyrim to discuss it. This game is too much to just do it silently. I have questions and thoughts

still a better love story than anything in epilogues and ^2

One of them was seeing a 16-17 year old girl when he was 21+, other was straight up molesting a pre-teen when he was 25+.

How about yours?

Привіт, реддіт, нещодавно випустилась, але не хочу зупинятися в процесі навчання. Хочу почитати щось академічне, але бібліотеки футболять і не видають додому книги, бо я не студентка. Хто з вас міг би поділитися пдф файлами підручників по вашій спеціалізації? Будь-який факультет. Дякую 👉👈

would he post...?

I DON'T mean huge age gaps, but it's a fact that majority of pairs have a man that is 2-5 years older than a woman.

Which side exactly causes this? Are women filtering out younger partners, or are men filtering out older partners?

I mean long term relationships specifically, and I mean 2-5 years age gaps specifically.

Why do we have such a fuckass anatomy and physiology. Why is the childbirth option time limited. Why our children take so much time to raise compared to other animals. The moment I learned about the weakness of flesh it disgusted me.

Genuinely I feel like I will stay child free, but I'm afraid I will regret it when I'm no longer capable of having kids.

I really want to wake up and be a man instead. I'm not afraid of getting older itself but the ageism women receive is insane, not to mention the biological tax being (peri)menopause. Once you are out of your early 20s, you are an old hag/aging woman and your worth is supposedly going down. How am I expected to be okay with it? I still want to live a colourful life with romance, love, adventures. I myself remember looking down on older women when I was 16 while glazing older men for some reason. Grandmas are invisible while grandpas "still have it" in them. Being born as a human female is a cruel punishment

How the fuck do I stop thinking about myself as an undesirable woman because I've grown out of the early 20s 🥺

Yeah, this may be stupid but society is obsessed with female youth, and it feels weird not to be a part of it anymore and be never coming back to this position

I'm discouraged. 24 and forced to have roommates because renting a simplest decent flat would cost me 70% of my income.

Women are not having a lot of children (3 and more) if not forced to. Pregnancy is really hard, children are for life once they are born, and being dependent on your husband who can easily cheat and abuse you sucks. It's logical that almost no one will submit herself to the fate of being a helpless, limited tradwife birthing children 24/7 starting at 18 in a modern world full of possibilities.

And... Don't you think that world leaders will find it bad over time???

Don't you have an impression that soon enough there will be a wave of misogyny, because world leaders are going to try to raise the birth rates? I'm afraid of them limiting women rights, banning abortions, normalizing teen pregnancies and establishing pedophilic standards again.

All women, no matter the age and marriage status, seem to get a lot of reaction. Given some of them are married and have kids, I assume it isn't related to the goal of having them as partners (?). Also, I definitely saw women in their 50s and above getting a lot of traction too, despite society telling that "women expire with age" and being very negative towards female aging.

At the same time, men of any age and personal life status barely get any upvotes here. Not sure about the DMs.

Why is it so?

Як ви боретесь з тривожністю через вік? Мені 24 роки, я жінка, вже в тому періоді, коли однолітки стають серйозними, а мені ментально 8 років. Освіта моя по спеціальності, яка в нашій країні не дає перспектив, за кордон поки не дуже хочу, планую перевчатися на щось перспективне й добре оплачуване, а що — хз. Некомфортно спілкуватись з людьми, бо всі очікують від тебе успішного успіху, а ти блять обдолбан. Смаки з 18 років у мене теж взагалі не змінилися, люблю те саме, що й тоді, просто стала трохи старшою. Стосунки будувати складно. Відчуваю ось це тікання годинника до неминучої смерті, проти якого я нічого не можу зробити

When you feel deeply apathetic, like nothing interests you and nothing is pleasant, and like every day means rotting alive, what do you do to engage with people again? I just sit in my own company, and I feel like nothing connects me with those around me. I really want to have friends/romantic partner but this bullshit is truly unachievable when I'm like this.

Before you send me to psychiatrist, I already met one and she told me to go fuck myself.