How do I stop becoming so emotionally attached when I have a good time with people?
I don't know how much that ties into confidence specifically, I'm new to this sub and just need to talk to someone since I'm really overwhelmed. I'm tired of talking to chatgpt pretending it cares, I need human advice. 19M, I had been been quiet and shy my whole childhood but for the past year or so I've learned to leave my comfort zone and become more social. I don't have many friends to hang out with consistently and also don't have any dating history or frequent contact with women. I have a little rule which is to always say yes when someone invites me to go somewhere, even if that someone is already with other people I don't know. This isn't to please people, it's to help expose myself out of my comfort zone and become more social. I think I do a decent job and fitting in and conveying confidence despite my introverted nature, and I really enjoy it too. So one problem I've been encountering is emotional attachement towards people and groups when I have a good time with them, especially when there are girls. I start replaying every moment afterwards and what I should've said or done, and that ties back to me not being bold like other guys who immediately click with girls in such settings
Does anyone else deal with that, or has already dealt with it and "beaten" it? It's really exhausting, I start overthinking about whether or not I did everything I could do and basically ruin the satisfaction. Is the answer really just exposing myself to such social situation as much as possible so as to get used to it? And how do you build up the confidence to integrate a friend group as an outsider and avoid getting marginalized as a "who invited this guy" person?