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Friends and being attractive

Hi, everything I am about to say sounds pretty annoying but I had a breakdown about this the other night and I wanted to just vent to maybe a more fit crowd. So I am admittedly a good looking person. I will not say that I am the second coming of Pam Anderson or anything but in terms of daily life I am maybe above average. I do not say this to glaze myself, in fact, I feel like it has made opportunities to make friends and form meaningful relationships much more difficult. I have lost a handful of girlfriends simply because they grew to resent me — no falling outs or beef or arguments, they just decided to no longer be my friend. They would frequently complain how they didn’t want to go out with me or try to give backhanded compliments (ie: saying I am pretty but there are hundreds of girls prettier, the only reason people like me is because I have a very specific look, that I am sexy but they can’t see me getting married, etc.)

It sounds really stupid and egotistical, but I really just want girlfriends who don’t think we’re in competition. I love other women so much — I find their company to be the most fulfilling, rewarding time I could spend and all of the girls that have formed issues with me I genuinely believe to be so so beautiful and I wish they could recognize that for what it is. It is especially difficult because men already treat me terribly; I am pretty much always extremely sexualized and only seen for my body/face. It is extremely hard to find men who are actually interested in me in both platonic/non platonic ways so essentially, all of my friends are gay men lol.

I grew up fairly unattractive, however I started to grow into my self in my late teens/early 20s so I am somewhat new to this experience and it’s just lonely and sad. Once again, I want to reiterate that I don’t say this to stroke my ego and I absolutely recognize how shallow and vein it all is but I just really miss some of the girls I was friends with and I just really want meaningful relationships — I feel isolated often.

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