My brother makes fun of me for not having a girlfriend. Really pisses me off for several reasons.
1) He's more than a bit of a loser. We're talking about a no-life kid that played so much WoW, I'm surprised he didn't get a catheter so he'd never have to take bathroom breaks. He's fat, sarcastic, asocial, short-tempered, and completely unmotivated....yet he has a girlfriend.
2) He was 27 before having his first girlfriend, which makes him a goddamned hypocrite for making fun of others.
3) Despite the above, his girlfriend is still with him after more than a year.
4) I have never mocked him for not having a girlfriend or for being in a relationship. Loser though he might be, I wish him happiness and have told him so. She's a sweet girl and will be nothing but good for him.
5) He's 100% right. I have never known companionship, connection, pleasant conversation, or any of the things that are supposed to make dating worthwhile. It was all rejection and ridicule, all the time. This bothers me very much. It is by far the single biggest desire of my life to know for just one moment that someone wanted to be with me. For a long time now, I have assumed rejection to be a foregone conclusion and simply left myself out of socializing. Call it cowardice or quitting if you like; I refer to it as advancing away from pain, shame, and humiliation. I do other things: photography, painting, reading, etc. Doesn't make me happy, but I don't see what can be done about it. A one-legged man can climb all the mountains he wants, and know pride and satisfaction for doing so, but at the end of the day, he still wishes for the leg he will never have. Some things just don't get better. Short version: he's making fun of me for something I am powerless to change.