>Gear are you saying you prefer to be alone over being with someone?
I don't see the point of getting into a relationship, that is supposed to be in theory, two people carrying each other, if shit hasn't really changed. I still have to fix all of my own problems, I still masturbate, I still play video games and watch anime alone, I still hang out with one specific dude on my weekends. There's literally no presence here outside of text messages and me having to put someone on speaker phone. I really think I would have preferred to be solo if this was the inevitable future of what a relationship looks like, because it feels more like a tax or a roadblock more than it does actually benefitting me.
Crippling loneliness at least gave me incentive to try and impress the other sex. If this is how relationships work in a depression state of economy, I think I would have preferred to be solo. If this is how relationships work due to how socially atomized humans are, I am fully convinced I missed my actual gate by 10 years, and would have preferred to have been single.