'i feel like everything i know is a lie but at the same time i feel like i felt it coming. i hate i allowed this to happen. i hate i let it get the better of me. he also still has my boxes of things|||I found out after promising we'd be together later and just work on focusing on ourselves he found somebody else and had secretly been in a relationship with her long distance. After 2 years. I get...|||As much as I like this person and consider them seriously, and the deep mutual attraction, I'm starting to believe for my own sake I should just back away...it's more fear-based than intuition based....|||Him: I've never been in a rebound relationship nor do I intend to. I don't want to be a rebound or make somebody else a rebound. That's why I didn't date for 7 years before my recent ex. Me: But...|||Holy shit can I be you when I grow up? I want this more than anything. I want to be this and repel anything less.|||I've been reading a lot on the concept of rebound relationships, with some arguing it's black and white and these are the signs and other's saying it's all circumstantial and stories where it...|||Part II: Is it possible for you to have something casual (and most likely temporary) with somebody you feel you could fall very in love with?   Part III: Have you & can you be okay with being the...|||New York vs. Los Angeles.  How cliche.|||Awkward, but he was my student art teacher/substitute art teacher back when I was in high school. We didn't hardly talk, but I always thought he was cute. Nothing beyond that, not even a real crush....|||Oh God, how do I be...sexy?? -_-  He's mentioned a few times, usually after I go on a tangent about some science-y nerd sh*t that he finds it attractive or a turn on. And made a fair share of jokes...|||Whoa, somebody put my entire recent relationship into words. I thought it was because he was repressing things. In truth that's just not who he is. I feel a bit better, but worse? Meh.|||I've never been this reassured I'm INFJ hahaha.|||100% of the time. it's fucking exhausting. I don't understand how to simple exist and be. In fact I'm constantly told to stop thinking 10 steps into the future. Meditation is kind of helping...|||I happen to find that this entire thread is nothing but lamenting the male archetype and how the male INFJ doesn't fit into it. That women don't accept it.     Where is that notion coming from?...|||Help I think I fell in love with one of you!! D: You keep saying sexy things to me and I -ssjdnjsnsk- *explode* When I speak the words are backwards, you ask about me but end up on a tangent full...|||The best advice and non-confusing metaphor of all time. I'm very visual when it comes to writing so this was divine. Thank you <3|||But why are young men being socially isolated today? Why can they not turn to others for emotional support?  It's the societal conditioning that men aren't being taught to process their emotions...|||I feel like a lot of your posts such as the one Grassland quoted are the search for confirmation. You observed these things you say are facts and present them to us in a matter-of-fact a+b = c...|||You are an amazing person. Your words are so enlightened. More young men need to hear everything in your post. OP please look back and reread this stuff.|||My dear you are definitely, definitely hurt. Your pain is valid, but the malice...I think you're viewing things in a narrow light. I'm not sure where in the world you are, but I know MANY a woman...|||The infamous Ni Ti Loop. I couldn't really understand it while reading about it previously but I think that's exactly what's happening. I'm trying to figure out my life and am revisiting the past and...|||Willingly isolating myself for these reasons now. Sometimes I find I'm my own best therapist.  I had to let somebody go and they didn't understand that in order to grow I needed to have a lot of...|||Whoa I think this is what it was for me. There's been so much craziness going on in my life, it's mentally draining.   I was worried I stopped caring about people :(|||When I was 18, before the SJW media takeover, I was an earnest liberal democrat. Now I want nothing to do with politics. Not out of cynicism really. But I just grew tired of it. I'm all for...|||So, have you read Mein Kampf?|||One that wasn't depression-related (provoked by depression, or something along those lines is fine perhaps)? When did it happen to you and looking back, why?  I'm 22, but for some reason the past...|||all i do is watch anime and look for dresses online. like, pathetic. i mean cool. but i rather runaway. it's all becoming too comfortable.|||I will say this, I definitely believe in the ebb and flow of life's positives and negatives. That we go through periods of up and periods of down. That it cycles naturally. However my therapist did...|||My experience with antidepressants was that I felt like I could breathe. I will admit, some things I let slip by I normally wouldn't have but I don't know if that had anything to do with it (Ni and...|||It really, really means a lot. Please don't mistake any silence on my part as dismissive either. Yesterday was very bad and I almost voluntarily checked myself in to the hospital, but my SO talked me...|||I'm just gonna explain some pre-emptive stuff that you might be able to reflect on since upbringing has a lot to do with it:   I'm not really sure what caused it, maybe it was in the change of...|||It really makes it difficult to form new friendships. You need to initiate, keep up, and I don't have the emotional energy. It feels superficial when I try to since I barely ever see the point. I'm...|||I haven't dealt with the loss of my parents yet...and I honestly don't know how I'm going to survive that. But to know you're still making it through gives me hope.  It's just quite difficult...|||Hey guys, so I was diagnosed with dysthymia 2 years ago, and apparently have dealt with it since around age 13. The past 5 years of my life have in particular been quite difficult, I had about a 1-2...|||Did you apologize to her or try to make it right?|||that really hurt to read|||I knew it'd happen, but me too.|||Nah, i'll cut him loose. If he can't work through it with me and doesn't want to try to I need to stop giving him excuses and realize I'm worth more than that.  I feel for and empathize with his...|||Can you explain how so? To me it feels like it's the last thing he wants to do. He told me in that conversation you're the only decent person i know who isn't going to use my feelings against me and...|||i feel stupid for asking for any more advice/insight, but i've found out the things i thought were entp/infj personality misunderstandings in my relationship were in fact deep emotional and...|||He seems to identify way too well as an ENTP, but perhaps just an unhealthy one. He actually was the one who introduced me to MBTI, mistyped me for a Sensor (HAH), and was amazed that i was an INFJ....|||Coming here definitely wasn't my first choice but rather my last resort, I've been reading so much about interpersonal relationships it's disgusting. Thanks though.|||To everyone who gave me advice, I figured I was correct despite I wanted to be wrong so badly for a while. I tried bringing things up before, checking in. He broke up with me this morning. Or rather,...|||Strange?! :o How so? Please elaborate. Maybe you mean unique ;)  i'm 20, he's 26. So we've both kind of left the teenage realm (god bless).|||well ya'll have obviously been driving us crazy!! >.<|||thank you so much for the laughs and optimism! you made everything seem so much smaller and i'm grateful :')|||Your words definitely comforted me.  The man is a knock-out, one in a million. But we're all one in a million (except the occasional doppelganger/evil twin). But really, he's sweet. I want to wrap...|||Sounds pretty accurate. *pandora's box of fears unleashes*|||Oh gosh, thank you!! *blushes* I've never been really good in that department. I rarely crushed on anybody in school, and the ones i did i hid from. Anyone who actually did have the courage to say...|||My people!  I am currently in a relationship with someone who happens to be an ENTP. I have been for 4 months. I use the quotations because while that label has been put on it, I don't exactly...'