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E.Y., keep the KY. You'll need it. Your standards are way too high or you are just a young buck. It has to be one or the other.



I suppose I have been tacitly agreeing with the notion that my standards are too high. But too high for what?

I have to wonder why you can't see the fact that I have already stated that I regret this as a character flaw and not a point of personal pride? I think there must be a little bit more going on there in your mind that you feel like you have to point something out to me that I have already claimed I was aware of. Aren't you being a little bit too defensive or have I touched a much deeper nerve than even you are aware of?

I have regrets that some really great women who I loved as friends wanted to take the relationship to a more romantic level and ruined a good friendship. I have regrets that I tend to chase after women that are out of my league. I have regrets over wondering if I couldn't have learned over time to be more attracted to women who I loved spending time with and talking to, but had no sexual chemistry for. I regret learning first hand about the old adage "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned". I regret knowing how much it hurts to be told by somebody you are attracted to that they only like you as a friend and then saying the same thing to somebody else knowing how much it hurts. I regret knowing how much easier life would have been if I could have... uh, "settled". BUT, having to work 10 times as hard to be in the relationship I want is not the same thing as not being in a relationship at all, AND simply wanting to be attracted to a woman you find ugly isn't going to magically make it happen.

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--Some of us look for The Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.