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• Wednesday, July 8, 2009 05:52 PM

  good grief

  LW first of all there are support groups for orphans (even adult orphans), so learn to use that Google bar on top of your browser. There are plenty of orphans in the USA, your status is hardly unique.

  Stop making your life a soap opera! You are one of the billions of people who have lost relationships and it hurts for all the billions of us. Making a big frigging drama over being dumped or rejected doesn't make your situation better, it makes it worse. Crying at 11:00 at night isn't a bad thing, it's a strategy to deal with the pain of rejection and lonliness. Some free advice - desperation and neediness aren't attractive, they are great big 'KEEP AWAY' signs that any sane man avoids*. So do your crying at night and during the day when people see you walk like you have a purpose, be the sort of person you'd be attracted to. Nobody likes a whiner, even an orphan whiner. Speaking of which, do you play the orphan card on your first date? That's gotta be wonderful - look at me, pity me, and if you dump me you're hurting an orphan! Heck, hasn't your parent's death shown you the temporary nature of life? My dad's early diagnosis and death from cancer sure taught me to embrace every day cause life is short! Figure out what you're here for, what you're good at, what you like doing and do it, and the men will actually 'catch' you off that swing. Good luck and dump the self pity!

  *along with 'I'm saving myself for the man I marry'

  —marc22309 Read marc22309's other letters
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