...a brother who spent way too many years in the same dating/relationship trenches and finally realized that if folk would just be themselves and
quit trying to blame their own inability to find someone on everyone but the person in the mirror that they might be a little better off.

again, this is not to say that the originator of this post is this way necessarily, but at the same time what makes anyone such a commodity that all the "datable" people should flock to them anyway?

(and thanks for the nice comments btw)

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