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PostPosted: 05 Feb 2012, 16:57 
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yes, i always try to stick up for people who are shy or quiet/introvert when other people talk bad about them

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I'd do more than just give advice. If I were wealthy enough, and he wanted it, I would pay for the services of a decent escort.

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Yes. I would almost see it as a karmic obligation to help my LS friend. I would probably try to integrate him into my wife's/girlfriend's single social circle to whatever extent I could.

If it was someone I didn't know well on the other hand I don't know how much I should interfere.

Being LS myself, I can usually spot a fellow love-shy guy like a great white shark spots a wounded seal and I think there is another (much younger) love-shy guy in my medical school class. If my intuition is correct based on what I've observed, I think he may have a oneitis in the class. If I knew him better, I've often questioned if I would/should play the big-brother role and intervene on his behalf.

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Erebus wrote:
Hypothetical situation.

You are fully recovered love-shy/incel - married or in long-term relationship with nice girlfriend. Your social life becomes more active. However one of your closest friends is clearly suffering from love-shyness/incel (no girlfriend, no romantic prospects on the horizon). Would you try to help him? If so, what would you do to reduce his pain? What can be done?


Of course I would, if it were possible. The problem is that some men at certain young ages are far too love-shy to deal with any girl, particularly nice-looking ones.

I could have probably had a girlfriend at 19. She was a close friend of the girl my friend was dating, but I was as love-shy as a man can get and literally could not handle the idea of having a girlfriend way back then. It would have been a great since she was Mormon and a very nice girl, probably still a virgin like I was, but it wasn't in the cards for me at the time.

A few years later would have made all difference in the world, since I had toughened up quite a bit from life experiences, but it was too late by then. I still think about her from time to time. Missed opportunities in life are a common theme with we love-shys.

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