Are you still attracted to people?

After illness? I have not been attracted to anyone in real life for such a long time, I do meet lots of guys I guess. I mean I am not even ‘secretly’ attracted.

I am in a relationship of course but it seems I am no longer interested in love and sex.

There is this guy I talk to sometimes, I was obsessed with him 2 years ago, now I have no feelings I guess. When I liked this guy, I had not seen his picture.

How does your attraction happen? Based on looks or familiarity?

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Mine happens with familiarity, but the APs have really killed my love life.

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That’s a good question. I think the internet has messed things up in a way. Humans were meant to see people in real life and then become attracted to each other over time.

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Occasionally. There was the woman working at the pharmacy. It was a physical attraction for sure.
I mean I see good looking women all the time and I would like to sleep with them. It’s just natural. When I see good looking women or women with good physical assets, I always vaguely think about sex. Unfortunately, it’s usually one-sided, lol. But with the woman at the pharmacy it was better because I felt attracted to her physically AND personally; not just as an anonymous woman but a someone who I would like to get to know. Unfortunately, I moved away and I never go there anymore. But yeah, occasionally I get the feelings for women.

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i havent noticed the illnesses i have nor the medication im on as having any impact on my sex drive or attraction to people

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I like people without seeing their picture. I am not sure I want to date someone my age though because they seem to just want whatever I have.

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What do you mean by that? To want whatever you have?

I mean they want whatever I have. If I have drugs, money, ect. they want that. If I have emotional support for them, they want that. And ONLY they can have it because they are jealous and try to treat me like a toy or object.

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But it is also a great opportunity to meet lots of different people. But yeah like the swiping in the dating app is weird :woman_shrugging:t2: It is really weird to judge someone out of a picture like that. I mean when I met my boyfriend I had no clue we’ll end up together.

I think you are hanging around very weird people. Have you met someone you like and she likes you back? Like your personality ?

Nope. Never. If I like someone it’s either they don’t like me back or if someone likes me I don’t like them back.

I actually don’t hang around people because of things like I mentioned before. The last time it happened it left a very deep pain…

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I’m just as attracted to everyone as I always was.

Its a problem in my life.

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Still have some attraction to women. Don’t pursue relationships because I have nothing to offer, and have a feeling it wouldn’t go well if I tried. I’m drifting really as far as relationships go, if something happens then okay, but I’m not going to be proactive.

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I never was attracted to people. But I feel like my ability to get close to people and form any kind of relationships has been hampered. But idk if that’s from the sza or the ptsd?

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The year and a half before I was medicated I had no interest in the opposite sex, it was pretty much buried by my negative symptoms. After three years of high ap dosage I was starting to feel better, and as the dosage came down at that point my libido kicked back in with a vengeance for a couple of months.

TMI, I didn’t manage to capitalise on it. :laughing:

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I can find a man good looking with out the connection or attraction that connect.

I have only had eye contact connection attraction a couple or few times in my life.

Maybe it is because I do not usually feel connection when I look in peoples eyes.

Last time A man and my eyes connected in deep attraction I felt we had same sense of humour and our eyes met and I looked away eventually.
Because I was in a relationship with a stunning sexy kind great man but his eyes n my eyes never connected that way.

Maybe my eyes are stairy or something.

I just do not usually connect with people but have connected a couple or few times in my life with eyes connecting.

I never had a boyfriend who connected with my eyes.

Those men and I never even spoke I think just looked into each other’s eyes.

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I’m with @GoldenRex on this one. I’m attracted to people a lot.

And not just based on looks, I get attracted to personality as well.

And it is a problem. But it also improves my mood. So I just let it be.

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I’m attracted to looks but I only really like like after familiarity. I don’t persue relationships as I’m married and I’m just attracted to my wife, no one else catches my attention but I do look at girls from time to time but I’m a guy, that’s normal. With my wife I liked her by the looks and started to make awkward moves that caught her attention like constantly getting caught staring at her at a thanksgiving work party that someone invited her to. Anyways I was so weird she thought I was gay at first lol. But the next time I saw her again by chance I got her number and started dating on New Years at a get together with my friends. Ever since then we’ve been together mostly happily, had our problems but we hammered it out!

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I am happy for you. Your story is cute. I am young and in a mediocre relationship so I wonder if I am missing out on a lot of fun

Attracted meaning, wanting to date, maybe a little but can usually talk myself out of it. Rare to find someone in my age group that is out looking. If they are I never go anywhere they are hanging out.

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