Someone else HAS to feel the same as me
Anyone else get unnaturally uncomfortable with dating in games????
Like 2 characters dating is fine, Iām a shipper myself but when itās ME? When theyāre attracted to me and the decisions IM MAKING??? HELL NAH šššš
I restarted my Baldurs Gate 3 playthrough because I was scared I was accidentally romancing Shadowheart. Mind you I donāt know if I was or wasnāt but even the mildest prospect of a character representing me being in a relationship feels gross like I donāt like that stop it šš
and I can barely watch that date everything game cuz I just canāt separate myself from the character you play and thatās the only way I can get myself to feel comfortable with romance directed at āmeā is if Iām seeing it through the eyes of another character who isnāt me so really Iām not the one receiving THEY are and Iām just like a creepy invisible third wheel
(on the topic of date everything I would like it to be known that I DONT hate it. I think itās beautiful and the art is wonderful and the execution is great. My gripes have nothing to do with the game itself just my own problems that I am making very well known right now)
maybes because Iām aromantic? At least I assume so but thereās no way to really āconfirmā that until I 1. Get interested in someone or 2. Die. So I think Iāll just assume until that day either comes or doesnāt come. (Really thatās how you confirm most things isnāt it? Either thing happens or it doesnāt and it reaches a point where it can never happen)
back to the original question. Why am I such a bitch baby who hates the idea of having romance directed at me š
I just felt like talking abt something tbh and this was the first thing that came to mind because I was like āoh lol I would be a freak for her, Iād bark like a dogā and then I realized Iām just fucking LYING all the time because no I wouldnāt in the furthest from freak you can get
and it aināt no āohh im so unloved im not use to itā bullshit either, Iām not troubled in the slightest. Family isnāt hurting for money or hurting me my parents are good and so are my friends. Iām perfectly loved as I am and I know that and donāt feel any differently or that Iām ānot deserving of loveā or some shit like that it just genuinely feels gross.
like stepping on a bug with your bare foot gross.
or finding a hair that isnāt yours in you bite of food gross
The being crop dusted on your way down the stairs kind of gross
the kind of gross that makes me want to crawl out of my skin and scratch until itās red and raw because it feels so wrong, borderline painful actually. As I write this portion I have to drag the arch of my foot down a rough surface to to relieve the gross feeling I got from just comparing it to stepping on a bug š
I think I have mental problems