Elsa

(TLDR at the end)

Do you know what sucks? The type of sucking that makes mediocre vaccuums jealous?

When you’re talking to someone here who specifically looked for a friend, and after about 6 messages, they drop the words. Those small, little words that are supposed to make your knees weak, but instead make your gag reflex activate.

“I love you”.

I am not an attractive woman. I’m not a sexual or alluring woman. Sometimes I don’t even hecking feel like a human being, but rather a freaking toaster stuck in a human body. Point being, I don’t even love me. There’s no way you can love me after one conversation with the intellectual magnetism of a cashew. And I’m assuming it’s not just me - I’m sure there are plenty of you out there with stories of this exact thing.

I understand being lonely. I understand that people meet on the internet and fall in love all the time. I understand that “when you know, you know”.

But you don’t know here. I can promise you, if you’ve only started talking, it’s not love. You’re just thankful for someone to talk to, and fill that lonely void that made you post to this site in the first place.

Don’t let this discourage you. Don’t let this scare you off. If you’re looking for someone to love, that’s completely okay. Please don’t let what I’m saying make you feel insecure at all.

BUT.

If you are looking for love: be honest in your post. Don’t respond to someone that is looking for something platonic and turn those tables like some wannabe EDM artist. Don’t look for any sign of your desired partner’s gender in a title and send them something. Try posting in a dating this site, or try online dating.

And if you’re thinking, “throwaway, you don’t know me and my still beating heart! It’s love so big and true!” First of all, uh, okay. But if you’re sure, if you’re so damn sure you love this person you just met that you’re willing to DRIVE THEM AWAY by telling them, okay. But here’s what I suggest: