It is hard. You clearly want a relationship otherwise you wouldn't be asking the question.
I have been hurt/rejected a lot, and find that it is so difficult to trust and to open myself to the possibility of being hurt again. But at the same time loneliness hurts so much as well that I know I will take the risk again. I feel two opposing forces in me-one wants to throw myself headlong into a relationship and the other wants to take it really slowly so that I could back out if it goes bad before I have invested a lot emotionally in it so that the pain will be less. It is a difficult question you are asking,a nd one which I ponder a lot.
I have been hurt/rejected a lot, and find that it is so difficult to trust and to open myself to the possibility of being hurt again. But at the same time loneliness hurts so much as well that I know I will take the risk again. I feel two opposing forces in me-one wants to throw myself headlong into a relationship and the other wants to take it really slowly so that I could back out if it goes bad before I have invested a lot emotionally in it so that the pain will be less. It is a difficult question you are asking,a nd one which I ponder a lot.