I have just been wondering about this recently. In the past I have both been rejected by men and rejected men myself which I assume is fairly normal.
When I was younger I had a tendency to get hung up on men who had rejected me. I tended to make excuses for these men telling myself that they were just in a bad place at the time or that they were scared of intimacy and so on and admittedly some of these guys were really messed up, I seemed to have a thing for guys who smoked a lot of dope back then even though I didn't myself smoke. The two men who really broke my heart in my twenties are both still single now in their 40s athough they seem to have their lives sorted out now to some degree.
My ego still tells me that these men probably regret passing up on a good thing when they had it but if I am really honest I too rejected some decnet and not so decent men in the past. Some I did not like at all and others I did like but just didn't fancy enough or just wasn't feeling it with so I ended things or rejected their advances. In some cases I feel bad about hurting certain people but I don't regret ending the relationships or just not dating them, not at all.
So through that lens it seems likely that none of these men especially regret rejecting me! In one way its liberating because it allows me to stop wondering what if but its a little hard for my fragile ego to take!
Do any of you regret regecting people in the past or did you reject anyone you really actually liked because of other personal difficulties or do you think men are more likely to make these sorts of mistakes and have these regrets or do they just move on and forget easier than women?
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Do you regret rejecting anyone romantically in the past?
bestbeforetoday · 15/03/2017 13:52
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