why i want one
- i’m a human
- ass is nice
- giving and receiving affection is nice
- connections feel amazing
- idk how else to have a family
- i want to get a relationship so i can stop caring about this part of my life, so i can focus on work
- i think i’ll never be happy otherwise
why i don’t want one
- idk. i just avoid it. it’s an urge.
- maybe it will make my life and me too real.
- rn i am free to be in or live anywhere, so i live kinda everywhere. she probably will want my commitment to a city. but i am ok with that.
- in most if not all species, men become stupid because of women. spider men are eaten by spider women after they mate. i worry i will pick a bad woman to be stupid for.
- it is illogical and self destructive to let an external being have power over my happiness, health, satisfaction, human experience… especially if this being is heavily influenced by tech companies (instagram, facebook, apple), media (hollywood, netflix, movies, shows, music), governments, religions and her friends who are also heavily influenced.
The 5th point is the reason why you should be happy with yourself before embarking on a relationship with another person. Relationships are not the panacea people paint them to be, as all other human endeavours they require work, maintenance and commitment to be healthy and stable. And these can be provided once you can mainly focus on the relationship itself rather than on yourself.
Please note that this doesn’t mean that you’ll have to cancel all the work you do on yourself while being in a relationship, it just means that your self-work has become such a standard that you don’t even have to think about what you have to do to be happy by yourself, you know yourself so well that you do what is needed as if it was a second nature.
Also, avoid thinking about relationships as in your point 4 of the con-list: comparing instinctual behaviour acted by animals with reasoned choices performed by humans is belittling of our actions and an excuse to justify our worst behaviours. We are not (entirely) animals and we shouldn’t use them as a ruler to assess what is right and wrong in our day to day activities.
Best of luck for your future