How do you overcome feeling like intimacy is something out of your reach?
I don't see myself as a person who could get laid, even though it's what I want the most I’m Male, 23. In a way, I feel like I don't deserve this. The most I have ever gotten was making out with a chick last year at a club. I'm afraid of approaching women at clubs or bars lately as I feel they will dehumanize me. I'm afraid women will because I don't reach their standards.
When I view myself as someone who could get laid, I don't see that as me. I feel that's for people who are better not something I could see myself achieve.
That's a level that has always been above me, and I don't know where it began. The only thing I can sit here and say is I felt this way in high school about myself.
And I don't know if anyone has had this, but if you did, what did you do? I am going to therapy, but until I go again, I just wanted to see if someone nas had this problem and what you did?
Posted Sep 22, 2026, 9:46 PM UTC