A few questions for you people:

- Do you fear rejection? Why?
- How do you overcome your fear of rejection when it comes to dating/asking someone out?
- Do you have regrets that you could've avoid simply by overcoming your fear of rejection?
- If you have regrets, do you still fear rejection now?

Share your stories if you don't mind. thanks a lot

Krs

I suppose everyone in general has a fear of rejection, but if you fear everything in life you will get nowhere, we need to takes risks at times, besides we always learn from our mistakes.

Regrets to me are eposides from the past that come to haunt you in the present. THEY ARE NOT WORTHED.

phillysteakandcheese

It's natural to have a fear of rejection (especially when you are younger and inexperienced with life's realities), but nothing good comes from letting those fears control you.

Starting in high school, I was very fearful of rejection and didn't date anyone. My fragile ego just could not accept the risk that some girl I cherished might say "no" if were to ask her out. In university, I was very much the guy that felt he wasn't "in the same league" as, or "good enough" to be with a really attractive woman. On the rare occassion I did have contact with an intimidatingly beautiful woman, I and would put her up on a pedestal and worship her.

I regret wasting years of my life thinking this way.

And without question - Had I overcome my fears earlier, gained self-confidence, and changed my thinking about women ... my high school and college years would have been quite different.

theprodigy06

i know this is probably the worst advice to give to anybody, but i overcame my fear of rejection after being introduced to ecstacy...

something about it just makes me go all out.

anyways, after my first dose of the rush, i can keep my head up and my confidence level high even when i'm not on it.

(PLEASE DONT RESORT TO IT)

i'm just writing about MY experience.

LByronn

Hi, I am Byronn!
with all due respect, I believe your ex was telling you bad things about yourself like you are not pretty etc. . . . . because it sounds like you lost confidence in yourself. then you feel like people don't like you and by acting like that people won't like you just because they feel like you are going to bring drama in the relationship.
I would suggest that you look at yourself in a mirror and see the beautiful person that you are and everybody would like you, maybe love you! Everybody is beautiful.

Illusion

When I was 13, one of my friends told this guy that I liked him. It was true. He reacted really bad and told me I was a dog. I never forgave him for that. You know why? Because it wasn't necessary. He could have said, "thanks" and left it at that. I went on and asked other guys out - some of them rejected me and some of them didn't. Now I know myself better, I know I am very independent and prefer to be single. I know that my feelings of rejection go back to my "original" rejection - when my Mom left my Dad and all the kids. I have used that sometimes because I know I have often felt like - hey, I don't even know this guy, it was only for a date - why the pain. And I'll say, aha I know why. I know someone else will like me. Rejection is all about how you feel about yourself. If you accept and like yourself, you'll do all right, you know that you'll go on. The more you work on your self-esteem - and its a daily thing to do - the more comfortable you will feel with yourself.

supergamerKD

Yeah, we all fear rejection. I am kinda in that boat right now, i fell in love with this girl, an i want to ask her to prom, than ask her out if all works out. But i think about her, tell my self i will ask, than i dont. I also think about the fear that i might lose her to someone else. But i have done this long enough, an will ask her 2-marrow. Cause if i dont i will regret i, but if i ask, all will b good!

Chica Fish

I am a 40 year old female, I have set my standard bar very low. I seem to attract the same type of guy, controlling, jealous , arrogant, self absorbed, selfish jerk!

i am not kidding every guy I really like and want to be with is the most pathetic excuse for a man!
So , my answer is you don't have to be fearful of rejection if your fishing in the same pond.

robertsqueen

- Do you fear rejection? Why?
- How do you overcome your fear of rejection when it comes to dating/asking someone out?
- Do you have regrets that you could've avoid simply by overcoming your fear of rejection?
- If you have regrets, do you still fear rejection now?

No, I really don't fear rejection. I think that putting yourself and your opinoins out there is more important then rejection. I dont' really have any regrets. Life is going to happen if you don't get yourself out there and take chances you will miss it.

alanalov

thanx guys