Come on! There have got to be some extenuating aggravating circumstances here you aren't mentioning!
Disfiguring skin condition? Extreme obesity? Still living with Mom?
Regards,
Well, since you asked, I had to take early retirement to look after my mother. She passed away a couple years ago in her mid-80s.
There was nobody else to do the job. The good, kind relatives lived far away, and the relatives who lived close by wanted to put her in an old folks home. This I wasn’t going to allow.
If I was a rich man, I could have hired people to look after her. Then I would have been a big shot and won the praise of one and all, because we all know that nothing matters except how much money you’ve got.
But I’m not rich, so I had to give up my job and come home. The good relatives who live far away still speak to me, and I fancy I gained a little stature with them for looking after their favorite aunt during her last years. As for the relatives who wanted to put Mom in a home, we haven’t spoken in some time.
As for your other questions, I am in no way disfigured. I could stand to lose some weight, but that covers maybe half the country, so no apologies there. I can move quite fast for a big man, albeit for short distances.
I’m a real bookworm, which I suspect was a turnoff for many if not most of the women I dated way back when. God blessed me with a scholarly disposition, and I’m quite comfortable with that. There has to be more to life than a popularity contest, and if I tend to be a bit diffident with the ladies, I’m certainly not hurting anyone.