The one thing I suck at is the one thing that matters most to me.

[JohnnyCougar]

I am good at everything nearly everything.

I am extremely "smart". I am en route to my PhD. I have an IQ at the lower end of genius. I study for hours what others study for days, and I still get better grades. Even grad school goes way too slow to pique my interest.

I am good at art, writing, poetry, and can play many musical instruments.

I am a great, loyal friend. I have about 5 or 6 friends that all tell me I am their best friend. I know I am, too. I am the one person others turn to for help, guy or girl.

I am good at sports.

I am a great introspective thinker. I know who I am better than anyone I know.

I am a great conversationalist.

I am funny, and have a great sense of humor.

I am good at debate.

I have confidence in myself.

I am able to show true love to good people, and forgive them if they make a mistake.

I am able to forgive myself.

But I am absolutely horrible with women romantically. No matter what I think they want, they want the opposite. If I think they like me, they don't. If I think they don't like me, they do. I am a fool for bad women. I admit it. If I could just learn about this one thing, I would be happy. But no advice I have yet received has helped me. I think all good women are bad. And I think all bad women are good. Every time I give some woman some slack, they use me. Every time I shut someone out, I realize that they were a great person when it is too late. It's like I am cursed. I can't tell the difference.

But everyone tells me the same thing..."don't worry, your time will come." But I doubt it. I feel like there is something wrong with me. And there probably is. But I am not able to tell what that is, because my friends all tell me that I am the best person they ever met, and that there is nothing wrong with me. Well, I disagree. No one can have such confusing experiences with women and have nothing wrong with them. As objective as I am normally, I can't see what my problem is here. I don't hate women. I love them. I am friends with them. Some of the best advice I have received has come from women. But I can't make sense of what they want romantically.

Sorry about this late night rant. But there is a lot of intelligent people on here with much more experience in life than my friends (and of course myself). Maybe they know something that I don't. I don't know who to turn to for advice anymore, because no one will give me an honest opinion. They just say I am awesome and are afraid to criticize me to my face. Obviously, no one on here knows me personally. But maybe they know someone who has had a similar experience in life.