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“He’s pretty hard to understand most of the time and he gets really self-conscious and frustrated about it,” she said.
“Understandably, the whole thing has destroyed his confidence and made him depressed. He has good days and bad days, but overall he’s finding most social interaction hard.”
“He hasn’t been on a date since it happened, and he used to date a lot. Then last night he texted me saying he was an idiot for turning me down back then and would I date him now?”
She was shocked by his text, but she isn’t sure if she should date him now. A part of her is concerned that he’s only trying to date her now because he’s insecure and lowering the standards he used to have, while another part of her thinks he’s not in the best place to be dating at all.
Her feelings for him have not gone away, and she’s struggling with a fear of getting hurt here.
“I’m not sure, because I also don’t want to date him out of pity,” she continued. “Like I don’t think his stroke should change him even though I know it has massively.”
“I don’t really think having a disability or health condition affects how attractive a person is, so I don’t want to think that his stroke made him less concerned about looks or that. Does that make sense? Idk, it’s a whole mess.”
How would you handle this situation?
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