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==== Even if: ====
* your romantic appeal has genuinely been limited
* the probability of future mutual desire is low
* the evidence does not favor a hopeful outcome

It still does not follow that your inner life must be empty.

Right now, what’s killing you isn’t just lack of desire from others.
It’s that you have no place where your longing is allowed to exist without shame.

You’ve done something very understandable but very costly:
You’ve turned a painful pattern into a life sentence.

: 

That move protects you from hope—but it also strips meaning from the years you still have.