How do you deal with rejection?

How do you guys deal with rejection in love? Was reading the recent forgiveness thread and I realized that, right or wrong, I see the two in the same way some times. How do you feel after rejection? How long does it take you to move on? Do you ever give that person a second chance?

I was referring to love, so say a crush or a relationship.

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How do you guys deal with rejection in love? Was reading the recent forgiveness thread and I realized that, right or wrong, I see the two in the same way some times. How do you feel after rejection? How long does it take you to move on? Do you ever give that person a second chance?

How do I deal with rejection? I dont! lol I seem to take rejection a lot harder then most people I know. So many times I have not taken chances with people as I know I wont be able to cope with the rejection.

But this year I have decided to stop being a wimp and put myself out there. Better to give it a go then never know! I recently told a guy how I feel his reply was "ok". I could cope with that as even though he didnt declare reciprocated feelings he didnt actually reject me. But if in a few weeks time things havnt moved on in our relationship then you might see an "I feel so rejected" thread posted by me lol

I move on pretty quickly, but not properly move on I suppose. I am very easily distracted and fall for another person quite quickly,I am very "out of sight out of mind" However there is one guy I have liked since I was 12 and have never gotten over him fully. We come back into eachothers life every so often (so i suppose i give him chance after chance) and I am left with the same feeling of rejection eachtime. I should have learnt to stay away by now but I just cant help myself!

Oh my gosh, there are few things I hate or fear more than rejection. Maybe my irrational fear of mascots trumps the one I hold in regard to rejection, but truly, few things make me as afraid.
To make yourself vulnerable...is scary.
To admit how you feel...is scary.
To admit how you feel to somebody else...is scary.
To make yourself vulnerable, admit how you feel, admit how you feel to somebody else AND THEN GET REJECTED is down right terrifying.
I really don't deal well with rejection at all. It impedes my ambitions, makes me extremely guarded and stops me from developing certain bonds (romantic and otherwise).

I will take myself out of that person's life completely. They wont see me again til I am over them or I have no other choice but to see them again. To which, I will hold my head high and act like nothing has happened at all. Listen to White Flag by Dido because that explains how I feel about rejection to a tee!

Rejection bruises my self esteem something terrible for months and months and I have to reassuring myself that it's not me but rather him and me that was not good.

hurts horribly. worst feeling ever. even minor slights hurt more than they should. when i fell in love and got rejected, it hurt more than i was hurt when loved ones have died.

like, i'm an accidental flirt, but once i feel like someone is flirting at me, i'll usually just walk away at this point. i'm too busy right now to deal with rejection. yeah, it might not turn out that way, but statistics say it probably will. and i've got other shit to take care of.

then, once i'm done brooding, it's like they never even existed. bump into me, you're just any other stranger.

if something just doesn't work out, or i'm just not compatible with someone, i can understand that. rejection is different. rejection is sudden and unexpected. that's what hurts. to me, it's not so much being rejected by someone else that bothers me, but the fact that i didn't see it coming. i'm more mad at myself than them, worried i won't see it coming next time either.

libra males i know are similar.

btw, eminem's a libra. he never did anything really, but some of his songs will show you how rejection makes a libra THINK. not act. one of the good times when we're lazy. lol. "kim".

Interesting. For me it depends on the situation but I got the "your a nice guy, like a little brother" once recently and it was like I went from heaven to being Rambo pissed and hurt (kept all inside of course 🙂 ). A little brother....seriously? I was definitely taken by surprise. Its always seemed to take me much longer to deal with rejection than most other people I know. A little paralyzing because im emotionally unavailable for a while after that.

dont know, guess it depends on how deep the reltionship is. If its just a crush, i can move on, i will brood cuz libras do brood to some degree but will move on b/c its no sense in wasting time on someone who feelings do noe recipricate


i will brood if my feelings are hurt and do self analysis, but then i will jsut keep going