"A strong, tall, dark, handsome, sensitive, his-way-or-the-highway Scorpio man" - sounds a whole lot better than it actually is!!!! lmao and not you're not "unlovable bitch"!!! don't you even dare to think that.
"Honestly, do you think it's something I'm doing/vibe I'm giving off?
Yes.
"Am I a complete and total, unlovable cookiemonster?"
No.
Stop looking. When you're actively looking you emit an "available" signal/energy. If you start focussing on yourself and stop looking, they suddenly come out of nowhere.
"I can't totally be myself with him, and I also know that since we're kind of very different, he's just not the one" - that's a sure sign he's not right for you. i was the same way with my cancer ex. was a nightmare that i pushed to happen but it backfired. thank god for it now. i decided to be myself from that point on and no pretending. with my current scorp i can totally be myself and say and do stupid stuff, be totally childish and stupid and smart and all i want to be (in respectable way of course) and he takes it. he even told me that i was totally real from the moment we met and that's what attracted him to me right away. he also says that he can be himself around me and he opens up to me more than to anyone else. i hope that what he says is actually the truth. if it is i'm very happy about that regardless of the long term outcome.
i hope it'll turn into something very long term and serious🙂 if not then at least i know i can be myself and there will be someone who can take me the way i am. does it make sense?
it's going on 6 months by now. it was pretty unstable, unsure, pull/push thing, a bit of head game playing on both sides - the usual behaviour😉 then by accident i found this book "love in the stars". it was supposed to be an astrology book but really has very little to do with astrology. i read it and it totally changed my perspective on things. she makes so much sense. not all of it was be applied to my particular situation. the author made sense when she said that people care more about their egos then what's needed for a relationship and it's ok to be vulnerable and do what's best for the relationship and not an individual person within the relationship. i gave it a try and it totally worked! i stopped caring about my ego and why he's not doing this and that. why this is that way and so on. i started being a little more vulnerable and started doing some steps towards him and toward what i want the relationship to be. and it totally changed the whole thing! such huge positive difference in communication and the quality of time we spend together. i'd recomend the book.
and not you're not "unlovable bitch"!!! don't you even dare to think that.