Ryan: Women/young ladies should be able to talk to you as a friend, as in someone to talk to at work, without you thinking of them as a potential relationship or falling in love. If you are as you say you are, a confident nice looking smile on type of man, then you will be attractive to all people. They will want to talk to you, laugh with you, spend time with you. You need to be able to handle your gifts (good looking etc..) and accept that just because you get attention of any kind it does not mean anything more than what it is.
I see it with my son. He is a very good looking young man, with tons of confidence, smart, humor and is a magnet. People always want to be around him and yes a lot of girls. But just because he talks to them or laughs with them they immediately assume he likes them for something more. It took him sometime to get used to that because sometimes he would like the one girl who didn't like him in that way hence, the sad feeling you are feeling.
If you want a confident woman who has humor, smart, fairly good looking then be prepared that she too deals with these issues all the time. She is a magnet weather she likes it or not. So it takes time for people sometimes to figure things out.
I know what you mean about not wanting to have a girlfriend just to say "im in a relationship". That is a good thing/trait you have.
I dont think its lowering your standards though if you go out of your supposed type. Many times we think we have a "type" but we are surprised to find out that is not the case when we give someone that is out of our supposed type a chance. That chance becomes a yearn because of something special we feel. We can either run from it saying "oh no no no, she's not my type" or we can say "hmm I feel something special here let me see what this is..."
This has happened to me and I was pleasantly surprised when I didn't run from it.
At your age there is no way I would listen to anything I just typed up there lmao
I had a type and that was the end of it. I just wanted to write that because I can and wanted to just in case you hear it
Good luck and I hope you get to the peace stage quickly and move on from this one girl who rocked your world because trust me, there is another. There is actually quite a few more out there
