Romantic harassment

[boba]

Persistent romantic acts, that are clearly unwanted, are acts of harassment.  Mine unfolded out to straight up stalking.

[Lunar Nova]

ive been in something similar even though i came out in march last year i was still uncomfortable by the fact that one particular boy kept saying things like 'I love you" and other what not, ive dealt with it for SIX YEARS because im very non confrontational, i finally had someone do something because it eventually caused me to go into a frustrated meltdown after school. i changed the class, he still bothered me in 1st period for about a month but it was better than him doing it during class at the top of his voice also the teacher did NOTHING even when I asked her to. so your not alone.

[neelc]

One problem with my mom is that she is very romance-centered. She asks my brother to date, my dad to date, and she pushed me to date until I pushed back.

My brother even said she's "weirdly obsessed" with dating, to the extent that she used my autism to force a relationship upon me.

She said "what happens when I die" and "I hope you find someone" and "I want you to feel love".

In comparison, the idea of even "dating" gives me extreme anxiety.

[Alaska Native Manitou]

3 hours ago, neelc said:

One problem with my mom is that she is very romance-centered. She asks...my dad to date...

She wants an open relationship?

[MaikeruSapphire]

I actually haven't had any experiences with romantic harassment as defined in the original post. Maybe it's because I'm not conventionally attractive. Maybe it's because I'm a guy. Who knows? I sure don't!

[GoodbyeRepublicServices]

A few years ago, I had a girl on LinkedIn ask for my phone number. She seemed suspicious. She wanted to contact me on Google Hangouts, probably to see my face. It was a VERY weird request (I never granted that request). Eventually, I did give her my phone number as part of a prank, where I pretended to be someone else. Through that, this "someone else" told her I was pranking her, which lead her to eventually cut contact with me on LinkedIn (she never discovered that it was my number all along!). I never heard from her again and I lived happily ever after. The end!

[Guest can't think of a display n]

demiromantic guy here, when i was 15? i believe? or 16? there was this girl at school who was OBSESSED with me (she confirmed it was romantic once) and i hated it and NO ONE TOOK ME SERIOUSLY when i talked about it, it was INFURIATING.

[The Newest Fabled Creature]

I've experienced mild romantic harassment from some people in middle school and high school, but most of them had come from people I do not know from when I worked at my previous job. They all luckily gave up, but some who had asked if I was single (to which I would say that I was, but that I wasn't looking for anyone) they would just come back quite a bit to see if I was still working there I guess, and expect more of a response from me or some pick-up from our previous conversations; when I gave them nothing they moved on.

[Mult]

A childhood friend confessed to me and I tried to let her down as nice as possible but she ended up just continuously trying to get me to reciprocate her feelings: "I feel love blossoming between us". It ended in tears and her wanting me to date her even though I don't love her to make her feel better about herself.

My coworker also expressed sexual interest in me and said "I'll always love you" after I rejected him. I don't want to hear that ever. It makes me paranoid abd uncomfortable.

Ugh, I hate it. I just wish that everyone who is interested in me romantically or sexually would just accept rejection. I just never want to deal with other people sexual/romantic feelings for me ever. I just don't want it to exist, period.