I get this feeling of deep envy whenever im with my straight friends because they find guys pretty much effortlessly and organically through work, friends...etc. And my only option is to go to bars or apps which i find quite "fake". It makes me feel incredibly frustrated and sad!
Most people I know who are in successful relationships have met though work. The company i work for has lots of married couples who met on the job. Most of them are gay couples. The one person I liked at the company did not like me. so I don't get my happy ending on the job. Fuck love.
I think you are wrong to idealize heterosexuality. Straight people have a lot of issues themselves. I mean first of all a LOT of them go through Apps as well because for a lot of people finding guys to date among friends, work etc is far from effortless. Considering you are refering to heterosexual women since you seem to be looking for guys, do not confuse hooking up with dating i mean i have a lot of georgous heterosexual female friends that can hook up pretty much whenever they want to and sometimes they are frustrated and miserable as well because having the possibility of hooking up with strangers doesn't make it any easier to find a real connection (someone worthy of being your SO if you wil). Try to let go of your judgement about Apps and give it a real, honest try. You will see that of course it's more goal oriented than meeting strangers in real life and discovering a connection, but it's far from being fake. In the end it all comes down to this : if you believe you are untitled to things, that life owe you things, that life is unfair to you and that all your friends are thriving effortlessly; you are being irrational and more importantly you are setting yourself up for a lot of dissapointment and frustration.
We've become the world of "social" media and phone sex and you are right, this new "Sexual revolution" seems quite sad and frustrating. Use a meet up app and you're liking to start connecting with some fairly creepy people who want you only as a quick means for a cum dump. Put yourself out there on "Social" media and you run the risk of dealing with some incredibly homophobic and dare I say murderous imbeciles. Shall I risk giving away my age group and say I miss the days when people knew gays existed and mostly preferred to ignore us? "Social" was just that, there was no media besides going to the sex shops to watch porn and perform random sex acts in small stinking booths. EVERY city and fair size town had cruising areas far enough away from the straighties where gays and lesbians could meet and decide if we were right for each other. Large drink and dance clubs were much more common and catered to people of all genders and orientations. Some had huge main dance and drink areas with smaller side floors that catered to the all male and all female crowds and others were just HUGE with side bar areas where one would notice more men gathered in one area and another area that had mostly women who could be rather vicious and cruel in their manner of rejecting potential male suitors. All this happy bliss is pretty much gone now. Harsh drink and drive laws have killed the large Marge bar scene and any gathering of people in groups in construed by Police as drug gang activity or ANTIFA or White Pride people getting together to spread the love of violence and is quickly and effectively dispersed, often with the judicious application of exploding pepper balls. Yep. I miss the old days and the old ways. Pity the younger crowd may never see it to return in their lifetimes.
Hey CL1990, It kinda sounds to me like you're confusing making friends with your desire to form romantic partnerships. But maybe I'm wrong....