rejection will happen accept it and learn from it. Believe me it's not
going anywhere

Rejection is painful, But it dont have to hurt long.. Just Smile for
10sec. and see you feel better ,the 11th sec after ..
let it go as soon as you can ... and move one to better things..

yea i have a hugh fear of rejection in person.

Morena, I have NO fear of rejection. For me it is fear of failure.
Having been there as most of us have, it sucks. At this point I have
chosen to not date for fear of it turning into a relationdhip.
I'll get over it when the time is right. Is rejection a bad thing if it
ends the possibility of failure down the road due to incompatibility?
Just curious food for thought.

Nothing ventured.......nothing gained!

I fear rejection but am used to it but thats ok because I have friends,
and family who care for me, and don't reject me..oh and most that have
rejected me as a romance possiblity end up being my friend

now on the romance side I think Im the Queen of rejection...so I keep on
telling myself that somewhere out there is the one Im to be with....and
you never know that thought just may become real someday...until then Im
sure I will be rejected over and over again...fear it sure, its
hurtful..

yes, yes, yes, especially since it's your parents that started it from a
very young age......................

i think everyone has at least a little fear of rejection. some more
than others. i grew up being teased because i was very tall and thin,
so rejection was always there.

I would not call shyness fear. Funny how the ladies in high school,
thought i was stuck up, because i would speak as i walked by; not
missing a beat. That is, until they knew me. Still have that, to a small
degree. Nice to know my feelings are reciprocated, before i take the
plunge; speak my cares. But, if i knew it all, i would also know who my
intended is. Have to at least try. The treasure i seek makes it worth
the rejections i also encounter.

I don't think there is anyone to a point that don't fear rejection at
one time or the other

I have that fear everyday. I think after this last guy i saw i'm done
for awhile. Out of all the guys i dated there has only been 2 that has
not rejected me.

<--- steps up and says hi my name is Daniel, and I have a very big fear
of rejection also.

All through School i was teased and bullied (unitl I snapped one day and
broke a kids jaw nose and cheek bone in retaliation for trying to light
my hair on fire; i truned around and slammed his face in a porcelain
water fouintain without even knowing what I was doing). Thankfully I
can say that since then I have have not been bothered to the point that
I retaliate, but it still bothers me. And Then through Highschool I was
considered to be stuck up, as I learned to my embarrasment 12 years
later. However, after all those years of bulliyng and teasing in school
I was just very painfully shy and nervous. I would not ignore anyone
but I would not approach them either out of fear of hte old abuse.
Since then I have gotten a lot better nd am able to approach a lady I
find attractive (I did get married after all lol). However since the
ugliness of what happened with my ex-wife I have gone back to being very
scared and nervous of relationships. I have actually fond myself asking
what wopuld this lady want to do with me? Or why would that lady want
to get to know me better? I know it is all nonsense, and I fight it
constantly, but to be honest if this were not on the net, I do not think
I would be able to even begin the conversation with a lady that I found
attractive, I owuld just be polite and keep walking. The note I left
for the lady in a resteraunt a couple weeks ago was the boldest thing I
have ever done and it scared me like you wouldnt believe to do it.

*slowly walks away from daniel in fear of getting hurt*...lol

Now that's the way to do it...lol

no fears kater like I said it was a opne time explosion after years and
years of abuse from fellow students. And it still took someone trying
to light my hair on fire for me to snap.
Since then I have had a couple occasions when everyone would condone any
actions I took and simply walked away. For example meeting the pig that
raped my wife and was let free because she chose to lay still and keep
teling him no instead of fighting; keep in mind he was three tiems her
size and mass, and would have beat the crud out of her in return so I
support her choice. but anyways, he was let go and I was introduced to
him the next day. I simply kept my mouth shut and walked away guiding
my wife with me. And it took five days before she could even let me hug
her so you can imagine how much I wanted to do something other than walk
away.
But to this day, I O still have the fear of rejection to the point that
it does hinder me in public at times.

Thats my fear,as I have been rejected to many times already in my life,
so I tend not to initiate contact, unless I know it is just going tobe
as friends. and if I see someone on here, that I would realy be
interested in, I wont let them know it.

i dont fear it. i just keep going on. there is alot of fish in the
sea!

yeah like Lamom said we all fear rejection but if you dont take that
risk you will never learn from it rejection is a lesson in disguise...

I guess you could say that I have a fear of rejection..I fear that I
will do bodily harm to those that reject me

I've learned to like rejection, its made life a lot more pleasant LOL