someone should compliment us and we should compliment someone else
also...to be a good parent, you need to be complete 1st
it sounds like you are desperate for a picture of a completeness...and what it looks like to you
(partner, children, house etc)
but what if your life were to never hold these things? could it still be complete? if you never had a partner, what would your life look like? would children NOT be a part of it? what if you had a partner but no children?
I am not saying it can't have those things I am just saying it sounds like you are kind of too caught up in the picture of what it looks like and less in what it feels like
I love Cori but I am complete without him...he adds to my life and I add to his but I would survive and thrive without him just as I thrive with him...it would just be in a different way
You've been dating since "literally when I knew it was all over." You've been through several relationships.
Take a break. It sounds as if you are still using relationships as bandaids. No relationship will work as long as you use the relationship to self-medicate. Of course you drop the relationship when your partner wants more from you. No one wants cough medicine to want something in return.
As for fertility, perhaps you might want to freeze some eggs to preserve your options.