I have everything except what I want the most

You can do it fren. Remember that your cousinanon123 is rooting for you in spirit. As you are of me. I’ll see you in the linky yacht parties. Seek me or I’ll seek you to say “told you so fren”

the harsh truth is that you will never ever get a true friend, it's a hollywood dream. I accepted it for myself.
You were sold a lie about how human interactions work. The best you can hope for is to be a leader and dictate how people have to interact with you in order to be with you. This applies to women as well as friends imo. I simply do not believe in relationships between equals anymore, nor do I believe that love is some magical force to connect you with people. It's a conditional automatic reward for when somebody does right by you, consistently.
Here is a tip to know when somebody is trying to scam you:
They will tell you that love should be unconditional.

thanks user,

I don't think anyone would really argue that love can be truly unconditional but that really doesn't mean that you cant form genuine caring relationships.

>All I want to do is hold a woman close, really make love to her, kiss her, and hear her say she loves me.

Then you should do something about it instead wasting your time with fucking thots, duh

>It’s like people don’t want that level of closeness that was achievable before dating apps.
Nah dude, some want, just gotta find them. This new world is pretty crazy in that way though, people lost their senses to tradition and spirit. You're kind of to blame too though, maybe you need to approach women less with sex in mind and more with finding someone you like in spirit more before anything else.

I used to have legit friends but they moved away cross country and we haven't been in contact for years, I believe true friends exist because these people actually existed in my life, we made actual plans for the future and held each other accountable for these goals, it was a great time in my life, but now im 21 and everyone around me is just trying to scrape ahead any way they can, even at the cost of being disrespectful to someone who considered them a close friend.

I used to be like you. First I fell for the lies of others, then later in life I lost all hope and got drowned in nihilism. Then after a while you happen to get back on track and stop being a lost soul. Funny how it works we always go full circle, 360 degrees, contradicting ourselves. But over time we come back. And we come back stronger than ever because that trip around that way of life shows and teaches us with perspectives and truths we never thought we knew.
Good luck anons, a lot of shit in this world, but a lot of light in it too.

Wrong

I know a best buddy of mine who is married to a women who is like what is described in OP.

Lucky ass mofo. I'm approaching 30 and when I have a conversation with her, a real intellectual conversation, it gives me hope. OP don't give up.

I have none of what OPs got, but do have what he wants. Thanks for the perspective.