I was a catfish for 10 years. AMA

What's life like now? Have you been in any real relationships since? Do you feel you'd enjoy catfishing more than a real relationship?

Life is good now for my actual self. I graduate in Sept and starting my career now so things are working out in that sense. As for relationships, I don't have any interest. I'm emotionally shallow and people are not worth the energy.

I feel like my catfishing relationships have made me much more vigilant even though i was the deceptive one, just because the people I got close to ended up ****ing me over. I also don't trust others since I'm not trustworthy myself, and in the end no one ever stays anyway, people literally just use each other until they get bored.

I know there were times when I did break their hearts, but eventually I pushed all of them to the point where they no longer gave a f.u.c.k about me and they retaliated by getting with someone new. They hurt me back and things ended on bad terms with all of them and they made it quite clear that they got over me.

When I had a "thing" with people, they were long term and so I couldn't stop what I loved to do.

I was going to stop after it ended with a girl I catfished for 2 years and we loved each other but because nothing ever progressed, things turned sour and she ended up sleeping with some guy before we ended properly.
Then after her, another girl came back into my life (just friends) who I knew for about 3-4 years but we drifted. We became really close again, but ended cutting each other off after 6 months, which was in January. A month after that, I stopped using any of my catfish social media because she was the last person who I knew.

1. Do you think you'll ever do it again- why or why not?
2. Have you ever been catfished yourself? If so, how did it make you feel?
3. If a friend/family member was doing it, would you encourage them to stop?
4. What has been your best experience with it so far/ your best memory from catfishing?
5. How to tell if someone is catfishing you?

So did you ever have thoughts of marrying and having your own family? And if you did I'd assume you don't care about that now?

Can we be friends???????????? Loool it sounds so dodgy. Pm if you want

Cats eat fish and fish like water while cats don't.
Was it difficult living with these obvious splits in your personality?

You inspire me to stay off social media and online in general. Thank you for your example. It seemed to be a big part of your life, I don't want that to be the case with me anymore. I was involved with a psychopath online for 6 months before I ended it, that hurt me like hell. Then I got consumed in TSR, I don't want to look forward to stuff online more than my real life. So thank you, you've opened my eyes to how bad it can get. I'm glad I've never catfished anyone, I couldn't as I'm too nice and honest of a person but your story warns me of how much one could prefer online experience to real life.

Did your mother not love you enough or love you too much?

Did you catch any mice?

If you got into a (real) relationship now, would you tell them that you were a catfish for 10 years?

Hahaha, no! I can't even post this off anonymous, let alone tell anyone irl.
Also, I'm female and I was a boy catfish, so I don't think a future guy I date would react well to that.

EW are the initials of a TSR member who was permabanned not long ago.

Do you not think you should seek a therapist or possibly even a psychiatrist to talk about your state of mind?

Haha fair enough! But not even when you're several years into the relationship? Or do you think it's something you'll never bring up irl, with anyone?

Thanks for the answers