Just curious if others have experienced this. I’m experiencing a bit of a crisis right now as I’ve been slow traveling for the past two years through Latin America, staying in cities for a month or two at a time.
I always did fine dating in the US but since I have been down here I’m a bit shocked by the beauty and all around awesomeness of the women I’ve been dating in my little microcosms of a life here.
It’s not just that I’m foreign but I’ve been a lover of Latin culture for a long time, so I feel more of a cultural fit than at home. I love salsa and similar Latin music styles and am an accomplished social dancer, and I am a fluent Spanish speaker. When I’m out with these girls they share all the music I love, and we find random events to go dancing together. They’re all into the same stuff I am.
Also I find the dating approach way more direct. I don’t feel I have to have this pretend aloofness I felt in the US, I’m sort of love bombing these women and they don’t seem to be put off by that. But to me it just feels like expressing myself openly and fully.
Anyways I hate how much of a passport bro I sound like here, this wasn’t the intention of my trip but just happened along the way.
Anybody else had a similar experience, and how do you deal with it? Do you just accept that these experiences are part of a vacation fantasy? Bring back your new confidence to your home life?
I’m seriously considering looking for a way to live and work here largely because of this. I think it will be really upsetting for me to go home and be a mere mortal again.