Teo · 8 answers · 4y

Would you say that you tend to gravitate towards friends or romantic interests who have more confidence than you do, or less? (if there is a trend at all; why is that?)

Most of my friends have more confidence than me. Not that my friends are super confident, the thing is I somewhat have a low self-confidence. I think I gravitate towards them 'cause they somehow help me get out of my shell. I think I'm less indecisive when I'm around them. [ Low self-confidence makes me question/doubt my thoughts, words, and activities more than necessary hence leaving me indecisive]

I'd like to believe it's pretty evenly matched if all, because I'm not gravitating to anything right now.
I'd hate to be a pushover as much as a strong independent partner who don't need no assurance.

Tough past me was more looking on the "more" side of the spectrum, that's for sure.

I tend to be attracted to more quiet woman, but quiet self-assurance is an appealing trait to. Arrogance is a fantastic way for me to grow tired of you quick.

I'm often attracted by confidence. Though it is only one ingredient I am looking for.

I dunno, it seems that the things that make me gravitate toward someone are largely independent of their level of confidence. I like people and have friends who are on both sides of the spectrum and in between (I think? Most of the people I know because I gravitated to them I only know online so it's hard to say). They're probably mostly more confident than I am, but that's just because almost everyone is more confident than I am =p (Idk if I seem relatively confident or even cocky online, that's different, things are a lot easier for me online.)

It's hard for me to say who's got more or less confidence than I because I don't really view myself as existing on the confidence spectrum - I do what I want/need to do without fear, so I guess in that sense I'm 'confident' ...for the things I don't engage with it's more lack of desire than lack of confidence. Aaaaanyway to answer as best I can, I would say I gravitate toward people who DO have the desire to engage with things/people - it's for the best that way otherwise I would go feral :-P

More I s'pose. I don't know if I gravitate towards that or if it's just that I cast a wide net and a big chunk of the population has a lil more confidence than I do... Naw, yeah, I guess do gravitate towards people with more confidence than me. Probably because of all that bottom energy, I'm just looking for tops to firmly tell me how to live and not to lick ghost pepper because that's when I feel cared for, and I've stereotyped them as confident people.

Neither. We all have different levels of confidence in different areas. So maybe complimentary levels of confidence? We encourage each other.

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