Rejection can be tough. Mustering up the feelings to confess your love to someone, only to be shot down hard. It's a big hassle. I wouldn't know much about this, seeing as I am too shy to try and pursue anyone in an affectionate way. How about you?

I'd move on and find something else to do. Love isn't everything, it's barely anything. The world only ends when you stop moving.

So keep moving on, or things will stay the same.

Ultrajeff : Rejection is always tough, whether it's professional or romantic.

The most important thing to understand is that the pain and upset we feel at rejection is necessary and unavoidable. Weirdly, accepting that something is going to hurt makes it hurt less.

The best advice I can give is to throw yourself into something you enjoy for the duration - whether it's a creative project, time with friends, or a great video game, whether on a console, on Steam, or on this great Vizzed site!

I pretty much agree with what youshi has to say about on his post. It won't be easy to strive through I mean anyone can go through a deep depression of getting rejected. But, its always best to surround yourself with friends if you have any and family too. Because they will be the people to help you to pick you back up when you fall.

Well, I think one of the best ways to handle it is to not project too much in to the future, before or after the fact.

It's not healthy to build any thing up too much in your head before it happens, be it professionally or romantically as MDF put it. Though it's difficult regardless to get rejected for any reason, if you keep your self from being too invested in some thing before it ever actually happens ( like a romantic relationship for example ), then it won't hurt nearly as much if it never comes to be. On the other hand, if you have said person on a pedestal, or built this entire fantasy relationship in your mind before it ever actually comes to be, then it's going to hurt a lot more when those dreams are crushed.

And then when it happens, to not let it get you down too much. I remember in my youth thinking at one point after being broken up with "that I'll never find some thing like this again" / "nobody else is ever going to like me" or something along those lines. Obviously this is very far from the truth, but being rejected ( or simply depressed ) can have that effect on people. Again it just comes down to not projecting too much in to the future about things that haven't even happened yet.

As for how I handle it myself? I generally just find some thing to distract my self from it and move on. There's plenty of things in life that every one enjoys doing, and being rejected isn't going to take that away from you. Dwelling on some thing negative only makes the problem worse, and effectively dampens your ability to handle it as well as you could.

At least that's my take on it, any way.

Honestly I've only ever known rejection when it comes to this so it's normal for me, I guess.

At this point, very easily.

Let's put it this way: If someone is meant for you, that person won't reject you, or at least, not reject you in a way that hurts you. If someone is not meant for you, then they will.

If someone isn't "meant" for you, then f*** them, you deserve better.

It also helps if you've already experienced a pain worse than rejection, such as loving a deep love that goes beyond that of anything you've felt before or since. (This is how I deal with it, anyway).

I find that no matter how bad something seems, it can always get worse.

It also helps if you are good at laughing at yourself.

I don't.

Honestly, I don't even care enough to bother with relationships and love confessions to someone else at this point in my life. Perhaps this mindset will change after I finish college (part of me doubts it though), but as of right now I've haven't put any effort into anything (in this case relationships) that would even allow me to be rejected in the first place. I just don't care right now. 

As far as dealing with rejection goes, acknowledgement and awareness of your feelings is crucial in dealing with rejection. Another key element to dealing with rejection is to not let it define who you are. Don't let the feelings and opinions of one person define who you are as a person, you should never give one person's words that much power. Finally, I think one should use rejection as learning experience and an opportunity to grow and develop as a person. Perhaps you might actually learn something valuable about yourself through rejection. The most successful people in the world are the ones that don't let the opinions of others discourage them, the one thing they all have in common is persistence. Take J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter for instance, currently it is one of the most popular book series ever made, but it was initially rejected by 12 different publishing houses before it was eventually approved. Maybe this isn't the best example because it doesn't apply to rejection is a relationship sense, but the main point you should take away is to not get easily discouraged. If at first you don't succeed, keep trying until you do. 

Altogether, I see rejection as an opportunity for personal growth/development. We learn more from our own failures and shortcomings after all.  

To me rejection is part of life-  I mean you can't be like by everyone is just how it is. If someone does not like me for whatever reason that's their opinion and I don't have to accept it or even acknowledge it or even know about it. My life does not revolve around that person at all.

When it comes to romantic rejections, it gets tricky. Of course it hurts and may hinder your self esteem but, you got to accept it for what it is and keep it moving. They may not like you now but, who knows down the road as they get to know you more things may change. If not then, hey you've already made it this far so keep on pushing and you'll meet someone that will like you the way you want just don't get caught up on the rejection. There's plenty of people to meet and plenty of adventures to seek so a relationship is not necessary to be happy.

Family rejection for me has been the worst. My whole life, I've been rejected in so many ways and I've done so much to try and change that but, they made up their mind the moment I was born so nothing I did and could do now would ever change that. I deal with it as such; don't like me then, just keep it moving, don't bother with me at all. 

Rejection and people will hurt you as much as you allow them/it to. You just have to go through these experiences and do your best to come out stronger and more determined.

I would be pretty sad, though I would tell the person I was in love with that it's alright and that we can still be friends. It's not the end of the world as you can always find someone else if you try.

Never been rejected when it came to confessing to someone. Probably because I'm wayyyy too shy. I've only been able to confess once and that relationship is still going.

I have been rejected with stuff like group assignments or teams when it came to sports or whatever. I try not to take it too personally but I usually have it in the back of my mind for at least like 5 days before it fades into the background.

I learned how to deal with rejection early on. I never took it seriously and I have a strong sense of pride if I get rejected because I actually made the effort and I had the nerve to go try something new. Specifically asking a girl out or trying to talk to girls was tough but I kept at it. Rejection never got easy, so to speak, but I learned more about myself and how to interact and talk and I found more and more females smiling at me, engaging, and talking and then flirting with me.

So, practice makes perfect. Now, I have the confidence and the drive to stroll up to a random woman, say hello, and go from there. Of course I wouldn't because I'm married and my wife wouldn't approve but I have no issue meeting new people. The fear of being rejected is the last thing on my mind when I'm in new or unusual social situations. I got that practice out of the way a long time ago.

Rejection is just kinduh one of those things that's bound to happen sooner or later. Kinduh like death. I've been to two funerals, one for my grandmother and one fore my uncle and I wasn't really upset at either of them. She was old, he was unhealthy and it was all gonna happen, whether I wanted it to or not. You just have to accept it and move on. I don't have much experience with it, but I think I would understand.

I'll be completely honest, I don't deal with it well.

To be fair, I am working on it, I mean, I've been rejected by 3 girls this week, and I only had a breakdown after two of them, which I think is cool

I've been dealing with it mostly through exercise, which used to be something I hated due to chronic back pain, but I have learned is a valuable (And healthy!) coping mechanism for my anxiety and other disorders. Sure it's not fool proof, as I did still have two breakdowns (Lots of screaming, self-hatred, and being unable to form complete sentences is what a breakdown is like for me) But it cheer me up a lot.

It's funny... I take death way easier than rejection...

Honestly, most rejections that I've had have been because girls have told me that they are lesbians, so I don't take it too hard. The others were not too bad either, they liked me as friends, so I'm alright with that. I honestly wish I wasn't routinely rejected though, as I've never had a girlfriend (though I've only asked out 4 girls in my life, so it doesn't seem like a total routine)

I thought rejection was normal? Guess people fuss too much about it these days.

I don't think people have the idea that certain people have likes, dislikes, and that each person is different. Just because you adore someone doesn't mean they are going to like you back. This is true with everything.

How do I deal with it? Well, I'm not that type of, "ladies' guy", if you know what I mean, so I don't get rejected often. I honestly am usually the rejecter, but if I had to say that I handle rejection quite nicely, usually I'm fine, composed, and ready to deal with break-ups.

What I do not tolerate though, is when someone ruins a relationship to happen to be with somebody else. This is just traitorish behavior. No one in their right mind would be inhumane to do so. If someone truly had their heart set on me, why is this arbitrary nonsense needed? You know, it isn't.

You don't need a relationship to feel happy. People can have friends, they don't need to have that love that couples share for each other. This is what everyone doesn't understand. Love isn't just about kissing, love is about the relationship you feel with another person.

I'm completely fine with rejection, but if you are going to reject me for someone else? That's a whole different story.

 Rejection of any kind will always be hard. I tend to have an attitude of "OK, sorry I can not teach you to have good taste, because I am awesome ( and I can back that up). I am a firm believer in that 10% of people will always love you, 10% of people will always hate you, 80% of people need to make up their minds about you and the biggest difficulty is not impressing the 80% but rather figuring which group each individual belongs in.

You're gonna feel shy, but you're gonna meet that one person. And I'm not saying that one person is going to be your true beloved (I don't believe in that, I know we all die alone. truly, truly alone.) but you'll feel a connection and you will feel comfortable enough to ask them out and that courage will numb you and you'll be left dazed like did that just happen and you'll have a reason to smile. Because whether or not they say yes, you will have the satisfaction to yourself that you managed to ask somebody out. You had the balls to do it! and you'll feel good,







for a while.
Good luck.

Usually, I find myself taking it fine. Shooters shoot, and even the best miss over half their shots. You can't be good for everyone, so you just have to keep trying.

In a vacuum anyways. There are rare cases where I've found myself incredibly upset, and unable to function for a couple days.

Love is hard man.