It sounds like you are so "in your head" that you miss the point.
This is what you have failed to see, and you go on with the discourse ....at length...
I intuit a narcisstic nature that has stopped you in matters of the heart. It carries an odd tone that it produces; professorial, then full of self, then defensive...a genuine sincerity, but all head..."not connected". Young?
I am sure you are a very fine genuine person....Qualified-only you can know....Woodlawn has tact and found value in the "one step at a time theory" the rest was hurtful to read. That was the basis for the Demeter reaction James.