>>4167266>Being a waifuist for a long period of time hurts really hard. All this love for her, yet unable to share it and all alone. Memories and experiences limited to the medium and when we first met. Unable to get married like everyone else is doing these days and start a family together. Grow old together. Find a future together. All while seeing college kids act super idealistic about the waifu laifu and the future, as you once did and your peers once did. But all your peers left their waifus since then. You remain loyal, yet alone. The world isn't supportive of our kind. A mindset unchanging stuck in a transient world.I disagree, it's not a rule.
Sure, you can't properly convey her your feelings, but you can still do things for her and you can channel that passion into other things. Drawing being most common here I think.
Marriage is really just a cultural thing. Sure it can be nice as a symbol, but many people go along without it or with just sign the papers. And you can still do it too, invite anons to VR wedding like shinobufag or do it irl if you really want, or even just get rings and do it in private. I will probably go for the first option one day.
People who have left their waifus, I wish them well but it's their life. After all you are doing it for yourself and for her, not for them. Even if the waifufags you knew before dispersed, there will always be others, both newfags and oldfags, etc. I'm sure the world is not supportive of other parts of you as well. When the overton window shrinks into nothingness everyone is getting hated by someone, so who cares at this point. Don't look for validation in the totality, it's a waste of time.