I(South Asian Male) just turned 29 yesterday, have been reflecting on my 20s and creating goals for my 30s. I have this lingering regret of not experiencing dating/romantic relationships/intimacy in my 20s. I have zero experience in this area due to being unconfident and having low self-esteem, thinking I was a loser and unattractive. I've been working on myself for a while now and still have a long way to go with self-improvement; building my body (7 days in the gym), trying to increase my net worth, finding meaningful hobbies, and improving my mental health/confidence. I wish someone had advised me to build my worth as a man during my teens. I spent my 20s thinking I would be forever alone, trying to kill my desire for companionship, and feeling ashamed for wanting a partner and building a family but I want to change this mindset and put myself out there. I want to experience the dating world, want to build a family, want to have a life partner, want to experience intimacy but ...

Basically, I (33f) met someone(33m) at a new years party and immediately felt sparks with him. He is very attractive, kind, intelligent and creative. We kept making intense eye contact and talking separate from everyone else. I am very shy and can't pick up on signals very well so I took it as he is a nice dude but I have been crushing on him a LOT! So last night a big group of friends went out, they invited him. He and I didn't talk much at first but he eventually sat next to me, we chatted a lot and decided to go to another bar with a couple other friends. Eventually everyone starts leaving and he offers to give me a ride back to my car. So we hang out at the bar for a while, talking. Eventually he drives me to my car but we ended up sitting in his car talking until 3am. I definitely was flirting with him, which he seemed receptive to. We both talked about how cool each other are, happy to hang out and spend time with each other. I dropped that I liked him a lot and he respo...

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman has demisexual rep. I just bought How to be Ace which is a graphic novel memoir by Rebecca Burgess but I haven't read it yet. January 06, 2023 at 12:24AM

So I’ve been dating this guy for about 5 months and I feel as if our conversations are very surface. He seems to only be interested in having conversations surrounding sex. He claims to be in love with me but I am having a difficult time believing him. He does things for me but I can’t seem to connect with him. I’m thinking I should call it quits. Anyone ever experienced this before? Submitted January 05, 2023 at 11:59PM So I’ve been dating this guy for about 5 months and I feel as if our conversations are very surface. He seems to only be interested in having conversations surrounding sex. He claims to be in love with me but I am having a difficult time believing him. He does things for me but I can’t seem to connect with him. I’m thinking I should call it quits. Anyone ever experienced this before?

I (19F) met my boyfriend (20M) a bit more than half a year. We hit it off instantaneously and we have been through long distance for most of the time but we are really glued to each other. We spent hours on phone calls everyday and, before I start studying and move away, we have been living together for about 3 months. We have been having more fights lately, mostly about money. He used to have financial stability because he worked very long hours and didn’t have to pay rent, but he has recently moved out of his parents and hence has a lot more bills to pay. He had an agreement with a company to work the summer and until then they said they would find him work elsewhere, but that ended up being only weekends. So he is working much less and that results in less money. I just don’t understand why he didn’t keep searching himself for more work. We are going to be moving together to my place in a couple of days and he will stay there for around 3 months and then move back to his place for ...

Yeah it's gonna take a while for some things to advance enough though. January 05, 2023 at 11:23PM