28 yo F here; I started a FWB and it’s been hard since I just got out of a long term serious relationship. What makes it hard is that when together in-person, he gives me everything I was looking for from my ex. I just feel so wanted and “loved”. He makes me feel like the only girl in the world. We laugh a lot and everything feels so natural and easy. He calls me sweet nicknames and is the perfect gentleman whether or not we go out or stay in. He gives me butterflies and I just want to keep spending time with him and getting to know him. He texts me ‘good morning!’ every day but the rest of the text conversation is so stale. When he expresses the needs alone time, he still asks me about my day bc he says he’s interested. He doesn’t ask me questions about myself and he only wants to link up once a week. When I ask him on spontaneous hangouts he always says, “I would but ___”. He works night shift so I try to be understanding and accommodating but I feel confused. When I brought it up, ...

So for the first time in a year, I [M21] am going on a date with someone [F20]. This is also my first time going on a date with someone I met on a dating app. I have very little experience with dating and quite frankly, little experience meeting new people, possibly my biggest flaw. Another big and painful flaw is I get attached to someone very easily. I will NOT be doing this this time. My last date was with my high school crush a year ago, with a 5 year gap from the last time we met. I went head over heels too quick, thinking she had to be the one. She wasnt, I got attached and became too needy, after the 3rd date she decided to end it which was fair enough. I've learnt from this mistake and was the best thing I got out of those dates. I'm taking what I've learnt from the past and bringing it with me. What I need help with is finding that balance between needy and disinterested and when to notice where you're at. Submitted March 25, 2023 at 12:38AM So for t...

So I have been speaking to this lady (23m) for a few weeks now and things were going well, some personal chats, lil bit of flirting and some standard risky selfies. All good in my books, however the last week there have been two things. Thing 1 is that things have been moving quite quickly with her suggesting mainly that we set a load of future dates and put them all in a scrapbook so we have "memories for the future" and her buying a matching couples necklace set when we haven't even had a first proper date. This is way too much too fast in my opinion as I'm sure most reasonable people would agree and I voiced these concerns to which I felt she kinda backpedalled and agreed with me that she wanted to take things slow. I want to preface thing 2 by saying that I have made it crystal clear that I am under a lot of personal stress at the moment due to issues I won't go into detail here but I feel like every other message I get is a complaint about something, or unl...

Honesly it’s annoying that people are telling them to ditch their girlfriend and are assuming that needs aren’t being met when it’s stated that OPs gf does them favours/services them willingly it’s , OP feeling disgusted by their sexual urges is emotions they need to work through somehow because that is the root cause of the conflict need to have a discussion with their girlfriend or a therapist or something as clearly it’s not doing their mental health any good, but it shouldn’t automatically mean the death of a relationship that clearly means a lot OP. With reassurance from their girlfriend and a bit of time to think things over I’m sure this doesn’t have to end badly between the two of them. March 25, 2023 at 12:06AM

Can I DM someone for advice ? Submitted March 25, 2023 at 12:15AM Can I DM someone for advice ?