I’m 23 years old, haven’t dated or had sex since I was in high school due to mild mental health problems, social anxiety etc. and just been living with parents rotting away in my room the last 5 years lol. I regret this as I’m getting older now and my youth is slipping away.
It encourages me to think how if I sort myself out in next few years, I still have a chance to have a good dating life eventually. But I worry that the last few years of my life were supposed to be for this..
What years were your best dating years for casual sex and flings etc..?
Are your thirties still good for that?
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I’m 23 years old, haven’t dated or had sex since I was in high school due to mild mental health problems, social anxiety etc. and just been living with parents rotting away in my room the last 5 years lol. I regret this as I’m getting older now and my youth is slipping away.
It encourages me to think how if I sort myself out in next few years, I still have a chance to have a good dating life eventually. But I worry that the last few years of my life were supposed to be for this..
What years were your best dating years for casual sex and flings etc..?
Are your thirties still good for that?
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20s
Met lots of women, had some long and short relationships, one night stands, friends with benefits, then met my wife and settled down.
As someone who is 35 and pissed away most of my 20s, your question kind of makes me chuckle. Youre a baby with tons of time. I dont feel old and have had flings with hot 20 somethings, so just relex. Will wanna work on thar social anxiety tho
30s are fine. You didn’t miss it. Focus on fixing the social anxiety first dating gets way easier after that.
I’d say your youth isn’t slipping away. You’re getting out into the world of work and hopefully making money which allows you to do things you value. You’re enabled far more to do that than when you were in your teens.
Women will also be so much more mature, experienced and you understand the women you’d like to go for more, the more women you date and as time goes on I feel that only gets better from what I’ve experienced.
I’m 27 and this is the best time in my life in terms of dating and meeting people.
Regardless if you think you’ve wasted your life, just crack on now and go do something you’d really enjoy that you don’t usually do. The person that is stopping you doing that is yourself, is it worth it? Might be a lot of effort but you know you’ll only live to regret it. Comparison is the thief of joy, don’t be your biggest critic, eat well, exercise, 8 hours sleep and you’ll do great.
My 40’s. Had a blast. Now I’m single again after 20 years & I’m looking forward to another few years of fun!
Lost almost my entire 20s dating -wise, being a young single father…
Now in my 30s I feel more mature and settled and even feel like even younger women appreciate that…
Late teens/ early 20’s. I was born in 1980 so I’d say from 98 to about 2002 or so were amazing for me. I got my car. Had complete freedom to go out and spend unlimited time with friends. No girlfriends. No commitments. Nothing. Just complete and utter freedom. Easily the best time of my life.