Dating during teenage years?

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Hi, new here.

God what a depressing outlook....

I just wanted to point out that their have been some prominent figures who blossomed late in life.

Tina Fey announced on television that she remained a virgin until she married her husband at 24. Julia Child was also virgin until she met her husband in her late 30s /40s.

Remember that the future is unwritten.

Welcome to the forums, Android7

I agree with you. Some people's routes to love may be more circuitous, but that doesn't mean they're romantically doomed because they haven't had a girlfriend by 21.

As for me: first crush at 10, no girlfriend or dates as yet. But then, at my first secondary school there were 85 boys and 15 girls, and at my second one there were more people but boys were still the vast majority. However, it was fun watching the most unlikely relationships form. I put my lack of a relationship more down to circumstance than anything - the girls who I've fancied and the ones who've fancied me have never been the same. *shrug*

For women virginity is still considered virtuous, but for men it's considered bad. Because as a man you're supposed to be constantly proving your virility to all, and then complaining how women are all sluts for sleeping with men proving their virility to all. Of course it's changing and women are becoming sexually empowered and whatever, but yeah. People see virgin girls and go all giddy over being the opportunity to pop it, but then girls want "experienced" guys.

I had a 'boyfriend' all through primary school, but from the age of 11 to 16, I hardly spoke to any boys. I started dating in the April after I turned 16. I had a boyfriend for a week or two, then one for 2 months. In the October, I met my future husband. I really don't think I've gone through the dating trauma that others have gone through.

My oldest daughter started dating her fiance when she was 13. She had known him for years. They are still together and he's the only guy she's ever dated and she's really the only girl he's ever dated.

I'd say based on all the emotional pain you'll experience and the loss of focus on important things, even if you are successful with relationships, I'd probably delay it as long as I could. I had a long term girlfriend at 15, I wanted sex and to be in love and all that....I kinda wish I would paid more attention to my school work, BUT the grass is always greener....

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Well it was quite difficult to date when you were basically the Jar Jar Binks known and targeted by every damn street gang walking around in the country and maybe around.

Not sure what turned me into a more serious person after all these years.

After the school years and college/uni years, unless you have a strong circle of friends, opportunities to find a suitable match dries up as people grow older. It can be very hard for some people finding a suitable match, if they do not have much to offer or do not have a strong circle of friends to set up dates. Most people may indeed find their perfect ideal partner but some may never find anyone because they do have much to offer or simply fall upon bad luck.

I have never been in love and I believe I may never find someone unless my lucky ducks line up in a row. I do not believe I have much to offer anyone and I have never dated anyone in my life.

wish i had dated in my teenage years

During my teenage days, I've dated so many guys. However, I don't date those boys who are totally strangers on me.

I had my first boyfriend at 16. I was unpopular in high school and I just thought, "This kid isn't ugly, and he's new so he doesn't know what a dork I am, why not?" I wanted to prove someone could want me.
My first serious relationship was with a guy I met online, then the one that I thought was the One Who Got Away - until I met my current boyfriend. We are both smitten with each other and I've been with him longer than I was ever with anyone else.

"In life, you'll do better things than dating the boy on the football team -
I didn't know that at fifteen."
- Taylor Swift, "Fifteen"

i hate it when people say it is never too late and you have plenty of time, because i want to experience dating and relationships, sex while i'm still in the prime of my life, which i consider to be your teens and 20's, i only have 5 more years left of my 20's unfortuneately

I started thinking about romance at about the age of 13. I've still never experienced it though.

have wanted a girlfriend since i was 14, still no luck