If you're 27 and never had a girlfriend, is it too late?

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Wouldn't it be funny if the OP got a girlfriend now?

I am plenty flawed and I found a wife and have been married for almost 16 years. We have a really good marriage. She isn't someone who I just "settled" for either. I had a couple of girlfriends before that as well.

The previous poster had it correct-I was very anxious to speak to females most of my life, and when I did overcome that in college I still had the idea that no one would really want to go out with me. I can look back and see how some females were expressing interest in me but at the time didn't realize it.

Fortunately today there are plenty of websites to learn how to spot these cues, and how to appear more attractive to women. The internet was just starting when I was in the dating world. It would have opened up a whole other source of possibilities if it had been there earlier, but I have learned from KraftieKortie to not assume that that would have made my life better today. There is every possibility that it could have turned out worse.

or 1. they settle settle settle. somethings better then noting and when better omes along you can always leave the current guy. 2. they see perfect differently.

yep you're standard post. blame the guy always the guys fault.

they hold out for mr perfect. they dont' know hes already taken. so they keep looking for him til its too late.
I meet tons of girls idea guy except 1 or 2 things usually well off decent job.

or she'll acuse you of sexual assualt. women here said dont' make any contact til the girl ask or you ask first and get a bunch of yeses.

women don't hit on me, nts I go out with say they don't too so not just me.

but all the cues can also and likely will be just being friendly. this girl at worked showed so many cues that would be considered flirting. so I tried to ask her out. shes just being friendly. women you see working when you're out are paid to be friendly which again are also signs of flirting but its just business. so the lady at a coffee shop smiles at you. is she flirting or just smiling at customers like shes paid to do?

I'm told to smile ast customers too. I'm not flirting with them.

the lady looking back at me is she fliritng or is she looking back wondering why that guy is looking at her and creeped out?

every time its been the latter. so seems safer and logical to assume people don't flirt then to assume all of them are flirting and get women upset at you all the time. :S

But how did you stop regretting the past?

Even now that I've got a girlfriend I can't stop regretting the years I didn't have one, the missed opportunities, how I didn't get one at the normal age. Every time I see a teenager I'm filled hatred and rage. I assume they must be in a relationship. I assume they're getting better grades than I did it in school and they probably picked harder subjects as well. It's like I'm projecting my own self-loathing onto them. Hell, I don't even know what my grades were because my crappy school decided to adopt a bizarre grading system instead of the familiar A - F one.

Every time I see a 20 year old I assume they must be in a relationship and how can they be in university when I'm only in a cheap community college? There were girls who were into me when I was younger. If I had done things just a bit differently. I don't blame others, I blame myself. I always blame myself. "It's all my fault" is like a broken record in my head.

I know these thoughts are irrational but I can't stop thinking them. I feel like I'm going mad. How can I stop comparing myself to everyone else? Regretting the past? Worrying about how old I was when I reached certain milestones? I feel like I'm going insane. All this thinking is exhausting. How can I regain control of my own mind?

Start a gratitude journal and everyday write down at least one thing you are thankful for in your life (or more). Read over it several times a day especially when your negative thoughts show up. I'm going to have to do that myself because I'm getting in a funk from not hitting "milestones" that everyone else I know has done. A big one - no kids for me. Even though I don't know if I'd ever want any, the choice is gone and I can't get it back. I also wish I had went to a 4 yr college (I went to a community college), but now I was just accepted into one of the biggest Universities in Kansas (it's just several years later). I guess I'm a late bloomer. You gotta focus in the positives in your life. I'm finding out things aren't always going to happen like you want.

A gratitude journal? That's a good idea.

I guess I just have to stop assuming that everyone else has a perfect life. Many do but not everyone.

Even when people say they're suffering I take it to mean they have a greater capacity to endure suffering than me but that's probably not what it's supposed to mean.

It's not like you're some old geezer. You're still a young guy.

0-24 is young.

You know sly, don't you ever get tired of always being such a negative person? Every time one of your posts comes up, I just know its something negative. Why don't you try being positive just once - or is that too much of a stretch for you? It reminds me of my father - everything negative and if something bad happened to someone else he could find something worse that happened to him. He just sucks the life right out of a person - all that negative energy he puts out actually just drags other people down who are around him. You want a guaranteed way if keeping people away from you, just keep up all the negative talk and you'll clear out rooms cause no one wants to be around negative Ned constantly. Geez.

in this negative world, it is many many MANY times harder to be positive than negative, it is like trying to fight gravity- it requires constant energy that never flags, or else it will get the upper hand and drag you down.

whenever I'm happy people like you come and crush it and any hopes of ever being happy again. only conclusion is I'm not meant to be happy in positive. people dont' like me being funny, happy or positive.

world crushes positive and happy people like auntblabby said. I only learned not to fight it anymore. climbing and falling and repeating it over and over is worse. if you stay on the ground it won't hurt when you fall. if you climb you're only going to get hurt far worse.

Other than that, they're slightly taller, fitter, better looking and have better social skills. They're simply less non-perfect.

^^^
have better genes and upbringing also. less addlement overall. less health problems.

It wasn't too late to not having a girl friend till now. may be some better person waiting for you...