#dapperdick

Dude do you use anything for your cuticles cuz mine are brutal right now

That's why you totally don't do that. reach out the way it feels natural to do so. You only want friends and significant others in your life that want the real you. Not the fabricated stuff on some dating site. (and the you I know is wonderful without the fluff anyway)

Well, that’s what it feels like, even if you’re trying to be honest about it.  Which is a large part of why I’ve never followed through with it.  /shrugs  I’ve got enough new people to get to know right now with the larp group.  So I’ll probably just continue to let life happen and just...keep an eye out and try not to be my usual oblivious self to such things.

I think you and I are one in the same. I don't dig casual dating either and I'm demi af so it isn't like romance just HAPPENS. So my only advice is hit up a place like okcupid and go in with the intent to build friendships. widen your scope of friends to include these new people that always have a secondary intent to find romance, too. then go from there.

You totally have a point though so give yourself some credit. regardless of age and maturity there's also levels to this whole life thing. And someone who is a decade younger than you, no matter how mature, is at an entirely different stage and learning things they ought to at that age. And when in doubt, if it makes you feel icky? Don't do it.

You need to focus entirely on the maturity of the person AND their age. Personally? I wouldn't date anyone younger than 21 + anyone without a decent amount of maturity to go with it

Oh, absolutely.  Maturity plays a HUGE factor.  I don’t exactly get accused of acting my age, whatever that actually means anymore, but I know people in their 40s and 50s that still act like obnoxious teenagers and then there are several guys in this game in the middle 20s that are much more mature than that first set.