Most of the time I hate having the hormones of a young guy (I’m 20). With being back in the dating world properly after things going south with my fwb, my needs for intimacy have doubled like crazy. A bit of background: my first girlfriend was at 16 and there was no “dating process” there, we naturally became friends and it naturally progressed to a relationship. Since then I haven’t learned how to or proactively go out of my way to get dates (though I hear this can be a dead end, and it’s better to focus on just meeting people and generally being a good person, which is my strat now)

This is making me go a little haywire as I have no dates lined up (and am honestly in the process of improving my social life in the first place to get to that stage); and yes Ive been self improving for many years now and am in a place that I’ve dreamed of being for a decade. I’ve tried online dating (barely any fruit yielded there on tinder, hinge, bumble), tried masturbation but that makes me feel worse sometimes and even a bit guilty (and porn is out of the question as that stuff fucks with my brain).

Thought my medium term strategy is to focus on my social skills and generally be a good person, im out of immediate solutions to stay satisfied/occupied (Though I’m mostly occupied by study and have gotten into streaming) while being single. I’m also aware this will be immensely difficult during quarantine.

Thoughts? 🙂 (admin please delete if not allowed)