My (23M) parents keep probing about friends that are girls that may or may not be single. They don’t get that it isn’t 1975 anymore when people could be easily meet and get into relationships without online dating, when it was easier to tell who’s single.

My parent met as neighborhood friends when they were in their teens. I don't have that luxury hence why I've been single for 23 years. They know I've never really dated anyone or done anything romantic, so whenever I have a friend that's a girl they wonder why I'm not automatically dating them.

Yes, there's a girl that I talk to on a regular basis that I know from a national service program, but she may or may not be single and may or may not be attracted to me. As we all know, just because someone talks to you doesn't mean they don't have 10 other suitors and guy friends. She also lives on the other side of the country.

All of this puts pressure on me. They used to say things like keep it in the pants and "not everyone finds a relationship in high school or college, you're still young" at the same time. But now I'm at 23, almost 24 and many people I know have had multiple relationships and I've had none. It's embarrassing to talk about these kinds of topics around the house at all, and leads to daily internal frustrations inside me, to the point where coming to this subreddit in a pandemic is a daily routine.