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I'm 20, why am I the only emotionally mature but single?
I'm a woman, turning 21 in 4 months. Time is going fast. The fast going is making me concerned with starting a serious relationship with someone closer and a liitle older to my age.
I don't know where to look to find a guy that's on the same page or flexible. I'm concerned with online dating. There's nice candidates, but I can't be the one that speaks first, I want them to speak first to show that they really care to start something.
There is so much to handle though my anxiety raises uncomfortably when I'm looking for guys. I don't want to be racist but I don't want to be with them on feeling sorry for the past of being treated garbage. I want to be with for loving them not because I need to not hurt their feelings. No one deserves that. I would possibly do fine with them once I am sitting with them, but I don't want to be put in that scenario of not be able to settle down and take in what they have to bring to me as their genuine selves.
In ready to love, have a family, teach my kids better than my parents. I don't seem to be able to find someone that's single too, I don't want that drama of taking someone from someone else. I'm considering it though going past that but that feels scary.
3 Answers
- Anonymous3 years ago
The ladies who are sought after are the ladies who have created such a wonderful single life for themselves that they are reluctant to complicate and disrupt that single life by "getting serious" about a man. The ladies who are eager to be in a serious relationship are avoided.
You may or may not meet someone who would be good lifetime partner. So live your life in such a way that your life is good even if such a person never happens along. If someone like that does happen along, then your life is even better. But if nobody that wonderful ever happens along, it's not a disaster.
At age 20, you're crazy to be worrying about this stuff. There is so much more to life than some crazy quest to "couple up" at an early age.
- Anonymous3 years ago
The big mistake we make when coming to dating and marriage (my conclusion) is looking at it as we would look a job or career.
Do have a child whose 27, has his career and comfortable in his skin, but looking for a specific type of person and finds difficulty.
My advice is to enjoy life, and when you function in your environment, of work play school and church, you would eventually, meet a like minded person.
Think, that if we are so conscious of finding the person who is not married, who has a job, who has right motives, the right color, the right age, etc. will send you bat crazy because of all the variables here.
Going on a dating website also is not advised, because, you end up playing Russian roulette, because of the type of pp who go there and any number of possibilities of danger.
You are quite young, and because of the change in the relationship experience of the 21st century, its quite different to my time, when life was simpler.
Enjoy your youth, have fun, go about your daily duties and activity without thinking too hard about the clock, in the case of girls who want to have kids.
We are not robots, and we cannot be like the bachelor or bachelorette, who wants to capture love.
Friendships have to be forged naturally and not forced, and everyones circumstance or life is different, ppl put themselves in a box and rush into situations and at the end of the day, 5 divorces down the road they wonder what happened.
Society dictates when and who you should marry, love does not, its unconditional and true..when you go about life and be the right kind of human being, then you will be found or find someone, you describe here.
My advice to all unmarried ppl from 20-30 years old, male or female, its not like in the movies, and stop beating up on yourself, you are not missing out on life, and in your case, you are quite young still, don't be influence or pressured by society to the point of questioning yourself or your life, that you hardly have much control over, meeting ms or mr right.
- ez2tock2Lv 73 years ago
Every guy that find you attractive is going to be AFRAID of rejection, just like you.
You not speaking up to or for someone you like is like waiting for a JOB to come you for Hiring. It doesn't work that way. Pain is a part of Growing Up and Maturing. ISN'T THAT WHAT YOU ARE DOING NOW... Hurting?
You can't avoid pain. You will either do it to yourself (self rejection/denial) or someone/something else will do it to you. "Anxiety" IS FEAR.
Isn't that how you felt when you applied for your driver's license?
At 21 a whole new world opens up. If you are afraid of it, you are NOT ready for the struggles, demands and responsibilities of a family.
People always make MISTAKES of all KINDS, but that’s how you learn
RIGHT from WRONG, GOOD from BAD. It's called EXPERIENCE