No, it is perfectly normal. Many people go through life never having a real relationship with other people. Some people get over the nervousness and at least have sex, but that is not a relationship (the kind you want).
Oh no... no sex. Not initially. It's not a sort of religious restriction I place upon myself - though I was raised Catholic , somewhat strictly, but deem myself agnostic nowadays.
Thank you for the wonderful explanation Dr.Phill(sic).
I'm not a big fan of his.
I jest because how do you expect to find a meaningful relationship unless you begin a relationship?
Good point.
It is just a term/phrase for starting a relationship.
I guess it's more of a "prude" reaction of mine to a term I considered only to be used by junior high-schoolers and the like. However, I have heard and said much, much worse. Even curse words, gosh darnit!
You do not need anything else.
Goes like this.
Introduction and ask out on a date.
That is it, that is all you need.
The minutiae of the conversation are where I generally fail. Practice makes perfect, I suppose.
As you WILL learn sometimes the most important things in a meaningful relationship has absolutely NOTHING to do with what is said (and I am not talking about good sex here).
I do understand this.
That is why you keep engaging in relationships until you find somebody you like. That does not make you petty or a slut.
Of course, the feeling has to be mutual, and I don't recognize this at all times. Or sometimes I read too much into things (see note regarding "practice").
Staying in a bad relationship makes you stupid.
Yet people end up doing this anyway. Some, I even know.
Laugh. It was hilarious.
Humor is not a concept I grasp easily at all times - okay, maybe I do; and no, I am not Spock. And neither is Leonard Nimoy. (har har) Okay, that was dumb of me. Anywho..
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Conversely, I have my own sense of humor which others do not grasp at all times, some of which can be relegated to the "corny" category, most of the rest goes to "wtf?".
Though I do find Police Academy amusing. *ducks*
Stop trying to make it into something big and grand, it is not.
I almost always overcomplicate all sorts of things for myself. I acknowledge that I am a worry-wart (thanks female parental unit!), am incredibly anxious around masses of people unless I'm behind a microphone belting out a tune (a video of which I swear I will record someday), and otherwise sit alone at a distant table in that sort of environment. I also consider myself like a grain of sand on the beach, one of billions(?) indistinguishable from the next.
Then again, on the flip-side I: apparently possess perfect pitch, according to my piano teacher; am otherwise musically "talented" according to friends; can sort-of speak Czech - a family-heritage thing; can fix systems (more and more of a chore to me outside of work - who wants to work on replacing desktkop components for family and friends after dealing with the same at work? yes, I'm an ungrateful bastard); am learning how to cook (with smoke and burnt food and cookware alike..).
I guess the question comes down to: "What sets me apart from others, and will it be acknowledged by/interesting to the prospective female carbon unit?"
Dan =0)
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