Dating : 27M can’t figure out how to move forward with dating. What am I doing wrong?
Hey everyone. I’m a 27 year old cishet man. I’ve had a ton of diverse experiences in my life with different types of people, jobs/trades, and experiences. I come from a strong and successful family and have had nothing but good influences from my parents and other role models. I live in a city 2000 miles from my hometown, working remotely as a mechanical engineer in a job I absolutely love and take seriously, and which pays me very well. In that job I have nearly complete autonomy and the ability to travel and schedule myself as I please. I own a house and a nice vehicle, and a beautiful, healthy, well-behaved dog. I have money coming in from diversified sources representing multiple contingency plans.
I cook or bake for myself most nights and actively work on getting better at it. I can make baguettes or cheesecake that you’d think were from a bakery. A love for mountain biking has caused me to take fitness very seriously, and I plan to begin competing in the next year.
My sexual needs are those of a submissive, and I am very much Demisexual, to the point where I sit here and can’t even imagine having enjoyable sex with a new person.
My biggest shortcoming is that I have no patience for much of anything. If I turn down an aisle at the grocery store and someone is in it, I turn the other way because it feels like the most efficient thing to do. If YouTube gives me an ad, many times I just shut the video off. I also grew up a little bit on the spectrum in the aspergers direction, and although I’ve gotten better now at empathizing and recognizing what people are feeling, I don’t necessarily understand it or respond to signals.
Throughout life I’ve set goals for myself and continually worked to meet them, save one- I haven’t the slightest prospect for a good significant other. I’d like to find someone who takes fitness seriously, has a successful career and who is sexually dominant. I’m not interested in children, but I would very much like to have a small family with an s/o and animals. Every so often I’ll find someone close, but it falls apart after a couple of months when we both start feeling like it isn’t quite right. I feel like I’ve been left in the dust, and I’m wondering what I may be doing wrong.
TLDR: I have my life together but can’t find a significant other. What am I doing wrong?
It sounds like you don’t have the patience for commitment. Or maybe you fear it. Maybe not sure. Just something to think about
sounds like you have really high expectations of others based on how you perceive your own life. if you want a woman who is perfectly tailored to you go make one in a factory somewhere.