Basically, I (M25) can acknowledge I’m not really in the best spot in my life to date. I got out of toxic relationship at the end of last year, but haven’t really made moves to get back into dating because of other aspects of my life.
The two biggest things being time and money. I’ve worked two jobs over the summer to have some extra cash, but I still don’t necessarily have money to be throwing around on dates right now. Once school starts back up, I’ll be working less too so it’ll be even tighter. Not to mention I wont really have time since I’ll be a full time student and still working almost full time. It just doesn’t seem right to try and date if I really cant even afford a simple coffee date, or would be struggling to have time to schedule a date altogether.
Despite knowing those things though, I really want to be dating. I know a lot of people are giving up these days, but as someone who has only had long term relationships I miss having that partner to live life with. Sure it’s fun spending my free time just playing video games with friends, or working out, but I miss having that special person.
It just seems like the only possible option would be to find someone who doesn’t mind doing mostly cheap/free things, like just hanging out and watching a movie together. That kind of stuff doesn’t seem really feasible in today’s dating scene though, until much farther into a relationship. Also meeting that person would be tough, since no time or money to really go out.
Does anyone else find themselves in a position like this?