I (24f) am a veteran on the dating apps. It's where I have met every single guy I have dated. I feel as if I've swiped through my entire city 3x at this point and I just can't meet the right guy because it feels so forced and unnatural for so many of them to get into a relationship with a girl off the apps rather than in real life. I've over 750 matches on tinder right now and there is no way that if I met any of them in real life that there wouldn't be a spark or something.
How do I meet people in real life? I'm from Sydney aus and I work from home half the time and when I'm in the office I'm straight in and out with my headphones on to go straight home. My social life is pretty limited – I've a small number of friends and they all aren't single or just not into the in real life meeting people dating scene thing, and I'm not a "go out for drinks once a week" type of person either. I rarely go out asides for work or the gym. I know many of you will say to put myself out there more and all that, but I feel that only works on chicks who are pretty and confident where I am an overweight (but working on it -9kg down, 20 more to go!) 5'2 Asian chick who has a bad speech impediment especially when nervous (and talking to cute guys). I've been told to go to dating events but I feel they're just dating apps irl which I'm not exactly into.
What happened to those meet cutes that people have when they meet their significant others in the grocery store or in an elevator?!
I'm being so deadass right now, please give me advice so I can get off the dating apps 🙁