Hi. I recently turned 26. Have been single entire life. No relationship, never kissed, or had sex ever. I have had couple of women who were interested in me but for one reason or the other I did not go ahead with dating then. Reasons were usually along the lines where I don't find them physically attractive or they live geographically too far away from me (I would like to date someone in my own city ideally). I find these reasons fair imo. I have asked out girls 4-5 times in my life till now and was rejected. It takes me time to build enough rapport and knowing someone where I can give it a shot to ask for a date, or otherwise it does not make sense if I'm asking for it after like 2-3 meetings.
So the problem is, all of this is getting to my head where I am starting to think negatively that something might be wrong with me that I have not been able to bag even a single date or romantic experience in my life. It bothers me a lot every now and then. I also think about that maybe due to my lack of experience people are also avoiding to think of me as a potential partner, because it does raise questions as to why nothing happened till now even though I've been wishing for a relationship ever since I was a teenager.
Now, I actually do not have trouble talking to women at all. I can also talk to strangers comfortably. I think I'm cool and interesting enough person. I'm not bad looking by any means. Only thing might be that I'm bald, and I keep the hair buzzed to very minimum because they don't grow proper. I don't have issue with baldness, I have dealt with it and don't care.
I just don't want to have bad thoughts about this. It's like the situation where you apply for a job but job requires experience but to gain experience you need to get a job. Also lack of sexual experience gives me lot of FOMO. All these things are making me feel like a loser in life that this peak human experience like a romantic relationship or sex has been out of my reach so far and meanwhile my peers have had at least something happening.
I don't know if I need advice for dating or not but I definitely need an advice to stop negative thinking like this.