I'm a 32 year old, 5'6", overweight man and I'm so tired of feeling lonely and I genuinely want to start a family. Sharing life with a partner, helping each other through life, and raising children together is something I've always wanted. But I have no idea where to start.
Over a decade ago I was in a fairly serious teenage relationship with a girl I was head over heels in love with. We'd been dating for about three years when she ended it. Six months later she was engaged, and a year after she was married. This happened when I was 20, and it really messed me up mentally. To make a long story short, I spent all of my 20s either obsessing over losing that one girl or repeatedly facing a short string of rejections and giving up on trying for a few years.
I don't want this life. I know that teenage relationships rarely work. I know it's foolish to get so hung up over one girl that it ruins your romantic life. I want to love and be loved by someone. But there's nobody. I haven't met any single people anywhere near my age in three years. I just don't know how. I've never been one for parties or bar crawls, I've always preferred staying in to going out. I realize that single girls aren't going to wander through my apartment, but going out is so exhausting that I usually just don't have the energy to talk to strangers, and when I do I feel like I'd be bothering them while they're occupied with work, friends, or whatever.
I've been trying to get back into shape, I've even lost 30 lbs this year already! I'm not unattractive, at least I don't think so. I've tried things like Tinder, but all that seems to do is lead to ghosting when I finally get maybe one match a week. My entire romantic life has been rejections and now as I get older I fear that something's wrong with me that I just cannot see.
Is something wrong with me (other than the disgusting whining above)? How do people meet each other?
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