I always felt like I was a romantic from my teens until my last long term relationship. We broke up 2 years ago but we were together for 10 years and had 2 daughters. The current dating scene seems impossibly foreign. Back in my heyday online dating was mainly for people who were kind of awkward. I'm like a 6.5 dude on the attractive scale but I feel like I'm fairly charming which has always worked for me. However, now approaching people in real life (even for friendship or random conversations) is weird. It's difficult to date my own age because the amount of available women in my age group. So I've dated mostly younger but the Daddy/Baby Girl thing is so fucking weird and as a father creeps me the fuck out. Online dating is filled with so many bots/scam artists I question who is actually real... and people are so uncomfortable with meeting people they don't know that normal approaches where I'm not even hitting on anyone but striking up conversations just because I'm bored is met with the most insane suspicion. Is this normal? Have I lost all social skills? I am so utterly frustrated that I might just quit for a bit.

Edit: The Daddy thing is a total boner killer. I have kids that still call me Daddy. Ladies it's fucking weird and it makes me feel like you have some unresolved childhood issues that I'm not qualified to deal with.