I am currently starting to push myself to find someone new after being cheated on by my ex wife (I'm only 24, we were married less than a year).

Whilst I have managed to maintain a friendship with my ex due to having two children together, I have, until now, struggled with the idea of being with anyone else because she was my first and only to date.

Has anyone ever been in a similar situation at a young age? What did you do to overcome that barrier of pushing the boat out and just getting on with it? I feel like every time I try to experience what it would be like to even look for a date, I end up stopping and finding a barrier in front of me. I've had Snapchat conversations with girls for a day or two and can't carry it on afterwards, I had a dating app that I couldn't bring myself to get onto consistently enough. Nothing seems to work.

I'm now also beginning to doubt my potential in bed with another person because I've not ever known anyone else in that department to have an idea of whether or not I even know what I'm doing!

Basically, I'm all new to this, I'm getting in the way of myself being involved with anyone and I can't find the confidence to change that.

Edit: Apologies for posting on my NSFW account. My casual account is known to people who I do not want to divulge my personal issues with