So I've had a very frustrating year in the dating game. Heavily using dating sites, apps, bars, clubs, and a friend network I usually get about a date every two weeks and they range from good to bad (mostly mediocre). I've broken a few dating rules afterwards to ask what went wrong and mostly got things to the effect of "you're a great guy but I don't feel it", "you were shorter than I thought" (Tinder doesn't give heights), and "you're really cute but you made it feel like you had no physical attraction to me". So my problem is two-fold, it's hard to land dates and apparently I'm bad at being on them.

Only within the last year have I really thought premarital sex and casual dating was alright (formerly pretty religious), and thus I missed out on learning in HS and college. The fact that I can't convince anyone to go past making-out with me is really starting to go to my head. I can't think straight and it's taking up all my time trying to find someone (literally spend a few hours a day trying to get girls to talk to me).

The fact that I don't feel like I can do anything more (I'm fit, have a Master's degree, professional confidence, make more than my parents combined, have hobbies, etc) is really getting me down. The impossibility of growing taller than 5'5" combined with not being able to practice changing my bad dating personality makes the situation feel hopeless. My standards at this point are: she's willing and not clinically obese....

Sorry for the rant (and apologies for lack of point or proof-reading), but I envy you all so much. Living vicariously through your experiences has been my mainstay on Reddit...and at the same time a torture... Please be grateful for what you have!