Someone showed some interest in dating me the other day, but the problem is I've only ever taken one shot at dating before. I hesitated pretty bad the first time because I knew I lacked any experience there, and after taking that risk, well things didn't work out.

A public journal definitely isn't the best way to go about this, but how do I tell them I'm not comfortable with that after what I've already tried before? That I don't want to mess up what I see as a perfectly decent friendship given that I still have next to no experience, and I've already proven pretty well that I'll have trouble making things last for the long term? I mean Given that this is only the second person to be interested in me, I just can't see this working out any better than my first attempt at a relationship. My attitude doesn't help, and I know that, but I'm just not feeling it right now and don't know how to let them know without making things uncomfortable between us.